Department Blog

Michael Grasso, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, chaired the monthly meeting of the American Medical Informatics Association Clinical Decision Support (CDS) Working Group on the topic of “CDS in Anesthesia and Perioperative Services” on September 8, 2020.

Mike Winters, MD, Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was among the discussants in the twice-monthly podcast, Critical Care Perspectives in Emergency Medicine, episode “Ketamine in the Critically Ill,” which was published on August 28, 2020.

Raymond Regan, MD, Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was among the authors of “CXCL12-CXCR4 Interplay Facilitates Palatal Osteogenesis in Mice,” which was published in Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology on August 21, 2020.

Gentry Wilkerson, MD, Associate Professor, and Youssef Annous, MD, Research Fellow, Department of Emergency Medicine, were first and second authors, respectively, of “Plus One: Care of the Pregnant Trauma Patient,” which was published in EM Resident on August 17, 2020.

Quincy Tran, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was first author and Daniel Haase, MD, Assistant Professor; Ben Lawner, DO, Visiting Assistant Professor; Jay Menaker, MD, Associate Professor; and Ashley Menne, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, were among the authors of “Care Intensity During Transport to the Critical Care Resuscitation Unit: Transport Clinician’s Role,” which was published by Air Medical Journal on August 25, 2020.

Bradford Schwartz, MD, Adjunct Assistant Professor; Stephen Thom, MD, PhD, Professor; and Quincy Tran, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, were among the authors of “Early Predictors of Near-Shore Spinal Injuries Among Emergency Department Patients,” which was published by Journal of Emergency Medicine on September 4, 2020.

Ben Lawner, DO, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was:

• Second author of “Prehospital Trauma Management: We Can Do More by Doing Less,” which was published in Journal of Emergency Medical Services on September 10, 2020
• Among the authors of “Code of Ethics for Emergency Medical Services Physician Medical Directors,” which was published in Prehospital Emergency Care on August 13, 2020

Amal Mattu, MD, Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, published his monthly EMCast podcast, on the topics of hemostasis, headache, and neurosyphilis, on July 2, 2020. Cheyenne Falat, MD, Clinical Instructor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was featured in the second segment, speaking on updates to the American College of Emergency Physicians’ Headache Clinical Policy.

Mark Sutherland, MD, joined the Departments of Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine (Division of Critical Care) as an Assistant Professor on August 1, 2020. Dr. Sutherland recently graduated from the Department of Emergency Medicine’s Emergency Medicine/Internal Medicine/Critical Care Fellowship and, in his new role, will also be the new Assistant Program Director for the department’s combined Emergency Medicine/Internal Medicine residency program.

Six members of the Department of Emergency Medicine will be presenting at the American College of Emergency Physicians annual convention, which will be delivered online October 26–29, 2020:

• Danya Khoujah, MBBS, Adjunct Assistant Professor, on:
  • Perfecting the Neurologic Exam
  • When Weakness Isn’t Stroke
• Mimi Lu, MD, Adjunct Assistant Professor, on:
  • Pediatric Nightmare: Endocrine and Metabolic Emergencies
  • Pediatric Tricks of the Trade: What They Didn’t Teach You in Residency
• Sara Manning, MD, Assistant Professor, on:
  • Clinical Pearls for the Breastfeeding Patient: Pump and Dump or OK to Use?
  • Gynecologic Complaints in the Young and Old: Genitourinary Issues at the Extremes of Ages
  • Problems in the Pregnant Patient: Fast Facts
• Amal Mattu, MD, Professor, on:
  • Acute Decompensated Heart Failure: Time-Critical Interventions
  • From Paper to Patient: Recent Advances in Emergency Electrocardiography That Will Save a Life
  • Myocardial Ischemia and Mimics: ECG Cases
  • Nontraditional Acute Myocardial Infarction Presentations: Don’t Miss the Diagnosis
• George Willis, MD, Assistant Professor, on:
  • Aortic Dissection: Are You Missing the Diagnosis?
  • Cruising the Cardiology Literature: 2020
  • New Cardiac Drugs: How, What, and When to Use Them in the ED
• Mike Winters, MD, Professor, on:
  • Crashing Patients: Peri-arrest Pearls for a New Decade
  • Cruising the Literature: Top Articles in Critical Care
  • Undifferentiated Shock: Making a Difference