Department Blog

Ken Butler, DO, FACEP, FAAEM, Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was featured in the February 18, 2020, episode, “Roc vs. Sux – The CURASMUR Trial” (full audio and companion handout with paid subscription) of the twice-monthly podcast, Critical Care Perspectives in Emergency Medicine. Mike Winters, MD, Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was also among the discussants.

Joe Martinez, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was appointed Associate Dean for Medical Education and Student Experience for the University of Maryland School of Medicine on February 1, 2020.

Michael Bond, MD, FACEP, FAAEM, Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was elected as a Member-at-Large to the Board of Directors of the Council of Residency Directors in Emergency Medicine in February 2020. He will serve in this position for two years.

Angela Smedley, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, and UMMC Clinical Director was featured in “Maryland Doctors Sound the Alarm After Seeing Drop in Heart Attacks and Strokes Amid Coronavirus Pandemic” (full text available), a Baltimore Sun article published April 20, 2020.

Kyle Fischer, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor, and Laura Bontempo, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, were featured in “A Day Fighting the Coronavirus: US Hospital Staff Share Hardest Moments on Shift” (full text available), a Reuters/ABCNews article published April 15, 2020.

Mimi Lu, MD, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, presented her lecture “Pediatric DKA [Diabetic Ketoacidosis]: Not Just Little People With Hyperglycemia” at the Maryland chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians annual education and business meeting on March 12, 2020.

Sarah Dubbs, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, lectured on “Hidden Dangers: Cardiotoxicities of Cancer Drugs” at the Maryland chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians annual education and business meeting on March 12, 2020.

Michael Grasso, MD, PhD, FACP, Assistant Professor, hosted an online talk on February 11, 2020, about using CRISP (Chesapeake Regional Information System for our Patients, Maryland’s health information exchange) for clinical decision support activities, including prescription drug monitoring and overdose notification.

Ryan Spangler, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, directed a new Multisystem course, a School of Medicine interdepartmental collaboration, the week ending February 7, 2020. More than a dozen other faculty members from the Department of Emergency Medicine also participated in teaching the three-day course:

• Associate Professors Brian Euerle, MD, FACEP, RDMS, and Joe Martinez, MD
• Assistant Professors Michael Billet, MD, WanTsu Wendy Chang, MD, Daa'iyah Cooper, MD, Ashley Crimmins, MD, Dan Gingold, MD, MPH, Sara Manning, MD, Alexis Salerno, MD, Kinjal Sethuraman, MD, MPH, Sarah Sommerkamp, MD, Semhar Tewelde, MD, George Willis, MD, and Andy Windsor, MD
• Instructor Afrah Abdul Wahid Ali, MBBS
• Clinical Instructor Kevin Flanagan, DO

Kyle Fischer, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was first author of “Prevention Professional for Violence Intervention: A Newly Recognized Health Care Provider for Population Health Programs” (full text available), which was published in Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved on February 7, 2020.