Department Blog

Bradford Schwartz, MD, Adjunct Assistant Professor, and Quincy Tran, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, were among the authors of the abstract, “Accuracy of History of Present Illness Findings in Detecting Serious Head and Spinal Injury From Traumatic Near Shore Aquatic Injuries” (full text available), which was published in Annals of Emergency Medicine in October 2019.

Stephen Thom, MD, PhD, Professor, and Quincy Tran, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, were among the authors of “Transportation Management Affecting Outcomes of Patients With Spontaneous Intracranial Hemorrhage” (abstract available), which was published in Air Medical Journal on January 14, 2020.

Elizabeth Clayborne, MD, MA, Adjunct Assistant Professor and co-leader of the health policy interest group, Department of Emergency Medicine, organized a Baltimore Washington Transforming Health Policy Forum Mixer, focused on health care plans in the 2020 election, on January 24, 2020. Kyle Fischer, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, hosted. The forum is a collaborative between the Departments of Emergency Medicine at the University of Maryland, the George Washington University, and Georgetown University with a mission to gather local clinicians and providers with interests in health policy for discussion and networking on controversial issues.

Abena Akomeah, MD, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was second author of “Emergency Medicine Residency Training in Africa: Overview of Curriculum” (full text available), which was published in BMC Medical Education on July 31, 2019.

Abena Akomeah, MD, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was lead author of “Emergency Medicine Registrar Training in Africa: Overview of Programmes, Faculty and Sustainability” (abstract available), which was published in Emergency Medicine Journal on January 7, 2020.

Mike Winters, MD, Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was among the discussants in the January 6 episode of the Critical Care Perspectives in Emergency Medicine podcast, “A Year in Review: Key Articles From the 2019 Critical Care Literature” (full audio available with paid subscription). In this episode, the doctors review several key articles published in the 2019 critical care literature that pertain to the resuscitation and management of select critically ill patients.

Daniel Haase, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was among the authors of “Ultrasonographic Inferior Vena Cava Diameter Response to Trauma Resuscitation After 1 Hour Predicts 24-Hour Fluid Requirement” (full text available), which was published in Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery in January 2020.

Sarah Dubbs, MD, and Semhar Tewelde, MD, both Assistant Professors, Department of Emergency Medicine, were among the authors of “Male With Anterior Left Knee Pain” (full text available), which was published in Annals of Emergency Medicine in December 2019.

Bradford Schwartz, MD, Adjunct Assistant Professor, and Quincy Tran, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, were among the authors of “Predictors Among Emergency Department Patients With Suspected Spinal Injury From Near-Shore Activity [abstract 1774],” which was published in Critical Care Medicine in January 2020

Quincy Tran, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was among the authors of “Transport Blood Pressure Variation: Outcomes of Emergency Patients With Intracranial Hemorrhage [abstract 1468],” which was published in Critical Care Medicine in January 2020.