Department Blog

In the face of restrictions put in place to spread the slow of COVID-19, the Department of Emergency Medicine pivoted to present its annual Emergency Cardiology Symposium as a livestream on April 1, 2020. More than 3,500 people from 87 countries registered to watch the conference. Presentation videos and PDF handouts are linked below:

• Laura Bontempo, MD, Associate Professor, on “Rethinking What We Know: Updates on the Management of Atrial Fibrillation” (handout)
• Sarah Dubbs, MD, Assistant Professor, on “Collateral Damage: Cardiotoxicities of Cancer Therapy” (handouts part 1 and part 2)
• Mimi Lu, MD, Adjunct Assistant Professor, on “ECG Pearls for Pediatric Syncope”
• Mike Winters, MD, Professor, on “Cardiac Arrest: What’s the Latest” (handout)
• Ben Lawner, DO, EMT-P, Visiting Assistant Professor, on “Airway Management in Cardiac Arrest” (handout)
• Mak Moayedi, MD, CDEM, Assistant Professor, on “Transvenous Pacers Made Easy!” (handout)
• Semhar Tewelde, MD, Assistant Professor, on “The Crashing Tamponade!” (handout)
• Amal Mattu, MD, Professor, who also directed the symposium, on “COVID and the Heart” (handout)

Jon Mark Hirshon, MD, MPH, FACEP, FAAEM, FACPM, Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was recently nterviewed for two Business Insider articles on the novel coronavirus:

• “Hospitals Are Stockpiling Supplies Amid Fears a Coronavirus-Related Mask Shortage Could Endanger Healthcare Providers,” published February 10, 2020
• “Workers on the Front Lines of Coronavirus Response at 6 US Hospitals Reveal What They Do When a Suspected Case Comes in,” published February 11, 2020

David Marcozzi, MD, Associate Professor; Nicki Baehr, Healthcare Program Analyst; and Brian Browne, MD, FACEP, Professor and Department Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine, were among the authors of “Development of a Hospital Medical Surge Preparedness Index Using a National Hospital Survey” (abstract available), which was published in Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology on February 14, 2020.

Mike Winters, MD, Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was among the discussants in the March 5 "COVID-19 Update" episode of the twice-monthly podcast, Critical Care Perspectives in Emergency Medicine. Full audio, along with a companion handout, is available to paid subscribers.

Elizabeth Clayborne, MD, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was featured in a story by NBC Washington, “Pregnant ER Doctor Treating Coronavirus Patients Urges People to Make a Care Plan” (full text, audio, and video available), published April 6, 2020.

The National Institutes of Health has a good overview of advance care planning and the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization offers links to state-specific advance directive forms.

Mike Winters, MD, Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was among the discussants in the twice-monthly podcast, Critical Care Perspectives in Emergency Medicine, episode “Critical Care Management COVID-19 Update – March 30, 2020,” published April 2, 2020. Full audio, along with a companion handout, is available to paid subscribers.

Mike Winters, MD, Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was among the discussants in the twice-monthly podcast, Critical Care Perspectives in Emergency Medicine, episode “Identifying and Treating EVALI [E-cigarette or Vaping product use-Associated Lung Injury],” published February 4, 2020. Full audio, along with a companion handout, is available to paid subscribers.

Amal Mattu, MD, Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, is co-editor in chief of the online emergency medicine textbook CorePendium, which recently published a new open-access chapter on “Novel Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19).” The chapter is being continually updated and was accessed 40,061 times by 25,921 individuals around the world in the month of March alone.

Rupal Jain, MD, Clinical Instructor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was selected by the medical students to be inducted into Alpha Omega Alpha, the national medical honor society, for her excellence in teaching. Her induction took place March 26, 2020.

Stephen Thom, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was among the authors of “Blood-Borne and Brain-Derived Microparticles in Morphine-Induced Anti-Nociceptive Tolerance” (abstract available), which was accepted on January 24, 2020 for publication in Brain, Behavior, and Immunity.