Department Blog

Congratulations to Drs. Sarah Dubbs, Semhar Tewelde, Andi Tenner, and Danya Khoujah for their recent completion of ACEP's Teaching Fellowship. Our emergency medicine program has more graduates of this teachng skills course than any other program in the world. Dr. Amal Mattu, also a graduate of the fellowship, has been a member of its faculty since 2007.

Whitney Cesari, MD, Brad Cotter, MD, and Ben Lawner, DO, presented the evening educational broadcast for EMS providers from the Shock Trauma Center auditorium on March 5. They discussed current treatment protocols and presented an evidence-based approach for common prehospital calls: traumatic brain injury, cardiac dysrhythmia, and respiratory failure. The panel discussion was streamed live, in an interactive format, to 70 prehospital care providers across the state.

Congratulations to Dr. Doug Sward on the publication of his article on wilderness medicine in the current issue of the World Journal of Emergency Medicine. The article provides an overview of the history, areas of practice, and educational opportunities in this specialty area of emergency medicine. Dr. Sward's co-author is Dr. Brad Bennett, from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. Thier article is available at the journal's website, www.wjem.org.

Dr. Brian Browne was a keynote speaker at the International Summit on Emergency Medicine and Trauma, held in Pondicherry, India, in mid-February. In addition to his plenary session presentation, titled "Integrated Emergency Care," he led a break-out session on lethal rashes. Accompanying Dr. Browne on the trip were Dr. Girish Sethuraman, who presented a talk on burn managemet, and Dr. Michael Rolnick.

Dr. Amal Mattu was a co-chairman and faculty member for the 25th Annual Winter Conference on Emergency Medicine, which was held in St. Maarten, Dutch West Indies, in mid-February. He presented four lectures: "Emergency Cardiology Update: The Articles You've Got to Know," "Infections in the Elderly: Simple Pearls to Save a Life," "Acute Coronary Syndromes in the Elderly: Where the Guidelines Fall Short," and "The Crashing Asthmatic--Pearls and Pitfalls."

Michael Bond, Mike Winters, Haney Mallemat, and Rob Rogers recently returned from Copper Mountain, Colorada, where they were on the faculty for the Rocky Mountain Winter Conference on Emergency Medicine. Each of them presented three lectures during this national meeting.

John Greenwood, MD, and his book, PressorDex, are featured in the December/January issue of EM Resident, published by the Emergency Medicine Residents' Association. While John was a resident in our program, he chaired EMRA's Critical Care Division, where the idea for the book was launched. He is now a critical care medicine fellow, and his printed book and its iOS app are considered two of EMRA's leading educational resources.

Fermin Barrueto, Jr, MD, is the lead of author of an article published in the October issue of Pediatric Clinics of North America. The topic of this article, co-authored with a pediatrician at the University of Maryland and a clinical pharmacologist from George Washington University, is poisoning, emphasizing its prevention but also discussing cutting-edge treatments and new research that is guiding the therapeutic approach.

Rob Rogers, MD, was a keynote speaker at the 7th Annual Risk Management Summit, hosted by the Emergency Medical Associate in Los Angeles on February 4. He presented lectures on aortic dissection, pulmonary embolism, severe hypertension, errors in emergency medicine, and vascular catastrophes.

Amal Mattu, MD, presented seven lectures during the Fifth Annual Symposium on Risk Management in Acute Care, which was held in Orlando in early February. The topics of his lectures were "Pitfalls in the Diagnosis of the Acute Myocardial Infarction," "Pearls and Pitfalls with Pulmonary Embolism,” “Dangerous Patient Populations: Elderly, Pregnancy, and Pediatrics,” “The Crashing Patient,” “Wide Complex Tachycardias: Myths and Pitfalls,” “Costly ECG Miscues,” and “Miscellaneous Clinical Disasters to Avoid.”