Department Blog

Benoit Stryckman, MA, Research Associate and Health Economist; Diane Kuhn, MD, PhD, Assistant Instructor; Daniel Gingold, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor; Kyle R. Fischer, MD, MPH, Clinical Assistant Professor; J. David Gatz, MD, Assistant Professor; Stephen M. Schenkel, MD, MPP, Associate Professor; and Brian J. Browne, MD, Professor and Chair, all of the Department of Emergency Medicine, were sole authors of “Balancing Efficiency and Access: Hospital Global Budget Systems Require Reform to Discourage Emergency Department Boarding,” which was accepted on May 13, 2021 for publication by Western Journal of Emergency Medicine. Deborah M. Stein, ELS, Technical Writer/Editor, Department of Emergency Medicine, edited the manuscript.

David E. Marcozzi, MD, MHS-CL, MHS-CL, FACEP, Professor; Ricardo Pietrobon, MD, PhD, MBA, Adjunct Associate Professor; Nicole E. Baehr, MHA, PMP, former Population Health Project Supervisor; and Brian J. Browne, MD, Professor and Chair, all of the Department of Emergency Medicine, were among the authors of “The Application of a Hospital Medical Surge Preparedness Index to Assess National Pandemic and Other Mass Casualty Readiness,” which was published by Journal of Healthcare Management on June 18, 2021. Deborah M. Stein, ELS, Technical Writer/Editor, Department of Emergency Medicine, edited the manuscript.

Kevin J. Flanagan, DO, Assistant Professor; Zachary D.W. Dezman, MD, MS, MS, Assistant Professor; Karl Dachroeden, MD, Resident; and Laura J. Bontempo, MD, MEd, Associate Professor, all of the Department of Emergency Medicine, were authors of “73-Year-Old Female With Syncope and Subsequent Motor Vehicle Crash,” which was accepted on April 1, 2021 for publication by Clinical Practice and Cases in Emergency Medicine.

Joseph P. Martinez, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was featured in the:

• “Unexpected Killers in Primary Care” segment of the Primary Care RAP podcast’s “Hidden Killers” episode in March 2021
• “CorePendium Spotlight: Acute Mesenteric Ischemia” segment of the EM:RAP podcast’s May 2021 episode

Lauren S. Rosenblatt, MD, Instructor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was featured on the EMCast podcast’s March 2021 episode, which covered various updates from the American Heart Association.

Neeraja T. Murali, DO, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was featured on the EMCast podcast segments:

• “Coffee and Caffeine” in February 2021
• “STI Treatment Update” in April 2021

Darlene Y. Robinson, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was second author of “Patient Satisfaction With Medications for Opioid Use Disorder Treatment via Telemedicine: Brief Literature Review and Development of a New Assessment,” which was published by Frontiers in Public Health on January 21, 2021.

R. Gentry Wilkerson, MD, Associate Professor, and Mike Winters, MD, Professor, both of the Department of Emergency Medicine, were among the authors of “Clinical Practice Statement: What Is the Emergency Department Management of Patients with Angioedema Secondary to an ACE-Inhibitor?” published by Journal of Emergency Medicine on May 15, 2021.

Jon Mark Hirshon, MD, MPH, PhD, Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was featured on the American College of Emergency Physicians Frontline podcast episode, “And Now It’s Time for a (Vaccine) Breakdown—EM [Emergency Medicine] and Public Health Collide,” published in April 2021.

Elizabeth Clayborne, MD, MA, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was featured on:

• “Coronavirus Pandemic: Millions of Americans Traveling Over Holiday Weekend Despite Delta Variant Concerns,” published by MSNBC Reports on July 3, 2021
• “Delta Variant Accounts for 93% of U.S. COVID Cases,” published by CBS News on August 4, 2021
• “Delta Variant: ‘This Is a Wake-Up Call for Everyone in the Country,’ Emergency Physician Says,” published by Yahoo Finance on August 5, 2021