Department Blog - March 2019

Jon Mark Hirshon, MD, PhD, MPH, is the senior author of the article titled “Correlation Between the Revised Trauma Score and Injury Severity Score: Implications for Prehospital Trauma Triage,” published in the March/April issue of Prehospital Emergency Care. His collaborators in the study that led to this publication are lead author Samuel M. Galvagno, Jr, DO, PhD, Department of Anesthesiology; Michael S. Massey, MS, a medical student at the time of the study; Pierre Bouzat, MD, PhD, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Grenoble; Matthew J. Levy, DO, MSc, and Michael G. Millin, MD, MPH, Johns Hopkins Medicine; Roumen Vesselinov, PhD, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health; and Deborah M. Stein, MD, MPH, and Thomas M. Scalea, MD, R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center.

Brian K. Parker, MD, MS, Sara Manning, MD, and Michael E. Winters, MD, MBA, published “The Crashing Obese Patient” in the March issue of the Western Journal of Emergency Medicine (2019;20:323-330). Their article focuses on critical components in the resuscitation of the crashing obese patient in the ED: intubation, mechanical ventilation, circulatory resuscitation, and pharmacotherapy.

Kinjal Sethuraman, MD, MPH, is the lead author of a commentary on the article titled “Impact of a Women-Focused Professional Organization on Academic Retention and Advancement: Perceptions from a Qualitative Study,” both of which are published in the March issue of Academic Emergency Medicine. She and her co-authors, Michelle Lall, MD (Emory), and Susan Watts, PhD (Texas Tech), Kathleen Clem (University of Central Florida), are members of the Academy for Women in Academic Emergency Medicine.

Diane Kuhn, MD, PhD, has been named to the editorial board of Academic Emergency Medicine, published by the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM). As a resident member of the board, Dr. Kuhn will attend educational sessions about the peer-review process; write articles for the SAEM membership newsletter as well as a commentary for the journal; and work closely with a mentor, tracking manuscripts through submission, review, and decision. Her 1-year appointment will begin at SAEM's annual meeting in May.

The Department of Emergency Medicine will present a Faculty Development seminar this Thursday, March 7, from 7:45 am to 2:30 pm in the SMC Campus Center. The program’s coordinator is Dr. Danya Khoujah. Lectures will be presented by Dr. Zach Dezman (“How to Critically Appraise a Paper”), Dr. Sarah Dubbs (“Imposter Syndrome”), Dr. Amal Mattu (“Finding Your Niche”), Dr. Kinjal Sethuraman (“Bias in MedEd”), and Dr. Laura Pimentel (“Conflict Resolution”). In the afternoon, Dr. Khoujah will be joined by Casey Antonakos to present the workshop titled “Creating Your Teaching Portfolio.” You can register at this address: https://umem.org/intranet/page/fd_event_spring.

Kinjal Sethuraman, MD, MPH, published the article titled “Gender Disparities in Trauma Care: How Sex Determines Treatment, Behavior, and Outcome” in the March issue of Anesthesiology Clinics. Her co-authors are Evie Marcolini, MD, now at the University of Vermont College of Medicine, Jennifer Albright, in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at UMSoM, and Lena Napolitano, MD, MCCM, at the University of Michigan Health System.