Department Blog - October 2020

Danya Khoujah, MBBS, Adjunct Assistant Professor, and George Willis, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, were chosen as winners on September 19, 2020 of the 25 Under 45 Award by the Emergency Medicine Residents’ Association for being influencers in emergency medicine. The award recognizes “young emergency medicine physicians who are changing the world” and “whose contributions embody the spirit of the specialty.”

Caleb Chan, MD, Assistant Instructor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was honored with a scholarship by the Residents and Medical Students Board of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine on August 15, 2020. The Advanced Research Methodology Evaluation and Design (ARMED) Scholarship will offset the cost for Dr. Chan to attend the 2020–2021 ARMED course, whose purpose is “to arm participants with the fundamental knowledge and skills to design a high-quality research project and grant proposal to jumpstart their research career.” This is Dr. Chan’s first year as a faculty member of the Department of Emergency Medicine after having graduated as an Emergency Medicine / Internal Medicine Chief Resident in June 2020.

Elizabeth Clayborne, MD, MA, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was first author of “Ethical Obligations to Provide Maternal and Parental Leave Benefits,” published in ACEP [American College of Emergency Physicians] Now on September 11, 2020.

Leen Alblaihed, MBBS, MHA, Adjunct Instructor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was interviewed for the “Pulmonary Embolism Case With Leen Alblaihed” episode of the Ultrasound podcast, published by Core Ultrasound on September 21, 2020.

Quincy Tran, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was first author of “Complication of Vasopressor Infusion Through Peripheral Venous Catheter: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis,” published in American Journal of Emergency Medicine on September 26, 2020.

Gregory Jasani, MD, Resident, Department of Emergency Medicine, was sole author of “If You Don’t Want to Wear a Mask, Come to Work With Me,” published by KevinMD on September 18, 2020.

Amal Mattu, MD, Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was:

• First author of “Abnormal P Wave and QRS Complex Axes: When Differential Diagnoses Overlap,” published in the July 2020 issue of Annals of Emergency Medicine.
• Among the authors of “Management of Acute Myocardial Infarction During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Position Statement From the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI), the American College of Cardiology (ACC), and the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP),” published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology on September 7, 2020.
• Sole author of “Resuscitation,” the foreword to the November 2020 issue of Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America, for which he is also a consulting editor.

David Marcozzi, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was:

• Interviewed for “Coronavirus Risk Factors” on the Fox 45 News Morning Show, aired October 2, 2020.
• Quoted in “UMMS Releases New ‘Party Foul’ PSA,” published on Patch.com’s Bel Air, Maryland, site on October 2, 2020.

Two members of the Department of Emergency Medicine spoke at the regional Greater Chesapeake Emergency Medicine Combined Conference on September 16, 2020:

• Prianka Kandhal, MD, Resident, on “Whole-Hearted Care for Half-Hearted Patients”
• Andy Windsor, MD, Assistant Professor, on “TEGTalk: Lab Worth Sending?”

Dan Gingold, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, and David Marcozzi, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, were among the authors of “Innovative Use of Emergency Medicine Providers in an Urban Setting to Reduce Overutilization of 9-1-1,” which was published in Journal of Emergency Medicine on September 3, 2020.

Michael Grasso, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, chaired the monthly meeting of the American Medical Informatics Association Clinical Decision Support (CDS) Working Group on the topic of “CDS in Anesthesia and Perioperative Services” on September 8, 2020.

Mike Winters, MD, Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was among the discussants in the twice-monthly podcast, Critical Care Perspectives in Emergency Medicine, episode “Ketamine in the Critically Ill,” which was published on August 28, 2020.

Raymond Regan, MD, Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was among the authors of “CXCL12-CXCR4 Interplay Facilitates Palatal Osteogenesis in Mice,” which was published in Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology on August 21, 2020.

Gentry Wilkerson, MD, Associate Professor, and Youssef Annous, MD, Research Fellow, Department of Emergency Medicine, were first and second authors, respectively, of “Plus One: Care of the Pregnant Trauma Patient,” which was published in EM Resident on August 17, 2020.