Department Blog - January 2021

Mike Winters, MD, Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was among the discussants in the twice-monthly podcast, Critical Care Perspectives in Emergency Medicine, episode “2020 AHA [American Heart Association] Updates: Post-Arrest Care,” published December 11, 2020.

Gregory Jasani, MD, Resident, Department of Emergency Medicine, was first author of “Isolated Medial Rectus Entrapment Due to Medial Wall Blowout Fracture: A Case Report,” published by Archives of Ophthalmology and Optometry in 2020.

Garrett Cavaliere, DO, Resident; Gregory Jasani, MD, Resident; and Benjamin J. Lawner, DO, EMT-P, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, were among the authors of “Difficulty Ventilating: A Case Report on Ventilation Considerations of an Intubated Asthmatic Undergoing Air Medical Critical Care Transport,” published by Air Medical Journal on December 15, 2020.

Kristopher J. Filak, MD, joined the Department of Emergency Medicine as a Clinical Assistant Professor on January 4, 2021. Major Filak spent the last five years deploying with and leading austere resuscitative surgical teams and conducting expeditionary medicine operations. In his new role, he will be splitting time between the University of Maryland Medical Center Downtown and Midtown Campus Emergency Departments.

Effective January 1, 2021, Kinjal N. Sethuraman, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, assumed the role of Section Co-Chief for the Division of Hyperbaric and Dive Medicine at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center.

Quincy K. Tran, MD, Assistant Professor; Daniel J. Haase, MD, Assistant Professor; and Wan-Tsu W. Chang, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, as well as Jay A. Menaker, MD, Clinical Professor, Departments of Surgery and Emergency Medicine, were among the authors of “The Transfer of Patients With Spontaneous Intracranial Hemorrhage in Need of External Ventricular Drain Placement – Does Admission Location Matter?” accepted for publication by Western Journal of Emergency Medicine in October 2020.

Elizabeth Clayborne, MD, MA, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was featured in “UMSOM’s Dr. Elizabeth Clayborne joins a panel discussion on COVID-19 vaccine roll-out” on MSNBC’s Weekends with Alex Witt December 20, 2021.

David Marcozzi, MD, MHS-CL, MHS-CL, FACEP, Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was featured in:

• “Dr. Marcozzi: ‘I don't see the peak right now’ as Thanksgiving COVID-19 Surge Expected” on WBFF 45 Fox Baltimore November 30, 2020.
• “The Doctor Will See You Now. (Seriously, They Want to See You Now.)” on Maryland Matters December 1, 2020.
• “Mask-Wearing Key to Maintain Health, Economy Amid COVID-19 Pandemic, Doctor Says” on WJZ 13 CBS Baltimore December 1, 2020.
• “Direct Connection: Your Health” on MPT December 7, 2020.
• “The Spotlight on Maryland Is on COVID-19 With David Marcozzi, MD” on Today’s 101.9 December 15, 2020.
• “Physician Urges Citizens to Get Informed About the COVID-19 Vaccine” on WFMD 930 December 18, 2020.

Kinjal N. Sethuraman, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was named a Top Doctor in the category of Hyperbaric Medicine in Baltimore magazine’s November 2020 Top Doctors issue.

Mike Winters, MD, Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was among the discussants in the twice-monthly podcast, Critical Care Perspectives in Emergency Medicine, episode “2020 AHA Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation,” which was published November 23, 2020.

Lucas Sjeklocha, MD, Assistant Instructor, and J. David Gatz, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, were sole authors of “Traumatic Injuries to the Spinal Cord and Peripheral Nervous System,” which was published by Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America on November 17, 2020.

Quincy K. Tran, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was first author and Diane Kuhn, MD, Phd, Assistant Instructor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was among the authors of “Emergency Blood Pressure Variability and Spontaneous Intracranial Hemorrhage Patients’ Outcomes,” which was accepted for publication in Western Journal of Emergency Medicine in July 2020.

Rebecca Rubenstein, MD, Resident; Leen Alblaihed, MBBS, MHA, Adjunct Instructor; Zachary D.W. Dezman, MD, MS, MS, Assistant Professor; and Laura J. Bontempo, MD, MEd, Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, were sole authors of “40-year-old Male with a Headache and Altered Mental Status,” which was published in Clinical Practice and Cases in Emergency Medicine on October 20, 2020.

Jordan Parker, MD, Resident; Sharleen Yuan, MD, PhD, MA, Resident; Megan Donohue, MD, Resident; Robert Brown, MD, Resident; Mark Sutherland, MD, Assistant Professor; Hannah Goldberg, MD, Resident; and Aki Honasoge, MD, Resident, Department of Emergency Medicine, were sole authors of “Do Adjunctive Therapies beyond Infection Control and Appropriate Fluid Resuscitation Change Outcomes in Sepsis and Septic Shock?” which was published in the September/October 2020 issue of the American Academy of Emergency Medicine’s Common Sense.

Danya Khoujah, MBBS, Adjunct Assistant Professor and Megan J. Cobb, MD, DPT, Adjunct Instructor, Department of Emergency Medicine, were sole authors of “Neurologic Emergencies at the Extremes of Age,” which was published in Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America on November 17, 2020.

Brent R. King, MD, MMM, Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was among the authors of “Is E-Learning Education Effective in Increasing the Ability of Non-Physician Medical Flight Crew Members to Accurately Interpret Point-of-Care Lung and Cardiac Ultrasound Exams?” which was accepted for publication in Air Medical Journal in November 2020 and published December 19, 2020.

Michael K. Abraham, MD, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was guest co-editor of the February 2021 issue of Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America, focused on Neurologic Emergencies, and co-author of the preface, “Neurologic Emergencies: 2020 Update,” published November 4, 2020.

Michael A. Grasso, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, chaired the monthly meeting of the American Medical Informatics Association’s Clinical Decision Support Working Group on the topic, “Enabling Digital Consultations with Recommender Algorithms” on December 8, 2020.

Rhamin Ligon, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was appointed Executive Director of the Maryland Emergency Medicine Network on December 1, 2020. Dr. Ligon assumed her new position on January 3, 2021.