Department Blog - December 2021

Benjamin J. Lawner, DO, MS, EMT-P, Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was featured on “A Case Review Discussing Shock” with the Baltimore Critical Care Transport Collaborative on August 23, 2021.

Zachary D.W. Dezman, MD, MS, MS, Assistant Professor, and Bradford E. Schwartz, MD, Adjunct Assistant Professor, both of the Department of Emergency Medicine, are among the creators of the Emergency Department Drug Surveillance (EDDS) system, along with the University of Maryland, College Park’s Center for Substance Abuse Research, led by Eric Wish, PhD. The EDDS system collects data from drug screens performed on patients experiencing overdose in UMMS hospitals. Those deidentified data were published on November 30, 2021, and are now available for researchers to examine and work with.

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

• CNN’s Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer commenting on Louisiana’s COVID outbreak and Hurricane Ida evacuation August 28, 2021
• Max Out Time with AJ II, Black Business Month’s videocast “Episode 82: Dr. Elizabeth Clayborne Has Invented the ‘Band Aid’ for Nosebleed Emergencies” August 31, 2021
• Reel Emergency’s videocast and podcast “Episode 5 - End of Life Care” September 7, 2021
• Yahoo Finance’s “Doctor: This Conversation About Boosters Doesn’t Take Place Just in the U.S.” September 17, 2021
• CBS News’s “Delta Variant Surge May Be Peaking as U.S. Daily Deaths Top 2,000” September 22, 2021

Diane Kuhn, MD, PhD, Assistant Instructor; Hannah Goldberg, MD, Resident; Jon Hurst, MD, Resident; and Kinjal N. Sethuraman, MD, MPH, Associate Professor, all of the Department of Emergency Medicine, were among the authors of “Anchoring Vignettes as a Method to Address Implicit Gender Bias in Patient Experience Scores,” published by Annals of Emergency Medicine July 23, 2021. Deborah M. Stein, ELS, Technical Editor/Writer, Department of Emergency Medicine, provided language and technical editing of an early draft of the manuscript.