In its November issue, Baltimore Magazine recognized its annual selection of Top Docs—a list of physicians nominated by their peers for delivering exceptional patient care.
The UMSOM Emergency Medicine Department is proud to share that six of our faculty were nominated for this honor in the Emergency Medicine category, including:
Additionally, Associate Professor Kinjal Sethuraman, MD, was also nominated for this honor in the Hyperbaric Medicine category.
Please join us in congratulating our colleagues on this impressive achievement!
On October 9, the UMSOM Emergency Medicine Department hosted its annual Faculty Development Day—an opportunity to further equip faculty and residents with skills needed to advance their academic and professional careers.
Professor and Interim Department Chair Mike Winters, MBA, MD, opened the session, sharing his personal journey to leadership and service within the Department. He then also shared his vision for the Department to become the preeminent academic department of emergency medicine, renowned globally for unparalleled education, unrivaled patient-centered care, pioneering research, and for training the next generation of visionary and innovative leaders in emergency medicine.
Additional presenters included Professor and Associate Dean Joseph Martinz, MD; Assistant Professor Ryan Spangler, MD; Associate Professor Sarah Dubbs, MD; Assistant Professor Bennett Myers, MD; Professor and Chief Clinical Officer/Senior Vice President of the University of Maryland Medical Center David Marcozzi, MD, MHS-CL; Assistant Professor Lauren Rosenblatt, MD; and Professor and Vice Chair Amal Mattu, MD.
On October 8, the UMSOM Emergency Medicine Department was honored to host Dr. Raymond Fowler as the department’s Fall Visiting Professor. Dr. Fowler is a renowned expert in emergency medicine, emergency medical services, and public health—and his powerful lecture impacted residents and faculty alike.
At the lecture, the Department also announced that we are renaming the lecture series to the Brian J. Browne Leadership Lecture, in recognition of four decades of exemplary leadership from the Department’s Outgoing Chair and Professor Brian Browne, MD.
This week, the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) selected Professor Quincy Tran, MD, PhD, as the 2026 recipient of the Asmund S. Laerdal Memorial Lecture Award.
The lecture honors Asmund S. Laerdal, who created the manikans used in CPR training procedures. SCCM selects award recipients based on critical care research and publishing—particularly resuscitation research.
Dr. Tran will present the Laerdal Memorial Lecture on March 24 at the SCCM Critical Care Congress in Chicago, Illinois.
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Tran on this impressive achievement!
Professor and Interim Department Chair Dr. Mike Winters, MBA, MD, along with Emergency Medicine (EM) specialists in Los Angeles, New Orleans, and Philadelphia, recently released the newest episode of the Critical Care Perspectives in EM podcast.
The episode explores the American College of Emergency Physicians’ new policy on intubation. The policy, published in August in the Annals of Emergency Medicine, seeks to address strategies to minimize peri-intubation physiologic compensation for patients intubated in emergency department settings.
In their discussion, Dr. Winters and colleagues review the policy and discuss its potential application to patients presenting in the emergency department.
In Becker’s Hospital Review, Professor and Chief Clinical Officer/Senior Vice President of the University of Maryland Medical Center David Marcozzi, MD, MHS-CL was among more than one hundred healthcare executives who contributed to a recent article entitled “117 Most Underappreciated Trends in Healthcare Today.”
In the article, Dr. Marcozzi noted growing discrepancies between patient needs and healthcare resources. As an antidote to this mismatch, Dr. Marcozzi suggests business leadership strategies, including change management and use of automation and technology.
On October 8, Associate Professor Gentry Wilkerson, MD, was cited in a radio segment and accompanying online article about a recent mass overdose in the Penn North neighborhood.
Dr. Wilkerson commented on a combination of drugs—including a benzodiazepine with opioid—that may have contributed to the overdose event.
In its September issue, The New England Journal of Medicine published a letter to the editor titled “Navigating the Discontinuity Crisis in Medical Education.”
Professor Stephen Schenkel, MD, MPP, Associate Professor Daniel Gingold, MD, MPH, and Assistant Professor Ryan Spangler, MD penned the letter, which was a response to a case vignette the journal published in June.
In their letter, included below, Drs. Schenkel, Gingold, and Spangler argue that current tools allow academic emergency medicine physicians to enhance their patients’ continuity in care—rather than contributing to discontinuities, as Warm et al. previously suggested.
