Department Blog

George C. Willis, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was selected by the University of Maryland School of Medicine’s Class of 2021 as the recipient of a Student Council Faculty Award for Best Clinical Faculty. This is one of the highest honors the students can give a faculty member and is awarded to “members of the faculty of the University of Maryland School of Medicine who have proven to be the most effective teachers in the preclinical and clinical years, as well as exemplary role models for the class.” Dr. Willis received the award May 20, 2021 as part of the class’s graduation ceremony.

Quincy K. Tran, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was among the authors of:

• “Sedation in Mechanically Ventilated Covid-19 Patients: A Narrative Review for Emergency Medicine Providers,” published by the American Journal of Emergency Medicine on May 14, 2021
• “Predictors Associated With Inappropriate Transport of Near Shore Spinal Injuries,” published by the Chinese Journal of Traumatology on May 15, 2021
• “Safety Matters: A Meta-analysis of Interhospital Transport Adverse Events in Critically Ill Patients,” published by the Air Medical Journal on May 24, 2021

Mark E. Sutherland, MD, Assistant Professor; Robert Brown, MD, Resident; Aki Honasoge, MD, Resident; and Michael D. Witting, MD, Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, were among the authors of “Clinically Relevant Adverse Cardiovascular Events in Intermediate Heart Score Patients Admitted to the Hospital Following a Negative Emergency Department Evaluation,” published by the American Journal of Emergency Medicine on November 3, 2020.

Jennifer Nichols, MD, Resident; Jennifer E. Guyther, MD, Assistant Professor; Laura J. Bontempo, MD, MEd, Associate Professor; and Zachary D.W. Dezman, MD, MS, MS, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, were sole authors of “55-Year-Old Male With Fatigue,” published April 16, 2021 by Clinical Practice and Cases in Emergency Medicine.

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

• was among the authors of “The Relationship of Large City Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrests and the Prevalence of COVID-19,” an early version of which received a Star Research Achievement Award from the Society for Critical Care Medicine at the society’s annual Critical Care Congress January 31, 2021.
• received a second Academy for Scholarship Distinguished Educator Award for “development of enduring educational materials” from the Council of Residency Directors in Emergency Medicine on May 7, 2021. He had previously received the award in 2015.

Gregory Jasani, MD, Resident, and Richard Jean-Louis, MD, Resident, Department of Emergency Medicine, were sole authors of:

• “PG County, PLEASE Get Your Flu Shot,” published by the Prince George’s Sentinel on November 10, 2020
• “We’re Worried about Thanksgiving,” published by the Montgomery County Sentinel on November 18, 2020
• “Please Don’t Come to the ER Just to Get a COVID Test,” published by the Montgomery County Sentinel on December 30, 2020

Benjamin J. Lawner, DO, MS, EMT-P, Assistant Professor, and Lucas Sjeklocha, MD, Critical Care Fellow, Department of Emergency Medicine, participated in the Baltimore Critical Care Transport Collaborative educational conference, which brought together participants from Hopkins Lifeline, Maryland ExpressCare, and PHI Air Medical to discuss critical care patient encounters and evidence-based resuscitation interventions. There are plans to expand the conference to other programs (MedStar) and host it on a recurrent basis.

Darlene Y. Robinson, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, will present “Everyday Bias for Healthcare Professionals” as a Zoom teleconference on July 19, 2021.

Joseph P. Martinez, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, was selected by the University of Maryland School of Medicine’s Class of 2021 to deliver the Faculty Speaker Address to their class as part of their graduation ceremony on May 20, 2021.

Amal Mattu, MD, Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, presented on the following topics May 25, 2021, as part of the annual Essentials of Emergency Medicine conference:

• “COVID Cardiology Updates”
• “My Favorite Cardiac Case of the Year”
• “My Favorite ECG [Electrocardiogram] Articles of the Year”
• “My Favorite ECG of the Year”
• “Recent Cardiology Articles that You Gotta Know!”