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.
Professor and Vice Chair Dr. Amal Mattu, MD, was recently selected as a 2025 Pass and Susel Fellow of the Academy of Educational Excellence. University of Maryland alumni, Dr. Carolyn Pass and Dr. Richard Susel, established the Academy and designed it to recognize faculty members who demonstrate excellence in bedside, classroom, and innovative education.
The Selection Committee felt that Dr. Mattu embodies the highest ideals of the medical profession and displayed an uncommon commitment to students' education—a sentiment widely shared by the entire Emergency Medicine department.
Emergency Medicine faculty are no strangers to this award. In 2017, Professor and Associate Dean Joseph Martinez, MD, was also recognized with this honor.
Congratulations, Dr. Mattu!
In its September issue, Air Medical Journal published an original research article titled “Stroke Management in Critical Care Transport Medicine: A Consensus Statement.” Associate Professor Dr. Benjamin Lawner, DO, MS, EMT-P, conceptualized the study and served as senior author for the publication.
The article explores survey results from 36 active respondents from the Air Medical Physician Symposium (AMPS) Lite, held November 4, 2024 in Salt Lake City, Utah. It highlights the multidisciplinary nature of critical care transport medicine (CCTM) as well as the need for ongoing collaboration between CCTM, stroke centers, and emergency medical services agencies to ensure the best possible outcomes for stroke patients.
In July, Associate Professor Dr. Dan Gingold, MD, MPH, was one of three physicians quoted in “5 Appendicitis Symptoms Doctors Say You Should Never Ignore,” an online article published by Prevention.
Dr. Gingold and his colleagues quoted in the article cautioned readers of warning signs for appendicitis—including symptoms people may not commonly connect with appendix issues, like pain when walking and coughing, gastrointestinal discomfort, frequent urination, and brain fog.
With more than 10 million monthly users, Prevention’s online audience allows Dr. Gingold to impact public health in Baltimore and beyond.
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 peer-reviewed study, “Conservative Oxygen Therapy in Mechanically Ventilated Critically Ill Adult Patients: The UK-ROX Randomized Clinical Trial,” which included more than 16,500 patients from 97 hospitals in the United Kingdom. The study was published in August by the Journal of the American Medical Association.
In their discussion, Dr. Winters and colleagues review the study, discuss its results, and consider whether a change in EM practice is warranted.
Assistant Professor Dr. Cheyenne Falat, MD, recently provided summer safety advice to two local Baltimore media outlets.