FACULTY NEWS

Ann Arbor Emergency Physician Mark J. Lowell, MD, FACEP, Recognized by the American College of Emergency Physicians as a “Hero of Emergency Medicine” Washington, D.C. — The American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) today announced it has recognized Mark J. Lowell, MD, FACEP, an emergency physician at University of Michigan Health System, as a “Hero of Emergency Medicine.” The campaign, which is part of ACEP’s 40th anniversary, recognizes emergency physicians who have made significant contributions to emergency medicine, their communities and their patients. “Emergency physicians are on the front lines of America’s health care system, providing the essential community service of emergency care,” says ACEP President Linda L. Lawrence, MD. “The dedication, passion and commitment Dr. Lowell has shown embodies the vision of ACEP’s founders and the ideals of our specialty.” Dr. Lowell serves as associate professor of emergency medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, and medical director of Survival Flight, University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, MI. Dr. Lowell has been a vital force in promoting rapid access to victims in need of emergency care by promoting and raising standards of emergency medicine in Ann Arbor and other places in Michigan. “The American College of Emergency Physicians is celebrating 40 years of advancing emergency care, and the nation’s emergency physicians are dedicated to saving even more lives and to improving emergency care for the next 40 years,” said Dr. Lawrence. “Tens of thousands of lives are saved each year by emergency physicians and 115 million patients are treated in the nation’s emergency departments. Emergency physicians are medical specialists who are experts in their field.”  ACEP is a national medical specialty society representing emergency medicine with more than 25,000 members. ACEP is committed to advancing emergency care through continuing education, research and public education. Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, ACEP has 53 chapters representing each state, as well as Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia. A Government Services Chapter represents emergency physicians employed by military branches and other government agencies.
Mark R. Sochor, MD has been named to the 2008 American College of Emergency Physicians Section Affairs Task Force. He has also has been named to the 2007-2008 International Injury Scaling Committee of the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine.	Eve Losman, MD has been invited to attend the Council Retreat Meeting for the project leadership of the Geriatrics-for Specialists Initiative (GSI) to plan for the project’s future growth.
Geetika Gupta , MD, has been selected to be an ACEP Medical Legal Committee member for 2008. She has served on this committee since 2006.
Congratulations to the Emergency Department whose abstract was approved for inclusion in the poster presentations at the National Teaching Institute and Clinical Care Exposition, May 3-8, 2008 in Chicago, Illinois! The poster is entitled: “Overcoming the Barriers to Assessing for Domestic Violence in the Emergency Department.” The authors include: Christine Carroll, Jon Fairchild, Mary Berry-Bovia, & Kathy Summers- Sitarski.

New Faces

Nancy Frost, Administrative Assistant Intermediate - support person for Drs. Stern, Lowell, and Meurer.

Dr. Deepa Macha has been hired as a moonlighter at Foote Hospital. She will likely work each month but has no administrative responsibilities.

Departures

Diann Krywko, MD left for the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston SC on January 1st. She had been at Hurley Medical Center for 8 1/2 years and served as the trauma, CDU, and residency site coordinator.

Jennifer Kelso, MD terminated her permanent position with us and moved out of state but she is still working a few clinical shifts at Foote each month for a while.

RESEARCH NEWS

Grants Submitted or Awarded

Title: Mechanical Defenses Against Line Sepsis PI: John Younger, MD Submitted to: Society of Academic Emergency Medicine Type: Research Fellowhip Status: Awarded Amount of Award: $150,000	Title: Tooth Accelerometer PI: Mark Sochor, MD Submitted to: US DOD-Army Type: Concept Award Status: Pending Amount of Award: -
Title: A Multifunctional Blood Substitute(MBS) for Field Resuscitation of Polytrauma Combat Casualities with Brain Injury and Concomitant Hemorrhagic Shock PI: Susan Stern, MD Submitted to: US DOD- Army Type: Research Subcontract w/NMRC Status: Awarded Amount of Award: $1,285,992	Title:Optimizing O2 Demand and Delivery for TBI/HS: Early Induction Hypothermia via a Microparticulate Slurry with an Adjunct Hemoglobin Based Ozygen Carrier PI: Susan Stern, MD Submitted to: US DOD- Army Type: Research Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Traumatic Brain Injury Status: Pending Amount of Award: -
Title: Developing and Validating Methods to Measure Knowledge and Behavior Change in Geriatrics Emergency Medicine Residents PI: Eve Losman, MD Submitted to: American Geriatrics Society Type: Dennis W. Jahnigen Career Development Scholars Award Status: Pending Amount of Award: -	Title: Flocculating Bacterial Communities: Model Selection, Validation, and Analysis PI: John Younger, MD Submitted to: NSF Type: Research Mathematical Biology Research Status: Pending Amount of Award: -
Title: Developing Systems of Emergency Physician Led Acute Stroke Care in a Bi-Ethnic Community PI: William Barsan, MD, William Meurer, MD Submitted to: American Heart Association, Inc. Type: Clinical Research Program Status: Pending Amount of Award: -	Title: Developing Systems of Emergency Physician Led Acute Stroke Care in a Bi-Ethnic Community PI: William Barsan, MD, William Meurer, MD Submitted to: Emergency Medicine Foundation Type: EMF Research Fellowship Grant Status: Pending Amount of Award: -
Title: Caregiver Health Literacy and Asthma Education during a Pediatric Emergency Department Visit PI: Michelle Macy, MD, Rachel Stanley, MD Submitted to: Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Type: N/A Status: Awarded Amount of Award: - $10,000

Abstracts

These abstracts were submitted to the following organizations for possible presentation at their annual meetings:

SAEM

Title: Antibacterial Properties of Topical Hemostatic Agents in Vitro and in a Rat Full-Thickness Dermal Wound Infection Model. Author(s):D. O. Bracho1, L. Barsan1, S. A. Stern1, J. A. Thompson2, J. Hen2, J. G. Younger1; 1University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 2Biolife LLC, Sarasota, FL. .

Title: Informatics-based Rapid Identification Of Infection In Geriatric Emergency Department Patients. .Author(s): B. L. Smith , E. D. Losman, D. Sherman, J. D. Yaksich, J. D. Jared, P. N. Malani, J. G. Younger, W. J. Meurer.

Title: High turnover hospital stays for US children with a primary diagnosis of asthma in 2004. Authors:
M. Macy, R. Stanley, A. Gebremariam, M. Davis

American Geriatric Society

Title: Level of Function and Independence in Older Adults Hospitalized with Suspected Serious Infection.Author(s):ED Losman, BL Smith, WJ Meurer, PN Malani, JG Younger.

American Society of Microbiology:

Title: Antibacterial Properties of Topical Hemostatic Agents in Vitro and in a Rat Full-Thickness Dermal Wound Infection Model. Author(s): D. O. Bracho1, L. Barsan1, S. A. Stern1, J. A. Thompson2, J. Hen2, J. G. Younger1; 1University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 2Biolife LLC, Sarasota, FL

Pediatric Academic Societies Abstracts

Title: Predictors of high turnover inpatient stays for pediatric asthma. Authors: M. Macy, S. Clark, R. Stanley, A. Gebremariam, M Davis

Title: Practice pattern variation in head CT use in children with minor blunt head trauma evaluated in the emergency department (ED): Is there an association with physician training?
R Stanley,1, J Hoyle, 2, P Dayan, 3, S Atabaki,4, L Lee, 5, K Lillis, 6, M Gorelick, 7, R Holubokov 8, J F Holmes, 9, N Kuppermann, 9 for the PECARN TBI group.

Title: Pain intervention use for infant LPs in the ED: Physician practice and beliefs
J D Hoyle, MD1, A J Rogers, MD2, J A Trytko, MS3, D Reischman, PhD4, E C Powell, MD5, D A Borgialli, DO,MPH6, P V Mahajan, MD,MPH,MBA7, R Stanley, MD2

Title: Low parental health literacy identified at an Emergency Department visit for childhood asthma.
M Macy, M Davis, R Stanley

Title: Trends in high-turnover hospitalizations for US children, 1993 to 2003.
M Macy, S Clark, R Stanley, A Gebremariam, M Davis

Title: Does Isolated Loss of Consciousness (LOC) Predict Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI) in Children after Blunt Head Trauma?
N Kuppermann1, J Holmes1, P Dayan2, J Hoyle3, S Atabaki4, D Monroe5, M Bachman6, F Nadel7, T Glass8, P Mahajan9, A Cooper10, R Stanley11

Title: A Survey of Emergency Physician’s Fear of Malpractice and its Association with the Decision to Neuroimage Pediatric Patients with Mild Traumatic Brain Injury.
A Wong, T Kowalenko, B Smith, R Maio, R Stanley

Title: Injury Patterns at U.S. and Canadian Overnight Summer Camps in 2006
Eric Goldlust MD, Ph.D.; Edward Walton MD, Rachel Stanley MD, R. Dawn Comstock, Ph.D.; Linda Ebner Erceg, M.S., Ph.N.; and Rebecca Cunningham, M.D.

Title: Delay of Gratification at 4 years and Risk of Overweight at 11 years
Authors: Desiree M Seeyave, MB.BS, Sharon Coleman, MS,MPH, Robert F Corwyn, PhD, Robert H Bradley, PhD, Niko Kaciroti, PhD and Julie C Lumeng, MD.

Title: Hostility as a Risk Factor for Diastolic Hypertension in Children
Authors: Desiree M Seeyave, MB.BS, Danielle Appugliese, MPH, Robert F Corwyn, PhD, Robert H Bradley, PhD, Niko Kaciroti, PhD and Julie C Lumeng, MD.

ALUMNI NEWS

Manya Newton, MD MPH (2006 residency graduate), is currently in her second year as a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar and has just been awarded a third year of funding. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grants a total of only eight such awards nationally to recognize outstanding and innovative research. Manya is the first Emergency Physician to receive this honor. Additionally, Manya is working on obtaining a PhD in Health Services and Organizational Policy with concentration in Poverty and Inequality through the School of Public Health and is a faculty member at Hurley Medical Center. We congratulate Manya on her accomplishments!

Paul DeFlorio, MD (2007 residency graduate) will be heading back to Iraq in early January to be an EM doc at the Air Force Theater Hospital, Balad, Iraq. His deployment should be for another 4.5months. He was also recently married on October 20, 2007 to Amanda Carvell, of Royal Oak, MI. Congratulations Paul and Amanda!

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Doran KM, Kirley K, Barnosky AR, Williams JC, Cheng JE. Developing a Novel Poverty in Healthcare Curriculum for Medical Students at the University of Michigan Medical School. Acad Med. 2008 Jan;83(1):5-13.

McCarthy ML, Aronsky D, Jones ID, Miner JR, Band RA, Baren JM, Desmond JS, Baumlin KM, Ding R, Shesser R.  The emergency department occupancy rate: a simple measure of emergency department crowding? Ann Emerg Med. 2008 Jan;51(1):15-24, 24.e1-2. Epub 2007 Nov 5.

Bortz DM, Jackson TL, Taylor KA, Thompson AP, Younger JG.  Klebsiella pneumoniae Flocculation Dynamics.  Bull Math Biol. 2007 Dec 11; [[Epub ahead of print]

Chung H, Cartwright MC, Thompson AP, Bortz DM, Jackson TL, Younger JG. Dynamical system analysis of Staphylococcus epidermidis bacteremia. In press, Shock

Peterson T, Barnosky AR. Selected issues in medical ethics in emergency medicine. Critical Decisions in Emergency Medicine. (Accepted August, 2007, for publication in 2008)

Majersik JJ, Meurer WJ. The 2007 International Stroke Conference San Francisco, California February 7-9, 2007. J Neuroophthalmol. 2007 Jun;27(2):147-9. No abstract available. PMID: 17549004

Simon HK, Hirsh DA, Rogers AJ, Massey R, DeGuzman MA. Pediatric Emergency Department Overcrowding: Electronic Medical Record for Identification of Frequent, Lower Acuity Visitors. Can We Effectively Identify Patients for Enhanced Resource Utilization? (in Press. J of Emergency Med)

Academic ED BIRT Research Collaborative.  The Impact of Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral for Treatment (SBIRT) on Emergency Department Patients’ Alcohol Use.  Ann Emerg Med. 2007 50(6) 699-710.

Flynn, HA, Walton, M, Chermack, ST, Cunningham, R, Marcus, SM.  Brief detection and co-occurrence of violence, depression and alcohol risk in prenatal care settings.  Arch Women’s Mental Health. 2007 10(4) 155-61.

Thapa PB, Walton MA, Cunningham RM, Maio RF, Han X, Savary PE, Booth BM.  Longitudinal Substance Use Following an Emergency Department Visit for Cocaine-Associated Chest Pain  Acad Emerg Med  In Press.

Walton M, Cunningham R, Xue Y, Trowbridge M, Zimmerman M, Maio RF.  Internet Referrals for Adolescent Violence Prevention: An Innovative Mechanism for Inner-city Emergency Departments.  J Adolesc Health In Press

Book Chapters

Barnosky AR, Goldberg R. Stress, wellness, and the impaired physician. In: Marx, J, et al., eds. Rosen’s Emerency Medicine - Concepts and Clinical Practice. 7th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Mosby; 2008 (in press)

Thurber C, Walton E. Homesickness. In: Rose B, ed. UpToDate. Waltham, MA; 2007

Anyone wishing to submit information for the February/March issue, please email Lisa Garnes at liswil@umich.edu.