New Faces

Karen Warda is the newest addition to the Hurley Medical Center staff as GME Administrative Assistant. She will be working directly with Dr. Monique Ice in the coordination of house officer rotators within the HMC Emergency Department. You can contact Karen at kwarda1@hurleymc.com or 810-257-9854.

Departures

Dr. Jill Koehler has terminated her faculty position at Hurley effectively immediately.

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

RESIDENCY NEWS

2008-2009 EM Chief Residents:

Patrick Carter, MD

Sam O'Broin, MD

David Somand, MD

Class of 2012 - Match Results

We had a stellar Match! Thank you to all the faculty and residents who participated in the 2008 recruitment process…our success is because of you!! On June 18th the following individuals will be joining our program:

Jenna Bartz - Loyola University of Chicago Stritch School of Medicine
Nathan Brouwer - Medical College of Wisconsin
Gísli Haraldsson - University of Iceland
Jillian Horning - University of Michigan Medical School
Vincent Huntsberger - University of Washington School of Medicine
Justin Ng Boston - University School of Medicine
Brian Sharp - Loyola University of Chicago Stritch School of Medicine
Jonathan Sorini - Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine of Midwestern University
Dorothy Wang - Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University
Chelsea White - University of Michigan Medical School
Steven Wiese -Texas Tech University School of Medicine
Patrick Young - Rush Medical College
Michael Zimmer - Medical College of Wisconsin
David Zinn - Brown Medical School

Congratulations to the 5 residents who applied for an off-site rotation in the 2008-2009 academic year and RECEIVED approval!

Megan Anderson, Village Life Outreach Project, Villages of Roche, Nyambogo, Burere, Tanzania
Andy Homer, Himalayan Health Exchange, Trans-Himalayan Villages of Zanskar
Kurt Hessen, Hillside Healthcare Center, Belize
Kraigher O’Keefe, Sundaram Medical Foundation, India
Melinda Turner, Health in Harmony: Alam Sehat Lestari (ASRI), West Kalimantan

Khare Academic Scholar Award
Congratulations to Eric Goldlust, MD who is the recipient of the 2008 Khare Academic Scholar Award! The Khare Academic Scholar Award is a $1,000 travel stipend to attend the May Society for Academic Emergency Medicine’s (SAEM) meeting. Congratulations once again to Eric on this well deserved honor!


Congratulations to Eric Goldlust on his poster "Injury Patterns at U.S. and Canadian Overnight Summer Camps: First Year of the Healthy Camp Study" that was accepted for the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) & Asian Society for Pediatric Research Joint Meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii! Additional authors include Skip Walton, Rachel Stanley, and Rebecca Cunningham. Congratulations to all!

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

1. Kathleen DeSantis Klinich, PhD; Carol A. C. Flannagan, PhD; Jonathan D. Rupp, PhD;
Mark Sochor, MD; Lawrence W. Schneider, PhD; Mark D. Pearlman, MD. Fetal outcome in motor-vehicle crashes: effects of crash characteristics and maternal restraint. Am J Obstet Gynecol 2008;198:450.e1-450.e9.

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