Baker wins lifetime achievement award
Janet Baker, DMO III, Department of Emergency Medicine, is this year’s recipient of the Academy of Administrators in Academic Emergency Medicine James Scheulen Lifetime Achievement Award. She received the award at the organization’s March annual retreat in Dana Point, Calif….
Cardiac arrest care focus of Emergency Medicine symposium
More than 100 attendees learned the latest in cardiac arrest response at “State-of-the-Art Cardiac Resuscitation: From BLS to ECMO to Post-Arrest Care,” presented by the Texas Cardiac Arrest Registry to Enhance Survival (TX-CARES) and Penn Medicine TTM Academy. Participants joined…
Hill named Ujima Program Scholar
Mandy J. Hill, DrPH, associate professor and director of population health in the Department of Emergency Medicine, has been accepted into the 2022 Inaugural Cohort of the University of California San Francisco, Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPS) Ujima Mentoring…
Emergency Medicine provides training to SpaceX crewmembers
Along with educating students, residents, and fellows in the most advanced lifesaving therapies on Earth, the Department of Emergency Medicine is helping to prepare members of the Polaris Dawn crew to handle medical emergencies in space. The Department of Emergency…
Hands-on training
Photo by Dwight Andrews/Office of Communications Department of Emergency Medicine interns learn ultrasound techniques in the Surgical and Clinical Skills Center of McGovern Medical School July 6.
Chen, Rogg named Houston Business Journal 40 Under 40
The Houston Business Journal has selected Wendy Chen, MD, MS, and Jonathan Rogg, MD, MBA, to its 40 Under 40 Class of 2022. Each year, the Houston Business Journal receives hundreds of nominations and applications for the highly-competitive 40 Under…
New Mobile Simulation Training Unit teaches lifesaving skills
A state-of-the-art mobile simulation training unit designed to enhance high-level adult and pediatric emergency medicine care has arrived at UTHealth Houston. Thanks to a $500,000 donation from the Wyatt Ranches, the Department of Emergency Medicine unveiled the UTHealth Houston Mobile…
Emergency Medicine faculty release award-winning ECG curriculum
A team of physician-educators in the Department of Emergency Medicine have released a novel application called ECG Stampede. Practicing emergency physicians are tasked with rapidly and accurately determining the acuity of electrocardiograms (ECG) obtained on arriving patients – generally with…
Emergency Medicine research helps mitigate disparities in access to life-saving care
The connections between health and disparities are increasingly coming into focus, with two recently published papers from the Department of Emergency Medicine’s Texas Emergency Medicine Research Center. Both retrospective studies review disparities in access to life-saving cardiac resuscitation in Texas…
Initiative leads to decrease in emergency physician burnout
Studies of the COVID-19 pandemic and prior pandemics have shown that isolation and distancing are associated with higher rates of anxiety, depression, anger, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). COVID-19 has led to new stressors impacting societal, physical, financial, and psychological…