Chair – Robert Muelleman, M.D.
Beginning July 1, the Department of Emergency Medicine physician group will add the emergency department at Nebraska Medicine – Bellevue as the third practice site for emergency care. The department also provides patient care at the emergency departments for Nebraska Medicine – Nebraska Medical Center and the Nebraska Orthopaedic Hospital. With the addition of this site, we anticipate providing care for more than100,000 patients/year.
New faculty
New faculty recruited for FY16 and FY17 include:
Instructors: Dr. Andrew Barnett, Dr. Sean Brozek, Dr. Erica Carlsson, Dr. Kelly Hannigan, Dr. John Hanson, Dr. Adam Krause, Dr. Scott Madden, and Dr. Cherie Welter.
Assistant Professors: Dr. Jason Langenfeld, Dr. Elizabeth Mahal, Dr. Ross Mathiasen and Dr. Tedd Welniak.
Dr. Ross Mathiasen is practicing both emergency medicine and sports medicine. In addition to his emergency medicine clinical practice, he sees sports medicine patients at the Durham Outpatient Center and the Oakview Medical Center Orthopaedic clinics. He has been providing medical oversight at local high school sporting events as well major events such as the Olympic Swim Trials.
We will be welcoming Dr. Elizabeth Mahal to the faculty this coming year. Dr. Mahal will be the first faculty member practicing both emergency medicine and critical care medicine.
The Emergency Medicine residency program is preparing for the graduation of its 10th class. Originally approved for six residents/class, the complement has been increased over time, and currently class size sits at nine residents per year for the three-year program.
The Emergency Department continues to set itself apart through two annual programs – the Vietnam Collaboration and the Rural Emergency Medicine Course.
To honor the late Paul Tran, M.D., physicians travel to Vietnam to teach the U.S. approach to graduate medical education. A contingent of emergency faculty has traveled each year since 2013 to teach at the medical schools in Thai Binh and Hanoi.
The Rural Emergency Medicine Course provides a variety of lectures, simulation, and a rare cadaver lab not featured at the majority of similar courses around the country. This year, the department enjoyed record attendance.
Other highlights:
- Michael Wadman, M.D. and Thang Nguyen, APRN were recognized by UNeMed for the Most Promising Invention of 2015 for their innovative concepts of wound irrigation and oral airway management.
- Eric Ernest, M.D. was named medical director of the emergency medical services program for the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services (February 2016).
- Jeffrey Cooper, M.D. was named the Dive Team physician for Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo.
- Jeffrey Cooper, M.D. also assisted in establishing UNMC’s Hyperbaric Unit as an officially accredited national level one program.
- Jim McClay, M.D. received the 2015 UNMC New Investigator Award.
- The Emergency Department saw it’s 1 millionth patient in 2014.
Significant Research Grants:
- The Greater Plains Collaborative (GPC) PCORNET – $ 856,340
- Molecular and Cellular Determinants of the Exercise Pressor Reflex in CHF – $ 301,022
- Subcontract from University of Massachusetts, National Institutes of Health, "Emergency Department Suicide Screening and Intervention Trial 2" – $ 117,471
Recent publications:
- Barksdale AN, Hackman JL, Gaddis M, Gratton MC. Diagnosis and disposition are changed when board-certified emergency physicians use CT for non-traumatic abdominal pain. Am J Emerg Med. 2015 Nov; 33(11):1646-50. doi: 10.1016/j.ajem.2015.07.082. Epub 2015 Aug 5. PMID: 26341808
- Zeger WG, Branecki CE, Nguyen TT, Hall T, Boedeker B, Boedeker D, Wadman MC. A description of teaching methods using an on-site instructor versus a distant site instructor to train laryngoscopy to medical students in Hanoi, Vietnam, from Omaha, Nebraska, by video communication. Int J Emerg Med. 2015 Dec; 8(1):44. doi: 10.1186/s12245-015-0085-0. Epub 2015 Dec 1.PMID:26628319
- Ducey S, Cooper J.Hypovolemia Resulting in Platypnea-Orthodeoxia Syndrome. J Emerg Med. 2016 Mar; 50(3):482-4.
- Rice DT, Nudell NG, Habrat DA, Smith JE, Ernest EV. CPR induced consciousness: It's time for sedation protocols for this growing population. Resuscitation. 2016 Mar 5. pii: S0300-9572(16)00085-X. doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2016.02.013. [Epub ahead of print] No abstract available. PMID: 26956842
- Campbell WS, Pedersen J, McClay JC, Rao P, Bastola D, Campbell JR. An alternative database approach for management of SNOMED CT and improved patient data queries. J Biomed Inform. 2015 Aug 21. pii: S1532-0464(15)00184-7. doi: 10.1016/j.jbi.2015.08.016. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 26305513
- Tarrell A, Grabenbauer L, McClay J, Windle J, Fruhling AL.; "Toward improved heuristic evaluation of EHRs." Health Systems 4, 138-150 (July 2015) | doi:10.1057/hs.2014.19
- Zheng H, Liu X, Sharma NM, Li YL, Pliquett R, Patel KP. Urinary proteolytic activation of renal epithelial Na+ channel in chronic heart failure. Hypertension 2016; 67: 197-205. PMID: 26628676, PMCID: PMC4679598
- McClay JC, Park P, Janczewski M, Langford L; Standard for Improving Emergency Information Interoperability: The HL7 Data Elements for Emergency Department Systems (DEEDS). J Am Med Inform Assoc 2015; DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jamia/ocu040 First published online: 13 March 2015
- Campbell JR, Campbell WS, Hickman H, Pedersen J, McClay JC; "Employing Complex Polyhierarchical Ontologies and Promoting Interoperability of i2b2 Data Systems" J Am Med Inform Assoc 2015 PMID: 26958167
- Smith CJ, Britigan DH, Lyden E, Anderson N, Welniak TJ, Wadman MC. Interunit handoffs from emergency department to inpatient care: A cross-sectional survey of physicians at a university medical center. J Hosp Med. 2015 Nov;10(11):711-7. doi: 10.1002/jhm.2431. Epub 2015 Jul 22. Review.PMID: 26199192
- Zhang D, Liu J, Zheng H, Tu H, Muelleman RL, Li YL. Effect of angiotensin II on voltage-gated sodium currents in aortic baroreceptor neurons and arterial baroreflex sensitivity in heart failure rats. J Hypertens. 2015 Jul;33(7):1401-10. doi: 10.1097/HJH.0000000000000563. PMID: 25827427
- Li YL, Zhang D, Tu H, Muelleman RL. Altered ENaC Is Associated With Aortic Baroreceptor Dysfunction in Chronic Heart Failure. Am J Hypertens. 2015 Aug 20. pii: hpv141. [Epub ahead of print] PMID:26297031
- Liu J, Zhang D, Tu H, Muelleman RL, Wang WZ, Li YL. Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors and cardiac vagal activity in rats with type 2 diabetes. J Diabetes & Metabolism 2015; S13: 012
- Smith-Coggins R, Marco CA, Baren JM, Beeson MS, Carius ML, Counselman FL, Heller BN, Kowalenko T, Muelleman RL, Nelson LS, Wahl RP, Korte RC, Joldersma KB; Research Committee, American Board of Emergency Medicine. American Board of Emergency Medicine report on residency training information (2014-2015, American Board of Emergency Medicine. Annals of Emergency Med, Vol 65(5) pages584-94. May 2015. PMID: 25910762.
- Wadman MC, Schwedhelm SS, Watson S, Swanhorst J, Gibbs SG, Lowe JJ, Iwen PC, Hayes AK, Needham S, Johnson DW, Kalin DJ, Zeger WG, Muelleman RL. Emergency Department Processes for the Evaluation and Management of Persons Under Investigation for Ebola Virus Disease. Ann Emerg Med. 2015 Sep;66(3):306-14. doi: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2015.04.020. Epub 2015 May 21. Review. PMID: 26003001
- Smith C, Wadman M, Harrison J, Beck G. Assessment of a brief handoff skills workshop for incoming interns: Do past handoff experiences impact training outcomes? JCMECD June 2015
- Sitorius MA, Wadman M, Britigan B, Harrison JD. History and trends in US medical education: A focus on family medicine. Clin Med Educ 2015;1(1):60-68
- Yu-Long Li, Dongze Zhang, Huiyin Tu, Robert L. Muelleman. Altered ENaC Is Associated With Aortic Baroreceptor