April 2024
Dr. Melina Kanji was elected as the vice chair to the Emergency Medicine Residents’ Association (EMRA) Wellness Committee.
Dr. Leyanet Gonzalez was selected to be one of the mini-fellows for the Council of Residency Directors in Emergency Medicine (CORD) Mini-Fellowship in Wellness Leadership.
Dr. Erin Harvath and Dr. Leyanet Gonzalez will be presenting at the New Horizons in Pediatrics Conference in Atlanta on April 13.
Dr. Ziad Faramand had his abstract published in the JACC — Congratulations!
March 2024
Congratulations to Dr. Leyanet Gonzalez for her poster acceptance to New Horizons in Pediatrics conference at CHOA – great job!
Congratulations to the following residents for their appointment to Chief Resident!
February 2024
Congratulations to Associate Program Director, Dr. Anitha Mathew for receiving a clinical faculty teaching award for AY 2022-2023 from the AU/UGA Medical Partnership. Well done!
Congratulations to Dr. Romy Rahhal! Her abstract titled: Contraceptive Practices Among Vulnerable Women: An Emergency Department Multicenter Cross-Sectional Study, has been accepted for presentation at SAEM24 in Phoenix, AZ, this May!
December 2023
Check out Dr. Andy Ball’s article on page 34 of the November/December 2023 issue of Common Sense by American Academy of Emergency Medicine (View on Issuu)
Congratulations to Drs. Hawa Henderson, Seth Illu, and Andy Ball for having their article titled “Integration of Emergency Medicine Resident Physicians in 911 EMS System” published in GEMSA (page 31) https://files.georgiaems.net/GEMSA/GEMSA-FA23/
Congratulations to Drs. Kartik Shah and Ziad Faramand! Their photo competition cases were chosen for poster presentation at the 30th Annual AAEM Scientific Assembly (AAEM24), being held on April 27-May 1, 2024 in Austin, TX.
November 2023
Congratulations to Dr. Mugele, Dr. Leflore and Dr. Gethers for winning awards at the 2023 Physician Banquet. Dr. Mugele won the Academic Excellence Award, Dr. Leflore won the Nurse’s Choice Award: Physician of the Year 2023 for the Barrow campus and Dr. Gethers won for the Lumpkin campus. Congrats one and all!
Congratulations to Dr. Ziad Faramand for being awarded the Georgia College of Emergency Physicians In-Training and Professionalism Services Award! Great job, Dr. Faramand!
October 2023
Congratulations to Dr. Romy Rahhal with two published papers!
- Increased risk of colorectal cancer in patients with chronic tophaceous gout: A population-based study in the journal: Arquivos de Gastroenterologia
- The impact of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease on inflammatory bowel disease-related hospitalization outcomes: a systematic review in the journal: European Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Dr. Rahhal has had one of her previous works published in the “INJURY” journal. She is the first author.
June 2023
Dr. Ziad Faramand, PGY-2 EM resident, has been published in Nature Medicine, which is considered among the five most impactful clinical journals! Read about his research work here.
Dr. Kartik Shah was interviewed by The Gainesville Times on the effects of fentanyl. Read the full article here.
Emergency Medicine Residency faculty presented at the EMS pre-conference session this month at the Georgia Heart & Vascular Symposium at Chateau Elan, attended by 500+ clinicians. Dr. Spencer Masiewicz was the keynote speaker. Read more here.
May 2023
NGMC Emergency Medicine residents participated in a simulated mass casualty event recently, where they learned how to triage and treat patients in three different simulated locations! Check out the news article explaining their experience!
March 2023
Congratulations to Emergency Medicine Residency faculty member, Dr. Ruch, for her segment on NPR (WABE) radio where she spoke about addiction specialists and the ED as the new front line to get patients connected to treatment.
Congratulations to EM resident Dr. Layanet Gonzalez for her poster acceptance for the upcoming New Horizons in Pediatrics conference at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta.
February 2023
NGMC Gainesville has been verified as a Level 1 trauma center! Read the press release here.
Congratulations to Dr. Kartik Shah who published a case report with a rotating medical student on hypotension in adults with ST-segment depressions on their ECG. View the article here.
January 2023
Dr. Masiewicz published an article on prehospital treatment of pain in pediatric populations in the
Journal of Pain and Palliative Care Pharmacotherapy. Read the Article.
December 2022
Congrats to Emergency Medicine faculty, Dr. Dion for being accepted at EPIC’s Expert Group Meetings conference to present ED Point of Care Ultrasounds – Optimizing the Workflow for ED Providers and Billing in May 2023.
November 2022
Dr. Ziad Faramand had two abstracts published in Circulation. Circulation is the official journal of the American Heart Association with an impact factor of 40. Read more here:
October 2022
Congrats to Emergency Medicine resident, Dr. Faramand, for his article being published in the prestigious Emergency Medicine journal, The Annals of Emergency Medicine. Read the Article.
September 2022
Emergency Medicine resident Leyanet Gonzalez, MD, who is the chair-elect for the EMRA Wellness Committee, presented at ACEP.
Congratulations to Emergency Medicine faculty, Dr. Muhamed, for his article being published in a peer-reviewed journal. Read the Article.
Congratulations to Emergency Medicine faculty, Dr. Shah, for his case report being accepted in a Medline-indexed journal. Read the Article.
Dr. Masiewicz published Stat Pearls article on posterior hip dislocations. Read the Article.
August 2022
Congratulations to Emergency Medicine Residency program intern, Leyanet Gonzalez, MD, for her publication about the Lorna Breen Act. Read the Article.
July 2022
Emergency Medicine residents get crash course in what happens before patients reach the hospital. Read the Article.
April 2022
Dr. Ziad Faramand, newly matched Emergency Medicine Resident, won the 2022 ISCE Annual Conference Poster Presentation for his presentation on “Visualizing Activation and Recovery Pathways as a Novel Approach for Myocardial Ischemia Detection on Prehospital 12-Lead ECGs.”
The ISCE Annual Conference is organized by the biggest society for computerized Electrocardiology, focusing on reading ECGs, automated ECG interpretation and annotation, and developing novel methods to visualize ECG.
February 2022
Dr. Masiewicz published about a novel type of helmet that can reduce exposure to toxic aerosols in the Journal of Prehospital and Disaster Medicine. Read the article.
September 2021
Dr. Josh Mugele has recently published an article in AEM Education and Training about intuition, bias, and decision-making in the emergency department. http://doi.org/10.1002/aet2.10657
Northeast Georgia toxicologist, Dr. Kartik Shah published a study on the use of high-dose NAC in patients with acetaminophen overdose in the Journal of Clinical Toxicology. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34549670/
Dr. Mugele participated in a NEJM Resident 360 Online panel discussion titled “Do I need an online presence? Social media as a medical student, resident, and beyond”
August 2021
Welcome to our new faculty — Dr. Hersh Mathur, who is trained in med/peds and in emergency medicine, Dr. Spencer Masiewicz who just completed his EMS fellowship, and Dr. Grace Dion who just finished her ultrasound fellowship. They are all excited and eager to teach.
July 2021
Dr. Kartik Shah published a case report in the Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians in July 2021 about a child with a VP shunt that eroded into their bowel.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/emp2.12486
June 2021
In June 2021, the Northeast Georgia Medical Center Emergency Department in Gainesville became one of the first emergency departments in the region to offer Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) for substance use disorder. These efforts were spearheaded by Dr. Alison Ruch.
May 2021
Emergency Medicine Faculty, Dr. Antoine Leflore giving a talk on unconscious bias to the entire hospital system https://twitter.com/GMEEmergencyMed/status/1393234420178563072/photo/1
Dr. Mugele participated as a part of a virtual panel for an ACEP/EMRA Diversity Mentoring Initiative Mixer. The title of the discussion was “Transitioning to the Next Stage of Your Career: Residency & Beyond.”
Dr. Mugele interviewed by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution about his time he spent in New York at the beginning of the COVID pandemic. https://www.ajc.com/news/state–regional/almost-little-defeated-georgia-doctor-fought-covid/s5F7r3zP3sHWMcX3S12tNP/“
Dr. Mugele is profiled by a local news station for volunteering to work in New York at the beginning of the COVID pandemic. https://accesswdun.com/article/2020/4/894316/ngmc-er-doctor-goes-to-nyc-join-covid-19-fight“
Dr. Mugele speaks with the British Medical Journal for their podcast about healthcare disparities highlighted during the COVID pandemic. https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-humanities/2021/02/04/what-becomes-of-us-health-disparity-in-pandemic/“
Dr. Mugele is profiled by CNBC in a piece about hospital volunteers during the COVID pandemic. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/09/medical-workers-help-covid-19-fight-in-hotspots-but-might-be-needed-at-home.html“
Dr. Mugele is profiled by the US News about the time he spent volunteering in New York during the COVID pandemic. https://health.usnews.com/hospital-heroes/articles/dispatched-to-the-coronavirus-epicenter-a-volunteer’s-new-york-story“
April 2021
Dr. Anitha Mathew and Dr. Josh Mugele published a photo quiz article in the American Journal of Family Medicine titled ‘Multifocal Pneumonia: Fever, Cough, and Dyspnea’. https://www.aafp.org/afp/2021/0415/p503.html”
January 2021
Dr. Shehzad Muhamed published a brief report in the Pain Management and Addiction section of ACEP titled ‘Low-Dose Ketamine for Pediatric Sickle Cell Pain Crisis.’ https://www.acep.org/how-we-serve/sections/pain-management/news/january-2021/low-dose-ketamine-for-pediatric-sickle-cell-pain-crisis/
December 2020
Dr. Josh Mugele collaborated with a number of authors from Twitter to publish a guide to documenting social media engagement as academic scholarship in the Journal of Medical Internet Research. https://www.jmir.org/2020/12/e25070/
November 2020
Dr. Tomo Oshimura and others at NGMC got an abstract accepted in the journal Circulation validating the Cardiac Arrest Hospital Prognosis (CAHP) Score. https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/circ.142.suppl_4.310”
May 2020
Dr. Masiewicz published an article in the Journal of Emergency Medicine about presentation times of
myocardial infarction in the emergency department in May 2020.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32229136/
April 2020
Dr. Josh Mugele and some of his previous colleagues from Indiana University School of Medicine published a study on the qualities important in the selection of chief residents. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7205358/?report=reader
March 2020
Dr. Tomo Oshimura and others at NGMC got an abstract accepted in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology looking at the association of BMI and out of hospital cardiac arrest survival and outcomes. https://www.jacc.org/doi/full/10.1016/S0735-1097%2820%2931964-1