Showcase: EM-CCM in New Mexico
Critical Care Medicine Section Newsletter - December 2012
The Emergency Medicine- Critical Care subspecialty continues to make great strides at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center. Over the past seven years, UNM has put together one of the largest EM/CCM groups in the country, currently boasting five EM/CCM trained faculty. This EM/CCM group is part of a larger multi-disciplinary surgical CCM group including Anesthesiologists, Trauma Surgeons and CT surgeons and Neurologists. The faculty direct and staff the three adult surgical ICUs at UNM: a Trauma-surgical-burn ICU, Neurosciences ICU, and Cardiothoracic ICU.
Isaac Tawil, MD, FACEP
After years of progress building this ICU team, implementing a closed/collaborative ICU model, initiating an in-house nighttime ICU coverage system, and contributing to advancing intensive care at the national level, this group was rewarded with Divisional status within the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine.
The new Division Chief of Surgical Critical care is Dr. Jonathan Marinaro, the Neuroscience ICU director is Dr. Isaac Tawil and the assistant director of the TSICU is Dr. Todd Dettmer, all of whom are EM-Intensivists. Even more exciting is the development of a multi-disciplinary “Center of Surgical Critical Care” which will house the education and research infrastructure for the expanding critical care endeavors. Dr. Marinaro has been named the center’s first director. The energy and success of this group has led to 1-2 EM residents per year choosing the critical care subspecialty path. They also run the only EM-CCM medical student elective, serving to highlight this specialty crossover early on in medical education.
Jonathan Marinaro, MD,
FACEP
Todd Detmer, MD
We would like to congratulate the EM-CCM team at the UNM-HSC for advancing our subspecialty both in New Mexico and nationally!!
Isaac Tawil MD, FACEP
Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine and Surgery
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM
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