Research Updates June 2026:

We’ve had two faculty members be appointed as Associate Editors at prestigious journals! Dr. Sara Nelson was recently appointed at MedEdPORTAL, which is a fantastic educational journal and repository for evidenced-based educational tools across a variety of health-related education topics. Check it out if you have never visited their site: https://www.mededportal.org/ Congrats, Sara!

Additionally, Dr. Madeleine Puissant was appointed as an Associate Editor at JAMA Network Open which is an international, peer-reviewed, open access, general medical journal that publishes research on clinical care, innovation in health care, health policy, and global health across all health disciplines and countries for clinicians, investigators, and policy makers. (https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen if you’d like to check them out) Congratulations, Madeleine!

New Grant!

Congratulations to Drs. Angelica Rego and Samir Haydar who were just awarded a $20,000 MaineHealth Innovation Ignite grant! They will be looking at the feasibility of incorporating AI-enabled glasses in healthcare settings, particularly to help with communication across languages. You can learn more about our Innovation Center and they support and grants they offer here https://innovation.mainehealth.org/ but know that they have multiple grant opportunities that our team members have been able to access since the inception of the center.

Dr. Mike Baumann is a long-time member of a research group focused on the care of patients with opioid use disorder. The team recently submitted a letter of intent proposing a PCORI (Patient-centered Outcomes Research Institute) grant focused on the use of buprenorphine in acutely injured trauma patients as they proceed from the ED through the hospital course. The team was just notified that their letter was selected to move forward in the process, with the opportunity to submit a full proposal for funding consideration. You can learn more about PCORI here: https://www.pcori.org/about/about-pcori Congrats and good luck on the next step, Mike!

Awards!

Several folks from our team have recently been honored with some prestigious awards! At the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) annual meeting this month, Andrew Fried, Keana Reed, Samir Haydar, Angelica Rego, and Mike Baumann were named Grand Champions of the first ever SAEM Hackathon!

We also had multiple colleagues win awards at this year’s MaineHealth Costas T. Lambrew Research Retreat! Please congratulate the following folks on their awards:

Ali Bryant, Sara Nelson, Lauren Wendell, Annie Huyler, Sadie Robinson. Shift in Perspective: Fostering Empathy Through Medical Student Immersion in Emergency Nursing Role.  First Place Student/Trainee Winner: Peter W. Bates Award for Excellence in Health Professions Education Research.

Andrew Fried, Keanna Reed, Samir Haydar, Dave Mackenzie, Rae Williams. Individualized Post-Shift Performance Snapshots Are Associated with Reduced Emergency Department Relative Night Shift Burden. First Place Faculty/Staff Winner: Award for Excellence in Quality Improvement Research.

Leah Millsap, Caroline Banevicius, Madeleine Puissant. Timeliness to Early Medical Intervention in ICH Amongst Rural vs. Urban ED Populations. 2026 Maine Nephrology Associates Himmelfarb Research Prize Winner.

Dr. Madeleine Puissant was also recently presented with the Researcher of the Year award from the Department of Critical Care Medicine! Congrats, Madeleine!  

MITE Academy!

Please join me in congratulating Monique Gilbert, MSN, RN, CEN, TCRN on her acceptance into this year’s MaineHealth Institute for Teaching Excellence (MITE) Academy Scholars Program! This is a two-year program focused on promoting, recognizing, and supporting excellence in teaching across the continuum of health professions education. We all know that Monique is already an AMAZING educator, so we can’t wait to see the incredible things she will accomplish through this fantastic program! Bravo, Monique, we are so excited for you!

SAEM Presentations!

Many of our group participated in several presentations at this year’s Society for Academic Emergency Medicine annual meeting, held this month in Atlanta.

Derek Lubetkin: Acceptability, Feasibility, and Appropriateness of Police-Based Life Support Training and Public-Space AED Integration in Nepal: A Mixed Methods Implementation Evaluation.

Curtis Xu, Dave Mackenzie, Christina Wilson, Andrew Fried: Cardiac Point-of-Care Ultrasound Orientation Conventions in Emergency Medicine Practice

Andrew Fried, Keana Reed, Samir Haydar, Dave Mackenzie, Rae Williams: Impact of Physician Shift Snapshots on ED Relative Night Shift Burden

Leah Millsap, Caroline Banevicius, Madeleine Puissant: Timeliness to Early medical Intervention in ICH Amongst Rural vs. Urban ED Populations

Caroline Banevicius, Leah Millsap, Madeleine Puissant: Time to Tertiary Care Center/Interfacility Transfer Time and Hemorrhage Expansion, Mortality, and Discharge Outcomes in Patients with Spontaneous Intracerebral Hemorrhage

Sadie Robinson: WISE Mentorship Model for Emergency Medicine Residents

Isha Agarwal: Gender Equity in the Emergency Medicine Workforce, Panel Presentation & Discussion

Tim Fallon: Taming ResidencyCAS, presented at the SAEM Medical Student Symposium

AHA Epi Lifestyle Conference!

Additional congrats to Dr. Isha Agarwal who recently presented Night Shift Work, Gestational Diabetes, and the Risk of Type II Diabetes at this year’s American Heart Association Epi Lifestyle Conference, held in Boston! Congrats, Isha!

Accepted Abstract!

In addition to the many abstracts presented at recent conferences, we have recently had an abstract accepted for an upcoming conference! Congratulations to Dr. Denisse Marquez Rojas on the acceptance of her poster entitled Caring for Undocumented and Immigrant Patients for presentation at the 2026 Gold Humanism Summit, which will be held in Pittsburgh in the fall.

Dr. Madeleine Puissant was awarded an Education and Research Pilot Grant by the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health for her work looking at the physiologic effects of night shift on pregnant workers. This work is being done by an amazing team including Dr. Isha Agarwal, Dr. Tania Strout PhD RN MS, Irit Altman PhD RN and Julia Greenwald (TUSM).

Congratulations to the class of 2022. We are so happy to celebrate your graduation! We know that your patients will be lucky to have you.

Click on the image to link to our alumni page and see what they are all up to next year.

Congratulations to our first 3 fellowship matches this year:

• Dr. Diana Biggs, Wilderness Medicine, University of Colorado

• Dr. Weeden Bauman, Ultrasound, Maine Medical Center

• Dr. Jenn Zacharia, Toxicology, University of Massachusetts

We are so excited for the success of all of our graduates and we will be sharing updates on upcoming matches and job acceptances here!

We were excited to get out and clean up the Eastern Prom for our MMC EM Day of Service event!

Congratulations to our 2021 Graduates!

Dan Casey- Providence Medical Center & St. John's Medical Center, Kansas City, KS
Jacob Denoncourt- Franklin Memorial Hospital, Farmington, ME
Elizabeth Hamilton- Wilderness and Austere Medicine Fellowship- Dartmouth Hitchcock, Hannover, NH
J. Nick Hansen- Ultrasound Fellowship- Maine Medical Center, Portland, ME
Katie Main- Global EM & Rural Health Fellowship- University of Washington, Anchorage, AK
Elizabeth Payonk- Elliot Hospital, Manchester, NH
Joshua Rehberg- Ultrasound Fellowship- Maine Medical Center, Portland, ME
Allison Strong- Skagit Valley Regional Health Emergency Physicians, Skagit Valley, WA
Weston Tardy- Providence Anchorage, Alaska, Providence St. Mary's, Walla Walla, Washington, & Providence St. Patrick's, Missoula, Montana - Seattle, WA (home base)
X. Ming Wang- Miles Memorial Hospital, Damariscotta, ME

Visiting Student Rotation 

Maine Medical Center is very excited to announce will be accepting visiting students for our 4th year Emergency Medicine Clerkship during the following blocks:

7/6-7/30/21
8/2-8/6/21
8/30-9/24/21
9/27-10/22/21
10/25-11/19/21


Student Electives

We will be accepting applications for visiting medical students for rotations following the guidelines set forth by CORD and the Coalition for Physician Accountability Consensus Statement on the 2021-2022 Emergency Medicine application cycle. Further details will be available soon. You can also search for our rotation and apply through VSLO.

Search for Maine Med Emergency Medicine. Our core EM rotation is EMR409-MM - Emergency Medicine, Emergency Medicine and we also offer Emergency Medicine rotations in Toxicology and Emergency Ultrasound.

We are excited to welcome our incoming Interns for 2021! Congrats on Match and welcome to the family!

11/6/20: We are still reviewing applications!

We are excited to have the opportunity to review so many amazing candidates to our program. We have been busy reading every application with the goal of being as holistic as possible. If you have applied, don't worry, the majority of our invites haven't gone out yet. We will keep working as efficiently as we can and plan to send out interview invitations shortly.

Now accepting applications for the Virtual Med Student Clerkship

EMR420 VIRTUAL ELECTIVE - Advanced Emergency Medicine Virtual Clerkship

Institution:  Maine Medical Center

Goals and Objectives: 

• Goals: To become facile with core and advanced EM topics through a self guided asynchronous curriculum, live online didactics, and facilitated small group cases, while also exploring the unique features of Maine Medical Center's Emergency Medicine Residency.

• Objectives: By the end of the 4th year medical student EM virtual curriculum, senior medical students will be able to: - Understand the core concepts of EM through the Bridges to EM curriculum, geared towards senior level medical students, as well as didactics and workshops posted on DownEast EM website. - Demonstrate focused problem-based histories, physical exams and oral presentation skills through small group work with the Foundations of EM curriculum and virtual OSCE's. - Recognize and appreciate the unique aspects of the Maine Medical Center EM Residency through virtual resident mentors, question and answer sessions with current residents, a virtual tour of the emergency department, and a live virtual meeting with residency leadership.

Dates: 9/1-9/25 or 10/5-10/30 (application deadline 2 weeks prior to start date)

Application Details available on VSAS: Follow this link!

As this is a virtual rotation, you do not need N95 fit testing or a dean’s letter.

Welcome to our new interns, the MMC Emergency Medicine class of 2023!

Bios can be found on the Residents page!

Congratulations to the Class of 2020 Graduates:

Hallie Blunck: Grand Mesa Emergency Physicians, Delta, CO

Evan Gill: EMA/Pacific Healthworks, El Sengundo, CA

Chris Hasslinger: York Hospital, York, ME

Annie Huyler: Ultrasound Fellow, Maine Medical Center, Portland, ME

Eric Maughan: Air Force Special Ops Surgical Team Physician, University Medical Center, Las Vegas, NV

Emily Muns: Integris Baptist Medical Center, Oklahoma City, OK

Samuel Potter: Central Vermont Medical Center (UVM), Berlin, VT

Anne Runkle: Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellow, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Cincinnati, OH

Leif Skjerli: Central Maine Medical Center, Lewiston, ME

Chris Welter: Kadlec Regional Hospital, Richland, WA

Graduation is just around the corner! We’re thrilled for our 2019 graduating class. They will bring their hard earned MMC skills to five different states…and even half way across the globe! 2/3 of the class has chosen to pursue fellowship training. An amazing group!

• Chris Allison - Ultrasound Fellowship; Tufts-Maine Medical Center, Portland, ME

• Peter Antkowiak - Administration & Operations Fellowship; Harvard-Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA

• Jason Block - Critical Care Fellowship; Stanford University, Pal Alto, CA

• Shaila DeLea - Global Health Fellowship; Western Thailand & Pen Bay Medical Center, Rockport, ME

• Andrew Fried - Ultrasound Fellowship; Tufts-Maine Medical Center, Portland, ME

• Brook Goddard - Clinical Practice; Vituity, Santa Cruz, CA

• Heidi Goddard - Clinical Practice; Vituity, Santa Cruz, CA

• Kelly Meehan-Coussee - Emergency Medical Services Fellowship; Brown University, Providence, RI

• Karen Wakeman - Clinical Practice; Yakima Valley Hospital-Virginia Mason Memorial, Yakima, WA

Check out our alumni page to see what previous classes are up to.

Another year, another awesome Match. Congratulations to the incoming interns!

Our Ultrasound Fellowship is expanding!

Huge congratulations to our three 2019-2020 fellows: Gabriela Lopes (UConn), Chris Allison (MMC), and Andrew Fried (MMC).

A warm welcome and congratulations to our 2018 Match class! 

The protocols and guidelines available on EMGuidelines are now available as an app on the Apple App Store and on Google Play! Just search for EM Guidelines and enjoy!

Ultrasound research 

"Ability of Emergency Medicine Residents to Identify and Localize Regional Wall Motion Abnormalities in Acute Myocardial Infarction" 

Abstract Poster

Welcome to Our Newest Faculty:

Dr. Bohanske: Mike finished an EMS fellowship at the University of Cincinnati in 2017. He received his MD from Boston University, completed his residency at the University of Cincinnati, and was chief resident his final year. 

Dr. Leger: One of our recent chief residents, a native of the state, Dr. Leger joined our clinical faculty in 2017.

Dr. Lu: Dr. Lu was previously an attending at Northwestern in Chicago while completing a Masters degree in clinical and translational research. David received his MD and a Masters in Bioethics from the University of Pennsylvania and completed his residency at the Northwestern University Emergency Medicine Residency Program. 

Dr. Wendell: Lauren was previously an attending in the UPMC system (Pittsburgh Residency Program).  She is also a native of the great state of Maine.  She joined our clinical faculty in the summer of 2017.

Dr. Wilson: Christina recently completed the ultrasound fellowship at Mass General. She received her MD from the University of Virginia School of Medicine and completed her residency at the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency Program.