Scholarly Activity

The Sarasota Memorial Health Care system has a robust research division. As previously stated there is a dedicated research and education institute designed to promote collaboration, discovery and innovation and medical education research. The Program Director and core faculty have many peer-reviewed publications. The core emergency medicine residency program has an active research program. The fellow will have ample opportunity to participate in research, publish, and present at various scientific assemblies.

Marshall Frank, DO, MPH, FAESM

Nackley GN, Langley DM, Frank MA, Daniel P, Ma OJ. The Role of The Emergency Medical Services Medical Director and Natural Disasters: The Sarasota, Florida Experience During Hurricane Milton. Prehosp Emerg Care. 2025 Aug 22:1-7. doi: 10.1080/10903127.2025.2551893. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 40844893.

Presentation:

Gather of the Eagles – National Prehospital Management of Severe Hypertension in Pregnancy. August 23, 2024

Presentation:

Guest Lecturer – Desoto County EMS Symposium. Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest Management – Esmolol, Dual Sequential Defibrillation, and Dose-Capped Epinephrine. August 21, 2024

Presentation:

NAEMSP, Florida Chapter – Development of a Trauma Center Transport Consideration Protocol and Its Effect on Interfacility Trauma Transports. August 16, 2024.

Langley D M, Kelly R C, Frank M A (July 15, 2024) Arrhythmias During Pregnancy: Ventricular Tachycardia in the Setting of Maternal Beta Thalassemia Minor. Cureus 16(7): e64599. doi:10.7759/cureus.64599

Sweeney J, Frank M, Meyers E. “Interprofessional Collaboration to Improve Transport Decisions for Injured Patients.” Journal of Emergency Medical Services. April, 2024. https://www.jems.com/operations/interprofessional-collaboration-to-improve-transport-decisions-for-injured-patients

Presentation: Florida Perinatal Quality Collaborative. Prehospital Postpartum Preeclampsia – Identification and Management. March 18, 2024

Lauren Riney DO, Sam Palmer MAURP, Erik Finlay MPH, Andrew Bertrand BA, Shannon Burcham BS, BAS, Phyllis Hendry MD, Manish Shah MD, Kathryn Kothari MD, David W. Ashby DO, MS, Daniel Ostermayer MD, Olga Semenova BSc, Benjamin N. Abo DO, Benjamin Abes MPH, Nichole Shimko MSN, RN, Emily Myers BSN, RN, Marshall Frank DO, Tim Turner, Mac Kemp MEd, MSs, Kim Landry MD, Greg Roland MD, Jennifer N. Fishe MD. Examination of disparities in prehospital encounters for pediatric asthma exacerbations. JACEP Open. October,2023; 4:e13042. https://doi.org/10.1002/emp2.13042

Fishe JN, Garvan G, Bertrand A, Burcham S, Hendry P, Shah M, Kothari K, Ashby DW, Ostermeyer D, Riney L, Semenova O, Abo B, Abes B, Shimko N, Myers E, Frank M, Turner T, Kemp M, Landry K, Roland G, Blake KV. "Early Administration of Steroids in the Ambulance Setting: An Observational Design Trial (EASI-AS-ODT)". Academic Emergency Medicine. July, 2023. Accepted for publication.

Stupca K, Scaturo N, Shomo E, King T, Frank M. Esmolol, vector change, and dose-capped epinephrine for prehospital ventricular fibrillation or pulseless ventricular tachycardia. Am J Emerg Med. 2023 Feb; 64:46-50. doi: 10.1016/j.ajem.2022.11.019. Epub 2022 Nov 17. PMID: 36436299.

Scaturo N, Shomo E, Frank M. Current and investigational therapies for the treatment of refractory ventricular fibrillation. Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2022 Jun 7;79(12):935-943. doi: 10.1093/ajhp/zxac011. PMID: 35020803.

Summerlin JA, Scaturo N, Lund JA, Wang KM, Frank MA. Adverse events of undiluted intravenous push levetiracetam - A prospective observational study. Am J Emerg Med. 2023 Sep 4; 73:182-186. doi: 10.1016/j.ajem.2023.08.046. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37708595.

Riney L, Palmer S, Finlay E, Bertrand A, Burcham S, Hendry P, Shah M, Kothari K, Ashby D, Ostermayer D, Semenova O, Abo BN, Abes B, Shimko N, Myers E, Frank M, Turner T, Kemp M, Landry K, Roland G, Fishe J. EMS Administration of Systemic Corticosteroids to Pediatric Asthma Patients: An Analysis by Severity and Transport Interval. Prehosp Emerg Care. 2023 Jul 10:1-8. doi: 10.1080/10903127.2023.2234996. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37428954.

Bonar P, Frank MA. Resolution of Left Bundle Branch Block After Calcium Administration in the Prehospital Setting. Cureus. 2022 Dec 12;14(12):e32442. doi: 10.7759/cureus.32442. PMID: 36644037; PMCID: PMC9833622.

Frank M, Sanders C, Berry BP. Evaluation and management of ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction in the emergency department. Emerg Med Pract. 2021 Jan;23(1):1-28. Epub 2021 Jan 1. PMID: 33320487.

Faculty Presenter

Florida College of Emergency Physicians – Symposium by the Sea, “Tachydysrhythmias” August 3, 2019

Andrew Kropp, MD, FAEMS

Chartoff, Stanley E., Andrew M. Kropp, and Paul Roman. "Disaster planning."StatPearls [Internet]. StatPearls Publishing, 2023.

Koser, Brandon W., Daniyal I. Siddiqui, and Andrew M. Kropp. "EMS care in a hostile environment." StatPearls [Internet]. StatPearls Publishing, 2023.

Reed-Schrader, Essie, et al."EMS Weapons of Mass Destruction and Related Injury." StatPearls [Internet]. StatPearls Publishing, 2023.

May 2025: SMHCS Interprofessional Research Conference

“Hurricane Milton EMS Perspective”, “Pre-Hospital Escharotomy”, and “Diphenhydramine Overdose” poster presentations and oral presentation.

January 2025: NAEMSP Annual Meeting

“Use of Area Deprivation Index to Access Equity when Evaluating Impact of a New Protocol” poster presentation.

October 2024: Annals of Emergency Medicine Journal and ACEP Scientific Assembly.

Kropp, A., Dumas, K., Smith, T., Jameson, A., & Lozano, M. (2024). 455 Analysis of vector change defibrillation by paramedics for prehospital refractory ventricular fibrillation. Annals of Emergency Medicine, 84(4), S203-S204.

Robert Skinner, MD, FAEMS

Skinner RB, Rawal AR. EMS Flight Barotrauma. 2023 Jun 12. In: StatPearls [Internet]. Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing; 2024 Jan–. PMID: 31751091.

Libby C, Skinner RB, Rawal AR. EMS Termination of Resuscitation and Pronouncement of Death. 2022 Oct 17. In: StatPearls [Internet]. Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing; 2024 Jan–. PMID: 31082157.

George Nackley, MD

Nackley, George N., et al. "The Role of The Emergency Medical Services Medical Director and Natural Disasters: The Sarasota, Florida Experience During Hurricane Milton."Prehospital Emergency Care just-accepted (2025): 1-7.

Grossberg, Aaron Jacob, et al. "Comparing the Push–Pull Technique to Pressure Bag for Administration of Blood Products: A Prospective Nonblinded Observation Simulation-based Study (CoPP toP Study)."Journal of emergencies, trauma, and shock 17.4 (2024): 208-211.

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