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AMY ERNST, M.D.
Dept. of Emergency Medicine
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PROFESSOR
Med School: Tulane
University, NOLA
Residency: Louisiana
State University (Charity Hospital), NOLA
Interests:
I recently
joined the faculty at UNM (August 2004). I have been working as an
attending in Academic Emergency Departments for over 15 years. UNM is now
my 4th site. I served as IRB (institutional review board) chair for 6
years at Vanderbilt University and at UC Davis.
My work
in Academia largely centers on research. My main area of interest is
intimate partner violence (IPV). I recently validated a survey tool, the
ongoing violence assessment tool (OVAT) to search for ongoing IPV. I’m
also interested in other areas of injury, namely elderly and childhood.
Ethics research, especially concerning exception from informed consent, has also
been of interest to me because of my work at the IRB and studies of pain
management.
I am
pleased with successes in IPV research with residents (and, of course Steve
Weiss) over the last year. Christie del Castillo will be presenting our
work on IPV and witnessing IPV as children at the upcoming SAEM (society for
academic emergency medicine) in SF at the plenary session. Only 5
abstracts were chosen for this session and I am very proud of Christie’s work.
This study was very unique in that we used a touch screen computer during
randomized 4 hour shifts, automatic anonymous data collection, about 50%
Hispanic population, and we used our validated OVAT. Also Jaime
Aagard will be presenting at the same meeting (an oral presentation) on “who
says no”, ie those who refused participation in our IPV study. Paul Hansen is
submitting an outcomes study of IPV intervention for children who witness IPV to
ACEP in Oct (in New Orleans).
I am married
to Steven Weiss, MS MD FACP, FACEP, also a professor in the Department of EM at
UNM. We love working together both shifts and research. We have one
daughter, Natalie, a cat “Sammie” and the best dog in the world, “Daisy”, a
bischon frise. We keep very busy with our animals and love to travel
(except Sammie).
I am happy
to have joined the faculty here at UNM. Albuquerque is an interesting and
exciting place to explore although very dry and high elevation for a sea dweller
like me. Yes, Katrina affected me and my family greatly; however it has made our
family and friends closer and New Orleans is still my favorite city!
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KATHERINE GNAUCK, M.D.
Dept. of Emergency Medicine
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ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Med School: U Libre
de Bruxelles, Belgium
Residency: Baylor College of Medicine, TX
Interests:
As a
physician, I have experience caring for both adult and pediatric patients. I
received my M.D. in 1985 from U Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium and completed
three years pediatric residency training at Baylor College of Medicine in
Houston, Texas. I have worked the past seventeen years in my sub-specialty of
pediatric emergency medicine: fourteen years in St Louis at university
children’s hospital level one trauma centers serving principally
intercity children and the past two years at University of New Mexico’s (UNM)
Pediatric Children’s Hospital serving multi -ethnic Latino, Native American and
Anglo populations. I have a M.A. in developmental psychology, 1976, and worked
as a care provider for autistic children during the years obtaining this degree.
Since early 1990’s I have cared for both adult and pediatric patients during
volunteer visits to the Navajo Nation IHS health unit at Kayenta, Arizona.
My
experience with Doctors Without Borders /Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) began in
2003 when I spent six months as an MSF-France field doctor in Khartoum, Sudan
opening an emergency medical, hygiene and nutrition program for “street
neonates” at Mygoma Orphanage. I completed a field project with MSF in Aura,
Uganda the fall 2005 assisting in the evaluation of a Prevention of Maternal to
the Child Transmission (PMTCT) AIDS project. Back in the US, I continue to
advocate MSF interests locally with outreach lectures to university and
community based groups.
International projects in which I am currently involved includes: Working
with interested pediatric residents here at the university to develop a rural
model HIV treatment center in Africa.
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MARK HAUSWALD, M.D.
Dept. of Emergency Medicine
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PROFESSOR EMERITUS
Med School: UC
San Francisco
Residency: Stanford University
Interests: International Health
I semi-retired in 2007
and am working quarter time at UNM, as Co-Director of International Health
Programs. I am active in both the SAEM and ACEP international groups.
Additionally, I do clinical EM for Navajo Area IHS. My hobbies include
skiing, snowboarding, windsurfing, kiteboarding, flying and birding.
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FRANK
HUYLER, M.D.
Dept. of Emergency Medicine
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ASSOCIATE
PROFESSOR
Med School: The
University of North Carolina,
School of Medicine, Chapel Hill.
MPH School: the University of North Carolina, School of Public Health,
Chapel Hill.
Residency: The University of New Mexico Hospital, Emergency Medicine
Interests:
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