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Doctors with teaching background
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These instructors are doctors who have been involved in academic teaching in diverse fields of medicine and have a commitment to achieving excellence. These instructors create the foundation of MBQ content that is examined by Platinum Instructors, and finally reviewed by the consultants.
Instructor
Doctor Joaquin Erramouspe
Emergency medicine
Trauma
Molecular biology / Genetics
Education:
- Master in Biomedical Sciences (M.Phil.) at Queensland University of Technology, Australia. (Thesis available)
- Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) at the University of the Republic, Uruguay.
Work Experience:
- Public Health Officer at Western Health – Melbourne, Australia.
- Masters by research at QUT – Australian Prostate Cancer Research Centre (APCRC-Q), Australia.
- Research Assistant, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Davis, USA.
- Emergency Doctor at the University of the Republic, Hospital de Clínicas, Uruguay.
- Emergency Doctor on Ambulance 911, Group Falck, Uruguay.
Skills:
- Airway management
- PoCUS
- Simulation-based medical training
- Clinical research
- Basic research
Teaching Experience:
- Founder of Melbourne Question Bank, Australia.
- Advanced cardiac life support (ACLS) instructor, Prep-Week Procedural Skills Workshop. University of Queensland, Faculty of Medicine, Australia.
- Assistant at AIRWAY CAM Cadaveric Airway annual Course by Professor Richard Levitan. University of Queensland, Australia.
- Emergency Assistant Professor (1 year) at Hospital de Clínicas, Faculty of Medicine, Uruguay.
- Physiology (biophysics) Assistant Professor (4 years) at the University of the Republic, Uruguay.
- Airway & Ultrasound course Director, Uruguay.
- Volunteer Assistant Instructor for UC Davis, Medical School, USA.
Publications:
- “Anterior lung evisceration following an assault with knife: A case report.” The Western Journal of Emergency Medicine – University of California Accepted April 2021 – Proof has been sent back to editors. Martín Ferreira-Pozzi MD, Pablo Joaquin Erramouspe MD, MPhil,… Erik G. Laurin MD.
- “Comparison of Video Versus Direct Laryngoscopy: A Prospective Prehospital Air Medical Services Study” – Air Medical Journal – ElSevier Accepted in November 2020 – Published in December 2020 María F. García-Pintos, MD; Pablo J Erramouspe, MD; Verena Schandera, MD; Kevin Murphy, MD; Gary McCalla, MD; Greg Taylor, RN; Katren R. Tyler, MD; John R. Richards, MD; Erik G. Laurin, MD.
- “Mortality and complication rates in adult trauma patients receiving tranexamic acid: a single, center experience in the post-CRASH-2 era” – Academic Emergency Medicine Journal – SAEM Accepted October in 2019 – Published March in 2020 Pablo Joaquin Erramouspe, MD; María F. García-Pintos, MD; Simranjeet Benipal, BS; Martin AC Manoukian, MD; John-Lloyd Santamarina, MD; Linda Vo, BS; Joseph M. Galante, MD; Daniel Nishijima MD.
- “Variation among STEMI Centers in Outcomes for Patients Resuscitated from Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest.” – Resuscitation – ElSevier Accepted and Published in December 2018 Bryn E. Mumma, MD; María F. García-Pintos, MD; Pablo J. Erramouspe, MD; Daniel J. Tancredi, PhD.
- “Advances and challenges in understanding the role of the lipid raft proteome in human health” – Expert Review of Proteomics – Taylor & Francis Accepted October in 2018 – Published in November 2018 Ahmed Mohamed, PhD; Harley Robinson, BSc; Pablo J. Erramouspe, MD; Michelle Hill, PhD.
Communications at International Conferences & Media releases:
- Oral presentation at Society for Academic Emergency Medicine. Online conference- SAEM21, May 13th, 2021: “Comparison of Video Versus Direct Laryngoscopy: A Prospective Prehospital Air Medical Services Study”
- Oral presentation at MPhil Symposium – Queensland University of Technology. Online symposium, Queensland University of Technology, March 23, 2021: “The Facilitates Chromatin Transcription (FACT) complex as a novel target for the treatment of neuroendocrine prostate cancer.”
- The Skeptic Guide to EM – accredited podcast of Academic Emergency Medicine. Interviewed by Dr. Ken Milne (show host) and Dr. Corey Heitz (CME editor for AEM) “SGEM#293: CRASH IN THE US, CRASH IN THE US, CRASH-2 IN THE USA”
- Oral presentation at Society for Academic Emergency Medicine. SAEM19, Las Vegas, May 17th, 2019: “Mortality and complication rates in adult trauma patients receiving tranexamic acid: a single, center experience in the post-CRASH-2 era”
Awards:
- $ 41,000 USD Competitive South American ANII research support Proposal id: POS_EXT_2019_1_161173 – ANII (Agencia Nacional de Investigación e Innovación)
- AUSTRALIAN SCHOLARSHIP: $ 27,000 AUD per year Supervisor Scholarship – QUT Master program – MPhil program IF80 – Master by Research
Doctors with teaching background
Diamond Instructors
These instructors are doctors who have been involved in academic teaching in diverse fields of medicine and have a commitment to achieving excellence. These instructors create the foundation of MBQ content that is examined by Platinum Instructors, and finally reviewed by the consultants.
Dr. Erramouspe teaching Advanced cardiac life support (ACLS) at
Queensland University, Faculty of Medicine - 2019
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