WVU Emergency Medicine

Check out our fellows at Tropics 80s Night.

They are celebrating their graduation from Sports Medicine Fellowship 💙💛

🌟 New Intern Spotlight 🌟 next up in the Class of 2027 welcome party, meet David!

🏠 Hometown: Richmond, VA

🎓 Undergrad: Randolph-Macon College

🏥 Med School: Virginia Tech Carilion SOM

🚑 EM Interests: Wilderness & Trauma Medicine

🍫🥜 Go To Night Shift Snack: Snickers

🚵‍♂️🌎🥾 Hobbies: Mtn Biking, hiking, paddling, skiing, traveling and reading

A bittersweet trip down memory lane…

We’re sad to be sending off our graduating seniors in just a few short weeks, but we’re so proud of their growth and accomplishments over these last 3 years. We cannot wait to see what they continue to achieve in their future careers.

🩺 Frankie Baruffi - WVU Jefferson Medical Center

🏈 Charlie Edwards - WVU Sports Medicine Fellowship

⚕️ Heather Tucker - WVU Ultrasound Fellowship

📚 Ashley Foreman - WVU Medical Education/Administration Fellowship

🏥 Austin Minnich - Lancaster Emergency Associates at Lancaster General Hospital

💊 Sandy Nixon - UVA Medical Center Toxicology Fellowship

🥼 Emily Ollmann - Madison Emergency Physicians

🚑 Nicole Pavlatos - Mid-Ohio Emergency Services

🩹 Mike Slattery - Mt. Carmel St. Ann’s, Ohio

🤓 Jacqueline Sippel - WVU Medical Education/Administration Fellowship

💉 Laura Voges - Univ. of Utah Ultrasound Fellowship

Time goes so quick that our Wheeling ED department forgot they have been with us for 4 years (we won't let you forget that additional year Wheeling 😉 We will still have a slice of cake though)

Thank you to the entire Wheeling department for being apart of our wonderful team! We look forward to many more years to come 💙💛

Congratulations Dr. Ahmad 🎉
For being this year's Golden Stethoscope Winner!

This award was given to a physician who demonstrates collaborative leadership across the continuum of care, demonstrates a consistent focus on our patients and a commitment to safety and quality.

WVU Department of Emergency Medicine and the Division of Prehospital Medicine hosted the 17th annual Southeastern Student Wilderness Medicine Conference in New River Gorge at The Outpost on May 3 & 4. This is the second conference meeting as a joint venture with wilderness and EMS medicine experts from WVU, Virginia Tech, and Wake Forest.

Nearly 100 attendees and instructors were present representing WVU, WVSOM, Marshall, Virginia Tech, UVA, VCOM, Radford, Vanderbilt, Wake Forest, Duke, UNC, Shenandoah, and the University of Uniformed Services. Topics covered included wilderness patient assessment, medical direction, altitude and dive physiology, drowning/water emergencies, and heavy ropes/incline rescue. Health Net Aeromedical provided a fly-in demonstration and hands-on aircraft education session. We also had interactive demonstrations with emerging technologies from the Civil Military Institute using drones and Boston Dynamics robot dogs.


WVU would like to thank all participants and attendees for making this conference a success - with a special THANK YOU to Health Net Aeromedical Services, WVACEP, and Blue Ridge Adventure Medicine for continued financial and logistical support! 💛💙

🌟New Intern Spotlight🌟 next guest is bringing the smiles and some fun - say hello to Tayler!

🏠 Hometown: Tucson, AZ

🎓 Undergrad: Gonzaga University

🏥 Med School: The Larner College of Medicine at the Univ. of Vermont

🚑 EM Interests: Medical Education & Mentorship, Sports Medicine

🥜 Go To Night Shift Snack: Graham crackers & peanut butter ( a classic 👌🏼)

🥾🏌🏼‍♀️🧢 Hobbies: Hiking and staying active outdoors, golfing, crafting gourmet nachos, collecting minor league baseball hats

It’s that time of the year again…conference season!

Here are a few pictures from our last conference - Maryland ACEP.
Please stop by & say 👋🏽 as we head to PA ACEP next!!
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Showing our administration we appreciate them means making them go spend the afternoon painting mirror frames. Thank you to our Admin team for all they do to help our providers and patients!

Happy Administration Appreciation Day! 💙💛

Second on the list in our 🌟New Intern Spotlight🌟 series, meet Luke!

Luke is one of our first MATTER candidates and we’re so excited to have him stay and train with us here at WVU!

🏠 Hometown: Bridgeport, WV

🎓 Undergrad: WVU

🏥 Med School: WVU

🚑 EM Interests: All of it!!

🍿🥨🍬 Go To Night Shift Snacks: Popcorn, Pretzels, Candy & anything bite sized

⚽️📚🐾 Hobbies: Playing soccer, watching sports, reading, working out, spending time with family, friends & my dog

Earlier this month, Dr. Chris Goode, MD, FACEP attended ACEP’s annual Leadership and Advocacy Conference in Washington, DC. While in attendance, he was presented with the 2024 ‘ACEP 911 Network Member of the Year Award’ which recognizes his endless advocacy work on a national level for Emergency Medicine and the patients we care for.

Congratulations to our Chairman and fearless leader on this honor! 🎉🎉

Please help us to WELCOME Princeton Community Hospital new Chief Advance Practice Provider - Kristin Harmon.

Kristin has worked at PCH for the past 12 years as a physician assistant. We are so happy that she accepted the new role.

🌟New Intern Spotlight🌟

We’re getting excited to welcome the Class of 2027 to Morgantown in just a few short weeks! What better way to meet the interns than with some highlights.

Kicking us off for our first introduction, please welcome Ahmed!

🏠 Hometown: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

🎓 Undergrad: Ohio State University

🏥 Med School: George Washington University

🚑 EM Interests: Sports Medicine

🍌🍫 Go To Night Shift Snack: Banana + Nutella

🤺 Hobbies: Fencing (I fenced for OSU and professionally), playing/watching soccer, traveling, outdoor activities, such as running and snow sports.

We would like to announce that Dr. Weston "Wes" Childers has accepted the role of ED Medical Director at Princeton Community Hospital effective April 1, 2024 🎉🎉

Dr. Childers has many years of experience working in Emergency Medicine at Raleigh General, Beckley VA, and multiple other sites throughout West Virginia.

Congratulations & Welcome Dr. Childers!!
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Today is the day…
is here! Show your support for the Department of Emergency Medicine by making a gift today!

https://dayofgiving.wvu.edu/amb/EmergencyMedicine

The Department of Emergency Medicine’s Prehospital Division has been doing exemplary work for WV since the program began in 2017.

Help support their outreach initiatives by giving to the DTE Energy Prehospital Fund during this year’s on March 20th.

https://dayofgiving.wvu.edu/amb/EmergencyMedicine

Mark your calendars!

You can make a huge impact for the Department of Emergency Medicine by participating in on March 20th!

https://dayofgiving.wvu.edu/amb/EmergencyMedicine

We are so incredibly excited to welcome the Class of 2027 to our WVU EM Family! 💙💛

Congrats to these three amazing women who are in the EM accelerated track and will be joining our residency in August 2025!

Elizabeth Steele, Kaia Richmond, and Grace Maley are rising MS-3's in the WVU School of Medicine Class of 2025 and were awarded their coveted White Coats over the weekend.

We have no doubt that they will uphold the oath of medicine to the best of their abilities during their EM training and beyond, and we are thankful for the opportunity to be part of their journeys!

Congrats Elizabeth, Kaia, and Grace—we are so proud of you!

We love and appreciate our amazing 30 residents each and every day of the year!

As for today we are so glad to gather over the tasty Qdoba build your own bowl bar and provide each and every one of our residents with a gift pack.

This gift is a small token of appreciation for everything they do for our patients, our department, and each other.

WVU EM residents regularly participate in simulation education in our state-of-the-art STEPS Center where they lead high stakes clinical scenarios and resuscitations and refine their procedural skills.

Our simulation curriculum is led by our amazing simulation faculty who are experts in the construction of simulation cases and masters of conducting debriefings in a psychologically safe environment.
Here are a few recent pics of our residents in sim action!

Along with working hard on shift, our residents enjoy an awesome work/life balance by spending time with their work “family” outside of the ED. Check out some pics of our residents enjoying all the seasons in WV, paint-n-sip fun 🎨 and the Super Bowel 🏈

WVU DEM is looking for 1-2 EM Docs/Advanced Practice Professionals at Princeton Community Hospital!

🩺 sees around 30K visits/yr

🩺12 bed ED with 8 bed “Quick Care”

… for more information please reach out to [email protected]

WVU EM is excited to welcome the WVU MATTER Class of 2025. These amazing ladies have committed to an accelerated completion of medical school and a career in Emergency Medicine.

Please join us in welcoming Grace Maley, Elizabeth Steele, and Kaia Richmond to the WVU EM Class of 2028! We are beyond thrilled to watch them continue to develop into amazing emergency medicine physicians at WVU!

Our departmental family has been spending some extra time together during this holiday season!
Christmas Paint N’ Sip at our local pottery factory was a blast.

Happy Holidays from our WVU EM family to yours!

As 🏈 season comes to an end here are some pictures of our WVU Sports Medicine Fellows behind the scenes!

This is just one of the many benefits/advantages that WVU Emergency Medicine offers.

For more information please visit: https://medicine.hsc.wvu.edu/em/fellowships/sports-medicine-fellowship/

Thankful for the time spent with our founding residency program director, Dr. Bill Ramsey, at our 30th WVU EM anniversary. Sometimes looking at the past gives us just the inspiration we need to keep pushing forward!

So thankful for our founding departmental leaders and the lessons they have and continue to teach us.

WVU Department of Emergency Medicine recently hosted their Annual System Emergency Medicine and Hospitalist Medical Director Summit in Morgantown, WV.

Thank you to all the speakers and attendees for joining us! It was a great day for learning, networking, and fellowship.

WVU Medicine J.W. Ruby Memorial Hospital ED is accredited by the ACEP Clinical Ultrasound Accreditation Program (CUAP) as of October 24, 2023!

Congratulations to our very own Dr. Minardi and ultrasound team!