Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine
Emergency Medicine
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Susanne Spano, MD, FACEP, FAWM
Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine, UCSF
Program Co-Director, Wilderness Medicine Fellowship, UCSF Fresno
Associate Editor, Wilderness & Environmental Medicine
Susanne J. Spano, MD, FACEP, FAWM is board certified in Emergency Medicine.
She earned her medical degree from Temple University School of Medicine. Her residency in Emergency Medicine and her fellowship in Wilderness Medicine were completed at University of California, San Francisco, Fresno.
Dr. Spano’s professional interests are Wilderness Medicine, Search and Rescue, Disaster Medicine, Medical Education, and Public Speaking.
She volunteers her time as a member of the Fresno County Sheriff’s Search and Rescue Team.
Publications
Graduate Medical Education Fellowships Versus Specialty Society Curriculum: A Comparative Study on Alumni Outcomes and Academic Pursuits in Wilderness Medicine.
Wilderness & environmental medicine
Smoke Exposure and Respirator Use Among Wildland Firefighters: A Narrative Review.
Wilderness & environmental medicine
Proposed Standardization of Protocols for Carbon Monoxide Studies: In Response to A Field Study of Carbon Monoxide Levels in Snow Caves During Short-Term Stove Use by Nielsen and Karlsen.
Wilderness & environmental medicine
Broadening Perspectives on Analgesia in Mass Casualty Incidents: A Response to Reader Feedback.
Wilderness & environmental medicine
Heat-Related Illnesses.
Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America
Changing Times and Shifting Priorities: Promoting Gender Equity at Wilderness & Environmental Medicine.
Wilderness & environmental medicine
Implementation of a Specialty Society?Sponsored Wilderness Medicine Fellowship Match.
Wilderness & environmental medicine
In Response to "The Associations Between Visitation, Social Media Use, and Search and Rescue in United States National Parks".
Wilderness & environmental medicine
Professional Outcomes and Satisfaction Among Graduate Medical Education Wilderness Medicine Fellowship Alumni in the United States.
Wilderness & environmental medicine
Search and Rescue in the Pacific West States.
Wilderness & environmental medicine
Epidemiology of Ice Climbing Injuries Among Recreational Ice Climbers at the 2019 Ouray Ice Climbing Festival.
Wilderness & environmental medicine
Prehospital Traction Splint Use in Midthigh Trauma Patients.
Journal of emergencies, trauma, and shock
Is it Time for Wilderness Medicine Fellowships to Join the National Resident Matching Program Specialties Matching Service?
Wilderness & environmental medicine
In Reply to Drs Lawson and Newman.
Wilderness & environmental medicine
Impact of a Half Dome Cable Permitting Process on Search and Rescue Activity, Hiker Mortality Rates, and Operational Costs Above Little Yosemite Valley.
Wilderness & environmental medicine
Emergency Medical Services and Remote Medical Oversight in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, 2011-2013.
Wilderness & environmental medicine
Death on the Dome: Epidemiology of Recreational Deaths on Half Dome in Yosemite National Park.
Wilderness & environmental medicine
The Epidemiology and Medical Morbidity of Long-Distance Backpackers on the John Muir Trail in the Sierra Nevada.
Wilderness & environmental medicine
An Assessment of Diarrhea Among Long-Distance Backpackers in the Sierra Nevada.
Wilderness & environmental medicine
Pressures of Wilderness Improvised Wound Irrigation Techniques: How Do They Compare?
Wilderness & environmental medicine
A lightning multiple casualty incident in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks.
Wilderness & environmental medicine
In reply to 'Symptomatic hypotonic hyponatremia presenting at high altitude'.
Wilderness & environmental medicine
Long-term complications of rattlesnake bites: a telephone survey from Central California.
Wilderness & environmental medicine
Core content for wilderness medicine fellowship training of emergency medicine graduates.
Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
They had me in stitches: a Grand Canyon river guide's case report and a review of wilderness wound management literature.
Wilderness & environmental medicine
Symptomatic hypotonic hyponatremia presenting at high altitude.
Wilderness & environmental medicine
Circus Venomous: an interactive tool for toxinology education.
Toxicon : official journal of the International Society on Toxinology
Snakebite Survivors Club: retrospective review of rattlesnake bites in Central California.
Toxicon : official journal of the International Society on Toxinology
Improvised traction splints: a wilderness medicine tool or hindrance?
Wilderness & environmental medicine
An unusual case of otorrhagia.
The Journal of emergency medicine