Author: Jason Wilson, MD, PhD, CPE, FACEP

A new paper out of USF EM, led by Heather Henderson, PhD, CAP, CRPS, has been published in Harm Reduction Journal! The manuscript highlights an opt-out screening model at a syringe services program (SSP), leading to higher participation rates, earlier detection, & improved linkage to care for people at risk of HIV & HCV. These findings emphasize how routine, anonymous screening can be a scalable model for harm reduction programs nationwide. The team includes Jason W. Wilson, MD, PhD, CPE, FACEP, Bernice McCoy, PhD, MPH, USF anthropology PhD candidate, Megan Sarmento and internal medicine colleague Asa Oxner MD. The article is available here: https://bit.ly/hivoptout

Jason Wilson, MD, PhD, CPE, FACEP has been promoted to the rank of Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida. He serves as the Founding Chair of the Department and the Chief of Emergency Medicine at Tampa General Hospital. He would like to think the inaugural USF EM APT Committee for their support in the process, as well as the USF MCOM APT Committee for their confidence.

Our (JW and RB) students have been interviewing people in the ED who have been shot recently or in the past over the last few years in order to understand lived experiences of those that survived firearm violence with an aim to generate potential interventions to impact this epidemic that is sometimes lost on the radar (burden & opportunities of gunshot wound survival).

Great job to our students for helping us get this manuscript over the finish line – it’s one I am really proud of! Thanks to grad student Emily Holbrook, MA for all of her efforts on this project and with the undergrad & medical students. https://lnkd.in/eW-cttbt

I discussed a new partnership between Tampa General Hospital and Central Florida Behavioral Health Network (CFBHN) on Fox 13. This partnership greatly expands access to buprenorphine [Suboxone], a life saving drug, for those with opioid use disorder.

I enjoyed talking to Bloomberg about some of the heat related issues we have seen during this ongoing climate catastrophe and the highest temperatures ever recorded.

“At Tampa General Hospital, several heat-related cases have been particularly concerning, said emergency-medicine physician Jason Wilson. Some patients had temperatures as high as 107, while others had third-degree burns from lying in the hot sun, which can happen when heat stroke alters a victim’s mental state.

Doctors sometimes take extreme measures in these cases, including implanting tubes that move cold water into a patient’s body, said Wilson, chief of the University of South Florida’s emergency medicine division, which is affiliated with the hospital.”

“While Wilson hasn’t seen the number of patients rise above past years, he said doctors are concerned and keeping an eye on the situation.

It’s “like a shark bite summer,” he said. “You kind of have to wait and see where things fall out.”’

https:/www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-21/emergency-rooms-swamped-as-record-100f-heat-wilts-us-south;!!PQLRnUARXRzt!76MVwhF1sN5Pgu6u4spAuIocSyCIZJI_HR-Bg2uXO0NZN1Jm_LAHbEaymmdImZCi_pIZnOxMzv1BOK8pvcVE1w$

Megan Sarmento (PhD student) and Ana Gutierrez have an on-demand poster that discusses our collaborative, interdisciplinary approaches at the needle exchange. 

Emily Holbrook (PhD candidate) will serve as chair (!) for a panel regarding reproductive health and work on resettled refugee women. 

Heather Henderson, PhD and Jason Wilson, MD (PhD Candidate) will serve as co-chair on a panel with Bernice McCoy, PhD and Roberta Baer, PhD regarding our use of anthropology in clinical spaces to create structurally informed pathways. 

Great work everyone!

For residents, medical students and grad students on this message – we always welcome your involvement in Social EM. Please just reach out!