Department of Emergency Medicine, UMMS-Baystate

Administration

759 Chestnut Street, Springfield 5
Springfield, MA 01199
Phone: 413-794-5375

Chairs

Niels Kumar Rathlev, MD, Department Chair
Joseph C. Schmidt, MD, Executive Vice Chair and Chief
Benjamin Osborne, MD, Vice Chair for Education

Division Chiefs

Benjamin Osborne, MD, Education
Gerald Beltran, DO, Pre-Hospital and Disaster Medicine
Joeli Hettler, MD, Pediatrics
Howard Smithline, MD, MS, Research
Gavin Budhram, MD, MS, Ultrasound
Benjamin Mattingly, MD, Wilderness

Education Programs

Residency

Emergency Medicine Residency

Fellowships

Advanced Practice

Emergency Medicine Physician Assistant Residency

4th Year Electives for Medical Students

Scholarly Activity

Research

The research of the Department of Emergency Medicine is clinical and focuses on:

Cardiac arrest resuscitation
Congestive heart failure
Simulation
Acute coronary syndrome
Emergency medical services
Ischemia/reperfusion injury
Patient safety and health services
Emergency ultrasound

The department, as well as the institution, has grant monies available on a competitive basis for educational and research projects.

Publications

View recent Department of Emergency Medicine publications in the Scholarly Commons database.

Faculty

Our faculty are transitioning their primary academic appointments to UMass Medical School-Baystate. They will retain their Tufts University School of Medicine affiliations as adjunct faculty.

View our Emergency Medicine faculty profiles on the UMass Medical School website.

General Emergency Medicine Division

Robert H. Baevsky, M.D.
Gerald Beltran, D.O.
Jeffrey Alexander Dan, M.D.
Nicholas Joel Daniel, D.O.
Ashley Deutsch, M.D.
John J. George, M.D.
Julien Ginsberg-Peltz, M.D.
Darius Kazimir Greenbacher, M.D.
Aaron Hexdall, M.D.
Kathleen A. Kerrigan, M.D.
Tae-Hyong Kim, D.O.
Michael J. Lemanski, M.D.
Benjamin Bruce Mattingly, M.D.
Gregory Shawn McDonald, M.D.
Niels Kumar Rathlev, M.D.
Ned Ivan Rudnitzky, M.D.
John P. Santoro, M.D.
Joseph Charles Schmidt, M.D.
Michele Schroeder, M.D.
Jeannette Marie Wolfe, M.D.

Education Division

Adam R. Kellogg, M.D.
Lucienne Lutfy-Clayton, M.D.
Benjamin W. Osborne, M.D.
Liza Gonen Smith, M.D.
Rakesh Talati, M.D.
Susan P. Torrey, M.D.

Pediatric Emergency Medicine Division

Richard J. Gabor, M.D.
Joeli Hettler, M.D.
Jocelyn R., Jensen, M.D.
Krista Kitchen, M.D.
Holly Elaine Perry, M.D.
Kenneth P. Platt, M.D.
Kimball Ann Prentiss, M.D.
Blake Spirko, M.D.

Research Division

Timothy J. Mader, M.D.
James Hector Pope, M.D.
Howard A. Smithline, M.D., M.S.
William Soares III, M.D.
Lauren Westafer, D.O., M.P.H., M.S.

Ultrasound Division

Gavin Budhram, M.D.
Jeffrey Alexander Dan, M.D.
Tala Rita Elia, M.D.
Elizabeth M. Schoenfeld, M.D.
Carla Sterling, M.D.

Wilderness Division

Nicholas Daniel, D.O.
Benjamin Mattingly, M.D.