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Andrew Muck

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muck@uthscsa.edu

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Andrew E Muck, M.D.

  • Professional Background

    Education

    • 2007 - Residency - Emergency Medicine - San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Consortium (SAUSHEC)
    • 2004 - MD - Medicine (Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Society) - Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
    • 2000 - Clinical Fellowship - Fellow - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • 1999 - BApAS - Molecular Biology (Summa Cum Laude) - Colgate University

    Appointments

    • 9/2019 - Professor/Clinical - University of Texas Health at San Antonio, Emergency Medicine, San Antonio
    • 10/2017 - Vice Chair of Education - University of Texas Health at San Antonio, Emergency Medicine, San Antonio
    • 7/2016 - Program Director, Emergency Medicine Residency - University of Texas Health at San Antonio, Emergency Medicine, San Antonio
    • 1/2012 - Faculty - Center for Medical Humanities and Ethics, Center for Medical Humanities and Ethics, San Antonio
    • 10/2011 - Faculty Physician - University Hospital/Dept of Emergency Medicine, Emergency Medicine, San Antonio
    • 3/2010 - Assistant Professor of Military and Emergency Medicine - Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Emergency Medicine, Bethesda

  • Instruction & Training

    • 7/2016 - Present, Post Graduate Rotation Supervision, University of Texas Health at San Antonio
    • 10/2015 - Present, Global Health Longitudinal Curriculum for Residents, UTHSA
    • 7/2014 - Present, Emergency Medicine Core Clerkship, The University of Texas Health Science Center
    • 10/2013 - Present, EMED4005 Fourth Year Rotation in Emergency Medicine
    • 9/2013 - Present, ELEC4077 Wilderness Medicine Elective
    • 10/2011 - Present, Individual Instruction, University of Texas Health at San Antonio
    • 10/2011 - Present, Individual Instruction, University of Texas Health at San Antonio
    • 4/2010 - Present, Military/Emergency Medicine

  • Research & Grants

    Grants

    Private

    Funding Agency Methodist Healthcare Ministries, Inc. Title Methodist Healthcare Ministries of South Texas, Inc./ Emergency Medicine Residency Program Status Active Period 7/2013 - 6/2019 Role Principal Investigator Grant Detail The spirit of the grant is to address the health professional shortage in San Antonio and South Texas by graduating physicians prepared to serve in emergency settings, while retaining more emergency-prepared physicians in the local area. I have been part of obtaining and maintaining this award since we first received the award in 2013. We have had continuation of this award on now 1-year intervals since that time. We are currently in grant cycle of 7/1/2018-6/30/2019 with an award amount of $195,000. I was involved with the initial grant application that has now resulted in over $900,00 in funding since that time. I have been the PI for the grant for the last 3 years and have been directly responsible for >$500,000 in funding. Funding Agency Kenneth I Shine Academy Title Kenneth I Shine Academy Grant Status Active Period 12/2017 - 12/2018 Role Co-Investigator Grant Detail Contributor, Small Grant submission to the University of Texas Kenneth I. Shine Academy, proposal entitled, ?Are your learners ready to hold the admissions pager,? $5000 Funding Agency Hurd Foundation Title Hurd Foundation Grant for Global Health Status Active Period 9/2016 - 9/2018 Role Co-Investigator Grant Detail Hurd Foundation Grant for Global Health Resident Distinctions Program, $10,000 per year. To this point, it has been awarded annually for 2 years. Funding Agency University Health Systems Title University Health Systems Global Health Grant Status Active Period 9/2015 - 9/2018 Role Co-Investigator Grant Detail Developed grant proposal with University Health Systems (UHS) that has allowed us to foster global health experiences for UHS employees. The stated goal of this grant is to allow excellent patient care in under-resourced global environments in such a way that will improve the patient care we provide here in San Antonio and South Texas.

    State

    Funding Agency Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board Title Emergency and Trauma Care Education Partnership Program Status Complete Period 7/2012 - 6/2020 Role Principal Investigator Grant Detail ETEP grant awarded for emergency medicine residency development at the University Health Science Center at San Antonio. I was part of the original team that successfully applied to the grant, successfully replied in subsequent years, and am now the principal investigator that has successfully reapplied for the grant. Currently in grant cycle of 7/1/2018 to 6/30/2020 with an award amount of $385,000. I was involved with the initial grant application that has now resulted in >$1.5 million in total support since that time. I have been the PI for the grant for the last 3 years and have been directly responsible for >$900,000 in funding.

  • Publications

      Abstract

      Einstein N, Rezaie S, Ramos R, Muck A. Effectiveness of Case-Based Learning Versus Traditional Models on Knowledge Retention; 2015 Jul. (Western Journal of Emergency Medicine; vol. XVI, no. S10). Roland Paquette, Ryan Bierle, Craig Cooley, Kevin King, Andrew Muck, Rosemarie Ramos, David Wampler, Joel Michalek, Robert Gerhardt. Evaluation of the Efficacy of the iTClamp for Hasty Compressible Hemorhhage Control vs, a Tourniquet During "Care Under Fire"; 2015 Jan. (Prehospital Emergency Care; vol. 20, no. 1). Lairet J, McCafferty R, Lairet K, Muck A, Balls A, Torres P, Minnick J, King J. Critical Care Air Transport Team (CCATT) short term outcomes of casualties with spinal fractures moved with the Vacuum Spine Board between 2009 and 2010; 2011 Oct. (Annals of Emergency Medicine; vol. 58, no. 4). Bebarta VS, Mason PE, Ferre RM, Eadie JS, Muck A, Joseph J, Pitotti RL. Disease and Non-Battle Traumatic Injuries Evaluated by Emergency Physicians in a U.S. Tertiary Combat Hospital; 2009 Sep. (Ann of Emerg Med; vol. 54, no. 3). Muck A, Bebarta VS, Morgan D, Borys D. Six years of acute unintentional epinephrine digital injections: Lack of ischemic or significant systemic effects; 2007 May. (Acad Emerg Med; vol. 14, no. 5S1). Muck A, Cuniowski P, De Lorenzo RA, Adams BD. The REACH Study: Is Advanced Airway Management Underutilized in Combat?; 2007 Jan. (Preshospital Emergency Care; vol. 11, no. 1).

      Editorial

      Muck A, Balhara KS, Olson AS. Finding the needle in the haystack Intern Emerg Med 2018 Mar;13(2). Muck A, De Lorenzo RA. Seeing Is Believing: Balancing the Benefits and Hazards of Medical Observers in the Emergency Department Ann Emerg Med 2017 Jul;70(1):93-95. Muck A, Sisson CA. Apneic oxygenation and intracranial hemorrhage: where the rubber meets the road Intern Emerg Med 2016 Oct;11(7):981-982. Muck A, Adams BD. ACP journal club. Early goal-directed therapy did not reduce mortality more than usual care in early septic shock Ann Intern Med 2015 Mar;17. Muck A, Adams BD. Review: Early goal-directed therapy did not reduce mortality more than usual care in early septic shock Ann Intern Med 2015 Mar;162(6):4-4.

      Journal Article

      Smart J, Olson AS, Muck A. Asynchronous Curriculum "Socially Synchronized": Learning Via Competition The Western Journal of Emergency Medicine 2019 Jan;20(1):6-8. Moshtagh R. Farokhi, Andrew Muck, Juanita Lozano-Pineda, Stephanie L. Boone and Heidi Worabo. Using Interprofessional Education to Promote Oral Health Literacy in a Faculty-Student Collaborative Practice Journal of Dental Education 2018 Oct;82(10):1091-1097. Noorvash D, Ramos R, Hatch L, Muck A, Olson AS. Assessment of the Utility of Ordering a Troponin in Low- and Intermediate-Risk Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department with Supraventricular Tachycardia: A Retrospective Chart Review J Emerg Med 2018 Jul;55(1):1-6. Noorvash D, Balhara KS, Olson AS, Muck A, Olson N. Utility of Ordering Troponin in Low and Intermediate Risk Patients Presenting to the ED with SVT J Emerg Med 2018 Jul;55(1):1-6. Muck AE, Givens M, Bebarta VS, Mason PE, Goolsby C. Emergency Physicians at War West J Emerg Med 2018 May;19(3):542-547. Bebarta VS, Mora AG, NG PC, Mason PE, Muck A, Maddry JK. Disease and Non-Battle Traumatic Injuries Evaluated by Emergency Physicians in a US Tertiary Combat Hospital Prehosp Disaster Med 2018 Feb;33(1):53-57. Givens M, Muck A, Goolsby C. Battlefield to bedside: Translating wartime innovations to civilian Emergency Medicine Am J Emerg Med 2017 Nov;35(11):1746-1749. Koneri N, Muck A, Adams BD. Confusion recurs 2 weeks after fall Journal of Family Practice 2017 Oct;66(10):635-637. Katherine A. Douglass, MD, MPH,corresponding author 1 Gabrielle A. Jacquet, MD, MPH, 1 Alison S. Hayward, MD, MPH, 2 Bradley A. Dreifuss, MD, 3 and Janis P. Tupesis, MD 4
      Guest Editor (s): Teresa Chan, MD, MPHE, FRCPC
      John Acerra, Christina Bloem, Jay Brenner, Elizabeth DeVos, Katherine Douglass, Brad Dreifuss, Alison S Hayward, Sue Lin Hilbert, Gabrielle A Jacquet, Janet Lin, Andrew Muck, Sigrid Nasser, Rockefeller Oteng, Natasha N Powell, Megan M Rybarczyk, Jessica Schmidt, Jim Svenson, Janis P Tupesis, and Kyle Yoder. Development of a Global Health Milestones Tool for Learners in Emergency Medicine: A Pilot Project AEM Educ Train 2017 Sep;11(4):269-279. Calvello EJ, Tenner AG, Broccoli MC, Skog AP, Muck A, Tupesis JP, Brysiewicz P, Teklu S, Wallis L, Reynolds T. Operationalising emergency care delivery in sub-Saharan Africa: consensus-based recommendations for healthcare facilities Emerg Med J 2016 Aug;33(8):573-580. McNeil CR, Muck A, McHugh P, Bebarta V, Adams AB. Bedside rounds versus board rounds in an emergency department The Clinical Teacher 2015 May;12(2):94-98. Navuluri NB, Foster BA, Muck A, Farokhi M, Vivanco R. Translating Research into Action - The San Antonio Refugee Health Clinic Texas Public Health Journal 2014 Jul;66(3):9-10. Cheng C, Harrison C, Muck A. Teenager with Shortness of Breath and Hypoxia J Fam Pract 2014 Jun;63(6):327-328. Farokhi M, Vivanco R, Muck A. An Interprofessional Collaborative Student-Run Clinic by Dental, Nursing and Medical Faculty and Students at University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio for Refugees MedEdPortal 2013 Aug;. Farokhi MR, Vivanco RK, Muck A. An Interprofessional Collaborative Student-Run Clinic by Dental, Nursing and Medical Faculty and Students at University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio for Refugees MedEdPORTAL 2013 2013 Aug;9(9497). McNeil CR, Williams J, Muck A. 5 Steps to Starting a Residency San Antonio Medicine 2012 Nov;:18-19. Muck A, Bebarta VS, Borys DJ, Morgan DL. Six years of epinephrine digital injections: absence of significant local or systemic effects Ann Emerg Med 2010 Sep;56(3):270-274. Muck A, Hilliard M, Adams BD. When Dead is Only Mostly Dead: understanding which causes of sudden cardiac death have good outcomes Journal of Emergency Medical Services 2009 Mar;34(3):42-53. Adams BD, Cuniowski PA, Muck A, De Lorenzo RA. Registry of Emergency Airways Arriving at Combat Hospitals Journal of Trauma 2008 Jun;64(6):1548-1554. Muck A, Pires ML, Lammie PJ. Influence of infection with non-filarial helminths on the specificity of serological assays for antifilarial immunoglobulin G4 Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 2003 Jan;97(1):88-90. Patterson LJ, Robey F, Muck A, Van Remoortere K, Aldrich K, Richardson E, Alvord WG, Markham PD, Cranage M, Robert-Guroff M, Muck A. A conformational C4 peptide polymer vaccine coupled with live recombinant vector priming is immunogenic but does not protect against rectal SIV challenge AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses 2001 Jun;17(9):837-849.

  • Clinical

    Board Certifications

    • American Board of Emergency Medicine