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Maia Dorsett, M.D., Ph.D.

Maia Dorsett, M.D., Ph.D.

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Emergency Medicine

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About Me

Maia Dorsett MD PhD is an Emergency Medicine and EMS physician and educator. She completed her EMS fellowship at Washington University before moving to Rochester, NY, where she now serves as the medical director for EMS education at Monroe Community College and is the Associate Regional Medical Dir...
Maia Dorsett MD PhD is an Emergency Medicine and EMS physician and educator. She completed her EMS fellowship at Washington University before moving to Rochester, NY, where she now serves as the medical director for EMS education at Monroe Community College and is the Associate Regional Medical Director for Education & Quality for the Monroe-Livingston Region. She is also the Medical Director for Gates Volunteer Ambulance. Nationally, she serves on the board of the National Association of EMS Physicians and the National Registry of EMTs. She is involved in quality improvement implementation and education, serving as the co-course director for the NAEMSP Quality & Safety course.

Certified Specialties

Emergency Medical Services - American Board of Emergency Medicine

Emergency Medicine - American Board of Emergency Medicine

Faculty Appointments

Assistant Professor - Department of Emergency Medicine, Highland (SMD)

Credentials

Residency & Fellowship

Fellowship, Emergency Medicine, Emergency Medical Services, Barnes-Jewish West County Hospital. 2016 - 2017

Fellowship, Emergency Medicine, St. Louis University Nephrology Fellowship Program. 2016 - 2017

Residency, Emergency Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis. 2013 - 2016

Residency, Emergency Medicine, Barnes Jewish Hospital. 2012 - 2016

Internship, Emergency Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis. 2012 - 2013

Education

MD | Washington University School of Medicine. 2012

PhD | Washington University School of Medicine. 2012

Awards

Clinical Teaching Award, Adult Emergency Medicine.. 2022

Keith Neely Outstanding Contribution to EMS Award. 2021

EMS Physician-of-Excellence Award.. 2020

Clinical Teaching Award, Adult Emergency Medicine.. 2018

RightCare Leadership Award. 2017

Publications

Journal Articles

Prehospital Airway Management Training and Education: An NAEMSP Position Statement and Resource Document.

Dorsett M, Panchal AR, Stephens C, Farcas A, Leggio W, Galton C, Tripp R, Grawey T

Prehospital emergency care.. 2022 26 (sup1):3-13. Epub 1900 01 01.

EMS Curriculum Should Educate Beyond a Technical Scope of Practice: Position Statement and Resource Document.

Leggio WJ, Grawey T, Stilley J, Dorsett M,

Prehospital emergency care.. 2021 25 (5):724-729. Epub 06/03/2021.

Evidence-based crisis standards of care for out-of-hospital cardiac arrests in a pandemic.

Natalzia P, Murk W, Thompson JJ, Dorsett M, Cushman JT, Reed P, Clemency BM,

Resuscitation.. 2020 November 156 :149-156. Epub 08/03/2020.

Point of no return: COVID-19 and the U.S. healthcare system: An emergency physician's perspective.

Dorsett M

Science advances.. 2020 June 6 (26):eabc5354. Epub 06/26/2020.

Bringing value, balance and humanity to the emergency department: The Right Care Top 10 for emergency medicine.

Dorsett M, Cooper RJ, Taira BR, Wilkes E, Hoffman JR

Emergency medicine journal : EMJ.. 2020 April 37 (4):240-245. Epub 12/24/2019.

qSOFA Has Poor Sensitivity for Prehospital Identification of Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock.

Dorsett M, Kroll M, Smith CS, Asaro P, Liang SY, Moy HP

Prehospital emergency care.. 2017 21 (4):489-497. Epub 01/25/2017.

Diagnosis and Treatment of Central Nervous System Infections in the Emergency Department.

Dorsett M, Liang SY

Emergency medicine clinics of North America.. 2016 November 34 (4):917-942. Epub 1900 01 01.

Evolution of the Drosophila feminizing switch gene Sex-lethal.

Cline TW, Dorsett M, Sun S, Harrison MM, Dines J, Sefton L, Megna L

Genetics.. 2010 December 186 (4):1321-36. Epub 09/13/2010.

PRP-17 and the pre-mRNA splicing pathway are preferentially required for the proliferation versus meiotic development decision and germline sex determination in Caenorhabditis elegans.

Kerins JA, Hanazawa M, Dorsett M, Schedl T

Developmental dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists.. 2010 May 239 (5):1555-72. Epub 1900 01 01.

A role for dynein in the inhibition of germ cell proliferative fate.

Dorsett M, Schedl T

Molecular and cellular biology.. 2009 November 29 (22):6128-39. Epub 09/14/2009.

METT-10, a putative methyltransferase, inhibits germ cell proliferative fate in Caenorhabditis elegans.

Dorsett M, Westlund B, Schedl T

Genetics.. 2009 September 183 (1):233-47. Epub 07/13/2009.

Nipped-A, the Tra1/TRRAP subunit of the Drosophila SAGA and Tip60 complexes, has multiple roles in Notch signaling during wing development.

Gause M, Eissenberg JC, Macrae AF, Dorsett M, Misulovin Z, Dorsett D

Molecular and cellular biology.. 2006 March 26 (6):2347-59. Epub 1900 01 01.

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