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Josh Loyd, M.D. Re-Elected Chairman of the Mecklenburg EMS Medic Control Board for 2022
(CHARLOTTE, NC) – Josh Loyd, M.D., Emergency Medical Physician with Mid-Atlantic Emergency Medical Associates (MEMA) and Medical Director of Novant Health’s Critical Care Transport and Medical Flight programs has been reelected Chairman of the Mecklenburg EMS Medic...
MEMA Provider Spotlight: Laura M. Hays, MD, FACEP, Medical Director
For Medical school, you attended the Tufts University School of Medicine. Tell us about why it made the top of your list: Aside from its reputation for world-class academics and diverse clinical experiences, TUSM is located in the heart of one of my favorite cities –...
MEMA Contributes to NC Diversity and Equity in Emergency Medicine Scholarship Fund
(CHARLOTTE, NC) - January 2022. In collaboration, Mid-Atlantic Emergency Medical Associates (MEMA) and Wake Emergency Physicians, PA (WEPPA) are working through the Triangle Community Foundation to award up to $10,000 in scholarship funds. Tim Lietz, MD, President of...
Clinician Spotlight: Rebecca J. Smith, DO, Assistant Medical Director
Tell us about which medical school you attended and why it made the top of your list. I attended Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine, formerly The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey School of Osteopathic Medicine. Being from NJ, I was...
Meet Mid-Atlantic Emergency Medical Associates’ 2022 Advanced Practice Provider Fellowship Program class
Meet Mid-Atlantic Emergency Medical Associates’ 2022 Advanced Practice Provider Fellowship Program class The postgraduate fellowship program provides specialized training in emergency care CHARLOTTE, N.C. (February 15, 2022) — Mid-Atlantic Emergency Medical...
MEMA Emergency Physicians Partner with Mecklenburg County EMS to Launch CMS ET3 Pilot
Mid-Atlantic Emergency Medical Associates (MEMA) staffs Novant Health’s Charlotte-area hospital emergency departments and is partnering to help launch the Center for Medicaid and Medicare Services’ (CMS) new ET3 program. Dr. Josh Loyd, an emergency medical physician...
MEMA Physicians Honored as Top Doctors by Business North Carolina
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (January 5, 2022) — Business North Carolina has named several Mid-Atlantic Emergency Medical Associates (MEMA) physicians to its 2021 Top Doctors list. The annual recognition is a peer-driven list that acknowledges the work of some of North Carolina’s...
MEMA to Staff Rowan Medical Center Emergency Department
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (January 4, 2021) — Mid-Atlantic Emergency Medical Associates (MEMA) has been selected to provide staff for the emergency department (ED) at Novant Health’s Rowan Medical Center in Salisbury, extending its longstanding relationship with Novant Health...
Mid-Atlantic Emergency Medical Associates’ Dr. Aaron Blackshaw Awarded Outstanding Service Award in Medicine
CHARLESTON, SC (November 20, 2021) — Sponsored by the College of Charleston Alumni Association, the School of Sciences and Mathematics, and the Alpha Epsilon Delta Pre-Medical Society, Aaron Blackshaw, MD was awarded the 2021 Pre-Medical Society’s Outstanding Service...
MEMA’s Kathy Jordan Named to Board of Commissioners of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioner Certification Board
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (December 22, 2021) — Kathleen “Kathy” Jordan, DNP, FNP-BC, ENP-C, FAEN, FAANP, a Mid-Atlantic Emergency Medical Associates (MEMA) nurse practitioner, has been selected to serve a three-year term on the Board of Commissioners (BOC) of the American...
MEMA Practitioner Paper Published in Advanced Emergency Nursing Journal
Paper focuses on optimizing procedural sedation in the emergency care of children CHARLOTTE, N.C. (December 22, 2021) — Two Mid-Atlantic Emergency Medical Associates (MEMA) practitioners have had their paper published in Advanced Emergency Nursing Journal (AENJ) on...
Mid-Atlantic Emergency Medical Associates Celebrates Nurses during 2021 Emergency Room Nurse Week
(CHARLOTTE, NC) – October 10th through October 16th, 2021, was Emergency Room (ER) Nurse Appreciation Week. Celebrated nationally, this is a time to recognize ER nurses for their dedicated work to providing quality patient care. Mid-Atlantic Emergency Medical...
MEMA Physician Spotlight: Kathleen Richard, MD
For Medical school, you attended the Wake Forest University School of Medicine. Tell us about why it made the top of your list. When searching for the right medical school, I was instantly struck by the friendliness of the people at Wake Forest and it quickly rose...
MEMA Partners with Charlotte-Area Novant Health Emergency Departments to Launch Virtual Triage
Mid-Atlantic Emergency Medical Associates (MEMA) has teamed up with Novant Health to launch a virtual triage initiative. Two years in the making, Novant Health Presbyterian Medical Center, Novant Health Huntersville Medical Center, Novant Health Matthews Center, and...
MEMA Provider Spotlight: Jonthomas Elsasser, MS, PA-C
Please tell us which program you chose for your Physician Assistant studies? Why did this program make the top of your list? I attended Hofstra University on Long Island, NY for both my undergraduate and Master’s in PA Studies. During my undergraduate years, I was...
MEMA Clinician Spotlight: Sankalp Puri, MD FACEP
Tell us about which medical school you attended and why it made the top of your list. Growing up as a first-generation immigrant here in Charlotte, I was the youngest and first of my siblings with the opportunity to head outside Charlotte for college. I attended...
Next Generation Cardiac Biomarker Testing to Optimize Patient Experience at Novant Health
(CHARLOTTE, NC) – When a patient presents to an emergency department with concerns of acute chest pain, a key aspect of the workup often includes a specific lab test knows as troponin which is released by damaged heart muscle to help detect heart attacks and other...
Jason Mutch, MD Recognized in North Carolina’s Listing of Top Doctors for Emergency Medicine
(CHARLOTTE, NC) - January 2021. SouthPark Magazine published DataJoe Research’s list of “top doctors” featuring Jason A. Mutch, MD as one of only four listed physicians in the Emergency Medicine specialty category for the Charlotte area. Dr. Mutch has been an...
MEMA Emergency Medical Physician Reveals How COVID-19 Has Shaped her Outlook on Charlotte’s Community
“The COVID-19 pandemic has certainly taken a toll on the whole world,” says Gloria Tsan, MD, FACEP, an emergency medicine physician with Mid-Atlantic Emergency Medical Associates (MEMA), and “I have witnessed both the atrocities this pandemic has caused, as well as...
2nd Edition of Dr. Kathleen Jordan’s Pediatric Emergent/Urgent and Ambulatory Care: “The Pocket NP” Awarded AJN’s Book of the Year
(CHARLOTTE, NC) – The American Journal of Nursing announced their 2020 Book of the Year Awards, listing Pediatric Emergent/Urgent and Ambulatory Care: “The Pocket NP” co-authored by Dr. Kathleen S. Jordan, DNP, MS, FNP-BC, ENP-C, SANE-P, FAEN, FAANP in third place...
MEMA Physician Spotlight: Gloria Tsan, MD, FACEP
For medical school, please share which school you attended and tell us about why it made the top of your list. I attended State University of New York Brooklyn (SUNY) Downstate College of Medicine. I chose this medical school because I wanted to train in NYC. And you...
MEMA Clinicians Receive COVID-19 Vaccine
(CHARLOTTE, NC) – December 2020 On December 17, the first clinicians from Mid-Atlantic Emergency Medical Associates (MEMA) received the COVID-19 Vaccine at Novant Health Presbyterian Medical Center. As frontline physicians, PAs, and NPs working in the emergency...
MEMA Physician Spotlight: Josie Bowen, MD, FACEP
For Medical school, you attended the University of North Carolina School of Medicine: Chapel Hill. Tell us about why it made the top of your list: As a North Carolina native and having grown up in Raleigh, UNC-Chapel Hill was always my number one choice for...
MEMA Physician Spotlight: Joshua Hughes, MD
Tell us about which medical school you attended and why it made the top of your list. I attended Marshall University for medical school. It was a simple choice for me to pick between a civilian medical school or USUHS, which is a US military medical school. Where...
Mid-Atlantic Emergency Medical Associates Congratulates the 2020 APP Fellowship Graduates
(CHARLOTTE, NC) – November 2020. Mid-Atlantic Emergency Medical Associates’ (MEMA) Advanced Practice Provider Fellowship Program honors their 2020 graduating class: Johanna Rossitch, PA-C and Jillian Rengel, FNP-C. In late 2016, MEMA’s APP Fellowship program...
Mid-Atlantic Emergency Medical Associates Congratulates Dr. Joshua Loyd on 2020 Fellow Designation
(CHARLOTTE, NC) – October 2020. A bit of bright news comes out of 2020 from the National Association of EMS Physicians (NAEMSP®) as they announced their class of 2020 Fellows of the Academy of Emergency Medical Services (FAEMS) which included Mid Atlantic Emergency...
Mid-Atlantic Emergency Medical Associates Celebrates ER Nurses the Only Way They Know How – BIG!
(CHARLOTTE, NC) – October 11th through October 17th, 2020 was Emergency Room (ER) Nurse Appreciation Week. Celebrated nationally, this is a time to recognize ER nurses for their dedicated work to providing quality patient care. Mid-Atlantic Emergency Medical...
MEMA Providers Publish Article in Nursing Journal Addressing Nonfatal Strangulation Related to Intimate Partner Violence
(CHARLOTTE, NC) – October 2020. Kathleen S. Jordan, DNP, RN, FNP-BC, ENP-C, SANE-P, FAEN, FAANP and John A Murphy, MS, PA-C, both clinicians with Mid- Atlantic Emergency Medical Associates (MEMA), recently published an article in Advanced Emergency Nursing Journal’s...
MEMA Physician Spotlight: Meghan Williams, MD
Tell us about which medical school you attended and why it made the top of your list: For medical school, I attended the University of Toledo College of Medicine… Go Rockets! It felt like I fit right in when I visited, and I could see myself spending 4 crazy...
Jason Mutch, MD Appointed Chief of Staff at Novant Health Huntersville Medical Center
Novant Health Huntersville Medical Center has appointed Jason Mutch, MD Chief of Staff. He will serve a three-year term as Chief of Staff after serving as Vice Chief of Staff overseeing staff from 18 varying departments. “The bonded partnership between Novant Health...