Department of Surgery Faculty
Mark Sparkman, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
EMS Fellowship Program Director
Division: Emergency Medicine
Email: sparkmanm@uthscsa.edu
Board Certifications: American Board of Emergency Medicine
Education:
University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas, TX-M.D.
Texas Lutheran University-Seguin, TX-B.A. Chemistry
Postgraduate training:
Parkland Memorial Hospital, Dallas, TX-Transitional
EM Summa Health System, Akron, OH
Research interests: EMS Disaster Preparedness. ED Simulation Safety record
Clinical interests: Disaster Medicine, EMS pre-hospital care & transport
Publications:
Feasibility of
a novel veno-veno circuit as a central rewarming method in a severely hypothermic canine model.
Haughn C, Gallo U, Raimonde AJ, Evancho-Chapman M, Arends D, Schmidt SP, Beezley J, Sparkman M.
Current Surgery, 2003 July-August;60(4):442-8.
Biosketch: Dr. Sparkman received his medical degree from UT Southwestern, Dallas, TX in 1996. He completed his internship training at Parkland Memorial Hospital in 1997 and Emergency Medicine residency at Summa Health System in Akron, OH in 2000. He joined the faculty at the UTHSCSA in July 2000. Dr. Sparkman is co-chair of the Emergency Center Design committee, the EM representative for UTHSCSA, Department of EMT and San Antonio EMS. He also lead a team to revise our Emergency Center triage guidelines and actively participates in Acute Care and Transfer Review committees.
Awards:
Walter A. Hoyt award for Basic Sciences Research
EMS Can Do Gold Award for EMS activities.
EM Housestaff Rotation "Excellence Teaching Award"-2002-2003
Professional societies:
ACEP, TCEP, TMA, BCMS, AAEM
