Susanne Spano

Biography: 

Susanne Spano, MD, FACEP, FAWM
Associate Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine, UCSF
Program Co-Director, Wilderness Medicine Fellowship, UCSF Fresno
Associate Editor, Wilderness & Environmental Medicine

Susanne J. Spano, MD, FACEP, FAWM is board certified in Emergency Medicine.

She earned her medical degree from Temple University School of Medicine. Her residency in Emergency Medicine and her fellowship in Wilderness Medicine were completed at University of California, San Francisco, Fresno.

Dr. Spano’s professional interests are Wilderness Medicine, Search and Rescue, Disaster Medicine, Medical Education, and Public Speaking.

She volunteers her time as a member of the Fresno County Sheriff’s Search and Rescue Team.

Publications: 

Implementation of a Specialty Society?Sponsored Wilderness Medicine Fellowship Match.

Wilderness & environmental medicine

Davis CA, Lareau S, Haston T, Ganti A, Spano SJ

Search and Rescue in the Pacific West States.

Wilderness & environmental medicine

Ettinger S, Long A, Ganti A, Mortimer RB, Chiang W, Spano S

Epidemiology of Ice Climbing Injuries Among Recreational Ice Climbers at the 2019 Ouray Ice Climbing Festival.

Wilderness & environmental medicine

Ganti A, Davis HE, Musi ME, Spano SJ

Prehospital Traction Splint Use in Midthigh Trauma Patients.

Journal of emergencies, trauma, and shock

Campagne D, Cagle K, Castaneda J, Weichenthal L, Young M, Anastopoulos P, Spano S

In Reply to Drs Lawson and Newman.

Wilderness & environmental medicine

Spano SJ, Seymer JA, Crane DH, Auerbach PS

Emergency Medical Services and Remote Medical Oversight in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, 2011-2013.

Wilderness & environmental medicine

Young M, Kim T, Lessard E, Campagne D, Spano S, Farshidpour L, Stroh G

The Epidemiology and Medical Morbidity of Long-Distance Backpackers on the John Muir Trail in the Sierra Nevada.

Wilderness & environmental medicine

Spano SJ, Hile AG, Jain R, Stalcup PR

An Assessment of Diarrhea Among Long-Distance Backpackers in the Sierra Nevada.

Wilderness & environmental medicine

Meyer DJ, Costantino A, Spano S

Pressures of Wilderness Improvised Wound Irrigation Techniques: How Do They Compare?

Wilderness & environmental medicine

Luck JB, Campagne D, Falc?n Banchs R, Montoya J, Spano SJ

A lightning multiple casualty incident in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks.

Wilderness & environmental medicine

Spano SJ, Campagne D, Stroh G, Shalit M

In reply to 'Symptomatic hypotonic hyponatremia presenting at high altitude'.

Wilderness & environmental medicine

Spano SJ, Reagle Z, Evans T

Long-term complications of rattlesnake bites: a telephone survey from Central California.

Wilderness & environmental medicine

Spano SJ, Vohra R, Macias F

Core content for wilderness medicine fellowship training of emergency medicine graduates.

Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine

Lipman GS, Weichenthal L, Stuart Harris N, McIntosh SE, Cushing T, Caudell MJ, Macias DJ, Weiss EA, Lemery J, Ellis MA, Spano S, McDevitt M, Tedeschi C, Dow J, Mazzorana V, McGinnis H, Gardner AF, Auerbach PS

Symptomatic hypotonic hyponatremia presenting at high altitude.

Wilderness & environmental medicine

Spano SJ, Reagle Z, Evans T

Circus Venomous: an interactive tool for toxinology education.

Toxicon : official journal of the International Society on Toxinology

Vohra R, Spano S

Snakebite Survivors Club: retrospective review of rattlesnake bites in Central California.

Toxicon : official journal of the International Society on Toxinology

Spano S, Macias F, Snowden B, Vohra R

Improvised traction splints: a wilderness medicine tool or hindrance?

Wilderness & environmental medicine

Weichenthal L, Spano S, Horan B, Miss J

An unusual case of otorrhagia.

The Journal of emergency medicine

Spano SJ, Burg MD