Susanne Spano, MD

Biography:

Susanne Spano, MD, FACEP, FAWM
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:

Smoke Exposure and Respirator Use Among Wildland Firefighters: A Narrative Review.

Wilderness & environmental medicine

Filiberti AA, Davis SC, Spano SJ

Proposed Standardization of Protocols for Carbon Monoxide Studies: In Response to A Field Study of Carbon Monoxide Levels in Snow Caves During Short-Term Stove Use by Nielsen and Karlsen.

Wilderness & environmental medicine

Davis SC, Mortimer RB, Spano SJ

Broadening Perspectives on Analgesia in Mass Casualty Incidents: A Response to Reader Feedback.

Wilderness & environmental medicine

Binder WD, Spano SJ

Heat-Related Illnesses.

Emergency medicine clinics of North America

Bauman J, Spano S, Storkan M

Changing Times and Shifting Priorities: Promoting Gender Equity at Wilderness & Environmental Medicine.

Wilderness & environmental medicine

Binder WD, Kenefick RW, Rodway GW, Spano SJ

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

Wilderness & environmental medicine

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

In Response to "The Associations Between Visitation, Social Media Use, and Search and Rescue in United States National Parks".

Wilderness & environmental medicine

Bunzel W, Spano S, Filiberti A, Ioannides K

Professional Outcomes and Satisfaction Among Graduate Medical Education Wilderness Medicine Fellowship Alumni in the United States.

Wilderness & environmental medicine

Dove AJ, Castaneda R, 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

Is it Time for Wilderness Medicine Fellowships to Join the National Resident Matching Program Specialties Matching Service?

Wilderness & environmental medicine

Spano SJ

In Reply to Drs Lawson and Newman.

Wilderness & environmental medicine

Spano SJ, Seymer JA, Crane DH, Auerbach PS

Impact of a Half Dome Cable Permitting Process on Search and Rescue Activity, Hiker Mortality Rates, and Operational Costs Above Little Yosemite Valley.

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

Death on the Dome: Epidemiology of Recreational Deaths on Half Dome in Yosemite National Park.

Wilderness & environmental medicine

Richardson GD, Spano SJ

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

They had me in stitches: a Grand Canyon river guide's case report and a review of wilderness wound management literature.

Wilderness & environmental medicine

Spano SJ, Dimock B

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