UnityPoint Health - Des Moines
Emergency Medicine residency · Des Moines, IA · Program website
Some matches pending. 4 people are awaiting a decision between possible publication profiles, so these numbers may change.
Trainees here publish less than most: 0% have published during training (12th of 12 emergency medicine residencies with complete rosters), at 0.0 papers per trainee-year (12th). How trainees publish ↓
- 9
- Faculty
- 12
- Trainees
- 20
- Papers
- 0%
- Trainees published
- 0.00
- Papers / trainee-year
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- First author
Roster from the program's own page unitypoint.org, collected 2026-11-07: 12 current trainees in 2 classes. Something off? Tell us
Papers
By this program's faculty and trainees since 2022, 20 in all. Updated 2026-11-07.
- Iowa emergency departments lack board‐certified emergency physicians: A comprehensive statewide emergency department workforce studyNatalie Boone et al. · Academic Emergency Medicine · 2025 · PubMed · cited 1
- Impact of a Mental Health Screening Process in a Pediatric Emergency DepartmentBryan Stocker et al. · Pediatric Emergency Care · 2024 · PubMed
- Emergent care and management of fishhook injuriesJoshua Turek et al. · Visual Journal of Emergency Medicine · 2024
- Corneal abrasions with contact lens useEllen Maruggi et al. · Visual Journal of Emergency Medicine · 2024
- Acute pulmonary embolism with clot in transit seen on POCUSEmma Simpson et al. · Visual Journal of Emergency Medicine · 2024
- Corneal abrasionTodd Sexton et al. · Visual Journal of Emergency Medicine · 2023
- Traumatic hyphema: Diagnosis and managementJoshua Turek et al. · Visual Journal of Emergency Medicine · 2023
- Allergic conjunctivitis: Disease and managementNicholas Doctors et al. · Visual Journal of Emergency Medicine · 2023
- Periorbital foreign body and refractory cellulitisMatthew Brooke et al. · Visual Journal of Emergency Medicine · 2023
- Corneal ulcerationAlyssa R. Gingrich et al. · Visual Journal of Emergency Medicine · 2023
How trainees publishauthor positions, co-authorship, ranks
Papers by current residents and fellows, and alumni within two years, published during training. Based on 0 of 12 trainees matched to publication records. Trainees with no match count as not yet published, so these figures are a floor.
Faculty detailsh-index, papers and author positions per person
Program leadership from the program's own pages, matched to publications. Leadership is mostly clinician-educators, so these numbers describe the teaching team, not the department's research. Works since 2022-01-01.
| Name | Research topics | h (lifetime) | Works | 1st | Last | Median FWCI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nash Whitaker, MD | Emergency Medicine Education and Research; Ocular Infections and Treatments | 3 | 10 | 1 | 5 | 0 |
| Brian Jennett, MD | Emergency Medicine Education and Research; Traumatic Ocular and Foreign Body Injuries | 1 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| Alex Wittry, MD | Nasolacrimal Duct Obstruction Treatments; Case Reports on Hematomas | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Allie Kim, MD (unresolved) | — | — | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Brittany Jensen, MD (unresolved) | — | — | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Bryan Stocker, DO | Allergic Rhinitis and Sensitization; Emergency and Acute Care Studies | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Clint Hawthorne, MD (unresolved) | — | — | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Nick Kluesner, MD (unresolved) | — | — | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Todd Sexton, DO | Traumatic Ocular and Foreign Body Injuries; Ultrasound in Clinical Applications | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
12 trainees are counted above but never listed by name.
Emergency Medicine at UnityPoint Healthshared by every program there, not this program's own
Institution-level: all emergency medicine publications from UnityPoint Health and affiliated institutions, since 2022. Updated 2026-11-07; refreshed daily.
Works per year · * 2026 so far
Most cited at UnityPoint Health since 2024
All emergency medicine papers there on OpenAlex
- Letter of Concern from the Association of Academic Chairs of Emergency Medicine Regarding ACGME Proposed Changes.Richard Joseph Hamilton et al. · PubMed Central · 2025 · PubMed · cited 1
- Iowa emergency departments lack board‐certified emergency physicians: A comprehensive statewide emergency department workforce studyNatalie Boone et al. · Academic Emergency Medicine · 2025 · PubMed · cited 1
- Physician Orders for Waiting Room Patients: Ethical ConsiderationsNick Kluesner et al. · Western Journal of Emergency Medicine · 2025 · PubMed
- Compression-only or standard cardiopulmonary resuscitation for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trialsArshbeer Singh Sandhu et al. · Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease · 2025 · PubMed
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