Kenneth Frumkin, PhD, MD, FACEP
CURRICULUM VITAE
          
          January, 2009


CONTACT                 236 Carmichael Way, Suite 300, Chesapeake, VA 23322
INFORMATION          (757)482-9384;  FAX:(757)482-9386;  kfrumkin@HEC.netbox.com

EDUCATION:     B.A.. -  1969, Franklin & Marshall College (Psychology)
                                M.A. -  1970, McGill University (Physiological Psychology)
                                Ph.D. - 1972, McGill University (Physiological Psychology)
                               M.D. -  1978, Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital

TRAINING:
          1978-79, Flexible Internship. Letterman Army Medical Center, San Francisco, CA
          1979-81, Emergency Medicine Residency, Brooke Army Med. Center, San Antonio, TX

SPECIALTY:
          Certified American Board of Emergency Medicine, 1982; re-certified 1990, 2000

LICENSES:
          Virginia, 46773

POSITIONS HELD (Current):
          OCT 08 - present: Emergency Medicine Department, Naval Medical Center, 620 John Paul Jones Circle, Portsmouth, VA 23708
          2006-2010: Member, Advisory Board on Physician Assistants, Department of Health Professions, Commonwealth of Virginia
          2005 - present:  Member, Young Physicians Section Medical Director Survey Work Group, ACEP
          1999 - present:  Board of Directors, Chesapeake Care Free Clinic (Board Vice-President, 2001-2004)
          DEC 93 - present: Consulting Reviewer, Academic Emergency Medicine
          1992 - present:  Volunteer Physician, Chesapeake Care Free Clinic
          SEP 91 - present: Emergency Department, Chesapeake General Hospital, 736 Battlefield Blvd. N., Chesapeake, VA 23320.
                    (Chairman, Institutional Review Board: 1993-94 and 1998-99;  Member, Credentials Committee: 1996-present;
                    Member, Comfort Care Home Health Professional Advisory Committee: 1999-2005)
          1982 - present: Consulting Reviewer, Annals of Emergency Medicine

POSITIONS HELD (Prior):
          2004-2005: Member, Membership Survey Task Force, Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
          2002-2004: Member, Emergency Department Directors Academy Development Task Force, ACEP
          2000: Member, Emergency Department Certification Task Force, American College of Emergency Physicians
          1998-1999:  American College of Chest Physicians Consensus Committee:  Management of Spontaneous Pneumothorax
          1997 - 2004:  Member, Emergency Medical Services for Children (EMSC) Subcommittee, Virginia EMS Advisory Board
          FEB 95 - FEB 05: Board of Directors, Virginia College of Emergency Physicians
          MAR 94 - DEC 98: Course Director, ACLS
          1993 - 2001:  Part-time Urgent Care, Outer Banks Medical Center, Nags Head, NC
          MAR 91 - Consulting Reviewer, Chest
          1989 - 1996: Instructor, PALS
          MAR 88 - AUG 91:  Medical Legal Screening Panel, Clark County, NV
          FEB 88 - DEC 89: Vice-Chair, Nevada Emergency Medical Services Advisory Council
          SEP 87 - AUG 91: Member, EMS Medical Advisory Board, Clark County, NV
          JAN 87 - DEC 88: Treasurer, Nevada Chapter ACEP
          SEP 86 - AUG 88: Member, Practice Management Committee, ACEP
          JUL 86 - AUG 91: Emergency Department, Humana Hospital Sunrise, Las Vegas, Nevada
                    (Department Chairman: 1988-91; Medical Director: 1986-89)
          OCT 85 - OCT 98: Examiner, American Board of Emergency Medicine
          OCT 84 - SEP 86: Member, Academic Affairs Committee, ACEP
          OCT 84 - MAR 86: Consultant in Emergency Medicine to the US Army Surgeon General
          1982 - 2003: Instructor, ACLS
          1982 - 1994: Instructor, ATLS
          JUL 81 - JUN 86: Department of Emergency Medicine, Madigan Army Medical Center, Tacoma, Washington 
                    (Chairman: Jul 83-Jun 86;  Residency  Director: Jan-Jun 84;  Assistant Chief: Jan-Jun 83;  Staff Physician: Jul 81-Dec 83)
          AUG 81 - JUN 86: Emergency Physician, St. Peter Hospital, Olympia, WA

RESEARCH:
          1976-78: Research Associate, Division of Liaison Psychiatry and Psychosomatic Medicine, Department of Mental Health Sciences, Hahnemann Medical College
          1972-74: Research Psychologist, U.S. Army Biomedical Laboratories, Edgewood Arsenal, MD
          Grant: U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command, No. IAO-4744, "Influence of Conditioning on Relapse to
                    Narcotic Self-Administration in Rats".

TEACHING:
          OCT 08 - Present: Emergency Medicine Residency, Naval Medical Center Portsmouth
          1973-74: Associate Professor of Psychology, Graduate (Evening) Division, Towson State College, Baltimore, MD

HONORS:
          Career Achievement Award, Virginia College of Emergency Physicians, 2006
          Life Fellow, American College of Emergency Physicians, elected 2005
          Medical School:  (Hahnemann Cancer Center Fellowship, 1975; Alpha Omega Alpha, 1977; Academic Honors in Mental Health
                    Sciences, 1978; Academic Distinction in Medicine, 1978; Upjohn Achievement Award for Excellence in Research, 1978)

PUBLICATIONS:
          Frumkin K: Letter:  Emergency Medicine: Our House Has Many Rooms (and They Are All Full).  Ann Emerg Med 2007; 49: 246.
          Frumkin K: Letter:  Bilateral Calcaneal Fractures and "Free Running"  A Dangerously Cool Emerging "Sport"
                    Ann Emerg Med 2005; 46: 300.
          Frumkin K: Letter:  24/7:  The Next Big Thing?  Ann Emerg Med 2005; 46: 95-96.
          Frumkin K: Questioning the utility of a five-level triage system.  Emergency Medicine News, 2003; 25: 5.
          Frumkin K:  Letter:  Emergency Department categorization by SAEM is a bad idea.  Acad Emerg Med, 2000; 7:97-98
          Frumkin K:  Letter:  On reviewing the reviewers.  Ann Emerg Med 1999; 33:356
          Frumkin K:  Letter:  Vallecula sign and epiglottitis.  Ann Emerg Med 1998;31:139.
          Frumkin K: Evolution, revolution, or dissolution;  Conflict and the future of emergency medicine. Emergency Medicine News
                    1994;16:2.
          Frumkin K: Editorial:  "What's in a name?," "Moonlighting for fun and profit": Reflections on the state of emergency medicine -
                    A goal for 2000 and beyond.  Ann Emerg Med 1992;21:862-864.
          Frumkin K: Letter: The chest pain policy. Ann Emerg Med 1991;20:832.
          Frumkin K, Wright SW: Tube thoracostomy. In JR Roberts, JR Hedges (Eds.): Clinical Procedures in Emergency Medicine.
                    Second Edition. Philadelphia, Saunders, 1991, pp 128-149.
          Norton R, Frumkin K: Pneumatic anti-shock garment. In JR Roberts, JR Hedges (Eds.): Clinical Procedures in Emergency
                    Medicine. Second Edition.  Philadelphia, Saunders, 1991, pp 421-431.
          Frumkin K: Editorial: Residency training:  The missing curriculum.  Ann Emerg Med 1990;19:95-96.
          Frumkin K: "Nursemaid's elbow": A radiographic demonstration. Ann Emerg Med 1985;14:690-693.
          Frumkin K: Letter: The future of emergency medicine residency training. Ann Emerg Med 1985;14:378-379.
          Frumkin K: Atypical pneumonia.  In RL Krome, RJ Rothstein, JE Tintinalli (Eds): Emergency Medicine: A Comprehensive
                    Study Guide. New York, McGraw-Hill, 1985, pp 226-230.
          Frumkin K: Legionnaires' disease.  In RL Krome, RJ Rothstein, JE Tintinalli (Eds): Emergency Medicine: A Comprehensive
                    Study Guide. New York, McGraw-Hill, 1985, pp 230-231.
          Frumkin K: Pneumatic anti-shock garment. In JR Roberts, JR Hedges (Eds.): Clinical Procedures in Emergency Medicine
                    Philadelphia, Saunders, 1985, pp 403-414.
          Frumkin K, Wright SW: Tube thoracostomy. In JR Roberts, JR Hedges (Eds.): Clinical Procedures in Emergency Medicine.
                    Philadelphia, Saunders, 1985, pp 99-122.
.          Frumkin K, Nathan RJ, Prout MF, Cohen MC: Non-pharmacologic control of essential hypertension in man:  a critical review
                    of the experimental literature.  Psychosom Med 1978;40:294-320.
          Frumkin K: Differential potency of taste and audiovisual stimuli in the conditioning of morphine withdrawal in rats. 
                    Psychopharmacologia 1976;46:245-248.
          Frumkin K: Failure of sodium and calcium deficient rats to acquire taste aversions to the object of their specific hunger.
                    J Comp Physiol Psychol 1975;89:329-339.
          Frumkin K: Effects of deprivation schedule on the maintenance of a preoperatively acquired salt aversion by adrenalectomized
                    rats.  Physiol Psychol 1975;3:101-106.
          Frumkin K: Physical dependence in rats after low morphine doses.  Life Sci 1974;15:455-462.
          Frumkin K: Interaction of LiCl aversion and sodium-specific hunger in the adrenalectomized rat.  J Comp Physiol Psychol
                    1971;75:32-40.
          Frumkin K, Brookshire KH: CS-US interval and conditioned fear facilitation of shuttlebox avoidance learning in the goldfish.
                    Psychonomic Sci 1969;16:115-116.
          Brookshire KH, Frumkin K: Conditioned fear training and later avoidance learning in the goldfish.
                    Psychonomic Sci 1969,16:159-160.

PRESENTATIONS:
          Frumkin K: Use of the G-suit in acute hemorrhagic shock.  Presented to the Gary P. Wratten Surgical Symposium, San Antonio,
                    May 1, 1981
          Nathan RJ, Frumkin K: Cerebral atrophy and independence in the elderly.  Presented to the American Psychiatric Association,
                    Atlanta, May 11, 1978

MEMBERSHIPS:
          American College of Emergency Physicians (Fellow, 1984; Life Fellow, 2005)
          American Medical Association
          Chesapeake Medical Society
          Eastern Psychological Association
          Medical Society of Virginia
          Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
          Virginia College of Emergency Physicians