Kenneth Frumkin PhD, MD, FACEP
CURRICULUM VITAE
July 2002
BORN: March 11, 1947
ADDRESS: 681-H North Battlefield Blvd., # 192, Chesapeake, VA 23320-4951
& PHONE: (757)482-9384; FAX:(757)482-9386; Internet: 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:
North Carolina, 35122; Virginia, 46773
POSITIONS HELD:
1999 - present: Board of Directors, Chesapeake Care Free Clinic
1998-1999: American College of Chest Physicians Consensus Committee: Management of Spontaneous Pneumothorax
1997 - present: Member, Emergency Medical Services for Children (EMSC) Subcommittee, Virginia Emergency Medical
Services Advisory Board
FEB 95 - present: Board of Directors, Virginia College of Emergency Physicians
MAR 94 - present: Course Director, ACLS
DEC 93 - present: Consulting Reviewer, Academic Emergency Medicine
1993 - 2001: Part-time Urgent Care, Outer Banks Medical Center, Nags Head, NC
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-present)
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 - present: Instructor, ACLS
1982 - 1994: Instructor, ATLS
1982 - present: Consulting Reviewer, Annals of Emergency Medicine
JUL 81 - JUN 86: Department of Emergency Medicine, Madigan Army Medical Center (Chairman: Jul 83-Jun 86;
Residency Program 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:
1973-74: Associate Professor of Psychology, Graduate (Evening) Division, Towson State College, Baltimore, MD
HONORS:
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 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. Emerg Med 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, TX 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)
American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
American Medical Association
Chesapeake Medical Society
Eastern Psychological Association
Society for Academic Emergency Medicine.