Kenneth Frumkin, PhD, MD, FACEP
CURRICULUM VITAE
December 2017
CONTACT INFORMATION: 1121 N. Bethlehem Pike, Ste 60-136, Spring House, Pennsylvania, 19477
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, 2010
LICENSES: Virginia, 46773
POSITIONS HELD:
SEP 2015 – May 2017: Assistant Professor of Military/Emergency Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health
OCT 2013 – May 2017: Instructor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Eastern Virginia Medical School
JUL 2010 – present: Consulting Reviewer, Western Journal of Emergency Medicine
FEB 2010 – present: Consulting Reviewer, Journal of Emergency Medicine
OCT 2008 - May 2017: Staff Physician, Emergency Medicine Department, Naval Medical Center, 620 John Paul Jones
Circle, Portsmouth, VA 23708 (Master Clinician Award 2014, Member, Institutional Review Board: 2010 –
2016; Member, Prescription Drug Monitoring Subcommittee, Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee: 2009 –
2016); Member, Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee: SEP-DEC 2011)
1993 - present: Consulting Reviewer, Academic Emergency Medicine
1992 - present: Volunteer Physician, Chesapeake Care Free Clinic
1982 - present: Consulting Reviewer, Annals of Emergency Medicine
SEP 91 - FEB 10: Emergency Department, Chesapeake General Hospital, 736 Battlefield Blvd. N., Chesapeake, VA
23320. (Member, Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee: 2008-2010; Chairman, Institutional Review Board:
1993-94 and 1998-99; Member, Credentials Committee: 1996-2010; Member, Comfort Care Home Health
Professional Advisory Committee: 1999-2005)
2006 - 2010: Member, Advisory Board on Physician Assistants, Department of Health Professions, Commonwealth of
2005 - 2006: Member, Young Physicians Section Medical Director Survey Work Group, American College of Emergency
2004 - 2005: Member, Membership Survey Task Force, Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
2002 - 2004: Member, Emergency Department Directors Academy Development Task Force, American College of
2000: Member, Emergency Department Certification Task Force, American College of Emergency Physicians
1999 - 2014: Board of Directors, Chesapeake Care Free Clinic (Board Vice-President, 2001-2004)
1998 - 1999: American College of Chest Physicians Consensus Committee: Management of Spontaneous
1997 - 2004: Member, Emergency Medical Services for Children (EMSC) Subcommittee, Virginia Emergency Medical
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: Member, 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 Program Director: Jan-Jun 84; Assistant Chief: Jan-Jun 83; Staff Physician: Jul 81-
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-
TEACHING:
OCT 08 - May 2017: Emergency Medicine Residency, Naval Medical Center Portsmouth
1973-74: Associate Professor of Psychology, Graduate (Evening) Division, Towson State College, Baltimore, MD
HONORS:
Department of the Navy – Meritorious Civilian Service Award, 2017
Career contributions to military medicine recognized by the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine in a January 2015
cover story (http://tinyurl.com/jfqf37m).
Certificate of Recognition for Thirty Years of Emergency Medicine Certification, American Board of Emergency Medicine,
Certificate of Recognition for Thirty Years of Practice in Emergency Medicine, American College of Emergency
Career Achievement Award, Virginia College of Emergency Physicians, 2006
Life Fellow, American College of Emergency Physicians, elected 2005
Hahnemann Medical College: 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 i
PUBLICATIONS:
Frumkin, K, Bloom, AS: Ischemic Conditioning: Implications for Emergency Medicine. Ann Emerg Med 2016, 68: 268-
Kitchen, L, Lawrence, MW, Speicher, MV, Frumkin, K: Emergency Department Management of Suspected Calf-Vein
Deep Venous Thrombosis: A Diagnostic and Therapeutic Algorithm. Western J Emerg Med 2016, 17(4): 384-
Frumkin, K, Lanker M: Suspcted Esophageal Coin – Look Again. Amer J Emerg Med 2016, 34(3): 680.
Gaffigan, ME, Bruner, DL, Wason C, Pritchard A, and Frumkin K: Intravenous Haloperidol versus Intravenous
Metoclopramide for Acute Migraine Therapy in the EmergencyDepartment. J Emerg Med 2015, 49(3):326-34.
Frumkin K: Bacteriology of Urinary Tract Infections in Emergency Patients Age 0-36 Months. J. Emerg Med 2015, 48:
Conley SP, Frumkin K: Acute Lobar Nephronia: A Case Report and Literature Review. J Emerg Med 2014, 46: 624-626.
Frumkin K: Rapid Reversal of Warfarin-Associated Hemorrhage in the Emergency Department by Prothrombin Complex
Concentrates. Ann Emerg Med 2013, 62: 616-626.
Frumkin K: Pertussis and persistent cough: practical, clinical and epidemiologic issues. J Emerg Med 2013; 44: 889-895.
Frumkin K., Letter. Reader Feedback, "Treatment of Uncomplicated Pyelonephritis in Women". Emergency Medicine
Frumkin K: Letter: Emergency Medicine: Our House Has Many Rooms (and They Are All Full). Ann Emerg Med 2007;
Frumkin K: Letter: Bilateral Calcaneal Fractures and "Free Running” A Dangerously Cool Emerging "Sport". Ann Emerg
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
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, Zych K: Insect Chemical Detection. Defense Technical Information Center, 1973
Frumkin K: Interaction of LiCl aversion and sodium-specific hunger in the adrenalectomized rat. J Comp Physiol Psychol
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
PRESENTATIONS:
Frumkin K: Use of the G-suit in acute hemorrhagic shock. Presented to the Gary P. Wratten Surgical Symposium, San
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)
Eastern Psychological Association
Government Services Chapter, American College of Emergency Physicians
Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (Emeritus Member, 2013)
