Barbara Blok, MD

Assistant Professor of Surgery

Division of Emergency Medicine

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Dr. Blok joined the faculty in 2005 after serving for several years as the Associate Program Director at the Johns Hopkins Emergency Medicine residency program in Baltimore, MD.


Dr. Blok’s interests lay mainly in medical education.  She is currently an Assistant Program Director for the Denver Health Residency in Emergency Medicine and serves on several residency-associated committees.   She has an avid interest in Wilderness Medicine and co-directs the Wilderness Medicine education programs for the 3rd and 4th year medical students at the University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine, which includes a lecture-based education series and a field elective in Rocky Mountain National Park and Moab, UT.   In addition, she is an editor for the EM board review book First Aid for the Emergency Medicine Boards and is editor-in-chief of EM content for Elsevier’s online medical resource FIRSTConsult.


Education:

                Michigan State University; BS; 1989; Physiology

        University of Michigan; MD; 1993; Medicine

                William Beaumont Hospital; 1993-1994; Transitional Year

                Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; 1994-1997; Emergency

                Medicine                


Selected Publications:


Barbara Blok, Ana Ibrado, Thoracentesis, In Clinical Procedures in Emergency Medicine, Fourth Edition, 2004. J. Roberts, J. Hedges, editors. Saunders Publ.


Barbara Blok, Tina Newman, Syncope, In Tintinalli Emergency Medicine: A Comprehensive Study Guide, Sixth Edition, 2004. J. Tintinalli, G. Kelen, J. Stapczynski, editors. McGraw-Hill Publ.


Barbara Blok, Syncope, In Tintinalli Emergency Medicine: A Comprehensive Study Guide, Fifth Edition, 2000. J. Tintinalli, G. Kelen, J. Stapczynski, editors. McGraw-Hill Publ.


R Hamilton, R Hoffman, F Henretig, E Karkevandian, S Marcus, R Shih, B Blok, K Nordenholz.  “A Descriptive Study of an Epidemic of Poisoning Caused by Heroin Adulterated with Scopolamine”  J Toxicol Clin Toxicol. 2000; 38: 597-608