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Informatics Division

The Emergency Medicine Informatics Division at UMass Memorial Health plays a critical role in enhancing patient care through the use of technology and data. The division manages technological and patient care innovations across all UMass Emergency Departments:

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Marlborough Hospital

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Health-Alliance Clinton

The division optimizes clinical workflows within the emergency department by integrating technological solutions that improve decision-making, enhance communications, and streamline processes. It plays a critical role in data acquisition, data analysis, and the application of data to the clinical sphere to enhance patient-centered outcomes.

Informatics Faculty

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Maureen Margaret Canellas, MD, MBA
- Faculty Title:
  Assistant Professor
- Emergency Medicine, Division: Informatics
- Education:
  - University of Missouri, Columbia, BS
  - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MBA
  - University Colorado Health Sciences Center, MD
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Jennifer Edwards, MD, MBA
- Faculty Title:
  Assistant Professor
- Emergency Medicine, Division: Informatics
- Education:
  - University of Utah, BS
  - Isenberg School of Management, UMass Amherst, MBA
  - Ohio State University College of Medicine, MD
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Alexandra Marie Sanseverino, MD
- Faculty Title:
  Assistant Professor
- Emergency Medicine, Division: Informatics
- Education:
  - Worcester Polytechnic Institute, BS
  - Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences, MD
- Faculty Profile

Alexandra Sanseverino, MD

Director, Division of Informatics

Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine

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UMass Chan Medical School
UMass Memorial Medical Center
University Campus
Department of Emergency Medicine
55 Lake Avenue North
Worcester, Mass. 01655
emed@umassmed.edu
Phone: 508-421-1400
Fax: 508-856-5911

Recent Publications

Total: 6 results

Interferon-epsilon, an estrogen-induced type I interferon, is uniquely exploited by Neisseria gonorrhoeae via effects on sialic acid metabolism

June 10, 2025

Author(s): Evelyn A Kurt-Jones,Sunita Gulati,Michael King,Rosane B de Oliveira,Peter A Rice,Bo Zheng,Jutamas Shaughnessy,Jennifer L Edwards,Paul J Hertzog,Sanjay Ram,Douglas T Golenbock

Source: Cell host & microbe

The female genital mucosa expresses the hormone-dependent type I interferon (IFN), IFN-epsilon (IFN-ε), which protects against chlamydia and herpes infection. Surprisingly, we found that IFN-ε knockou...
Dynamic Appraisal of Situational Aggression Score at Emergency Department Triage Is Associated With Behavioral Intervention: A Cross-Sectional Study

June 09, 2025

Author(s): Amy D Costigan,Martin A Reznek,Christopher Slocum,Maureen M Canellas,Alexandra M Sanseverino,Vincent Kan,Janell Forget,Laurel C O'Connor

Source: Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine

CONCLUSIONS: Elevated DASA scores at ED triage were associated with an increased risk of patient restraint and safety medication administration during the ED encounter. Future research should assess h...
The Implementation of Dynamic Appraisal of Situational Aggression Score at Emergency Department Triage

April 02, 2025

Author(s): Amy D Costigan,Laurel C O'Connor,Christopher Slocum,Kimberly Barry,Maureen M Canellas,Alexandra M Sanseverino,Erin Proudman,Karen Plainte,Mathew Shatsky,Janell Forget,Martin A Reznek

Source: Annals of emergency medicine

CONCLUSION: The use of the DASA instrument score at ED triage was highly adopted by staff. The demographic makeup of patients with a high-risk DASA score was concordant with prior literature describin...
Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Emergency Department Encounters in a Major Metropolitan Area

January 26, 2024

Author(s): Jeffrey R Stowell,Michael B Henry,Paul Pugsley,Jennifer Edwards,Heather Burton,Craig Norquist,Eric D Katz,B Witkind Koenig,Sandra Indermuhle,Vignesh Subbian,Hamid Ghaderi,Murtaza Akhter

Source: The Journal of emergency medicine

CONCLUSIONS: Total adult and pediatric encounters were reduced significantly across a major metropolitan area. Patient acuity and hospitalization rates were relatively increased. The development of st...
Implementation of Integrated Electronic Health Record Access for Prehospital Clinicians

October 04, 2023

Author(s): Laurel O'Connor,Michael Hall,Abbey Smiley,Jonathan Richardson,Adam McCluskey,Jack Dufton,Alexandra Sanseverino,John P Broach

Source: The American journal of emergency medicine

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Factors Associated with Overutilization of Computed Tomography of the Cervical Spine

October 03, 2023

Author(s): Karl T Chamberlin,Maureen M Canellas,Martin A Reznek,Kevin A Kotkowski

Source: The western journal of emergency medicine

Introduction: Despite the wide availability of clinical decision rules for imaging of the cervical spine after a traumatic injury (eg, NEXUS C-spine rule and Canadian C-spine rule), there is significa...

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Recent Publications

Informatics Division

Informatics Faculty

Maureen Margaret Canellas, MD, MBA

Assistant Professor

Jennifer Edwards, MD, MBA

Assistant Professor

Alexandra Marie Sanseverino, MD

Assistant Professor

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Recent Publications