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  • Bio

    Darren P. Mareiniss, MD, FACEP is the Chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine at RWJBH Trinitas Regional Medical Center in Elizabeth, New Jersey.

    Dr. Mareiniss completed his undergraduate studies at Dartmouth College where he graduated cum laude with a major in genetics and developmental biology. He then earned his MD at the NYU School of Medicine where he graduated AOA. He completed residency training in Emergency Medicine at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. At Hopkins, he pursued additional training in critical care and received the resident research award. Dr. Mareiniss is board certified in Emergency Medicine and a Fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians.

    Prior to joining RWJBH, Dr. Mareiniss was faculty at Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia. At Einstein, he served as a member of the Pandemic Task Force and as the Assistant Program Director of the Einstein Emergency Medicine Residency program. Before this, Dr. Mareiniss served as clinical faculty in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Georgetown Medical School. Prior to this, he was core faculty in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Dr. Mareiniss also previously served as the Chairman of Bioethics at Medstar Franklin Square Medical Center in Baltimore, Maryland. He also worked as a critical care physician at University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center in Towson, Maryland. In addition to his medical training and experience, Dr. Mareiniss holds both a Masters of Bioethics and a JD from the University of Pennsylvania. He has published multiple peer review articles on pandemic response, critical care, ventilator allocation, bioethics and disaster response. Dr. Mareiniss is often quoted by and has written for the lay press as well. He has appeared on local television frequently in both Baltimore and Philadelphia.

  • College

    Dartmouth College

    Medical School

    NYU School of Medicine

    Residency

    The Johns Hopkins Hospital

    Publications
    • Title:Decreasing GME Training Stress to Foster Residents’ Professionalism
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      Description:Acad Med 2004;79: 825-831; Selected for reprint in the Home Study Course of the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, section 2, Clinical Competency Issues, 2005-2006 course.
    • Title:Regulators, Litigators and Morphine: Contradictory Legal Policies in the Regulation of Opioid Treatment of Chronic Noncancerous Pain
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      Description:Spine Line 2004;5(5): 13-17.
    • Title:A Comparison of Cruzan and Schiavo Cases: The Burden of Proof, Due Process, and Autonomy in the Persistently Vegetative Patient
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      Description:J Legl Med 2005;26: 233-259.
    • Title:RAB-10 is Required for Endocytic Recycling in Caenorhabditis elegans Intestine
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      Description:Molecular Biology of the Cell 2006;17: 1286-1297.
    • Title:Healthcare Professionals and the Reciprocal Duty to Treat During a Pandemic Disaster.
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      Description:The American Journal of Bioethics 2008;8(8): 39-41.
    • Title:Disaster Planning: Potential Effects of an Influenza Pandemic on Community Healthcare Resources
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      Description:American Journal of Disaster Medicine 2009;4(3): 163-171.
    • Title:Invited Editorial and Lead Article. Planning for a pandemic: a view from the accident and emergency department
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      Description:British Journal of Hospital Medicine 2010;71(2):64-65.
    • Title:Significant Reduction of Laboratory Specimen Errors by Implementation of an Electronic Ordering System Paired With a Bar-Code Specimen Labeling Process
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      Description:Ann Emerg Med. 2010;56(6):630-636.
    • Title:New Legal Protections for Reporting Patient Errors Under the Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act: A Review of the Medical Literature and Analysis
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      Description:J Patient Safety. 2010;6(3):147-152.
    • Title:The Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005
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      Description:J Legl Med. 2010;31(4):397-422.
    • Title:ICU triage: The potential legal liability of withdrawing ICU care during a catastrophic event.
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      Description:American Journal of Disaster Medicine 2011;6(6):329-340.
    • Title:Google Flu Trends: Correlation with Emergency Department Influenza Rates and Crowding Metrics.
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      Description:Clin Infect Dis 2012;54(4):463-9.
    • Title:The Importance of a Proper Against Medical Advice (AMA) Discharge: How Signing Out AMA May Create Significant Liability Protection for Providers.
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      Description:J Emerg Med 2012;43(3): 516-520.
    • Title:Article in NEJM Does Not Disprove Defensive Practices in the Emergency Department.
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      Description:Am J Emerg Med 2015;33(8):1101.
    • Title:The Opioid Epidemic in the United States.
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      Description:Emerg Med Clin North Am 2016; 34(2):e1-e23
    • Title:Predicting which patients will likely benefit from subglottic secretion drainage endotracheal tubes: a retrospective study.
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      Description:J Emerg Med 2016;50(3):385-393 available on-line January 21, 2016
    • Title:tPA Bolus Treatment for a Peri-Arrest Patient with Massive Pulmonary Embolism.
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      Description:J Clin Case Rep 2016; 6:1-6.
    • Title:A Brewing Storm: Our Overwhelmed Emergency Departments.
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      Description:Am J Emerg Med 2016;35(2):368.
    • Title:Emergency Medicine Burnout and Abuse – One Doctor’s Perspective
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      Description:Am J Emerg Med 2017;36(4):720-721.
    • Title:Too Many Patients… A Framework to Guide Statewide Allocation of Scarce Mechanical Ventilation During Disasters
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      Description:Chest 2018;155(4):848-854.
    • Title:The Impending Strom: COVID19, Pandemics and Our Overwhelmed Emergency Departments.
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      Description:Am J Emerg Med 2020; 38(6):1293-1294.
    • Title:Covid19 and the Power of the State During a Pandemic
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      Description:Am J Emerg Med 2020 published
    • Title:Doctors Could Face Significant Legal Liability if we Reallocate Ventilators.
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      Description:J Emerg Med 2021; 60(5): e138-139.
    • Title:The Emperor Has No Clothes – Medical Journals and Experts Must Stand Up and Condemn the Federal Pandemic Response.
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      Description:Am J Emerg Med
    • Title:The Emperor Has No Clothes – Medical Journals and Experts Must Stand Up and Condemn the Federal Pandemic Response
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    • Title:Overberger RC and Sabolick EE. Design and Implementation of a Temporary Emergency Department-Intensive Care Unit (ED-ICU) Patient Care Model During the COVID-19 Pandemic Surge.
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      Description:JACEP Open 2020;1:1255-1260.