Kimberly Rathbun, MD, PhD
Kimberly Rathbun, MD, PhD
Kimberly Rathbun, MD, PhD
Campus Director of Year 3/4 Curriculum
Director of Ultrasound
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine
Winnie Davis Hall 307
108 Spear Road
Athens, GA 30602
Education
Emergency Medicine Residency: Medical College of Georgia at Georgia Regents University, 2014
PhD: Medical College of Georgia at Georgia Health Sciences University, 2011
MD: Medical College of Georgia at Georgia Health Sciences University, 2011
MPH: Armstrong Atlantic State University, 2009
BS: Georgia Institute of Technology, 2002
Honors / Awards / Achievements
ECU Health Sciences Author Recognition Award, 2019
ECU Health Sciences Author Recognition Award, 2018
Emergency Medicine Residency Faculty Teaching Award, 2016
Phi Kappa Phi, 2008
National Scholars Honor Society, 2008
Selected Publications
Rathbun KM, Zweig A. An affordable and easily recreated ultrasound phantom for deep venous thrombosis (DVT). Journal for Vascular Ultrasound. 2021 Mar.
Mellick LB, Rathbun K. Macroscopic white blood cell casts: An extremely rare presentation of Klebsiella pyelonephritis. Emerg Med Open J. 2020; 6(1): 9-10.
Norbury JW, Brader W, McIver M, Charles, SC, Sindhi V, Rathbun KM. Impact of predefined angles and a revised APPLES mnemonic on accuracy and performance time for simulated ultrasound-guided injections. Am J Phys Med Rehabil. 2020.
Rathbun KM. Angioedema after thrombolysis with tissue plasminogen activator: an airway emergency. Oxf Med Case Reports. 2019 Jan 24;2019(1):omy112.
Rathbun KM, Brader WT, Norbury JW. A simple, realistic, inexpensive nerve phantom. J Ultrasound Med. 2019;38:2203-7.
Norbury JW, Karr NC, Sindhi V, Rathbun KM, Charles SC, McIver MB, Morrison EJ. Improving the Performance Time and Accuracy of Ultrasound-Guided Interventions—A Randomized Controlled Double-Blind Trial of the Line of Sight Approach and the “APPLES” Mnemonic. J Ultrasound Med. 2018 Dec;37(12):2909-14.
Scholarship & Research
Ultrasound education
Ultrasound simulation
