Deborah Baker Diercks MD
Professor and Chair, Emergency Medicine, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas
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5323 Harry Hines BoulevardDallas, TX 75390
Phone+1 214-648-3916
Fax+1 214-648-8423
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Education & Training
University of Cincinnati Medical Center/College of MedicineResidency, Emergency Medicine, 1994 - 1998
Tufts University School of MedicineClass of 1994
Certifications & Licensure
CA State Medical License 1998 - 2027
TX State Medical License 2014 - 2026
OH State Medical License 1995 - 2001
KY State Medical License 1996 - 1999
American Board of Emergency Medicine Emergency Medicine
Awards, Honors, & Recognition
- Fellow (FACEP) American College of Emergency Physicians
Clinical Trials
- Clot Dissolving Treatment for Blood Clots in the Lungs Start of enrollment: 2008 May 01
- Study of NNZ-2566 in Patients With Traumatic Brain Injury Start of enrollment: 2010 Apr 01
- Study of NNZ-2566 in Patients With Traumatic Brain Injury Under EFIC Start of enrollment: 2013 Feb 01
Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- Frontier Language Models and Optical Character Recognition Preprocessing Against Invisible Text Injection in AI Peer Review.Philip Jarrett, Peter Yun, Andrew Jamieson, Deborah Diercks, D Mark Courtney
JAMA Network Open. 2026-06-01 - 1 citationsACR Appropriateness Criteria® Major Blunt Trauma: Update 2025., James T Lee, Marc A Camacho, Deborah B Diercks, Sanjeeva P Kalva
Journal of the American College of Radiology. 2026-06-01 - Financial Compensation of Academic Emergency Medicine Physicians in the United States.Carlisle E W Topping, Arjun K Venkatesh, Pooja Agrawal, Neha P Raukar, Melanie F Molina
Academic Emergency Medicine. 2026-03-01
Journal Articles
- Effect of a Self-Care Intervention on 90-Day Outcomes in Patients with Acute Heart Failure Discharged from the Emergency DepartmentPhillip D Levy, Deborah J Diercks, Gregory J Fermann, Brian Hiestand, Joann Lindenfeld, Jennifer Martindale, Javed Butler, JAMA Cardiology
Lectures
- Emergency Medicine UpdateNorthwest Anesthesia Seminars, Inc., Sedona, Arizona - 9/12/2012
- Emergency Medicine 2012: 35th Annual UC Davis Winter ConferenceUC Davis Health System, Truckee, California - 2/27/2012
- PCORI Made Easy: An Insider's Guide to the Patient Centered Outcomes Research InstituteUniversity of California at Davis, CA - 5/15/2014
Authored Content
- To EM Doctors, Everyone Is a Difficult AirwayNovember 2019
- To EM Doctors, Everyone Is a Difficult AirwayNovember 2019
Press Mentions
Comparative Risk of Myocarditis/Pericarditis Following Second Doses of BNT162b2 and mRNA-1273 Coronavirus VaccinesNovember 1st, 2022- ACC Advocacy: Engage, Influence, AdvocateOctober 13th, 2022
Cardiovascular Drug Interactions with Nirmatrelvir/Ritonavir in Patients with COVID-19: JACC Review Topic of the WeekOctober 12th, 2022
Committees
- Subcommittee Chair, Member, Clinical Policies Subcommittee on Thoracic Aortic Dissection, American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) 2015 - Present
Professional Memberships
- Fellow
- Member
- Member
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