Crystal Ives Tallman, MD
Assistant Professor
Emergency Medicine - Fresno
School of Medicine

Assistant Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine, UCSF Education Director for EM Critical Care, UCSF Fresno Department of Emergency Medicine

Crystal Ives Tallman, MD earned her medical degree at University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine. She then went on to complete her residency in Emergency Medicine at University of California, San Francisco, Fresno. During her Emergency Medicine residency, she served as Chief Resident. Following residency, she completed a fellowship in Critical Care at the University of Michigan.

She is board certified in Emergency Medicine and Anesthesia Critical Care and currently works as an academic physician in the Emergency Department and the Medical ICU at UCSF Fresno. She is also part of the ECLS team.

Her current areas of interest include critical care, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, and thromboelastography.

During residency, Dr. Ives Tallman received many awards including Intern of the Year at UCSF Fresno, the Emergency Medicine resident research award, the Borba Housestaff research award, the Bob Knopp Humanism in medicine award, and twice received the “Smarty Pants” award for the highest in-service score in the UCSF Fresno Emergency Medicine Department.

During fellowship, Dr. Ives Tallman received the Michigan Medicine making a difference award, the learning environment task force award, and was voted into the Michigan Medicine chapter of Gold Humanism Honor Society.

• Pre-hospital qSOFA as a predictor of sepsis and mortality.
  The American journal of emergency medicine 2018 Shu E, Ives Tallman C, Frye W, Boyajian JG, Farshidpour L, Young M, Campagne D
• Teaching Methods Utilized During Medical Resuscitations in an Academic Emergency Department.
  The western journal of emergency medicine 2018 Weichenthal LA, Ruegner R, Sawtelle S, Campagne D, Ives C, Comes J
• Hot and Cold Drugs: National Park Service Medication Stability at the Extremes of Temperature.
  Prehospital emergency care 2017 Armenian P, Campagne D, Stroh G, Ives Tallman C, Zeng WZD, Lin T, Gerona RR
• Analysis of intraosseous blood samples using an EPOC point of care analyzer during resuscitation.
  The American journal of emergency medicine 2016 Tallman CI, Darracq M, Young M
• FAST ultrasound examination as a predictor of outcomes after resuscitative thoracotomy: a prospective evaluation.
  Annals of surgery 2015 Inaba K, Chouliaras K, Zakaluzny S, Swadron S, Mailhot T, Seif D, Teixeira P, Sivrikoz E, Ives C, Barmparas G, Koronakis N, Demetriades D
• Thromboelastogram evaluation of the impact of hypercoagulability in trauma patients.
  Shock (Augusta, Ga.) 2014 Branco BC, Inaba K, Ives C, Okoye O, Shulman I, David JS, Schöchl H, Rhee P, Demetriades D
• Radiologic evaluation of alternative sites for needle decompression of tension pneumothorax.
  Archives of surgery (Chicago, Ill. : 1960) 2012 Inaba K, Ives C, McClure K, Branco BC, Eckstein M, Shatz D, Martin MJ, Reddy S, Demetriades D
• Hyperfibrinolysis elicited via thromboelastography predicts mortality in trauma.
  Journal of the American College of Surgeons 2012 Ives C, Inaba K, Branco BC, Okoye O, Schochl H, Talving P, Lam L, Shulman I, Nelson J, Demetriades D
• Ten years of mechanical complications of central venous catheterization in trauma patients.
  The American surgeon 2012 Ives C, Moe D, Inaba K, Castelo Branco B, Lam L, Talving P, Bass M, Demetriades D
• The incidence of neurogenic shock after spinal cord injury in patients admitted to a high-volume level I trauma center.
  The American surgeon 2012 Mallek JT, Inaba K, Branco BC, Ives C, Lam L, Talving P, David JS, Demetriades D
• Venous thromboembolic events in isolated severe traumatic brain injury.
  Journal of emergencies, trauma, and shock 2012 Mohseni S, Talving P, Lam L, Chan LS, Ives C, Demetriades D
• Rapid Sequence Intubation from the Patient's Perspective.
  The western journal of emergency medicine 2011 Kimball D, Kincaide RC, Ives C, Henderson S