Susanne Spano, MD
Professor
Emergency Medicine - Fresno
School of Medicine

Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine, UCSF Program Co-Director, Wilderness Medicine Fellowship, UCSF Fresno Associate Editor, Wilderness & Environmental Medicine

Susanne J. Spano, MD, FACEP, FAWM is board certified in Emergency Medicine.

She earned her medical degree from Temple University School of Medicine. Her residency in Emergency Medicine and her fellowship in Wilderness Medicine were completed at University of California, San Francisco, Fresno.

Dr. Spano’s professional interests are Wilderness Medicine, Search and Rescue, Disaster Medicine, Medical Education, and Public Speaking.

She volunteers her time as a member of the Fresno County Sheriff’s Search and Rescue Team.

• Search and Rescue in the Pacific West States.
  Wilderness & environmental medicine 2021 Ettinger S, Long A, Ganti A, Mortimer RB, Chiang W, Spano S
• Epidemiology of Ice Climbing Injuries Among Recreational Ice Climbers at the 2019 Ouray Ice Climbing Festival.
  Wilderness & environmental medicine 2021 Ganti A, Davis HE, Musi ME, Spano SJ
• Prehospital Traction Splint Use in Midthigh Trauma Patients.
  Journal of emergencies, trauma, and shock 2020 Campagne D, Cagle K, Castaneda J, Weichenthal L, Young M, Anastopoulos P, Spano S
• Is it Time for Wilderness Medicine Fellowships to Join the National Resident Matching Program Specialties Matching Service?
  Wilderness & environmental medicine 2020 Spano SJ
• In Reply to Drs Lawson and Newman.
  Wilderness & environmental medicine 2020 Spano SJ, Seymer JA, Crane DH, Auerbach PS
• Impact of a Half Dome Cable Permitting Process on Search and Rescue Activity, Hiker Mortality Rates, and Operational Costs Above Little Yosemite Valley.
  Wilderness & environmental medicine 2019 Spano SJ, Seymer JA, Crane DH, Auerbach PS
• Emergency Medical Services and Remote Medical Oversight in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, 2011-2013.
  Wilderness & environmental medicine 2018 Young M, Kim T, Lessard E, Campagne D, Spano S, Farshidpour L, Stroh G
• Death on the Dome: Epidemiology of Recreational Deaths on Half Dome in Yosemite National Park.
  Wilderness & environmental medicine 2018 Richardson GD, Spano SJ
• The Epidemiology and Medical Morbidity of Long-Distance Backpackers on the John Muir Trail in the Sierra Nevada.
  Wilderness & environmental medicine 2018 Spano SJ, Hile AG, Jain R, Stalcup PR
• An Assessment of Diarrhea Among Long-Distance Backpackers in the Sierra Nevada.
  Wilderness & environmental medicine 2017 Meyer DJ, Costantino A, Spano S
• Pressures of Wilderness Improvised Wound Irrigation Techniques: How Do They Compare?
  Wilderness & environmental medicine 2016 Luck JB, Campagne D, Falcón Banchs R, Montoya J, Spano SJ
• A lightning multiple casualty incident in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks.
  Wilderness & environmental medicine 2014 Spano SJ, Campagne D, Stroh G, Shalit M
• In reply to 'Symptomatic hypotonic hyponatremia presenting at high altitude'.
  Wilderness & environmental medicine 2014 Spano SJ, Reagle Z, Evans T
• Long-term complications of rattlesnake bites: a telephone survey from Central California.
  Wilderness & environmental medicine 2014 Spano SJ, Vohra R, Macias F
• Core content for wilderness medicine fellowship training of emergency medicine graduates.
  Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine 2014 Lipman GS, Weichenthal L, Stuart Harris N, McIntosh SE, Cushing T, Caudell MJ, Macias DJ, Weiss EA, Lemery J, Ellis MA, Spano S, McDevitt M, Tedeschi C, Dow J, Mazzorana V, McGinnis H, Gardner AF, …
• They had me in stitches: a Grand Canyon river guide's case report and a review of wilderness wound management literature.
  Wilderness & environmental medicine 2014 Spano SJ, Dimock B
• Symptomatic hypotonic hyponatremia presenting at high altitude.
  Wilderness & environmental medicine 2014 Spano SJ, Reagle Z, Evans T
• Circus Venomous: an interactive tool for toxinology education.
  Toxicon : official journal of the International Society on Toxinology 2012 Vohra R, Spano S
• Snakebite Survivors Club: retrospective review of rattlesnake bites in Central California.
  Toxicon : official journal of the International Society on Toxinology 2012 Spano S, Macias F, Snowden B, Vohra R
• Improvised traction splints: a wilderness medicine tool or hindrance?
  Wilderness & environmental medicine 2012 Weichenthal L, Spano S, Horan B, Miss J
• An unusual case of otorrhagia.
  The Journal of emergency medicine 2010 Spano SJ, Burg MD