Update Your ProfileAcademic Title:
Associate Professor
Primary Appointment:
Emergency Medicine
Secondary Appointment(s):
Orthopaedics
Location:
110 S. Paca Street, 6th floor, Suite 200
Phone (Primary):
410-328-8025
Fax:
410-328-8028
Education and Training
Dr. Corwell did his undergraduate work at Tufts University in Boston, MA, earning a B.S. and double majoring in Biology and Psychology. He then did a 2-year pre-doctoral fellowship at the National Institute of Neurologic Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) in Bethesda, MD, performing clinical research related to motor and visual cortex function in humans. He attended medical school at the University of Maryland graduating in 2002. He completed his Emergency Medicine Residency at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center at Harvard Medical School (Boston, MA) in 2005. He then completed a fellowship in Sports Medicine at the University of Maryland in Baltimore in 2006.
Biosketch
Dr. Corwell joined the University of Maryland School of Medicine Faculty as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine upon completion of his fellowship in 2006. His clinical work was based at Washington County Emergency Department from 2006-2007, and he joined the faculty at Mercy Medical Center in 2007. Since 2007, he has also had an appointment in the Department of Orthopaedics. He has served as one of the team physicians for the University of Maryland Terrapins varsity athletes. Since 2013, he has been a sideline concussion consultant for the National Football League (NFL). He has served as a NFL Unaffiliated Neurotrauma Consultant (UNC) for the Baltimore Ravens since 2013 and has been the site director for the NFL Emergency Response Physician (ERP) program (formerly the Visiting Team Medical Liaison [VTML] program) for the Baltimore Ravens since 2015. In addition, Dr. Corwell served as the the NFL site director of the UNC program for the Washington Redskins from 2015 to 2017.
Prior to medical school, Dr. Corwell did a 2-year pre-doctoral fellowship at the National Institute of Neurologic Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) in Bethesda, MD, performing clinical research related to motor and visual cortex functions in humans. Currently, Dr. Corwell’s research interests are related the intersection of his two areas of expertise, emergency medicine and sports medicine.
Research/Clinical Keywords
Sports Medicine, Concussions, Athletic Health and Performance
Highlighted Publications
Corwell BN, Motov S, Davis NL, Kim HK. Novel Uses of Ketamine in the Emergency Department. Expert Opinion on Drug Safety. 2022 Aug;21(8):1009-1025.
Kim HK, Leonard JB, Corwell BN, Connors NJ. Safety and efficacy of pharmacologic agents used for rapid tranquilization of emergency department patients with acute agitation or excited delirium. Expert Opinion on Drug Safety. 2021 Feb;20(2):123-138.
Corwell B, Davis NL. The Emergent Evaluation and Treatment of Neck and Back Pain. Emerg Med Clin North Am. 2020 Feb;38(1):167-191.
Corwell B. Musculoskeletal Back Pain. 2018. In: Rosen’s Emergency Medicine: Concepts and Clinical Practice, 9th Edition. Saunders
Turner RW, Lucas JW, Margolis LH, Corwell, B. A preliminary study of youth sports concussions: Parents’ health literacy and knowledge of return-to-play protocol criteria. Brain Inj. 2017 May 16:1-7.
Corwell B. Emergency department evaluation, management and treatment of back pain. Emerg Med Clin North Am. 2010 Nov;28(4):811-39.
Rooks Y, Corwell B. Common urgent musculoskeletal injuries in primary care. Prim Care. 2006 Sep;33(3):751-77.
Sanchez LD, Corwell B, Berkoff D. Medical problems of marathon runners. Am J Emerg Med. 2006 Sep;24(5):608-15.
Rooks Y, Corwell B. Female athletic triad. Curr Opin Orthop. 2006 Apr;17(2):149-154.
Additional Publication Citations
Davis NL, Donald E, Heffernan M, Corwell BN. Assessment of Anthropometric Measurements as Predictors of Car Seat Screening Failure. Am J Perinatol. 2017 Nov;34(13):1318-1325.
Corwell B, Knight B, Oliveri L, Willis GC. Current diagnosis and treatment of hyperglycemic emergencies. Emerg Med Clin North Am. 2014 May;32(2):437-52.
Boroojerdi B, Bushara KO, Corwell B, Immisch I, Battaglia F, Muellbacher W, Cohen LG. Enhanced excitability of the human visual cortex induced by short-term light deprivation. Cereb Cortex. 2000 May;10(5):529-34.
Chen R, Corwell B, Hallett. Modulation of motor cortex excitability by median nerve and digit stimulation. Exp Brain Res. 1999 Nov;129(1):77-86.
Chen R, Tam A, Butefisch C, Corwell B, Ziemann U, Rothwell JC, Cohen LG. Intracortical inhibition and facilitation in different representations of the human motor cortex. J Neurophysiol. 1998 Dec;80(6):2870-81.
Gerloff C, Corwell B, Chen R, Hallett M, Cohen LG. The role of the human motor cortex in the control of complex and simple finger movement sequences. Brain. 1998 Sep;121 (Pt 9):1695-709.
Gerloff C, Cohen LG, Floeter MK, Chen R, Corwell B, Hallett M. Inhibitory influence of the ipsilateral motor cortex on responses to stimulation of the human cortex and pyramidal tract. J Physiol. 1998 Jul 1;510 (Pt 1):249-59.
Chen R, Corwell B, Yaseen Z, Hallett M, Cohen LG. Mechanisms of cortical reorganization in lower-limb amputees. J Neurosci. 1998 May 1;18(9):3443-50.
Ziemann U, Corwell B, Cohen LG. Modulation of plasticity in human motor cortex after forearm ischemic nerve block. J Neurosci. 1998 Feb 1;18(3):1115-23.
Gerloff C, Corwell B, Chen R, Hallett M, Cohen LG. Stimulation over the human supplementary motor area interferes with the organization of future elements in complex motor sequences. Brain. 1997 Sep;120 (Pt 9):1587-602. Review.
Cohen LG, Celnik P, Pascual-Leone A, Corwell B, Falz L, Dambrosia J, Honda M, Sadato N, Gerloff C, Catala MD, Hallett M. Functional relevance of cross-modal plasticity in blind humans. Nature. 1997 Sep 11;389(6647):180-3.
Awards and Affiliations
Named one of Baltimore Magazine's Top Docs in Non-operative Sports Medicine and in Emergency Medicine.