Marina Mekheal

Wellspan York Hospital Emergency Medicine Residency

York, PA

• Level 1 Trauma and Comprehensive Stroke Center

• Wellspan York Hospital, Chief Emergency Medicine Resident Physician, 2025-26
• Penn State, Keynote speaker at Penn State Graduation ceremony, 2024
• WVSOM, President of Emergency Medicine Club, 2022-23
• Penn State, President of Lion Ambassadors 2018-19
• Penn State, Vice President of Biology Club

BLS 2016 to present

ACLS 2023 to present

ATLS 2023 to present

PALS 2023 to present

EMT certification 2016 to 2023

Mekheal E, Mekheal M, Roman S, et al. (June 13, 2022) A Case Report of Autoimmune Encephalitis: Could Post-COVID-19 Autoimmunity Become a Lethal Health Issue?. Cureus 14(6): e25910. doi:10.7759/cureus.25910

Mekheal M, Steiner JL, Lang CH. Acute alcohol prevents the refeeding-induced decrease in autophagy but does not alter the increased protein synthetic response in heart. Alcohol. 2018 Dec;73:79-88. doi: 10.1016/j.alcohol.2018.04.005.

Gruzin M, Mekheal M, Ruhlman K, Winkowski M, Petko J. Developmental expression of doublesex-related transcripts in the common house spider, Parasteatoda tepidariorum. Gene Expr Patterns. 2020 Jan;35:119101. doi: 10.1016/j.gep.2020.119101.

Delayed Thrombus Formation in Pulmonary artery stump

• Poster presentations at AAEM and Wellspan Research Discovery day

SAEM Chief Forum, 2025

PACEP Olympics Simulation, 2024

"I Went Camping in the Tioga Mountains"

• Clinical Pathologic Case presentation

Board Review Monthly 

High Sensitivity Troponin Study Algorithim Performance at a Community Teaching Hospital

• Data collector

Delayed thrombus formation in pulmonary artery stump

• Case report presented at Wellspan Discovery day and AAEM 2025

Quality Improvement project 

• Developed protocol to minimize adverse events and improve efficiency of disposition for elderly patients going to rehabilitation facilities from the Emergency Department.

Penn State Hershey Medical Center

American Heart Association- Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (Summer 2017)

• Worked closely with Associate Dean of Graduate Studies, Dr. Charles Lang
• Investigated effects of alcohol on protein synthesis in myocardial tissue using various lab techniques
• Presented work at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS 2017)
• Publication of findings in primary literature journal

• Wellspan York Hospital Emergency Medicine Intern of the Year, 2024
• Penn State Honors Program, 2015-2019
• Penn State Eric A. and Josephine S. Walker Award, For outstanding qualities of character, scholarship, leadership, and citizenship, 2019
• Penn State Alumni Association York County Chapter Award, 2018
• Penn State Keystone Honor Society Award, 2018
• Penn State, Student Leadership Award

• Emergency Medicine Resident's Association
• Pennsylvania Medical Society

• Wellspan Volunteer- 5 main patient aide (120+hours)
• American Red Cross (50+ hours)

• Traveling, playing chess, hiking