Grantees 2000-2001

Center of Excellence

Carlos A. Camargo, Jr., MD, MPH, DrPH
$250,000
Massachusetts General Hospital
Bridging the Gap Between ED and Primary Asthma Care

Career Development

Kevin M. Curtis, MD
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
$49,953
Disruption of Neuronal Calcium Homeostasis: Trauma vs. Ischemia
Underwriter: Eli Lilly and Company, Inc.

Hernan F. Gomez, MD
University of Michigan Medical Center
$49,812
Dermonecrotic Arachnidism: Fab Therapeutic Approaches and Intradermal Delivery Systems
Underwriter: Ortho-McNeil

Research Fellowship

James D. Martin, MD
University of Pennsylvania
$35,000
1) Mechanisms of Calpain-Mediated Neuronal Injury, 2) Leukocyte Responses in Animal Models of Vascular Injury
Underwriter: EmCare, Inc.

Established Investigator

Charles Cairns, MD
UCHSC
$50,000
Molecular Approaches to Anti-Inflammatory Therapy in Acute Cardiac Ischemia
Underwriter: Aventis

Jeffrey A. Kline, MD
Carolinas Medical Center
$50,000
Rapid Exclusion of Pulmonary Embolism (The REPE Study)
Underwriter: Smith Kline Beecham Pharmaceuticals

Resident Research

Christopher J. Hogan, MD
Allegheny General Hospital
$4,950
Evaluation of the Urine Trypsinogen-2 Dipstick in Trauma Induced Pancreatitis
Underwriter: Bristol-Myers Squibb

Robert H. McCurren, IV, MD
University of Michigan Health System
$5,000
Increasing Emergency Physician Knowledge of Elder Abuse with an Educational Intervention
Underwriter: Emergency Medicine Residents' Association

Christopher L. Moore, MD
Carolinas Medical Center
$4,963
Evaluation of Left Ventricular Function in Patients with Unexplained Hypotension by Emergency Department Echocardiography
Underwriter: Bristol-Myers Squibb

Sankalp Puri, MD
The Detroit Medical Center
$4,904
Home Cardiac Enzyme Testing to Reduce Prehospital Delay for Suspected AMI
Underwriter: Bristol-Myers Squibb

Michael Roshon, MD, PhD
Carolinas Medical Center
$4,998
Myocardial UCP-2 Expression and Metabolic Efficiency in Septic Shock
Underwriter: Bristol-Myers Squibb

Health Policy Research

David J. Magid, MD, MPH
UCHSC
$25,000
The Influence of Hospital Primary Angioplasty Volume on the Difference in Short-term Mortality for AMI Patients Treated with Primary Angioplasty Versus Thrombolytic Therapy
Underwriter: Riggs Family

Robert J. Zalenski, MD
Wayne State University
$49,958
PARADIGMS (Paramedic Diagnosis of Infarction for Greater Myocardial Salvage)
Underwriter: Riggs Family

EMF/SAEM Medical Student

Charles Gilman - William Spivey Grant Recipient
$2,400
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Injury Mechanisms in an In Vitro Model of Neuronal Ischemia/Reperfusion

Mette-Margrethe Adkisson
University of Colorado Health Sciences Ctr
$2,400
The Use of Near Infrared Spectroscopy to Monitor Oxygen Delivery and Blood Flow

Matthew Douglas Bayley
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
$2,400
The Financial Burden of Emergency Department Patient Congestion and Hospital Overcrowding

Sandra Grochowski
Thomas Jefferson University
$2,400
Serum Nitric Oxide Levels in Patients with Non-acute Asthma

Benjamin Sun
Brigham and Women's Hospital
$2,400
Validating Models of ED Patients' Satisfaction and Willingness-to-Return

EMF/SAEM Innovation in Medical Education

Linda L. Spillane, MD
University of Rochester
$3,924
Use of a Patient Simulator to Teach and Evaluate Emergency Medicine Resident Competency

EMF/ENAF Team

Ralph Riviello, MD and Sarah Anderson, MSN
University of Virginia
$9,795
Coloposcopic Findings on the Examination of Women After Consensual Intercourse

Creativity & Innovation in Emergency Medicine

Kennon Heard, MD
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
$5,000
Ovine Immune Therapy for Acute Verapamil Toxicity

Douglas Vogel, BS
School of Medicine
$4,500
Nebulized Albuterol with Positive End-Expiratory Pressure as an Adjunctive Therapy in Acute Asthma Exacerbations