Grantees 2001-2002

Career Development

Justin Kaplan, MD
Albert Einstein Healthcare Network
$49,993
Adenosine Antagonists During Hypoxic Cardiac Insufficiency: Effects on Metabolites, Cardiac Tissue, and Comparison with Ephinehprine
Underwriter: Eli Lilly

Creativity & Innovation in Emergency Medicine

Sabine Brouxhon, MD
University of Rochester
$5,000
Role of Cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) in Burn Injury

Kathleen A. Dunn, MD, MSPH
SUNY Upstate Medical University
$5,000
Development of an In-vitro Biomechanical Model for Snowboarder's Fracture

Research Fellowship

Imo P. Aisiku, MD
Emory University
$35,000
ARDS: Chronic Alcohol Abuse and Glutathione Deficiency
Underwriter: ACEP Council

Kevin Merrell, MD, PhD
University of Colorado HSC
$35,000
Inhibitory Receptors of Mast Cell Activation

Resident Research

Steven B. Bird, MD
University of Massachusetts Medical School
$5,000
Efficacy of Ipratroprium Bromide in Acute Organophosphate Poisoning

Jeffrey M. Caterino, MD
Allegheny Singer Research Institute
$4,870
Evaluation of Serum Procalcitonin in Systemic Bacterial Infections Among Emergency Department Patients 65 Years of Age and Older
Underwriter: Emergency Medicine Residents' Association

Debra Houry, MD, MPH
Denver Health Medical Center
$4,450
Does a Positive Domestic Violence Screen Predict Future Violently-Inflicted Injuries?

Matthew Townes Murray, MD
Maricopa Medical Center, Phoenix
$5,000
Intraarticular Opioid Administration in the ED for the Relief of Inflammatory Knee Pain

Amanda M. Ryden, MBA, MD
Washington University School of Medicine
$5,000
Impact Studies of Four Different Soccer Headgear Using Magnesium Head Forms

EMF/Riggs Family Health Policy

Ronald M. Moscati, MD
State University of New York, Buffalo
$49,871
Comparison of Outcome for Female Domestic Violence Victims Who Self Disclose Compared to Those Identified Through an ED Screening Program
Underwriter: Riggs Family

EMF/FERNE Neurological Emergencies

Kevin M. Curtis, MD
Hospital of the University of PA, Philadelphia
$50,000
Mitochondrial Calcium Overload in Acute Neuronal Injury

EMF/SAEM Medical Student Research

Hamal Gada - William H. Spivey Recipient
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
$2,400
Proteolytic Cleavage of Calcium Regulatory Proteins in Primary Hippocampal Neurons Following Simulated Ischemia

Chaya G. Bhuvaneswar
Stanford School of Medicine, Massachusetts
$2,400
Do Emergency Department Health Providers' Diagnostic Criteria for Identifying Domestic Violence Presenting to the ED Match Those Criteria Identified by Domestic Violence Survivor Focus Groups? A Cross Sectional Study

Richard Ko
Maricopa Medical Center, Arizona
$2,400
Laminin and its Effects on Mature Neuronal Viability

Allyson A. Kreshak
Thomas Jefferson University, Pennsylvania
$2,400
The Value of Plasma L-arginine and Nitric Oxide Levels in Predicting the Severity of Acute Vasoocclusive Sickle Cell Crisis

Jonathan Li
University of California, San Francisco
$2,400
Patterns of Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use in ED Patients and Its Association with Health Care Utilization

Anthony M. Napoli
Providence Hospital, Washington, DC
$2,250
Effectiveness of Non-Invasive Ventilatory Support (Bi-Level Positive Airway Pressure) to Avoid Intubation in the ED: A Comparison of Hypercapnic vs. Hypoxic Respiratory Failure

Lane McNeil Smith
Virginia Commonwealth University
$2,400
In Vivo Analysis of Critical Oxygen Delivery in the Spontaneously Hypertensive Rat

EMF/SAEM Innovation in Medical Education

Cherri D. Hobgood, MD
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
$5,000
Validation of the Educational Intervention "GRIEV_ING" as a Tool to Improve Resident Death Notification Skills

EMF/Wyeth-Ayerst Directed Research Cardiac Arrest Survival

Mark G. Angelos, MD
The Ohio State University
$100,000
Metabolic Therapy for the Post-Ischemic Heart

James T. Niemann, MD
Harbor-UCLA
$100,000
Postresuscitation Cardiac Dysfunction: The Role of TNF-a and the Effect of PDE III Inhibitors

EMF/ENAF Team

Robert Swor, DO and Lynn Farr, RN, MSA
William Beaumont Hospital
$9,682
Chest-Compression Only CPR for Older Adults - A Pilot Study

John H. Burton, MD and Alyce A. Schultz, RN, PhD
Maine Medical Center
$9,436
The Efficacy and Feasibility of a Collaborative Approach for Reducing Pain in Emergency Department Lumbar Puncture Patients

Established Investigator

John G. Younger, MD, MS
University of Michigan
$48,650
Beneficial and Harmful Effects of Complement Activation During Life-threatening Pneumonia
Underwriter: Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceuticals

Emergency Medicine Basic Research Skills (EMBRS)

Craig Manifold, DO
Wilford Hall Medical Center, Dept. of Emergency Medicine
$5,000
A Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing Continuous Arteriovenous (CAVR) to Continuous Venovenous (CVVR) Rewarming of Moderate to Severe Hypothermia in a Porcine Model with Hemorrhage
Underwriter: Pfizer, Inc.