Grantees 2006-2007

EMF Research Fellowship

Adit Ginde, MD
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
$150,000
Feasibility and Evaluation of Emergency Department Screening for Undiagnosed Diabetes

EMF/Scios, Inc. Directed Research in ACHF Career Development

Brian Hiestand, MD
The Ohio State University Research Foundation
$70,000
Expansion of a Mortality Prediction Model for Acutely Decompensated Heart Failure Patients

EMF Career Development

N. Ewen Wang, MD
Stanford University School of Medicine
$50,000
Disparities in Pediatric Trauma Outcomes: Context, Access and Quality of Care

EMF/Riggs Family Health Policy Research

Jeffrey Kline, MD, FACEP
Carolinas Medical Center
$49,368
Randomized Trial of Pretest Probability in Low Risk Patients with Chest Pain

Jesse Pines, MD
University of Pennsylvania
$49,368
The Impact of Emergency Department Crowding on Time to Antibiotics for Patients with Pneumonia

EMF/FERNE Directed Research in Neurological Emergencies

Andrew W. Asimos, MD
Carolinas Medical Center
$50,000
A Prospective Validation Study of the ABCD Score and Kaiser Criteria for Short-term Stroke Risk after Emergency Department Diagnosis of TIA

EMF/ENAF Team ED Overcrowding Research

Andria Cleary, RN and Rick Hong, MD
Christiana Care Health Services
$20,000
The Use of an Express Admit Unit to Alleviate ED Overcrowding

EMF Resident Research

Ryan Arnold, MD
Cooper Health Systems
$5,000
Evaluation of Post-Cardiopulmonary Bypass Patients as a Clinical Model for Studying Microcirculatory Perfusion in Shock States

Wayne Bond Lau, MD
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
$5,000
Thioredoxin Nitration by Peroxynitrite: Signaling Mechanisms and Contribution to Cardiomyocyte

Anthony Nardi, MD
University of Maryland, Baltimore
$5,000
MRSA Carriage in Emergency Department Physicians and Household Contacts

John G. Wiegenstein

Patrick O'Malley, MD
Carolinas Medical Center
$5,000
Venous Ultrasound to Diagnose and Exclude Deep Venous Thrombosis in the Emergency Department

Christopher Rosenbaum, MD
University of Massachusetts Medical School
$5,000
Characteristics of Older Drivers Presenting after Motor Vehicle Crashes

EMF/SAEM Medical Student

Daren Beam
East Carolina University
$2,400
Pre-Test Probability for Assessment for Pulmonary Embolism

Hangyul Chung - William Spivey Award Recipient
University of Michigan
$2,400
The Host Response to Subacute Central-Line Infection in Mice

Trace I. Fender, BS
Summa Health System
$2,400
Use of AdRES Screening Tools in an ED Population of Older Drivers

Daniel Hubbard
Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation
$2,400
The Association of Capnographic Data to Adverse Respiratory Events During Procedural Sedation

Geoff Rau
Duke University
$2,400
Clinical Utility of the Triage Stroke Panel

Veronika Sikka
Virginia Commonwealth University
$2,400
The Impact of an ED Clinical Decision/Observation Unit on Hospital Performance

Emergency Medicine Basic Research Skills (EMBRS)

Kabir Yadav, MD
The Research Foundation of State University of New York
$2,400
The Role of Inflammatory Markers in Predicting Multi-Organ Failure and Death in Trauma Patients