Grantees 2010-2011

EMF Fellowship

Heemun Kwok, MD
UCLA Emergency Medicine Center
$150,000
Efficient Clinical Trial Designs for Acute, Undifferentiated Stroke Syndromes

EMF/The Century Council Binge Drinking Prevention

Brian Suffoletto, MD
University of Pittsburgh
$577,292
Mobile Phone Text-Messaging System to Improve Follow Up and Reduce Binge Drinking in College Students

EMF Career Development

Gelareh Gabayan, MD
UCLA Emergency Medicine Center
$50,000
Seven-Day Mortality following Emergency Department Discharge

EMF Health Policy

Jennifer Lee, MD, MPH
George Washington University
$50,000
Impact of Massachusetts Health Care Reform on Emergency Department Utilization by Low Income Adults

EMF/EMRA Resident Research

Stacey House, MD
Washington University in St. Louis
$5,000
Role of Heparins on the In Vivo Bioavailability and Cardioprotective Properties of Human Recombinant Fibroblast Growth Factor 2: Development of a Novel Therapeutic for Acute Myocardial Infarction

EMF/EMRA Resident Research

Melinda Morton, MD
Johns Hopkins Department of Emergency Medicine
$5,000
Clinical Decision Guidelines for Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: Current Practice and Obstacles to Implementation (A Pilot Study)

Brian Roberts, MD
Cooper Health University
$5,000
Therapeutic hypothermia and vasopressor dependency after cardiac arrest

Margaret Samuels-Kalow, MD
Brigham and Women's Hospital
$5,000
The association between parental literacy and language fluency, understanding of discharge instructions and outcomes of care for children with respiratory illness

Arjun Venkatesh, MD
Harvard Medical School
$5,000
The Impact of Observation Care on Preventable Admissions and ED Revisitation

Emergency Medicine Basic Research Skills (EMBRS)

Jody Vogel, MD
Denver Health
$5,000
Pre-hospital Intubation in Moderate to Severe Head Injury is Associated with Worse Outcomes

William Knight, IV, MD
University of Cincinnati
$5,000
The Incidence of Non-Convulsive Seizures in Patients Undergoing Therapeutic Hypothermia after Resuscitation from Cardiac Arrest

Shawn Varney, MD
Wilford Hall Medical Center
$5,000
Intravenous fate mulsion therapy versus sodium bicarbonate effect on hypotension and QRS measurement in a swine model (Sus scrofa) of diphenhydramine toxicity

EMF/SAEM Medical Student

Paul Cheung
University of Colorado, Denver
$2,400
Barriers to Primary Care Access and Emergency Department Utilization: Implications for Healthcare Reform