Grantees 2011-2012

EMF Two-Year Fellowship

Michael Ward, MD, MBA
University of Cincinnati
$150,000
Going Paperless: Understanding Emergency Department Operational Performance During Electronic Health Record Implementation

EMF/Genentech Regionalization and Stroke Care

Andrew Asimos, MD
Carolinas Medical Center
$99,941
A GIS Evaluation of Statewide EMS Stroke Routing Protocol: Impact of Hospital Bypassand Thrombolytic Treatment of Acute Stroke Patients

EMF/ENA Foundation Team

Heidi Suffoletto, MD, FACEP and Jessica Castner, RN
Kaleida Health
$50,000
Radio-Frequency Identification Time and Motion Study: The Relationship of Emergency Department Overcrowding, Physical Workspace, and Patient-Provider Contact

EMF Career Development

Joseph Piktel, MD, FACEP
MetroHealth Medical Center
$50,000
Effect of Therapeutic Hypothermia on Arrhythmogenesis in the Ischemic Heart

EMF Health Policy

Emilie Powell, MD, FACEP
Northwestern University
$49,907
Critical Areas for Improvement in Care Delivery of Emergency Department Severe Sepsis Resuscitation

EMF/Siemens Ultrasound

Dimitrios Papanagnou, MD
The Research Foundation of the State University of New York
$20,000
Clinician-Performed Bedside Ultrasound in Improving Diagnostic Accuracy in Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department with Acute Dyspnea

EMF/Emergency Medicine Patient Safety Foundation

Robert Stephens, PhD
$10,000
Discovering the Barriers and Facilitators to Timely Disposition of Patients from the Emergency Department

EMF/Emergency Medicine Basic Research Skills (EMBRS) Workshop

Jason Nomura, MD, RDMS, FACP, FAAEM
$4,771
Dual Screen Modality as an Ultrasound Educational Tool

Brian Roberts, MD
$5,000
A Prospective Observational Study on the Incidence and Prognostic Significance of Multi-organ Failure after Return of Spontaneous Circulation in Post-cardiac Arrest Syndrome

EMF/EMRA Resident Research

Jonathan Elmer, MD
Massachusetts General
$5,000
Incidence, Risk factors and Consequences of Acute Lung Injury Complicating Spontaneous Intracerebral Hemorrhage: A Multicenter Study

Bonnie Kaplan, MD
Denver Health Medical Center
$5,000
Development a Brief Screen for Patient Prescription Drug Misuse in an Emergency Department and Urgent Care Center

Virginia Stewart, MD
Eastern Virginia Medical School
$5,000
B-RIPPED-Scan for Evaluation of Emergency Department Patients with Shortness of Breath

EMF/SAEM Medical Student

Amr Badawy
The Research Foundation of State University of New York
$2,400
The Prevalence of Wound Infection in Emergency Department Patients with Simple Hand Lacerations

Brandon Sawyer
University of Colorado, Denver
$2,400
Scope of Practice and Autonomy of Physician Assistants in Rural vs. Urban Emergency Departments