Grantees 2012-2013

EMF Fellowship

Andrew Monte, MD
University of Colorado
$150,000 over two years
Hepatic Cytochrome Drug Interactions in Emergency Department Patients

EMF Health Policy

Renee Hsia, MD MSc
University of California San Francisco
$50,000
The Far-Researching Effects of Emergency Department Closure: Is ED Closure Associated with Increased Mortality Rates for Patients in Surrounding Communities

EMF Career Development

Comilla Sasson, MD, MS
University of Colorado Denver
$49,990
Decreasing Disparities in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

EMF/Medical Toxicology Foundation Resident Research

Dazhe Cao, MD
Carolinas Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine
$5,000
Point of Care Testing in Setting of Nitromethane and Methanol Co-ingestion Will Not Mask True Creatinine, Anion Gap, or Osmolar Gap

EMF/Purdue Pain Management

Danielle McCarthy, MD
Northwestern University
$50,000
Prescribing opioid pain relievers in the emergency department: understanding and optimizing the encounter

Knox Todd, MD, MPH
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
$50,000
Risk of opioid misuse and the management of chronic cancer pain in the Emergency Department

EMF/EMRA Resident Research

J. Scott VanEpps, MD, PhD
University of Michigan
$5,000
Physics of Central Line Infection

Suzanne Bryce, MD
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
$5,000
Optimizing Self-Care Skills for Patients with Heart Failure

Eva Moses, MD
Washington University in St. Louis
$5,000
Magnetic Modulation Biosensing for the Determination of Low Concentrations of Troponin I in Emergency Department Patients Being Evaluated for Acute Coronary Syndromes

EMF/SAEM Medical Student

Paul Pukurdpol
University of Colorado Denver
$2,400
National Study of Primary Care-Treatable Emergency Department Visits as Indicators of Limited Access to Care

Erin Conrad MA
University of Michigan
$2,400
Spatial biochemical dynamics of central venous catheter infections

EMF/EMPSF Fellowship

Richard Griffey, MD
Washington University School of Medicine
$75,000
The impact of 'push' notification of CT study count on CT ordering in the Emergency Department

Emergency Medicine Basic Research Skills

Bjorn Westgard, MD, PhD
University of Minnesota Medical School
$5,000
Associations Between Neighborhood Healthy Food Availability and Emergency Department Presentations for Diet-Related Illness (DRI)