Grantees 2016-2017
EMF Research Fellowship
Utsav Nandi, MD
University of Mississippi Medical Center
$150,000 over two years
Developing syndecan-1 as a biomarker to identify sepsis patients at risk from excessive fluid resuscitation
EMF Patient Centered Outcomes Research
Jana L. Anderson, MD
Mayo Clinic
$100,000 over two years
Shared Decision Making in Parents of Children with Acute Otitis Media: The Acute Otitis Media Choice Trial
EMF/EMAF Health Policy Scholar
Jessica E. Galarraga, MD, MPH
MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Medstar Health Research Institute, Georgetown University School of Medicine
$100,000
An Evaluation of a Payment Reform Experiment: The Effects of Global Budgets on Emergency Department Admissions and Associated Healthcare Costs
Michelle Lin, MD, MPH
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
$100,000
Anticipated Impact of Alternative Payment Models for Emergency Medicine
EMF/AAHF Emergency Department Planning, Operations and Design
Jennifer L Wiler, MD, MBA, FACEP
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine
James Lennon, AIA, ACHA
Architect Principal, James Lennon Associates
$79,999
Designing Emergency Departments to Provide Efficient, Patient-Centered Care: An Analysis of Split Flow and Sub-Waiting Area Models
EMF Basic Science and Clinical Research Innovation
Michael C. Kurz, MD, MS, FACEP, FAHA
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Department of Emergency Medicine
$49,095
Coagulation Irregularities Resulting from Cardiac Arrest (CIRCA)
EMF Career Development
Murtaza Akhter, MD
University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix
$50,000
Gene Expression Profile of Rod Microglia in Traumatic Brain Injury
Kei Ouchi, MD
Brigham and Women's Hospital
$50,000
My Value in Care: Activating Older Adults with Serious Illness in the Emergency Department to Formulate Their Goals for Medical Care
EMF Knowledge Translation Research
Michael D. Repplinger, MD, PhD, FACEP
University of Wisconsin – Madison
$49,999
Identifying barriers and facilitators to the implementation of radiation-free imaging protocols in the emergency department
EMF Health Policy
Jeremiah Schuur, MD, MHS, FACEP
Brigham and Women's Hospital
$50,000
Early Adoption of Alternative Payment Models for Emergency Medical Care: A Mixed Methods Study of Accountable Care Organizations
Nancy Ewen Wang, MD, FACEP
Stanford University School of Medicine
$50,000
Disparities in Access and Outcomes in Pediatric Trauma – How are we doing?
EMF/ENA Foundation Team Research
Kristin L. Rising, MD MS
Angela M. Gerolamo, PhD, APRN, BC
Thomas Jefferson University
$49,658
Measuring Patient Uncertainty During Acute Care
Lynne D. Richardson, MD, FACEP
Kimberly Souffront, PhD, FNP-BC
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Department of Emergency Medicine
$49,955
EHR innovations to improve referral for asymptomatic HTN in the emergency department
EMF/CORD Education Research
Ashish Panchal, MD, PhD
Ohio State
$24,812
Airway Management: Determining Mastery Performance Standards in Emergency Medicine Resident Physicians
EMF/NIDA Training
Eric Gruber, MD
Cooper University Hospital
$20,000
Development of a Sustainable Curriculum on Substance Use Disorders (SUD) for Emergency Medicine Residents at Cooper University Hospital
Howard Kim, MD
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
$20,000
ED Provider Perspectives on Analgesic Prescribing Choice: A Focus on Benzodiazepine-Opioid Co-Prescribing
EMF/EMRA Critical Care Resident Research
Kenneth W. Dodd, MD
Hennepin County Medical Center
$9,967
Measurement of Cerebral Oxygenation, Oximetry, and Activity in a Porcine Model of Optimized, Head-‐Up Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
EMF/EMRA Resident Research
David Silvestri, MD, MBA
Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
$9,977
Demographics to Diagnosis: Predicting Outcomes among Emergency Care Patients at Addis Ababa Government Hospitals—the Ethiopia Emergency Care Research Network (ETHerNET)
Xiao Chi Zhang, MD, MS
Rhode Island Hospital
$3,000
Healthcare-Experience Survey Assessment in the Rhode Island Cambodian Community
EMF/Medical Toxicology Foundation Research
Christina L. Nussbaum, MD
Brody School of Medicine/Vidant Medical Center at East Carolina University
$10,000
Naltrexone as an Antidote to Prevent Delayed Neuropsychological Disabilities from Acute Poisoning with Sarin Analogue Diisopropylfluorophosphate
EMF International Emergency Medicine Outcomes and Efficacy Research
Donna Venezia, MD, FACEP
Stony Brook Medical Center, Stony Brook, NY
$10,000
The Impact of Non-Physician Prescribed Medications on Health Care in Cambodia
Naz Karim, MD, MHA
Rhode Island Hospital
$9,990
Evaluating the Impact of a Prehospital Needs Assessment and Training Intervention on Process Indicators and Outcomes Amongst Prehospital Patients in Rwanda
Christina Bloem, MD, MPH
SUNY Downstate Medical Center
$10,000
Evaluation of the Impact of Point-of-Care Ultrasound Imaging in Under-resourced Hospitals in the North East Department of Haiti
EMF/SAEMF Medical Student Research
Krishan K. Sharma, BA
Harvard Medical School
$5,000
Evaluation of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome in Patients Enrolled in the Protocolized Care for Early Septic Shock (ProCESS) Trial
Adrienne L. Vickers
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Department of Emergency Medicine
$4,998
Epidemiology of Emergency Department Lumbar Punctures in the United States
Emergency Medicine Basic Research Skills
Joan Papp, MD, FACEP
Metro Health Medical Center
$5,000
Take-home naloxone rescue kits following heroin overdose in the emergency department to prevent opioid overdose related repeat ED visits, hospitalization and death - a pilot study
Joseph Herres, DO
Albert Einstein Medical Center
$5,000
Adjunctive nitrous oxide to lidocaine anesthesia during ED incision and drainage of abscess in adults: a randomized controlled trial
EMF/SAEM Aging Research (GEMSSTAR)
Scott Dresden, MD, MS, FACEP
Northwestern University
$24,884.72
Effects of a dedicated nurse liaison intervention for geriatric patients in the emergency department
EMF/HFSA/Acute Heart Failure Young Investigator
Junior Investigator: Anna Marie Chang, MD, MCSE
Senior Investigator: David J. Whellan, MD, MHS
Thomas Jefferson University
$76,080
Jefferson ED/Observation Unit Telehealth Transition of care for Heart failure (JETTHF)
Junior Investigator: Joseph R. Pare, MD, RDMS
Senior Investigator: Flora Sam, MD
Boston University School of Medicine
$79,965
CRUSH STUDY: Calculating Readmission Risk by Ultrasound for Heart Failure Study