Total Funds Awarded: $385,750
EMF Career Development Grant
Applicant: Carlos A.A. Torres, MD, MPH - $50,000
Institution: The Ohio State University
Project: Unraveling the Inotropic Effects of Pyruvate
Type: Laboratory
Applicant: Alice M. Mitchell, MD, MS - $49,050
Institution: Carolinas Medical Center
Project: Contrast Nephropathy from Computed Tomography Angiography in the Emergency Department
Type: Clinical
Health Policy Research Grant
Applicant: Stephen Epstein, MD, MPP - $50,000
Institution: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Project: Adverse Medical Events from Emergency Department Crowding
Type: Health Policy
Applicant: Marion Sills, MD, MPH - $49,851
Institution: University of CO at Denver and Health Sciences Center
Project: Emergency Department Overcrowding and Quality of Acute Asthma Care for Children
Type: Health Policy
EMF/FERNE Directed Research in Neurological Emergencies Award
Applicant: Christopher Barton, MD - $24,895
Institution: University of California San Francisco
Project: Emergency Department Assessment of Secondary Brain Insults in Intracerebral Hemorrhage
Type: Clinical
Co-Underwriter: Foundation for the Education and Research in Neurological Emergencies
Applicant: Jane Brice, MD, MPH - $24,978
Institution: University of California San Francisco
Project: STAT 911: Stroke Assessment Tool for 911
Type: Clinical
Co-Underwriter: Foundation for the Education and Research in Neurological Emergencies
EMF/ENAF Team ED Overcrowding Research Award
Applicants: Jean Marshall, RN, MS / Theodore Chan, MD- $50,000
Institution: University of California, San Diego
Project: Multi-Center Study of the Impact of Nurse-Patient Ratios on Emergency Department Overcrowding
Type: Health Policy
Co-Underwriter: Emergency Nurses Association Foundation
Directed Research in Capnography Career Development Grant
Applicants: Alan Jones, MD - $49,976
Institution: Carolinas Medical Center
Project: The Use of Capnography to Identify Elevated Lactate and Lactate Clearance in Emergency Department Patients with Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock
Type: Clinical
EMF Resident Research Grant
Applicant: Benjamin Heavrin, MD - $5,000
Institution: Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Project: Medicaid Disenrollment: Intrastate Emergency Department Impact
Type: Health Policy
Underwriter: Emergency Medicine Residents' Association
John G. Wiegenstein Award Recipient
Applicant: Danielle Turner-Lawrence, MD - $5,000
Institution: Carolinas Medical Center
Project: Bedside Dysphagia Assessment in Acute Stroke Patients by the Emergency Medicine Physician: A Prospective Feasibility and Reliability Study
Type: Clinical
Applicant: Stephen Paulson, MD - $5,000
Institution: Denver Health and Hospital Authority
Project: Validation of Clinical Decision Rules to Predict Emergent Operative Management Following Trauma: A Multi-Center Study to Evaluate Secondary Trauma Triage
Type: Clinical
Applicant: Jason Chang, MD - $5,000
Institution: Yale University
Project: Cardiac Function in Severe Sepsis as Determined by Bedside Emergency Physician Echocardiography
Type: Clinical
EMF/SAEM Medical Student Grants
Applicant: Chadd K. Kraus, MPH - $2,400
Institution: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Project: HIV in the ED at the Johns Hopkins Hospital: A 20 Year Review
Type: Clinical
Applicant: Kathy Lin - $2,400
Institution: University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Project: Risk Stratification of Emergency Department Patients with Potential Acute Coronary Syndrome
Type: Laboratory
Applicant: Andrea N. Miltiades - $2,400
Institution: University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Project: Clinical Risk Factors for Progression to Septic Shock in Emergency Department Patients Presenting with Severe Sepsis
Type: Clinical
Applicant: Akbar Nassiry - $2,400
Institution: Virginia Commonwealth University
Project: The Use of Orthogonal Polarized Spectral Imaging (OPSI) to Assess Microvascular Perfusion in Acutely Decompensated Heart Failure
Type: Clinical
Applicant: Samantha Phillips - $2,400
Institution: Duke University
Project: Metabolomic and Biomarker Profiules in Head Injury
Type: Clinical
William Spivey Award Recipient
Society for Academic Emergency Medicine is a co-underwriter for all Medical Student Grants
EMBRS Research Grant Award
Applicant: Erik Kulstad, MD, MS - $5,000
Institution: Advocate Christ Medical Center
Project: The Effect of Overcrowding on Time Sensitive Emergency Department Protocols
Type: Clinical