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Grants Selected During 2005-2006 for Funding in 2006-2007

Total Funds Awarded: $476,368

EMF Research Fellowship Award

Applicant: Adit Ginde, MD - $150,000
Institution: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Project: Feasibility and Evaluation of Emergency Department Screening for Undiagnosed Diabetes
Type: Clinical

EMF/Scios, Inc Directed Research in ACHF Career Development Grant

Applicant: Brian Hiestand, MD - $70,000
Institution: The Ohio State University Research Foundation
Project: Expansion of a Mortality Prediction Model for Acutely Decompensated Heart Failure Patients
Type: Clinical
Underwriter:Scios, Inc.

EMF Career Development Grant

Applicant: N. Ewen Wang, MD - $50,000
Institution: Stanford University School of Medicine
Project: Disparities in Pediatric Trauma Outcomes: Context, Access and Quality of Care
Type: Clinical

EMF/Riggs Family Health Policy Research Grant

Applicant: Jeffrey Kline, MD, FACEP - $49,368
Institution: Carolinas Medical Center
Project: Randomized Trial of Pretest Probability in Low Risk Patients with Chest Pain
Type: Health Policy

Applicant: Jesse Pines, MD - $49,368
Institution: University of Pennsylvania
Project: The Impact of Emergency Department Crowding on Time to Antibiotics for Patients with Pneumonia
Type: Health Policy

EMF/FERNE Directed Research in Neurological Emergencies Award

Applicant: Andrew W. Asimos, MD - $50,000
Institution: Carolinas Medical Center
Project: A Prospective Validation Study of the ABCD Score and Kaiser Criteria for Short-term Stroke Risk after Emergency Department Diagnosis of TIA
Type: Clinical
Co-Underwriter:Foundation for the Education and Research in Neurological Emergencies

EMF/ENAF Team ED Overcrowding Research Award

Applicants: Andria Cleary, RN / Rick Hong, MD - $20,000
Institution: Christiana Care Health Services
Project: The Use of an Express Admit Unit to Alleviate ED Overcrowding
Type: Health Policy
Co-Underwriter:Emergency Nurses Association Foundation

EMF Resident Research Grant

Applicant: Ryan Arnold, MD - $5,000
Institution: Cooper Health Systems
Project: Evaluation of Post-Cardiopulmonary Bypass Patients as a Clinical Model for Studying Microcirculatory Perfusion in Shock States
Type: Laboratory
Underwriter:Emergency Medicine Residents' Association

Applicant: Wayne Bond Lau, MD - $5,000
Institution: Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
Project: Thioredoxin Nitration by Peroxynitrite: Signaling Mechanisms and Contribution to Cardiomyocyte
Type: Laboratory

Applicant: Anthony Nardi, MD - $5,000
Institution: University of Maryland, Baltimore
Project: MRSA Carriage in Emergency Department Physicians and Household Contacts
Type: Clinical
John G. Wiegenstein Award Recipient

Applicant: Patrick O'Malley, MD - $5,000
Institution: Carolinas Medical Center
Project: Venous Ultrasound to Diagnose and Exclude Deep Venous Thrombosis in the Emergency Department
Type: Clinical

Applicant: Christopher Rosenbaum, MD - $5,000
Institution: University of Massachusetts Medical School
Project: Characteristics of Older Drivers Presenting after Motor Vehicle Crashes
Type: Clinical

EMF/SAEM Medical Student Grants

Applicant: Daren Beam - $2,400
Institution: East Carolina University
Project: Pre-Test Probability for Assessment for Pulmonary Embolism
Type: Clinical

Applicant: Hangyul Chung - $2,400
Institution: University of Michigan
Project: The Host Response to Subacute Central-Line Infection in Mice
Type: Laboratory
William Spivey Award Recipient

Applicant: Trace I. Fender, BS - $2,400
Institution: Summa Health System
Project: Use of AdRES Screening Tools in an ED Population of Older Drivers
Type: Clinical

Applicant: Daniel Hubbard - $2,400
Institution: Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation
Project: The Association of Capnographic Data to Adverse Respiratory Events During Procedural Sedation
Type: Clinical

Applicant: Geoff Rau - $2,400
Institution: Duke University
Project: Clinical Utility of the Triage Stroke Panel
Type: Clinical

Applicant: Veronika Sikka - $2,400
Institution: Virginia Commonwealth University
Project: The Impact of an ED Clinical Decision/Observation Unit on Hospital Performance
Type: Health Policy

Society for Academic Emergency Medicine is a co-underwriter for all Medical Student Grants


EMBRS Research Grant Award

Applicant: Kabir Yadav, MD - $2,400
Institution: The Research Foundation of State University of New York
Project: The Role of Inflammatory Markers in Predicting Multi-Organ Failure and Death in Trauma Patients
Type: Clinical

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