Faculty Research and Scholarship Interests

Vice Chair for Research: Adit Ginde, MD, MPH (Adit.Ginde@cuanschutz.edu)
Associate Vice Chair for Research: Bethany Kwan, PhD, MSPH (Bethany.Kwan@cuanschutz.edu)

*Faculty member open to new mentees (i.e., MSA students or Fellows)

Faculty Member	Research Interests
Greg Adams, DO, MBA Gregory.K.Adams@cuanschutz.edu	Clinical Operations Quality and Patient Safety Clinical Informatics
Arian Anderson, MD, MS Arian.Anderson@cuanschutz.edu	Medicine and Engineering Space Health Sciences Engineering Education Austere and Low Resource Medicine
Dale Barnhart, ScD Dale.Barnhart@cuanschutz.edu	Global Health Epidemiology Implementation Science
Vik Bebarta, MD* Vikhyat.Bebarta@cuanschutz.edu	Drug Development Toxicology Trauma Military Medicine TBI Lung injury CU Anschutz Center for Combat Medicine and Battlefield (COMBAT) Research Translational Research, Innovation, & Antidote Development (TRIAD)
Marian (Emmy) Betz, MD, MPH* Marian.Betz@cuanschutz.edu	Injury Prevention and Epidemiology Older Drivers Suicide Prevention Firearms Firearm Injury Prevention Initiative Patient-Centered Injury Prevention *Various projects in firearm injury prevention
Corey Bills, MD, MPH* Corey.Bills@cuanschutz.edu	Global Health and Global Acute Care Early/Acute Care Interventions and Clinical Trials Access and Quality Metrics Social Emergency Medicine and Care Interventions for Vulnerable Populations and Refugees
Barbara Blok, MD Barbara.Blok@cuanschutz.edu	Medical Education Evaluation
Kelly Bookman, MD Kelly.Bookman@cuanschutz.edu	Electronic Health Record/Clinical Informatics Ethics and Professionalism Operations/Administration
Jonathan Boyd, PhD* jonathan.w.boyd@cuanschutz.edu	Toxicology, Mechanisms linked to Systemic Responses Signal Transduction Responses to Stressors Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Pharmaceutical-based Agents Trauma and associated local injuries *My laboratory is currently exploring the spatiotemporal biological response to several classes of chemical threat agents with partner federal laboratories. We are defining both unique signatures for differential diagnoses and universal response pathways for countermeasure discovery and development.
Cody Brevik, MD, MA Cody.Brevik@cuanschutz.edu	Non-technical Skills, Research, and Education Use of Technology in Education and Educational Research Evidence-based Curriculum Design APP Education and Training *Non-technical Skills Education and Transitions of Learners (MS4 to PGY-1, etc)
Joseph Brown, MD, FACEP* Joseph.R.Brown@cuanschutz.edu	Medical Education Ultrasound Ultrasound Guided Nerve Blocks and Regional Anesthesia/Analgesia Airway Management
Vaughn A. Browne, MD, PhD* Vaughn.Browne@cuanschutz.edu	Ultrasound High Altitude Medicine and Physiology Pregnancy at High Altitude Medical Education Wilderness Medicine
Dickson Cheung, MD, MBA, MPH Dickson.Cheung@cuanschutz.edu	Digital Health Innovation/Telemedicine Quality and Safety ED Operations Global Health
Edward Cetaruk, MD Edward.Cetaruck@cuanschutz.edu	Medical Toxicology Chemical/Biological/Nuclear/Radiological Weapons Wilderness Medicine Disaster Medicine
Richard “Todd” Clark, MD Todd.Clark@cuanschutz.edu	Quality Improvement ED Operations
Mia Derstine, MD* Amelia.Derstine@cuanschutz.edu	Wilderness Medicine Altitude Medicine Women at Altitude Plant Toxicology
Julia Dixon, MD, MPH Julia.Dixon@cuanschutz.edu	Global Health Emergency Care System Development for LMICs Trauma/Shock C3 Global Trauma Network: Cape-Colorado-Combat
Michael A. Duerson, MD Michael.Duerson@cuanschutz.edu	Prehospital Provider Education EMS Clinical Quality Improvement Prehospital Surge Response EMS Protocol Development and Evaluation Evaluation of EMT Acquisition of 12-Lead EKG Development and Implementation of a State Wide Ambulance Strike Team and Mutual Aide Program Evidence Based Medicine Education for Prehospital Providers EMS Response to Surge Events
Alex Ebinger, MD Alexander.Ebinger@cuanschutz.edu	Sports Medicine Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Medical Education
Romeo Fairley MD MPH* romeo.fairley@cuanschutz.edu	Disaster Medicine Provider Mental Health and Resiliency Psychological Triage Resiliency Education * Stress Simulation and Modulation * Disaster Medicine
Andra Farcas, MD* Andra.Farcas@cuanschutz.edu	Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in EMS International EMS EMS Systems and Quality Improvement Community Paramedicine Prehospital Stroke Care EMS Education
Brig. Gen. Kathleen Flarity, DNP, PhD, CEN, CFRN, FAEN, FAAN Kathleen.Flarity@cuanschutz.edu	Combat and Deployment-related Research Compassion Fatigue Resiliency Interventions Innovations, Material Solutions, and Knowledge Products of High Impact to the Warfighter Psychological Health
Loren “Keith” French, MD Loren.French@cuanschutz.edu	Medical Toxicology
Todd Getz, PhD Todd.Getz@cuanschutz.edu	Combat Casualty Care Transfusion Medicine Technology Innovation CU Anschutz Center for Combat Medicine & Battlefield (COMBAT) Research
Adit Ginde, MD, MPH* Adit.Ginde@cuanschutz.edu	ATLAS Research Program Early Acute/Critical Care Interventions--Airway, Trauma, Respiratory Failure/Infection, Sepsis Clinical Trials Observational/Real-world Effectiveness Secondary Analyses of Existing Large Datasets
Liz Goldberg, MD, ScM* Elizabeth.Goldberg@cuanschutz.edu	Fall Prevention Geriatric Emergency Medicine Medication Safety/Deprescribing Digital Health (wearables, apps, sensors) *Trials in the ED to improve care for older adults, wearable studies re sleep in emergency physicians
Foster Goss, DO, MMSc Foster.Goss@cuanschutz.edu	Clinical Decision Support/Epic Patient Narratives Transitions in Care Natural Language Processing/Machine Learning/AI Patient Safety/Quality Clinical Informatics Lab
Todd A. Guth MD, MHPE* Todd.Guth@cuanschutz.edu	Clinical Skills Assessment Team Communications and Leadership Skills Teaching and Assessing Clinical Reasoning
Ben Hatten, MD, MPH Benjamin.Hatten@cuanschutz.edu	Multicenter Toxicology Collaborative Research Epidemiology of Toxicology Clinical Polices/Guideline Development Systematic Reviews
Michael Heffler, MD Michael.Heffler@cuanschutz.edu	Ultrasound-guided Nerve Blocks Point-of-care Ultrasound Workflow Design and Process Improvement Point-of-care Ultrasound Education
Tara Hendry-Hofer, MSN, RN tara.hendry-hofer@cuanschutz.edu	Drug and Device Development Toxicology Translational Research Complex Combined Injury CU Anschutz Center for Combat Medicine and Battlefield (COMBAT) Research Translational Research, Innovation, & Antidote Development (TRIAD) *Acute care, translational research focusing on understanding the mechanism of injury (trauma, chemical agent exposures) to better identify targeted therapeutics.
Jean W Hoffman, MD MS FACE Jean.Hoffman@cuanschutz.edu	ED Operations ED Supply Chain and Materials ED Quality
Jason Hoppe, DO Jason.Hoppe@cuanschutz.edu	Clinical Decision Support Pragmatic Trials Implementation Science Prescription Opioid Safety Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder Opioid Research Program
Julie M Kafka, PhD, PMH Julie.Kafka@cuanschutz.edu	Domestic Violence Suicide Firearm Violence Data Science Methods
Bonnie Kaplan, MD Bonnie.Kaplan@cuanschutz.edu	Medical Education Gender Difference in Education Medical Student Mentoring Remediation Innovative Curriculum Design
Ryan Keenan, MD, CAQ-SM Ryan.Keenan@cuanschutz.edu	Sports Medicine Musculoskeletal Ultrasound and Procedural Approach Medical Education
Bethany M. Kwan, PhD, MSPH * Bethany.Kwan@cuanschutz.edu	Dissemination and Implementation Science Pragmatic Research Methods Community Engagement and Participatory Co-design Methods Brain Cancer Quality of Life Diabetes Management Emergency Medicine Learning Health Systems Research *Emergency Medicine Learning Health Systems Research
Jacob Lebin, MD* Jacob.Lebin@cuanschutz.edu	Alcohol Use Disorder Opioid Use Disorder Alcohol Withdrawal Clinical Decision Support OASIS Research Program
Jay Lemery, MD, FACEP, FAWM John.Lemery@cuanschutz.edu	Wilderness Medicine Climate Change and Human Health Polar Medicine Space medicine
Lindsay Lennox, MA lindsay.lennox@cuanschutz.edu	Customer/Stakeholder Discovery, Community Engagement and Needs Assessment Co-design of Evidence-based Interventions and Dissemination Strategies Community-engaged Research Program Strategic Management
Anne Libby, PhD* Anne.Libby@cuanschutz.edu	Patient Valuation of Health Care Gender Differences in Leadership/Team Communication Professional Development, Leadership and Mentoring
Daniel Lindberg, MD Daniel.Lindberg@cuanschutz.edu	Child Abuse Recognition and Care Elder Maltreatment Recognition and Care Multicenter observational networks Family Violence Recognition Lab
Charlie Little, DO Charles.Little@cuanschutz.edu	Disaster Preparedness Emergency Response Alternate Care Facilities Austere Care NDMS Patient Movement and Mass Patient Care at Airheads
Steven Lowenstein, MD, MPH* Steven.Lowenstein@cuanschutz.edu	Injury Epidemiology and Public Health Survey Research Medical Student Education and Mentorship Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Advocacy The Humanities in Medical Education *Medical education, public health, health equity, marginalized communities, comprehensive literature reviews
Katherine Mayer, MD Katherine.Mayer@cuanschutz.edu	Critical Care Post-cardiac Arrest Care Palliative Care
Matt Mendes, MD Matthew.Mendes@cuanschutz.edu	Telehealth Observation Care Airway EMS
Sarah Michael, DO, MS* Sarah.Michael@cuanschutz.edu	Medical Education Research Human Performance Training and Assessment Nontechnical Skills Faculty Development *Intersections of team performance, nontechnical skills, and cognitive load among US Air Force Critical Care Air Transport Teams; Analysis of team leaders' visual attention, leadership, and decision making during resuscitations
Sean Michael, MD* sean.michael@cuanschutz.edu	Federal Healthcare Programs and Policy Boarding and Crowding ED clinical Operations Clinical Decision Support
Danielle Miller, MD, MEd* Danielle.T.Miller@cuanschutz.edu	Technology in Assessment of Human Performance Patient Care Dashboards in Competency and Assessment Disparities in Medical Education Assessment *Dashboard Large Data set Analysis
Mike Mitchell, MD, MBA Michael.Mitchell@cuanschutz.edu	Telemedicine/Virtual Health ED Operations and Administration Quality and Safety
Kyle C. Molina, PharmD Kyle.Molina@cuanschutz.edu	Real-world Antimicrobial Evaluation Antimicrobial Pharmacokinetic-Pharmacodynamic Modeling COVID-19 Emergency Preparedness *Pharmacokinetic modeling of antimicrobials
Nee-Kofi Mould-Millman, MD, PhD, MSCS Nee-Kofi.Mould-Millman@cuanschutz.edu	Global Health Prehospital Care/EMS Implementation Science Trauma (hemorrhage, brain injury, wounds) Cape-Colorado-Combat (C3) Global Trauma Network
Martin Musi, MD* Martin.Musi@cuanschutz.edu	Hypothermia Frostbite Search & Rescue Expedition Medicine
Kristen Nordenholz, MD, MSc Kristen.Nordenholz@cuanschutz.edu	Venous Thromboembolism Anti-coagulation Clinical Algorithms Provider Wellness
Lesley Osborn, MD, FAEMS, FAMPA Lesley.Osborn@cuanschutz.edu	Prehospital Trauma Resuscitation Prehospital Oxygenation Prehospital and In-Hospital Blood Transfusion Improving Prehospital Systems of Care (STEMI, stroke, trauma) Military Medicine
Michael Overbeck, MD Michael.Overbeck@cuanschutz.edu	Asynchronous Medical Education Emergency Cardiology
Alex Quinones, MD Alexander.Quinones@cuanschutz.edu	Medical Education Observation Care Quality Improvement
Elaine Reno, MD* Elaine.Reno@cuanschutz.edu	Wilderness Medicine Medical Education Wilderness Education
Daniel Resnick-Ault, MD* Daniel.Resnick-Ault@cuanschutz.edu	ED Operations Human Factors and Team Performance Airway Management Disparities in Emergency Care
Anne Ritter, DrPH, MPH Anne.Ritter@cuanschutz.edu	Combat Casualty Care Prolonged Care Traumatic Brain Injury CU Anschutz Center for Combat Medicine and Battlefield (COMBAT) Research
Maddie Ross, MD, MPH* Madeline.e.Ross@cuanschutz.edu	Global Health (emergency care systems strengthening, education & capacity building, disaster preparedness & response) Refugee, Immigrant, & Migrant Health Social Emergency Medicine Care Coordination & Transitions of Care for Vulnerable Populations Resident Medical Education
Caitlin Rublee, MD, MPH* Caitlin.Rublee@cuanschutz.edu	Climate Justice Health Policy Emergency Preparedness for Vulnerable Populations Low Carbon and Climate-Resilient Health Systems
Jessica Ryder, MD, MPH Jessica.Ryder@cuanschutz.edu	Disaster Medicine and Community Preparedness Mass Casualty Incident Response Preparedness Inclusive of Vulnerable Populations Humanitarian Health International Disaster Response International training packages to build disaster response capacity abroad AHLS course dissemination across ASPR Region 8 *Development of an Alternate Care Facility for surge capacity in the setting of overseas conflict
Matthew Salzberg, MD* Matthew.Salzberg@cuanschutz.edu	Administration Fellowship ED Operations Process Improvement
Branden Skarpiak, MD, DTM&H* Branden.Skarpiak@cuanschutz.edu	Global Health Emergency Care System and Education Development for LMICs Medical Education Tropical Infectious Disease
Elan Small, MD Elan.Small@cuanschutz.edu	High Altitude Illness and Physiology Acute Mountain Sickness Pathophysiology and Chemoprophylaxis: RECARI Extreme Cold Exposure Pathophysiology Human Performance in Extreme Cold
Ian H. Stanley, PhD* Ian.Stanley@cuanschutz.edu	Psychological Health Suicide Prevention
W. Gannon Sungar, DO gannon.sungar@denverem.org	Graduate Medical Education Program Administration Mission-aligned Recruitment, Curriculum Development and Assessment
Heather Tolle, PhD Heather.Tolle@cuanschutz.edu	Substance Use Disorder Justice-Involved Persons Evaluation and Assessment
Ryan Tucker, MD, FAEMUS* Ryan.Tucker@cuanschutz.edu	Ultrasound Guided Nerve Blocks Ultrasound Guided Procedures Ultrasound Quality Improvement Medical Education
Marianne Wallis, MD* Marianne.Wallis@cuanschutz.edu	ARDS Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Obstetric Emergencies and Critical Care Aortic dissection research Medical Education research
Jacqueline Ward-Gaines, MD Jacqueline.WardGaines@cuanschutz.edu	Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Health Equity Emergency Management
Jennifer Wiler, MD, MBA Jennifer.Wiler@cuanschutz.edu	Payment and Health Policy Clinical Operations Quality/Patient Safety
Juliana Wilson, DO, MPH* Juliana.Wilson@cuanschutz.edu	UME Medical Education POCUS Critical Care Curriculum Development and Assessment *Any of the interest above
Julie Winkle, MD Julie.Winkle@cuanschutz.edu	Critical Care EM/Critical Care Collaboration Palliative Care
Angela Wright, MD Angela.Wright@cuanschutz.edu	Prehospital Care Palliative care in the Prehospital Realm EMS Systems and Quality Improvement
Christina Yannetsos, MD* Christina.Yannetsos@cuanschutz.edu	Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault, Intimate Partner Violence Reproductive Health Concussion, Sports Medicine Advocacy
David Young, MD, MS, MS* David.S.Young@cuanschutz.edu	Wilderness Medicine Race Medicine Disaster Relief
Matthew Zuckerman, MD Matthew.Zuckerman@cuanschutz.edu	Artificial Intelligence and Digital Education

Director of Research: Jason Haukoos, MD, MSc (Jason.Haukoos@dhha.org)
Associate Director of Research: Stacy Trent, MD, MPH (Stacy.Trent@dhha.org)
Admin: ED.Research@dhha.org

* Faculty member open to mentoring a resident in research
+ Project with active grant funding

Faculty Member	Research Interests	Ongoing Projects
Austin Jones, MD, PhD, MPHTM* austin.jones@dhha.org	Emergency Department Infectious Disease Screening Linkage to Care and Health Services Emergency Department Implementation Science	Untreated Hepatitis C Virus Among ED Patients Patient and Staff Acceptance of HIV in the ED ED-based Syphilis Screening
Amanda Toney, MD* amanda.toney@dhha.org	Pediatric Point-of-Care Ultrasound	Prehospital POCUS Pediatric Residency POCUS Curriculum Evaluation Nurse-performed Bladder Volume Assessment Prior to Bladder Catheterization Pediatric Emergency Nerve Block Registry Pediatric Provider-performed Pelvic POCUS to assess for Intrauterine Pregnancy
Andres Camacho, MD+ andres.camacho@dhha.org	EMS Harm Reduction Trauma Health Equity	CAVALIER (Randomized Controlled Trial of Calcium in Trauma RENDOR (Prospective Eval of Prehospital Narcan Use) Language Barriers in Prehospital Care (mixed method study on prehospital patients with ploe) ODT Olanzapine use by Paramedics
Aaron Eberhardt, MD aaron.eberhardt@dhha.org	EMS Quality improvement Case review
Anna Engeln, MD anna.engeln@dhha.org	Legislative Advocacy Bedside Clinical Teaching Resident Education
*Benjamin Li, MD MSc+** benjamin.li@dhha.org	Community Violence Intervention and Prevention Firearm Injury Prevention Artificial Intelligence	Evaluating the Implementation of a Mental Health Screening Tool in a Hospital-Based Violence Intervention Program Characterizing Community Violence Victimizations Role of Artificial Intelligence in Community Violence Intervention and Prevention
Billy Covert, MD Billy.Covert@dhha.org	Primary EMT and Paramedic Education Mass Casualty Incident Preparation Disaster Response	Development of Paramedic School Curriculum DH Mass Casualty Incident (MCI) Team Pre-Hospital STEMI Coordination Mile-High Regional Emergency Medical and Trauma Advisory Council (RETAC)
Brad Shy, MD bradley.shy@dhha.org	Clinical Operations Patient Experience Disparities AI Use & Attitudes in Emergency Medicine Integration of ED Operations/ED Finances Best Practices in Educational Curricula
*David Richards, MD+** david.richards@dhha.org	Trauma Resident Education Global Health	Language Barriers Trauma in Resource Limited Settings
*Eric Lavonas, MD, MS+** Eric.Lavonas@dhha.org	Antidote Development Snake Envenomation Resuscitation Science	Resuscitation Guideline Development
Fred Milgrim, MD* fred.milgrim@dhha.org	ED Based Regional Anesthesia Resuscitative Transesophageal Echo	Multi-institutional NURVE Block Registry Resuscitative TEE Collaborative Registry
Genie Roosevelt, MD+ genie.roosevelt@dhha.org	Medical education Transition to Residency Courses for Medical Students Pediatrics	Assessing Medical Students’ Sense of Readiness for Residency Medical Schools’ Transition to Residency Courses and their Graduates’ Readiness for Residency Impact of the AAP’s Change in Criteria for Congenital Heart Disease Screening in Neonates Born at Altitude Assessment of the University of Colorado Transition to Residency Course Foundational Code Skills Session
Grace Lambert, MD grace.lambert@dhha.org	Medical Student Education	Validity Evaluation of the electronic Standardized Letter of Evaluation (eSLOE)
Janetta Iwanicki, MD janetta.iwanicki@dhha.org	Toxicology
*Jason Haukoos, MD, MSc+** Jason.Haukoos@dhha.org	Infectious Diseases Prevention (HIV/HCV/STI) Social Emergency Medicine Substance Use Disorder Trauma Systems Critical Care Research Methodology /Applied Statistics and Modeling Epidemiology, Health Services Research, Implementation Science
*Jennie Buchanan, MD+** jennie.buchanan3@dhha.org	Graduate Medical Education Medical Toxicology Adulterants Sexual Assault Care Forensic Medicine	Real-world Examination of Naloxone for Drug Overdose Reversal (RENDOR) Predicting Medical Consequences of Novel Fentanyl Analog Overdose Using ToxIC
Jennifer Whitfield, MD MPH* jennifer.whitfield@dhha.org	Refugee and Immigrant Health Health Equity Social Emergency Medicine
*Kathleen Joseph, MD+** jennifer.whitfield@dhha.org	Social Emergency Medicine Patients Experiencing Homelessness Trauma Informed Care Addiction Medicine	Emergency Department Based Linkage to Care for Patients Experiencing Homelessness ED Hepatitis C Screening among Patients Experiencing Homelessness Core Competencies in Trauma Informed Care
Kerri Mason, MD kerri.mason@dhha.org	Palliative care End of life care	Medical Aid in Dying medication prescription change recommendation
Lara Rappaport, MD+ lara.rappaport@dhha.org	EMS Pediatrics Medication Errors	Pedi-Part Trial
Leah Warner, MD MPH Leah.Warner@dhha.org	Population health Health related social needs
Manuel Montaño, MD* manuel.montano@dhha.org	Representation, Equity, Advocacy, Inclusion Health Equity Social Emergency Medicine Mentorship	Representation, Equity, Advocacy, Inclusion Program Support and Implementation GME Core Competencies in Trauma Informed Care
Maria Moreira, MD* maria.moreira@dhha.org	Education Wound Management Trauma Communication and Leadership Simulation Faculty Development Wellbeing	Procedural Competency Project OB Simulation Project Wellbeing Scorecard Project GI Bleed Simulation Model Project Trauma Informed Care Core Competencies
Marissa Wolfe, MD marissa.wolfe@dhha.org	Quality and Safety Incentives in Medicine Sexual Assault Care STI Prophylaxis
Morgan Pinkston, MD morgan.pinkston@dhha.org	Observation Medicine
Molly Thiessen, MD MSc* molly.thiessen@dhha.org	Language Social Determinants of Health Qualitative Research Clinical Policies	Language in the Emergency Department Hepatitis C Screening and Language in the ED Language Representation in Clinical Trials
*Nhu-Nguyen Le, MD+** nhunguyen.le@dhha.org	Artificial Intelligence Applications in Point-of-Care Ultrasound Point-of-Care Ultrasound Education, Curriculum Development, and Competency Assessment Impact of POCUS on Operational Efficiency and Patient Care	Artificial Intelligence in POCUS Including Fracture Detection, Fetal Heart Rate Measurement, Femoral Nerve Block Image Acquisition, Cardiothoracic Ultrasound Cognitive Load Defining Competency in Emergency Medicine Performed US-Guided Nerve Blocks Evaluating the Effect of Biliary and First Trimester POCUS on Clinical Workflow and Resource Utilization
Patrick Joynt, MD patrick.joynt@dhha.org	Adolescent OUD Pediatric Emergency Medicine Education Adolescent Mental Health Screening	Retrospective Chart Review Study of Adolescent Buprenorphine Inductions
Shea Gilliam, MD sheaffer.gilliam@dhha.org	EMS Cardiac arrest
Spencer Tomberg, MD* spencer.tomberg@dhha.org	Clinical Process Improvement Medical Innovation Provider Mental Performance	MIT Catalyst medical innovation fellow Impact of Treatment Guidelines on Orthopedic Injury Care Time Impact of Helmet Use in Skiing on Brain Injuries Reviews of Acute Injury Treatment Medical Provider Mental Performance
*Stacy Trent, MD, MPH+** stacy.trent@dhha.org	Airway Management Sex Differences in Acute Coronary Syndromes Variation in Care, Guideline Adherence, Quality Improvement	Airway Management and Sex Differences in ACS
Stephen Wolf, MD* Stephen.Wolf@dhha.org	Clinical Policies/Guidelines Leadership Competencies and Curriculums Medical Education Venous Thromboembolism Chest Trauma Blast Injuries
*Taylor McCormick, MD MSc+** taylor.mccormick@dhha.org	Pediatric Trauma Pediatric Airway Management Social EM in the Pediatric ED Pediatric Emergency Medicine Education	PediPart Trial Pediatric Trauma Triage Integrated Psychology in the Pediatric ED Health Related Social Needs Screening in the Pediatric ED Imaging in Trauma
W. Gannon Sungar, DO* w.gannon.sungar@dhha.org	Graduate Medical Education Program Administration Health Equity Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging Curriculum Design Mission-Aligned Recruitment
Renee King, MD* renee.king@dhha.org	Equity Access Community Engagement Career Development	Academic Medicine Preparation for Medical Students and Residents Pipeline Programs Inclusive Access to Healthcare Recruitment
Matthew Riscinti, MD* matthew.riscinti@dhha.org	Artificial Intelligence in Point-of-Care Ultrasound Ultrasound-Guided Regional Anesthesia Point-of-Care Ultrasound in Austere/Wilderness/Space Environments Venous Excess on Ultrasound/Fluid Tolerance using Doppler Ultrasound	Multi-institutional NURVE block registry research Initiating the fetal heart rate study Biliary POCUS Skin and soft tissue POCUS in street medicine VEXUS

Directors of Research: Lilliam Ambroggio, PhD, MPH, and Halden Scott, MD, MSCS
Clinical Research Manager: Gonzalo Lerner, MS
Research Coordinators: Alec Edid, Jenna Jordan, Carl Elston

All emails are first.last@childrenscolorado.org

Faculty Member	Research Interests
Anna Abrams Assistant Professor	Intersection of law enforcement and emergency care Police presence in the ED Health disparities
Kathleen Adelgais Professor	EMS/Prehospital care Multisystem trauma Sedation and analgesia
Anne Adema Assistant Professor
Lilliam Ambroggio Associate Professor, Director of Research	Pneumonia, Biomarkers Antimicrobial Stewardship
Lalit Bajaj Professor Director, Clinical Effectiveness Chief Quality Officer	QI/Clinical Effectiveness Bronchiolitis
Julia Brant Assistant Professor
Cortney Braund Assistant Professor Medical Director (Anschutz)	Simulation
Rachel Cafferty Assistant Professor	Suicide Screening and Mental Health Adolescent Health
Kevin Carney Associate Professor Associate Chief Medical Officer	Quality improvement
Shannon Flood Assistant Professor	Simulation Medical Education
Julia Freeman Associate Professor	Bronchiolitis
Joe Grubenhoff Associate Professor	Diagnostic Error Concussion
Maya Haasz Assistant Professor	Firearm safety Advocacy
Jon Higgins Assistant Professor	Medical Education Quality Improvement
Neva Howard Associate Professor	Medical Education
Bernadette Johnson Associate Professor Director of Clinical Operations	Clinical operations Emergency department patient flow Patient management in surge situations
Kristin Kim Assistant Professor	Disaster Medicine Prehospital care
Andrew Krack Assistant Professor
Sam Lam (hiu.lam@) Professor	Point-of-care Ultrasound
Patrick Mahar Associate Professor	Medical Education
Maria Mandt Associate Professor Medical Director, Transport/EMS	Prehospital care
Nidhya Navanandan Assistant Professor	Asthma
Jon Osborn Assistant Professor Director of Ultrasound	Point-of-care Ultrasound
Arleta Rewers Professor	Acute complications of diabetes
Mark Roback Professor Section Head	Procedural sedation
Laura Rochford Instructor
Kelley Roswell Associate Professor Director, Med Student Education	Medical Education
Sarah Schmidt Assistant Professor	Medical Informatics Quality Improvement
Sandra P. Spencer Associate Professor	Quality improvement Pediatric Clinical Guidelines Career development Quality improvement writing
Halden Scott Associate Professor, Director of Research, Section of Pediatric Emergency Medicine	Sepsis
Melisa Tanverdi Assistant Professor	Pediatric Asthma Post-Emergency Department Asthma Recovery Digital Health Tools
Irina Topoz Associate Professor Director of Quality Improvement	Quality Improvement Pathway Implementation Lean/Six Sigma
Tien Vu Associate Professor Director, PEM Fellowship	Medical Education
Sam Wang (george.wang@) Associate Professor	Medical toxicology
Joe Wathen Associate Professor Director, Mass Casualty	Procedural sedation and analgesia Disaster Medicine
Alexandria (Ali) Wiersma Assistant Professor Medical Director (North)	Quality Improvement Pain/Sedation Operations
Jason Woods Assistant Professor Assoc. Director, PEM Fellowship	Medical Education Dissemination

* Faculty member likely to have active research projects
+ Project with active grant funding

Faculty Member	Research Interest
*Lauren Abbate, MD^+** Lauren.Abbate@cuanschutz.edu VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System	Geriatrics
Richard Klasco, MD Richard.Klasco@cuanschutz.edu UCHeatlth ED Highlands Ranch	Public advocacy Medical communication

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