Faculty Research and Scholarship Interests

Vice Chair for Research: Adit Ginde, MD, MPH ([email protected])
Associate Vice Chair for Research: Bethany Kwan, PhD, MSPH ([email protected])

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

Faculty Member	Research Interests
Greg Adams, DO, MBA [email protected]	Clinical operations Clinical decision support Quality and patient safety
Arian Anderson, MD [email protected]	Human Health and Performance in Spaceflight Aerospace Engineering Austere and Low Resource Medicine Environmental Medicine
Vik Bebarta, MD* [email protected]	Drug Development Antidote development Translational research Military Medicine Acute care research CU Anschutz Center for Combat Medicine and Battlefield (COMBAT) Research Translational Research, Innovation, & Antidote Development (TRIAD)
Marian (Emmy) Betz, MD, MPH* [email protected]	Injury prevention and epidemiology Older drivers Suicide prevention Firearms Firearm Injury Prevention Initiative Patient-Centered Injury Prevention *Various projects in firearm injury prevention
Smitha Bhaumik, MD, MPH* [email protected]	Neurologic emergencies Imaging utilization in the ED ED discharge and care integration Global Health Scoping reviews Survey based research Retrospective chart reviews Qualitative research
Corey Bills, MD, MPH* [email protected]	Global Health Access and Quality Metrics Social emergency medicine and care for vulnerable populations and refugees Global epidemiology of emergencies *Observational studies on global emergencies and access to emergency care
Barbara Blok, MD [email protected]	Medical education Evaluation
Kelly Bookman, MD [email protected]	Electronic health record/clinical informatics Ethics and professionalism Operations/Administration
Cody Brevik, MD, MA [email protected]	Medical Education Non-technical Skills APP Education Simulation and AI
Joseph Brown, MD, FACEP* [email protected]	Medical education Ultrasound Ultrasound Guided Nerve Blocks and Regional anesthesia/analgesia Airway management
Vaughn A. Browne, MD, PhD* [email protected]	Ultrasound High altitude medicine and physiology Pregnancy at high altitude Medical education Wilderness Medicine
Dickson Cheung, MD, MBA, MPH [email protected]	Digital Health Innovation/Telemedicine Quality and safety ED Operations Global Health
Edward Cetaruk, MD [email protected]	Medical Toxicology Chemical/Biological/Nuclear/Radiological Weapons Wilderness Medicine Disaster Medicine
Richard “Todd” Clark, MD [email protected]	Quality Improvement ED Operations
Chris Davis, MD* [email protected]	High altitude medicine/hypoxia Adenosine pathways in acclimatization Wilderness medicine Telemedicine/virtual health
Mia Derstine, MD* [email protected]	Wilderness medicine Altitude medicine Women at altitude Plant toxicology
Julia Dixon, MD, MPH [email protected]	Global Health Emergency care system development for LMICs Trauma/Shock C3 Global Trauma Network: Cape-Colorado-Combat
Michael A. Duerson, MD [email protected]	Prehospital care including airway management Prehospital provider education
Alex Ebinger, MD [email protected]	Sports medicine Musculoskeletal ultrasound Medical education
Andra Farcas, MD* [email protected]	Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in EMS International EMS EMS Systems and Quality Improvement Community paramedicine Prehospital stroke care EMS education
Col. Kathleen Flarity, DNP, PhD, CEN, CFRN, FAEN, FAAN [email protected]	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 [email protected]	Medical Toxicology
Todd Getz, PhD [email protected]	Combat casualty care Transfusion medicine Technology innovation CU Anschutz Center for Combat Medicine & Battlefield (COMBAT) Research
Adit Ginde, MD, MPH* [email protected]	ATLAS Research Program Early acute/critical care interventions--airway, trauma, respiratory failure/infection, sepsisClinical trials Observational/real-world effectivenessSecondary analyses of existing large datasets
Liz Goldberg, MD, ScM* [email protected]	Fall prevention Geriatric emergency medicine Medication safety/deprescribing Digital health (wearables, apps, sensors) Fall prevention trial in the emergency department Wearable studies relevant to sleep in physicians *Chatbot work to link people to follow-up
Foster Goss, DO, MMSc* [email protected]	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* [email protected]	Clinical Skills Assessment Team Communications and Leadership Skills Teaching and Assessing Clinical Reasoning
Ben Hatten, MD, MPH [email protected]	Multicenter toxicology collaborative research Epidemiology of toxicology Clinical polices/guideline development Systematic Reviews
Michael Heffler, MD [email protected]	Ultrasound-guided nerve blocks Point-of-care ultrasound workflow design and process improvement Point-of-care ultrasound education
Jean W Hoffman, MD MS FACE [email protected]	ED Operations Mechanical Circulatory Support Burn Care
Jason Hoppe, DO [email protected]	Clinical decision support Pragmatic trials Implementation science Prescription opioid safety Prescription drug monitoring programs Treatment of opioid use disorder Opioid Research Program
Chris Hoyte, MD, MBA* [email protected]	Toxicology of athletic performance enhancing drugs Toxicologic exposure epidemiology Poisoning care delivery administration Drugs of abuse and misuse
Julie M Kafka, PhD, PMH [email protected]	Domestic violence Firearm violence Machine learning and natural language processing
Bonnie Kaplan, MD [email protected]	Medical education Gender difference in education Medical student mentoring Remediation Innovative Curriculum Design
Ryan Keenan, MD, CAQ-SM [email protected]	Sports Medicine Musculoskeletal Ultrasound and Procedural Approach Medical Education
Bethany M. Kwan, PhD, MSPH * [email protected]	Dissemination and implementation science Pragmatic research Social determinants of health and health equity Mental & behavioral health Community and stakeholder engagement *Emergency medicine operations and implementation, brain cancer and diabetes community engagement, Dissemination and Implementation Science
Robert Lam, MD [email protected]	Improving Physician Well-being and Professional Fulfillment Utilizing Peer Support to Improve Safety and Quality and Organizational Culture Enhancing Communication to Improve Patient and Clinician Experiences
Jacob Lebin, MD* [email protected]	Alcohol Use Disorder Alcohol Withdrawal Clinical Decision Support Opioid Research Program *EHR analysis describing patients with AUD/AWS
Jay Lemery, MD, FACEP, FAWM [email protected]	Wilderness medicine Climate change and human health Polar medicine Space medicine
Anne Libby, PhD* [email protected]	Patient valuation of health care Gender differences in leadership/team communication Professional development, leadership and mentoring
Daniel Lindberg, MD [email protected]	Child Abuse Recognition and Care Elder Maltreatment Recognition and Care Multicenter observational networks Family Violence Recognition Lab
Charlie Little, DO [email protected]	Disaster Preparedness Emergency Response Alternate Care Facilities Austere Care
Steven Lowenstein, MD, MPH* [email protected]	Injury epidemiology and public health Survey research Medical student education and mentorship Diversity, equity, inclusion and advocacy The humanities in medical education
Katherine Mayer, MD [email protected]	Critical Care Post-cardiac arrest care Palliative care
Matt Mendes, MD [email protected]	Telehealth Observation Care Airway EMS
Sarah Michael, DO, MS* [email protected]	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
Danielle Miller, MD, MEd* [email protected]	Technology in assessment of human performance Patient care dashboards in competency and assessment Disparities in medical education assessment
Mike Mitchell, MD, MBA [email protected]	Telemedicine/Virtual Health ED Operations and Administration Quality and Safety
Kyle C. Molina, PharmD [email protected]	Real-world Antimicrobial Evaluation Antimicrobial Pharmacokinetic-Pharmacodynamic Modeling COVID-19 Emergency Preparedness
Nee-Kofi Mould-Millman, MD, PhD, MSCS [email protected]	Global health Pre-hospital care/EMS Trauma/shock C3 Global Trauma Network: Cape-Colorado-Combat
Martin Musi, MD* [email protected]	Hypothermia Frostbite Search & Rescue Expedition Medicine
Kristen Nordenholz, MD, MSc [email protected]	Venous thromboembolism Anti-coagulation Clinical algorithms Provider wellness
Lesley Osborn, MD [email protected]	Prehospital trauma resuscitation (whole blood) Improving prehospital systems of care (STEMI, stroke, trauma) Military medicine
Michael Overbeck, MD [email protected]	Asynchronous medical education Emergency cardiology
Alex Quinones, MD [email protected]	Medical education Observation care Quality improvement
Elaine Reno, MD* [email protected]	Wilderness Medicine Medical Education Wilderness Education
Daniel Resnick-Ault, MD* [email protected]	ED Operations Human factors and team performance Airway management Disparities in emergency care
Anne Ritter, DrPH, MPH [email protected]	Combat Casualty Care Prolonged Care Traumatic Brain Injury CU Anschutz Center for Combat Medicine and Battlefield (COMBAT) Research
Maddie Ross, MD, MPH* [email protected]	Global Health (emergency care systems strengthening in LMICs, education & capacity building, disaster preparedness & response in resource-limited settings) Refugee, Immigrant, & Migrant Health Social Emergency Medicine Transitions in Care *Care coordination/transitions of care for vulnerable populations in the ED, quality of care for non-English speaking persons in the ED, community first aid response in LMICs, disaster preparedness & response projects for an international NGO, intersections of climate change and emergency care in LMICs
Caitlin Rublee, MD, MPH* [email protected]	Climate justice Health policy Emergency preparedness for vulnerable populations Low carbon and climate-resilient health systems
Jessica Ryder, MD* [email protected]	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* [email protected]	Administration fellowship ED operations Process improvement
Branden Skarpiak, MD, DTM&H* [email protected]	Global Health Emergency care system and education development for LMICs Medical Education Tropical Infectious Disease
Elan Small, MD [email protected]	High altitude illness and physiology Acute mountain sickness precision risk stratification Acute mountain sickness chemoprophylaxis Cold medicine and physiology
Ian H. Stanley, PhD* [email protected]	Suicide prevention Firearms Service members and veterans PTSD prevention Pre-hospital providers’ psychological health
Heather Tolle, PhD [email protected]	Substance use disorder Justice-involved persons Evaluation and Assessment
Ryan Tucker, MD, FAEMUS* [email protected]	Ultrasound Guided Nerve Blocks Ultrasound Guided Procedures Ultrasound Quality Improvement Medical Education
Marianne Wallis, MD* [email protected]	ARDS Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation Obstetric emergencies and critical care Aortic dissection research Medical Education research
Jacqueline Ward-Gaines, MD [email protected]	Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Health Equity Emergency Management
Jennifer Wiler, MD, MBA [email protected]	Payment and health policy Clinical operations Quality/patient safety
Juliana Wilson, DO, MPH* [email protected]	UME medical education POCUS Critical Care Curriculum Development and Assessment *Any of the interest above
Julie Winkle, MD [email protected]	Critical Care EM/Critical Care Collaboration Palliative Care
Angela Wright, MD [email protected]	Prehospital Care Palliative care in the Prehospital Realm EMS Systems and Quality Improvement
Christina Yannetsos, MD* [email protected]	Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault, Intimate Partner Violence Reproductive Health Concussion, Sports Medicine Advocacy
David Young, MD, MS, MS* [email protected]	Wilderness medicine Race medicine Disaster relief
Richard Zane, MD* [email protected]	Disaster preparedness ED operations EM health policy
Matthew Zuckerman, MD [email protected]	Medical Toxicology Pharmacology Education Technology in Education

Director of Research: Jason Haukoos, MD, MSc ([email protected])
Associate Director of Research: Stacy Trent, MD, MPH ([email protected])
Research Projects Manger: Emily Caruso ([email protected])

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

Faculty Member	Research Interests	Ongoing Projects
Austin Jones, MD* [email protected]	Emergency department infectious disease screening Linkage to care and health services Emergency department implementation science	Discordance in HIV risk perception among patients screened for HIV in the ED Patient and Staff acceptance of HIV in the ED ED-based syphilis screening
Amanda Toney, MD* [email protected]	Pediatric Point-of-Care Ultrasound	Prehospital Lung POCUS Pediatric Residency POCUS Curriculum Evaluation Nurse-performed Bladder Volume Assessment Prior to Bladder Catheterization
Andres Camacho, MD+ [email protected]	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 [email protected]	EMS Quality improvement Case review
Anna Engeln, MD [email protected]	Legislative Advocacy Bedside Clinical Teaching Resident Education
*Benjamin Li, MD MSc+** [email protected]	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
Brad Shy, MD [email protected]	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+ [email protected]	Trauma Resident Education Global Health	Language Barriers Trauma in Resource Limited Settings
Fred Milgrim, MD [email protected]	Ultrasound related research including regional anesthesia and transesphageal echo in particular	Multi-institutional NURVE block registry research Initiating the fetal heart rate study Biliary POCUS
Genie Roosevelt, MD+ [email protected]	Medical education Transition to Residency courses for medical students Pediatrics
Grace Lambert, MD [email protected]	Medical Student Education	Validity Evaluation of the electronic Standardized Letter of Evaluation (eSLOE)
Jacob Nacht, MD+ [email protected]	EMS No Notice Event/Disaster Planning Sexual Assault Awareness/Prevention Wilderness Medicine	Leave Behind Naloxone Pedi Part CAVALIER
*Jason Haukoos, MD, MSc+** [email protected]	Infectious Diseases Prevention (HIV/HCV) Social Emergency Medicine Substance Misuse Trauma Systems Critical Care Research Methodology /Applied Statistics and Modeling Epidemiology
*Jennie Buchanan, MD+** [email protected]	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* [email protected]	Refugee and Immigrant Health Health Equity Social Emergency Medicine
*Kathleen Joseph, MD+** [email protected]	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 [email protected]	Palliative care End of life care	Medical Aid in Dying medication prescription change recommendation
Lance Ray, PharmD [email protected]	Dysrhythmias Resuscitation Infectious disease Anything medication related	4 current medication-related research projects
Lara Rappaport, MD+ [email protected]	EMS Pediatrics Medication Errors	Pedi-Part Trial
Leah Warner, MD MPH l[email protected]	Population health Health related social needs
Maria Moreira, MD* [email protected]	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 [email protected]	Quality and Safety Incentives in medicine Sexual assault care STI prophylaxis
Molly Thiessen, MD MSc* [email protected]	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* [email protected]	Point-of-care ultrasound Medical education	Impact of AI on novices learning femoral nerve blocks
Patrick Joynt, MD [email protected]	Adolescent OUD Pediatric emergency medicine education Adolescent mental health screening	Retrospective chart review study of adolescent buprenorphine inductions
Shea Gilliam, MD [email protected]	EMS Cardiac arrest
Spencer Tomberg, MD* [email protected]	Clinical process improvement	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+** [email protected]	Airway Management Variation in Care, Guideline Adherence, Quality Improvement, Health Disparities Sepsis Sex differences in acute coronary syndromes	Airway management and sex differences in ACS
Stephen Wolf, MD* [email protected]	Clinical Policies/Guidelines Leadership Competencies and Curriculums Medical Education Venous Thromboembolism Chest Trauma Blast Injuries
*Taylor McCormick, MD MSc+** [email protected]	Pediatric trauma Pediatric airway management Social EM in the pediatric ED Pediatric emergency medicine education	The PediPART trial Pediatric trauma triage studies
W. Gannon Sungar, DO* [email protected]	Graduate Medical Education Program Administration Health Equity Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging Curriculum Design Knowledge Translation
Renee King, MD* [email protected]	Equity Access Global health and community engagement	Academic medicine preparation for medical students and residents Pipeline programs Inclusive Access to healthcare recruitment
Matthew Riscinti, MD* [email protected]	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 [email protected]

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^+** [email protected] VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System	Geriatrics
Richard Klasco, MD [email protected] UCHeatlth ED Highlands Ranch	Public advocacy Medical communication

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