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
Vik Bebarta, MD* Vikhyat.Bebarta@cuanschutz.edu	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* Marian.Betz@cuanschutz.edu	Injury prevention and epidemiology Older drivers Suicide prevention Firearms Firearm Injury Prevention Initiative Patient-Centered Injury Prevention
Corey Bills, MD, MPH Corey.Bills@cuanschutz.edu	Global Health Access and Quality Metrics Social emergency medicine and care for vulnerable populations and refugees Global epidemiology of emergencies
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
Joseph Brown, MD* Joseph.R.Brown@cuanschutz.edu	Ultrasound Regional anesthesia Airway management Medical education
Vaughn A. Browne, MD, PhD* Vaughn.Browne@cuanschutz.edu	Ultrasound High altitude medicine and physiology Pregnancy at high altitude Medical education Wilderness Medicine
Emilie Calvello Hynes, MD, MPH Emilie.CalvelloHynes@cuanschutz.edu	Global health Lead for Global Emergency Care Initiative Emergency care system development for LMICs EM operations solutions for low resource settings
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
Tracy Cushing, MD, MPH Tracy.Cushing@cuanschutz.edu	Wilderness medicine
Chris Davis, MD* Chris.Davis@cuanschutz.edu	High altitude medicine/hypoxia Adenosine pathways in acclimatization Wilderness medicine Telemedicine/virtual health
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
Jeffrey Druck, MD* Jeffrey.Druck@cuanschutz.edu	Medical education Asthma Patient assessment of emergency care Diversity projects
Layne Dylla, MD* Layne.Dylla@cuanschutz.edu	EMS and ED management of acute ischemic stroke Sex-based differences in metabolic response to stroke Gender-based differences in quality of stroke care
Ben Easter, MD, MBA* Benjamin.Easter@cuanschutz.edu	Space Medicine Isolated, Confined, and Extreme Environments Engineering and Medicine
Alex Ebinger, MD Alexander.Ebinger@cuanschutz.edu	Sports medicine Musculoskeletal ultrasound Medical education
Andra Farcas, MD* Andra.Farcas@cuanschutz.edu	Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in EMS International EMS EMS Systems and Quality Improvement
Col. 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 critical care interventions--respiratory failure, respiratory infection (including COVID-19), sepsis Clinical trials Real-world data
Sheaffer Gillman, MD, BA Sheaffer.Gilliam@cuanschutz.edu	Emergency Medical Services (EMS)
Liz Goldberg, MD, ScM* Elizabeth.Goldberg@cuanschutz.edu	Fall prevention Geriatric emergency medicine Medication safety/deprescribing Digital health Wearables
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
Ian H. Stanley, PhD* Ian.Stanley@cuanschutz.edu	Suicide prevention Firearms Service members and veterans PTSD prevention Pre-hospital providers’ psychological health
Jason Hoppe, DO Jason.Hoppe@cuanschutz.edu	Prescription opioid abuse/diversion Prescription drug monitoring program Toxicology Opioid Research Program
Chris Hoyte, MD, MBA* Chris.Hoyte@cuanschutz.edu	Toxicology of athletic performance enhancing drugs Toxicologic exposure epidemiology Poisoning care delivery administration Drugs of abuse and misuse
Bonnie Kaplan, MD Bonnie.Kaplan@cuanschutz.edu	Medical education Gender difference in education Medical student mentoring Remediation Innovative Curriculum Design
Bethany M. Kwan, PhD, MSPH * Bethany.Kwan@cuanschutz.edu	Dissemination and implementation science Pragmatic research Social determinants of health and health equity Mental & behavioral health Community and stakeholder engagement
Robert Lam, MD FAAEM Robert.lam@cuanschutz.edu	Physician wellness and wellness in medical education Medical education in the Longitudinal Integrated Curriculum model
Jay Lemery, MD John.Lemery@cuanschutz.edu	Wilderness medicine Climate change and human health Health and human rights
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 and pandemic flu preparedness and response Global public health and disasters Cardiac arrest
Steven Lowenstein, MD, MPH* Steven.Lowenstein@cuanschutz.edu	Injury epidemiology and public health Survey research Medical education
Marlisa Mann, MD Marlisa.Mann@cuanschutz.edu	Women's health Health equity Diversity and inclusion
Katherine Mayer, MD Katherine.Mayer@cuanschutz.edu	Critical Care Post-cardiac arrest care Palliative care
Christopher McStay, MD Christopher.McStay@cuanschutz.edu	Clinical operations Wilderness medicine Disaster preparedness Patient safety and quality
Matt Mendes, MD Matthew.Mendes@cuanschutz.edu	Telehealth Observation Care Airway EMS
Sarah Michael, DO, MS* Sarah.Michael@cuanschutz.edu	Use of technology in medical education Curriculum development Evaluation and assessment
Sean Michael, MD, MBA * Sean.Michael@cuanschutz.edu	ED and healthcare operations Quality, patient safety, and process improvement Health policy Analytics, informatics, and provider behavior change
Danielle Miller, MD, MEd* Danielle.T.Miller@cuanschutz.edu	Competency based medical education Evaluation and assessment Disparities in medical education Best practices in procedural training
Todd Miner, EdD, FAWM* Todd.Miner@cuanschutz.edu	Wilderness Medicine Education Disaster Medicine Education Wildland Firefighting Medical Training
Andrew Monte, MD, PhD* Andrew.Monte@cuanschutz.edu	Personalized medicine Pharmacogenomics Drug safety and effectiveness Substance abuse
Nee-Kofi Mould-Millman, MD MSCS PhD Nee-Kofi.Mould-Millman@cuanschutz.edu	Global health Pre-hospital care/EMS Trauma/shock C3 Global Trauma Network: Cape-Colorado-Combat
Martin Musi, MD* Martin.Musi@cuanschutz.edu	Hypothermia Frostbite Search & Rescue Expedition Medicine
Samantha Noll, MD Samantha.Noll@cuanschutz.edu	Disaster preparedness and response Transitions of care
Kristen Nordenholz, MD, MSc Kristen.Nordenholz@cuanschutz.edu	Venous thromboembolism Anti-coagulation Clinical algorithms Provider wellness
Michael Overbeck, MD Michael.Overbeck@cuanschutz.edu	Asynchronous medical education Emergency cardiology
Sarah Perman MD MSCE* Sarah.Perman@cuanschutz.edu	Cardiac arrest and Resuscitation Research Acute Care Research Targeted Temperature Management Shared Decision Making
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
Caitlin Rublee, MD, MPH* Caitlin.Rublee@cuanschutz.edu	Climate justice Health policy Emergency preparedness for vulnerable populations Low carbon and climate-resilient health systems
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
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
Marianne Wallis, MD* Marianne.Wallis@cuanschutz.edu	ARDS Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation Obstetric emergencies and critical care
Jacqueline Ward-Gaines, MD Jacqueline.WardGaines@cuanschutz.edu	Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Health Equity Emergency Management
Jennifer Wiler, MD, MBA Jennifer.Wiler@cuanschutz.edu	ED operations EM health policy Quality/patient safety
Juliana Wilson, DO, MPH* Juliana.Wilson@cuanschutz.edu	Point of Care Ultrasound Undergraduate Medical Education
Julie Winkle, MD Julie.Winkle@cuanschutz.edu	Critical Illness EM/Critical Care Collaboration
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
Richard Zane, MD* Richard.Zane@cuanschutz.edu	Disaster preparedness ED operations EM health policy
Matthew Zuckerman, MD Matthew.Zuckerman@cuanschutz.edu	Medical Toxicology Pharmacology Education Social Media & Digital Scholarship

Director of Research: Jason Haukoos, MD, MSc (Jason.Haukoos@dhha.org)
Associate Director of Research: Stacy Trent, MD, MPH (Stacy.Trent@dhha.org)
Research Projects Manger: Emily Caruso (Emily.Caruso@dhha.org)

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

Faculty Member	Research Interests
Jennie Buchanan, MD^* Jennie.Buchanan3@dhha.org	Graduate Medical Education Medical Toxicology Adulterants Sexual Assault Care Forensic Medicine
Andres Camacho, MD Andres.Camacho@dhha.org	EMS Disparities
Aaron Eberhardt, MD Aaron.Eberhardt@dhha.org	EMS
Anna Engeln, MD Anna.Engeln@dhha.org	Legislative Advocacy Bedside Clinical Teaching Resident Education
Shea Gilliam, MD Sheaffer.Gilliam@dhha.org	EMS Cardiac Arrest
Jason Haukoos, MD, MSc^* Jason.Haukoos@dhha.org	Infectious Diseases Prevention (HIV/HCV)⁺ Social Emergency Medicine⁺ Substance Misuse Trauma Systems Critical Care⁺ Research Methodology /Applied Statistics and Modelling Epidemiology
Lois Isaksen, MD Lois.Isaksen@dhha.org	Burn Out Peer Support
Janetta Iwanicki, MD Janetta.Iwanicki@dhha.org	Medical Toxicology Prescription Opioid Abuse Cannabis Use and Related Illnesses Prehospital Care of the Poisoned Patient
Patrick Joynt, MD Patrick.Joynt@dhha.org	Pediatrics
Renee King, MD Renee.King@dhha.org	Diversity
Eric Lavonas, MD, MSc Eric.Lavonas@dhha.org	Snake Envenomation Resuscitation Medication Safety Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
Ben Li, MD, MSc Benjamin.Li@dhha.org	Violence Prevention
Keri Mason, MD Kerri.mason@dhha.org	Palliative Care End-of-life Care
Taylor McCormick, MD, MSc Taylor.McCormick@dhha.org	Prehospital Trauma Triage of Children⁺ Care of Children in Community Emergency Departments Traumatic Brain Injury
Manny Montano, MD Manuel.Montano@dhha.org	Education
Maria Moreira, MD Maria.Moreira@dhha.org	Education Wound Management Trauma Communication and Leadership Simulation Professional Development and Wellbeing
Jacob Nacht, MD Jacob.Nacht@dhha.org	EMS No Notice Event/Disaster Planning Sexual Assault Awareness/Prevention Wilderness Medicine
Morgan Pinkston, MD Morgan.Pinkston@dhha.org	Observation Medicine Hospital and ED Flow Telemedicine
Lara Rappaport, MD Lara.rappaport@denverem.org	EMS Pediatrics Medication Errors
David Richards, MD David.Richards@dhha.org	Medical Student Education Global Health
Matt Riscinti, MD Matthew.Riscinti@dhha.org	Point-of-Care Ultrasound
Jeff Sankoff, MD Jeffrey.Sankoff@dhha.org	Quality Improvement Clinical Operations Endurance Athletics
Brad Shy, MD Bradley.Shy@dhha.org	Clinical Operations
Gannon Sungar, DO Gannon.Sungar@dhha.org	Graduate Medical Education Program Administration Health Equity Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging Curriculum Design Knowledge Translation
Molly Thiessen, MD Molly.Thiessen@dhha.org	Language Equity Language in Medicine Emergency Ultrasound Education
Spencer Tomberg, MD Spencer.Tomberg@dhha.org	Medical Provider Mental Performance Acute Orthopedic Trauma
Amanda Toney, MD Amanda.Toney@dhha.org	Pediatric Point-of-Care Ultrasound Prehospital Point-of-Care Ultrasound
Stacy Trent, MD^* Stacy.Trent@dhha.org	Airway Management Critical Care Variation in Care, Guideline Adherence, Quality Improvement, Health Disparities Sepsis⁺
Leah Warner, MD, MPH Leah.Warner@dhha.org	Access to Care
Jennifer Whitfield, MD, MPH Jennifer.Whitfield@dhha.org	Global Health Education Ethics in Global Health Global Health Policy
Stephen Wolf, MD Stephen.wolf@dhha.org	Clinical Policies / Guidelines Leadership Competencies and Curriculums Medical Education Venous Thromboembolism Chest Trauma Blast Injuries

Director of Research: Rakesh Mistry, MD, MS
Associate Director of Research: Lilliam Ambroggio, PhD, MPH
Research Coordinators: Gonzalo Lerner and Alec Edid
Research and Grants Manager: Mimi Munroe

All emails are first.last@childrenscolorado.org

Faculty Member	Research Interests
Anna Abrams Assistant Professor	Health Disparities
Kathleen Adelgais Professor	EMS/Prehospital care Multisystem trauma Sedation and analgesia
Chisom Agbim Assistant Professor	Quality Improvement
Lilliam Ambroggio Associate Professor Assoc. Director of Research	Biomarkers Respiratory Infections
Lalit Bajaj Professor Director, Clinical Effectiveness Chief Quality Officer	QI/Clinical Effectiveness Bronchiolitis
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
Kristin Kim Assistant Professor	Disaster Medicine Prehospital care
Sam Lam (hiu.lam@) Professor of Clinical Pediatrics	Point-of-care Ultrasound
Patrick Mahar Associate Professor	Medical Education
Maria Mandt Associate Professor Medical Director, Transport/EMS	Prehospital care
Rakesh Mistry Professor Director of Research Director of Academic Affairs PECARN Site PI	Antimicrobial Stewardship Infectious Diseases Multicenter Collaborative Research
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
Kelley Roswell Associate Professor Director, Med Student Education	Medical Education
Sarah Schmidt Assistant Professor Director of Informatics Assoc. Medical Director (Anschutz)	Medical Informatics Quality Improvement
Sandra Spencer Associate Professor	Quality Improvement
Halden Scott Associate Professor	Sepsis
Melisa Tanverdi Assistant Professor	Asthma
Irina Topoz Associate Professor Director of Quality Improvement	Clinical Pathways Diagnostic Error Quality Improvement
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)	QI Clinical Pathways
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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