C3 Global Trauma Network: Cape-Colorado-Combat 

Nee-Kofi Mould-Millman, MD MSCS FACEP PhD, is the Principal Investigator and lead of the C3 Global Trauma Research Network. Dr. Mould-Millman is a federally funded emergency medicine physician-investigator with expertise in global emergency medicine and prehospital care systems. He currently holds the appointment of Associate Professor within the University of Colorado School of Medicine’s Department of Emergency Medicine, and is a Senior Investigator in Global Health and the Center for Global Health, Colorado School of Public Health. Following emergency medicine residency training at Emory University School of Medicine, Dr. Mould-Millman completed a dual fellowship program in Emergency Medical Services (EMS) and Global Health, also at Emory University. He actively works in resource-constrained settings in sub-Saharan Africa, including Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, and Zimbabwe, where he collaborates closely with Ministries of Health, academic institutions, and government EMS agencies. His research is funded both by US federal agencies, and non-federal foundations, including the Falck Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation, and the Emergency Medicine Foundation. His work has three focus areas: optimizing performance of out-of-hospital trauma care systems, pragmatic delivery of prehospital education, and improving prehospital trauma outcomes. Within each area, Dr. Mould-Millman applies innovative techniques from the disciplines of Dissemination & Implementation science, and Outcomes & Effectiveness research. His research and programmatic work are complemented by public health advocacy predominantly through his extensive involvement with the African Federation for Emergency Medicine (AFEM). Dr. Mould-Millman has Chaired several multi-national EMS expert panels, organized international EM conferences and meetings, served as an expert EMS consultant, and published several landmark scientific papers of high relevance to prehospital emergency care in sub-Saharan Africa. 

Brenda Beaty, MSPH is an Instructor in the Department of General Internal Medicine who works at ACCORDS (Adult & Child Center for Outcomes Research & Delivery Science). She has over 30 years of experience working in Health Outcomes research, doing statistical programming and modeling. She has worked on pragmatic trials to increase childhood vaccination rates, evaluate therapies for end-of-life cancer patients, and examine costs and utilization for children with complex medical conditions, among others. She has also provided support for studies about Type 2 diabetes, medication adherence, cardiac outcomes, and transplant patients, among many other topics. She is excited to be providing support to the C3 study as a programmer, data analyst and statistical analyst, as the study of pre-hospital care is near and dear to her heart.

Smitha Bhaumik, MD is a Research Fellow/Clinical Instructor with the University of Colorado School of Medicine’s Department of Emergency Medicine.  She attended Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine and completed her residency training with the Denver Health Residency in Emergency Medicine. She previously served as a Vanderbilt-Emory-Cornell-Duke Fogarty scholar, conducting research on tobacco control and cardiovascular health in India under the mentorship of Dr. Mark Huffman. She will complete her research fellowship under the mentorship of Dr. Mould-Millman, with a focus on the epidemiology and management of traumatic injuries, including crush syndrome and hemopneumothorax, in South Africa. She is interested in studying processes of care for the management of emergent cardiovascular and traumatic conditions in low resourced settings. Additional areas of academic interest include diversity, equity and inclusion in EM, substance use disorders, and the impacts of housing instability on health outcomes.

Julia Dixon, MD is an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado, School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine and serves as education lead for the Global Emergency Care Initiative (GECI). She completed a Global Health Fellowship and Masters in Public Health at the University of Colorado in 2018 after completing her residency in Emergency Medicine at Denver Health.  Dr. Dixon has been collaborating with the Western Cape EMS system since 2014 when she began working on research projects with as a resident. The pragmatic approach Dissemination and implementation science guides a pragmatic approach to her research and partnerships. Work in South Africa has included a mixed method assessment of pre-hospital triage in the Western Cape and co-investigator on pilot testing and implementation of a novel on-the-job training (TruShoC) for WCG EMS.  She has collaborated with the World Health Organization, the African Federation for Emergency Medicine and various Ministries of Health in sub-Saharan Africa focusing on sustainable and high impact development and training programs with ongoing projects in South Africa and Zambia.  Her academic interests include emergency system development and education and training of both international emergency care providers and US healthcare professionals interested in volunteering or working abroad.

Chelsie Fleischer is the Program Manager for the C3 Global Trauma Network, and has been a Research Services Professional with the University of Colorado School of Medicine since 2013. She started with CU as a PRA for multiple NIH-funded Rheumatoid Arthritis(RA) prevention studies, and specifically worked to develop an understanding of preferences and decision-making strategies for clinical prevention trial enrollment among individuals at-risk for RA.

Chelsie grew up in rural Pennsylvania and received her Bachelor’s Degree in Biology from Juniata College. She completed her Masters Degree in Medical Anthropology from UC Denver, where she focused on cultural and biological aspects of global health and poverty. She completed an internship with the Denver Agency for Human Rights and Community Partnerships, where she collected qualitative data and compiled a report to highlight social determinants of health among 10 minority populations in the Denver Metro area. Her graduate thesis focused on benefits and barriers to aid among individuals associated with an International Volunteer Organization based in Usa River, Tanzania.

Outside of the CU realm, Chelsie and her husband co-own an urban farm in Lakewood, CO and use every opportunity to teach their children where food comes from. 

Navneet Kaur Baidwan is a Research Associate at the University of Colorado, School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine. She completed her Doctorate at the School of Public Health, University of Minnesota focusing on Injury Epidemiology Research. Along with having an advanced curriculum and research training in traumatic injuries and Epidemiological methods, she has also had a broad experience working with various chronic health outcomes among diverse population groups and settings. Her recent research interests include qualitative and quantitative bias assessments, exploring weighting methods to analyze injury-related outcomes, and opioid abuse after injuries. She was awarded UTMB Center for Large Data Research Pilot Projects grant for a project aiming to extend the generalizability of the spinal cord injuries model system database using weighting techniques. In her current role in the C3 network, she assists with- data quality management, development of multivariable models, and writing research grants focused on traumatic injuries.

Chandni Patel (pronounced “Sean-duh-knee Puh-tell”) is a Professional Research assistant in the C3 lab. Chandni was born and raised in the Greater Toronto Area. In 2016, she earned her bachelor’s in public health from Brock University. In her junior and senior year, she worked as a teaching assistant for a second-year biostatistics course and used qualitative research methods to complete an honors thesis focusing on smoking cessation in the LGBTQIA+ community. After graduation she spent a year working as a project assistant for the Niagara Region Public Health Department and for a local non-profit organization—SANSAR, where she conducted qualitative research studies and assisted with community outreach activities, respectively. Chandni moved to Denver in 2017 to work as a Professional Research Assistant with the Department of Pediatrics, Section of Emergency Medicine. She spent 3 years in this role and enrolled over 1400 participants into clinical studies relating to trauma, TBI, toxicology, suicide risk assessment, firearm safety, asthma, DKA, Influenza, and more. She started her MPH in Global Health Epidemiology at the Colorado School of Public Health, which is anticipated to be completed in Summer 2021. As of August 2020, Chandni has joined the C3 Global Trauma Network as a Professional Research Assistant.