Emergency Medicine

The 2020-2021 academic year, although defined greatly by the COVID-19 pandemic, was also a year of academic success for the Division of Emergency Medicine. We celebrate our dual mission of excellence and leadership in providing the very best in care and in producing science that drives new learnings for the science and practice of emergency care.

Overall the division posted its largest single-year of academic productivity across many measures including number of publications (over 150) and grant funding (over four million dollars). The division continues to produce an impressive array of original science across clinical research, quality improvement, implementation science, informatics, educational research, and advocacy. Our division continues to be a national leader in multi-center research networks, and drives the scientific agenda in emergency medicine for resuscitation, competency-based assessments, management of gastroenteritis, STI care, and tobacco exposure in particular. The community of families in Greater Cincinnati continues to be essential to our research mission: more than 1600 patients / families enrolled in a research study in FY21, an impressive number given challenges of in-person enrollment during the pandemic.

A number of faculty-initiated important new grant-funded work in FY21. Timothy Dribin, MD, began three-years of support as a KL2 scholar, receiving funding for his project entitled "Precision Medicine in Pediatric Anaphylaxis: Risk Stratification and Biomarkers". Sang Hoon Lee, MD, MEd, received funding from the CCTST process and methods mechanism for his community-based educational research engaging pre-hospital providers entitled "Evaluating Remote Training and Assessment via Video". One of our graduating fellows, Preston Dean, MD, received the prestigious Ken Graff Award from the Section of Emergency Medicine at the AAP for his multi-center proposal focused on high-risk airway management. Several faculty began service as site principal investigators for multi-center prospective studies through the HRSA / NIH-funded PECARN collaborative (Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network.) These individuals include Lynn Babcock, MD, MS, Lauren Riney, DO, Rich Ruddy, MD, and Michelle Eckerle, MD.

A final important highlight: led by Kamali Bouvay and David Schnadower, MD, MPH, we developed a new clinical and research collaborative in emergency medicine in FY21 focused on diversity, equity and inclusion. The division committed resources to pursue dual streams of work: 1) Re-imagining our standardization work to ensure ongoing analytic reports on care delivery will include key DEI fields, and, 2) Developing novel research questions and implementation programs to abate health disparities in our areas of care.