The policy-relevant research of Emergency Medicine faculty members includes publications and grants in the fields of medical ethics, emergency medical services/out-of-hospital care, and emergency care. Areas of special interest include evaluation of rural trauma systems, rapid pre-hospital recognition and treatment of cardiac illness by trained laypeople, access to medical care for vulnerable populations, patient safety, early detection of bioterrorism, special-needs children, emergency department overcrowding, poison centers as a community resource, informatics tools to facilitate public health reporting, innovative strategies in medical education, interpersonal violence, recruitment of minorities for medical training, treatment of critically ill children, emergency department observation unit outcomes, injury prevention, and medical decision rules.

Robert A. Lowe, MD, MPH, Director of the CPR-EM, is a well-established health services researcher with 20 years of experience in academic emergency medicine. Dr. Lowe’s research interests include access to medical care, risks of creating barriers to emergency medical care, patient safety and quality of care. Additional core faculty members include the following: Annette L. Adams, MA, MPH, Instructor, is an epidemiologist whose research interests include outcomes of elderly trauma patients and trauma patients treated in rural hospitals, use of EDs for infectious disease surveillance, and advanced biostatistics and research methods; Rochelle Fu, PhD, Assistant Professor, is a biostatistician with expertise in both frequentist and Bayesian statistical modeling; K. John McConnell, PhD, MA, MS, Assistant Professor, is an economist whose research interests include the economics of healthcare, the economics of trauma centers, hospital overcapacity and ED crowding, and access to medical care; and Craig D. Newgard, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, is a physician-researcher whose research interests include trauma, injury prevention, out-of-hospital care, and advanced biostatistics and research methods.

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