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The Division of Emergency Medicine has a broad research agenda, with researchers involved in investigations that range from those conducted at the molecular level to those studying health care delivery systems. Current clinical research projects include:
  • Biomedical informatics (clinical informatics, public health informatics, real time population health monitoring)
  • Bioterrorism preparedness, education, decision support
  • Head trauma/c-spine trauma
  • Genetics and developmental biology - (asthma, pulmonary development, and congenital diaphragmatic hernia)
  • Infectious diseases: bacteremia, pneumonia, UTI, febrile infants less than three months old
  • Infectious diseases: Innate and acquired immunity
  • Streptococcus pneumoniae, vaccines
  • Medical Education
  • Procedural sedation & analgesia, capnography
  • Short Stay Unit protocols, outpatient management of diseases traditionally treated in the hospital, diagnostic testing, ATLE outcomes
  • Sickle cell, mannose binding protein, metabolic disorders, nitric oxide
  • Toxicology, clinical pharmacology, environmental health, therapeutic drug trials
  • Trauma
  • Violence-related injury, injury prevention

Featured researchers in the Division of Emergency Medicine hold faculty appointments at Harvard Medical School.

Latest Research in Emergency Medicine:
ResearcherFocus Area
Brownstein, John, PhD Infectious disease epidemiology
Public health surveillance
Fleisher, Gary, MD Emergency medicine
Greenes, David, MD Head trauma
Krauss, Baruch, MD, EdM acute anxiety and pain in children
Mandl, Kenneth, MD, MPH Biomedical informatics
Olson, Karen L., PhD Emergency medicine
Porter, Stephen C., MD, MPH Clinical informatics
Shannon, Michael, MD, MPH Lead poisioning
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