Emergency Medicine

Brain injury is the most dreaded result of critical illness. For more than half a million Americans who suffer sudden cardiac arrest each year, current therapies are inadequate and outcomes are abysmal. Among more than 100,000 patients who regain pulses, severe global brain injury is common and the major driver of both morbidity and mortality. This is a major public health problem. My proposal addresses two important, potentially preventable causes of death and disability due to post-arrest brain injury.

This interdisciplinary training program will provide scholars with didactic and mentor-driven training in clinical emergency care research. The program will extend existing resources and develop specific new curriculum to move young investigators into a high trajectory for an investigative career specifically focused on emergency care.