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Academic Announcements
Dr. Kabir Yadav Promoted to Professor of Clinical EM at UCLA
Kabir Yadav, MDCM, MC, MSHS, vice chair for academic affairs at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center and investigator for The Lundquist Institute, had been promoted to professor of clinical emergency medicine at UCLA (retroactive to July 2020). He has served in the role of vice chair for academic
Dr. Kabir Yadav affairs since 2018, and will now serve as vice chair for research and academic affairs starting this year. After completing a NIH KL2 Career Development Award and a master's degree in translational science at George Washington University, Dr. Yadav became one of the first board-certified clinical informaticists in the country. He is core faculty at the UCLA Clinical and Translational Research Center for both the community engaged research program and biomedical informatics. He has been funded through PCORI, NIH, CDC, and foundations to leverage technology and implementation science to perform collaborative health services research focused on improving patient and provider decision making, and partners with the community to do mutually meaningful research with an emphasis on social determinants of health.
Roland C. Merchant, MD, MPH, ScD, vice chair of research in the department of emergency medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, was awarded a five-year National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) R01 grant to support his Dr. Roland C. Merchant research, “Evaluation of a Persuasive Health Communication Intervention Designed to Increase HIV/HCV Screening Among Emergency Departments Patients Who Currently, Formerly or Never Injected Drugs.” The project involves evaluating the efficacy of a persuasive communication health intervention designed to increase HIV and hepatitis C screening among adult emergency department patients who initially declined to be tested for these infections.
Dr. Kavita Babu and Dr. Roland Merchant Receive 2-Year NIDA UG3 Grant
Dr. Kavita Babu Kavita Babu, MD, professor of emergency medicine, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School and Roland C. Merchant, MD, of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai were awarded a two-year National Institute on Drug Abuse UG3 grant to support their research, "Sentanyl II: A Multi-State Analysis of Fentanyl/Analogs, Naloxone, and Clinical Features of NonFatal Opioid Overdose." The project entails understanding how response to naloxone administration after an opioid overdose is affected by fentanyls and other opioids, alcohol, and other illicit and pharmaceutical substances.
Dr. Ian Martin Selected for AAMC Council of Deans Fellowship Program
Ian B. K. Martin, MD, MBA, professor with tenure and system chairman in the department of emergency medicine at Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) and emergency physician-in-chief for the Froedtert & the MCW health network, has
Dr. Ian B. K. Martin been selected as one of six fellows for the prestigious 2022-2023 Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Council of Deans (COD) Fellowship Program. Dr. Martin was chosen from an exceptionally talented applicant pool that comprised the largest number of applications to date. The year-long AAMC COD Fellowship Program was created to enhance the development of future leaders in academic medicine.
Jeffrey Glassberg, MD, has been promoted to full professor with tenure, Department of Emergency Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Dr. Glassberg leads the Mount Sinai Sickle Cell Program, which has over 1,000 patients, two clinical Dr. Jeffrey Glassberg sites, and 14 employees. He has received over $25 million in federal research funding to support his work on gene therapy cures, “BayesianAdaptive Clinical Trials, Management of Acute and Chronic Sickle Cell Pain and Implementation Science.”
Dr. Ethan Cowen Receives NIDA UG3 Grant and NIMH R34 Grant
Ethan Cowan, MD, professor of emergency medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, received a UG3 grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support his research, entitled, “Safety
Dr. Ethan Cowan and Efficacy of High Dose Buprenorphine Induction in Fentanyl Positive Emergency Department Patients.” The project will take place in two phases. The first phase will determine the safety, tolerability, and feasibility of high dose buprenorphine induction. In the second phase, a multicenter randomized controlled trial will examine preliminary efficacy. Dr. Cowan, along with Dr.
Susie Hoffman, Columbia University, also received a two-year National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) R34 grant entitled, "PrEP-ED: PrEP Services in the Emergency Department for Hard-to-Reach Populations.” The first phase will identify patient preferences through a discrete-choice experiment. The second phase involves implementing and optimizing the PrEP program. The third phase is a pilot implementationeffectiveness type two randomized controlled trial.
Dr. Azita Hamedani Honored for Her Accomplishments as Department Chair
Azita G. Hamedani, MD, MPH, MBA, founding and former chair of the BerbeeWalsh Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, has been named to the Wisconsin Endowed Chair of Leadership in Emergency Dr. Azita G. Hamedani Medicine. In her honor, the endowed chair held by the chair of emergency medicine at UW-Madison, will now be known as the Azita G. Hamedani Distinguished Chair of Emergency Medicine. This change honors Dr. Hamedani's transformational accomplishments as chair, establishing and building emergency medicine at the University of Wisconsin.
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Dr. Jane D. Scott, Pioneer and Leading Advocate for Research Funding and Training in Emergency Care, Announces Retirement
Jane Scott, ScD, MSN, renowned and respected for her work as a leader in emergency medicine research funding and training, has announced her retirement. Dr. Scott began her career in the emergency care setting as a nurse at the Duke University Emergency Department in the Hillsborough, NC volunteer EMS squad and then as a nurse practitioner at the Johns Hopkins emergency department. She presented her first research abstract in 1981 at the University Association of
Dr. Jane Scott Emergency Medicine meeting, which was followed by publications in numerous emergency care publications. After obtaining a doctorate from Hopkins School of Public Health, Dr. Scott joined the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) as a program officer. In 1995 she joined the University of Maryland National Study Center for Trauma and EMS followed by serving as research director of the program in trauma at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center. In 2005 Dr. Scott joined the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as director of the Office of Research Training and Career Development, Division of Cardiovascular Sciences at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI). In 2008 she created the NHLBI K12 program in emergency care research, which she managed until her retirement, working extensively with the emergency medicine researchers at the eight training programs that have trained over 50 K12 scholars. Dr. Scott has served on the SAEM Research Committee, ACEP-SAEM Federal Research Funding Workgroup, and as faculty at the EMF-SAEMF Grantee Workshop for over eight years. She has educated and mentored countless SAEM members on the K12 programs, presented at numerous SAEM annual meetings, worked closely with program officers on NIH-related matters, and taught many of our investigators how to become independently funded.
