Meet the 2021 SAEMF Grantees
We’re proud to showcase this year’s SAEMF grantees who were selected from a competitive applicant pool after a rigorous NIH-style review. These bright stars demonstrate excellence in pursuit of a career in academic EM research. SAEMF Research Training Grant - $300,000 Taneisha Wilson, MD, ScM
SAEMF/AEUS Research Grant - $10,000 Michael Gottlieb, MD
SAEMF Research Large Project Grant - $150,000 Masashi Okubo, MD, MS
SAEMF/GEMA Research Pilot Grant - $10,000 Julian Hertz, MD
University of Pittsburgh "Resuscitation Culture of EMS Systems for Out-ofhospital Cardiac Arrest”
Duke University "Barriers to Myocardial Infarction Care Among Persons Living with HIV in Tanzania”
SAEMF Education Research Grant - $50,000 Christine Luo, MD, PhD
SAEMF/Simulation Academy Novice Research Grant - $5,000 Julie Gesch, MD
Brown University / Rhode Island Hospital "Emergency Department Focused Assessment and Treatment in a Triage Chair (ED FAST-Chair)”
Oregon Health & Science University "Faculty Development for Academic Emergency Physicians: A Needs Assessment”
SAEMF ARMED Pilot Grant - $25,000 Bennett Lane, MD, MS University of Cincinnati "Identifying Rate and Characteristics of Interhospital Transfers by Air Transport”
SAEMF Education Project Grant - $20,000 Michelle Lee, MDCM
The Hospital for Sick Children "Climbing the Learning Curve in Ocular Point-ofCare-Ultrasound Interpretation”
SAEMF/NIDA Mentor-Facilitated Training Award - $12,000 Betty Chang, MD
NewYork–Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center "Tele-Bupe Program”
SAEMF/NIDA Mentor-Facilitated Training Award - $12,000 Jennifer Love, MD
Rush University Medical Center "Automated vs Manual Assessment of B-Lines for Diagnosing Pulmonary Edema with Ultrasound”
The Andrew Levitt Center for Social Emergency Medicine "Improve Emergency Department Ischemic Stroke Care With In Situ Simulation”
SAEMF/AWAEM Research Grant - $5,000 Melissa Parsons, MD
University of Florida "Breaking Through the Glass Ceiling: Networking Best Practices for Women in EM”
SAEMF/ADIEM Research Grant - $2,600 Jessica Bod, MD
Yale University School of Medicine "Bystander Intervention Training for Emergency Medicine Residents”
SAEMF/RAMS Resident Research Grant $5,000 Ai Xin Chen, MD UCLA-Harbor Medical Center "Food Pharmacy Rx”
Elizabeth Scott, MD
UCLA-Harbor Medical Center "Food Pharmacy Rx”
Oregon Health & Science University "Project BEEP”
MTF/SAEMF Toxicology Research Grant - $10,000 Cynthia Santos, MD Rutgers New Jersey Medical School "Genotypes Associated with Dosing and Relapse in Patients with OUD Receiving Buprenorphine”
SAEMF/RAMS Medical Student Research Grant - $2,500 Shashank Somasundaram, BS
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University "Using Best Practice Advisories to Reduce Cancer Patient Admissions from the ED”
EMF/SAEMF Medical Student Research Grants - $5,000 each Kristy Blackwood, BA, Brown University
Eshani Goradia, BA, Stony Brook University
Kendall Burdick, BA, University of Massachusetts
David Helfer, BS, University of Pennsylvania
“Firearm Violence and Safety Training in Undergraduate Medical Education: Evaluation of First Year Clinical Skills Curricular Intervention” “Geographic and Temporal Analysis of Pediatric Trauma Access Disparities in the United States”
“Comparison of the Effects of a Bromelain and Collagenase Based Enzymatic Agent on Inflammation and Eschar Debridement in a Partial Thickness Porcine Model” “Risk Prediction of Acute Coronary Lesions Following Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest”
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