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RESEARCH SHOWCASE

This year's University of Washington Department of Emergency Medicine Annual Research Showcase featured groundbreaking research from faculty, residents, and medical students. Research topics ranged from 

The audience watches a presenter at the research showcase

The Department of Emergency Medicine was also happy to host Dr. Renee Hsia, of the University of California San Francisco. 

FACULTY PRESENTATIONS

2024 Faculty Presenter Award Recipient - Alexander St. John

Dr. Alexander St. John received the Faculty Presenter Award for his research on how the antioxidant agent N-acetylcysteine (NAC) could reverse these effects and improve renal MBF
after injury in a rat model.

N-Acetylcysteine Improves Renal Microvascular Blood Flow in a Rat Model of Polytrauma

Chris Buresh

Enhancing Screening and Treatment for OUD in the ED

Zack WettsteinJeremy Hess

Emergency Department Utilization and Unplanned Hospitalizations Associated with Floods Floods in the US from 2008-2017: An Interrupted Time Series and Cohort Analysis

Callan Fockele

Harm Reduction in the Field: First Responders’ Perceptions of Opioid Overdose Interventions

M. Kennedy Hall 

BREAK WAVE LITHOTRIPSY FOR UROLITHIASIS: RESULTS OF THE FIRST-IN-HUMAN INTERNATIONAL MULTICENTER CLINICAL TRIAL

Robert Doerning

Radiology Clinical Decision Support Tool for Appropriate Use Criteria: A Retrospective Cost-Benefit Study

Chris BureshOlivia Hood

Developing a Telebuprenorphine Program

M. Kennedy HallMarie Vrablik

Predictive Modeling for 30-Day Emergency Room Visits among Sickle Cell Patients and Identifying Actionable Patient-Level Characteristics Using a Large Language Model

Ellie Sveum

Lessons learned from launching a multi-site trial in refugee settlements in Uganda: Funding to Lessons learned from launching a multi-site trial in refugee settlements in Uganda: Funding to Initial Enrollment

Kathy Li

Potentially avoidable emergency department transfers among Medicare beneficiaries

Anna Condella

Patient factors associated with evaluation and candidacy for extracorporeal membrane oxygenation support

RESIDENTS

2024 Resident Presenter Award Recipient- Rachel Nolan

Dr. Rachel Nolan was the winner of the Resident Presenter Award for her research exploring a multi-functional resuscitation cocktail aiming to minimize blood loss and prevent secondary injuries.

Balanced Resuscitation of Polytrauma Using a Multifunctional Resuscitation Cocktail in
a Swine Model

Samuel Lewis

Association Between Retention in HIV Care and Mental Health Among Refugees in
Uganda

Nathan Dow

Fibrin Degradation Products: Potential Therapeutic Targets in Trauma Induced Coagulopathy

STAFF AND STUDENTS

2024 Staff and Student Award Recipient - Sarah Stucky

Extracellular actin potentiates platelet aggregation through collagen activation pathway

Sarah Stucky received the Staff and Student Award for her research on testing and quantifying actin's effect on platelets after severe trauma and identifying mechanistic pathways involved.

Amol Gajendragadkar

Vaccine Effectiveness Against Influenza A-Associated Hospitalization, Organ Failure, and Death

Katherine Elkort

Intravenous aviptadil and remdesivir for treatment of COVID-19-associated hypoxaemic respiratory failure in the USA (TESICO): a randomised, placebo-controlled trial

Katherine Sweeney

Signs of Life During Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest

Madeline Parrish

Housing in Healthcare; A Secondary Data Analysis of the ED-LINC Randomized Clinical Trial

Lydia Bukonde

ED-Based Screening and Linkage to Care for HIV and HCV

T'Aira Tolliver

From EP to PrEP: Linking ED Patients

Sarah Taga

Association of the SaFETy Score with Self-Reported Firearm Violence Among Young Adults Presenting to the Emergency Departments in Three Cities: A Cross-Sectional Study

Robin Klabbers

Head StART: shifting treatment to the community for people newly diagnosed with HIV in refugee settlements in Uganda

Isa Weiss

Improving HIV Detection in King County, WA Emergency Departments: An Examination of Best Practice Alerts for HIV Screening

Astrid Martin

Demographics and Clinical Characteristics of patients receiving Brixadi ® in the HMC ED as part of the ED-INNOVATION trial