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 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 Wettstein, Jeremy 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 Buresh, Olivia Hood
Developing a Telebuprenorphine Program
M. Kennedy Hall, Marie 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