RESEARCH MISSION and VISION
Our mission is to develop and advance funded clinical and translational research within the Department of Emergency Medicine with a focus on scholarship, innovation and collaboration among all faculty, staff, trainees, and nursing.
Our vision is to be recognized as leaders in Emergency Medicine by building a research division of excellence with funded investigators, connected by a shared goal of advancing emergency care research, transforming patient care, and educating the next generation of clinician-scientists.
AREAS of FOCUS
We have identified four broad areas, some of which overlap, where our immediate community faces serious challenges. These categories only cover some research projects we undertake and need our sustained attention the most.
- Social Emergency Medicine/Health Equity
- Digital Health/Bioinformatics
- Quality Improvement
- Current Clinical Domains: hypertension, cardiac arrest, HIV, diabetes, HCV, ultrasound, sickle cell, cancer, healthcare worker wellness, COVID-19, chest pain, substance use disorder, toxicology, global emergency medicine.
CURRENT RESEARCH
- Accelerated Chest Pain Workup Equity Task Force
- Better Health Through Housing
- Designing a Hypertension Action Plan for Socially Vulnerable Patients
- Illinois Heart Rescue
- HEED the GAP
- Prevention and Screening of Cancer in the Emergency Department Patient Population (PaCE)
- Project HEAL – HIV & HCV Screening, Education, Awareness, Linkage to Care
- Project IDEAL
- Strategies to Innovate Emergency Care Clinical Trials Network (SIREN)
- NIH- TOUCHED – Targeting of UnControlled Hypertension in Emergency Department
- BIRCWH/CRWG/COM Program (Building Interdisciplinary Research in Women’s Health/Center for Research on Women and Gender/College of Medicine)
PREVIOUSLY FUNDED RESEARCH
- COVID-19 Related Research
- A Hypertension Emergency Department Intervention Aimed at Decreasing Disparities (AHEAD2)
- Community Targeting of Uncontrolled Hypertension (CTOUCH)
- The CHICAGO Plan– Coordinated Healthcare Interventions for Childhood Asthma Gaps in Outcomes
- Emergency Patient Interdisciplinary Care Coordination for Frequent ER Visitors (EPIC)
- Heart Rescue India
- Improving Sickle Cell Care in Adolescents & Adults in Chicago (ISAAC)
- ICARE (Improving Cancer Survival and Reducing Treatment Variations with Protocols for Emergency Care)
- Illinois Heart Rescue US- US Heart Rescue Consortium (Phase II)
- IPHI- Alliance for Health Equity Hospital Opioid Treatment and Response (HOTR) Demonstration Project
- Lightning Injury Research Program
- Lain@s Gaining Access to Networks for Advancement in Science (L@S GANAS mentorship program)
- Measuring Disparities in the Chain of Survival among Hispanic Communities
- NIH- ROOTS- Reaching Out Of The System
- PMV Sleep Study (The Impact of Sleep Deprivation on Reaction Time Measured by Psychomotor Vigilance Testing in The Emergency Department)
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS 2023
- Auge-Bronersky K., Khosla S., Dwyer R. Making the cut during codes: Time to Performance of critical actions by rapid medical response team members during sumulated cardiac arrest. Presented at ATS 2023
- Eilbert W. University of Illinois at Chicago Emergency Medicine Residency; Urology/GU Trauma 1/23
- Huafu Chen, Shaveta Khosla, Pavitra Kotini-Shah. Optic Nerve Sheath Diameter in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest. Oral Abstract Presentation at AIUM National Conference, Orlando FL. March 27, 2023
- Lin J. Rules of the Road for Publishing Quality Improvement Research (Research Directors Interest Group and Operations Interest Group Sponsored). SAEM
- Lin J. Application of Implementation Science to Enhance Emergency Medicine Research and Quality Improvement Programs (Research Committee Sponsored). SAEM
- Pinkelton M, Eilbert W, Goodcoff A. “Where’d these blisters come from?” Photo Competition, American Academy of Emergency Medicine Scientific Assembly, New Orleans, LA, 5/2023
- Small A, Lamparter L, Eilbert W. “Cracked Kidney.” Photo Competition, American Academy of Emergency Medicine Scientific Assembly, New Orleans, LA, 5/2023
- Lin J. Rules of the Road for Publishing Quality Improvement Research (Research Directors Interest Group and Operations Interest Group Sponsored). SAEM
- Lin J. Application of Implementation Science to Enhance Emergency Medicine Research and Quality Improvement Programs (Research Committee Sponsored). SAEM
- Pobee R, Sanders A, Khosla S, Richardson M, Kotini-Shah P, Dawood D, Ardati A, Prendergast H. Comorbidity and COVID-19 severity in patients with hypertension in a predominately minority Urban Emergency Department. Poster, 14 Annual UIC Minority Health Conference- April’23
PUBLICATIONS 2022/23
- Choo EK, Strehlow M, Del Rios M, Oral E, Pobee R, Nugent A, et al. Observational study of organizational responses of 17 US hospitals over the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. BMJ Open. 2023 May;13(5):e067986.
- Danielson, K, Rydzon, B, Nicosia, M, Maheswaren, A, Eisenberg, Y, Lin, J, Layden, B. Prevalence of Undiagnosed Diabetes Identified by a Novel Electronic Medical Record Diabetes Screening Program in an Urban Emergency Department in the US. JAMA Network Open. January 2023. 6. e2253275.
10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.53275 - Eilbert W, Nguyen H. Premenarchal ovarian torsion. Emerg Med J. 2023. doi.org/10.22470/pemj.2022.00633.
- Joseph Bledsoe, Scott C. Woller, Maria Brooks, Frank C. Sciurba, Jerry A. Krishnan, Deborah Martin, Peter Hou, Janet Y. Lin, et al. Clinically stable covid-19 patients presenting to acute unscheduled episodic care venues have increased risk of hospitalization: secondary analysis of a randomized control trial | BMC Infectious Diseases.
- Justice NC, Zhu X, Li J, O’Donnell JM, Vanden Hoek TL. Intra-ischemic hypothermia cardioprotection involves modulation of PTEN/Akt/ERK signaling and fatty acid oxidation. Physiol Rep. 2023 Feb;11(4):e15611. PMID: 36807889.
- Kotini-Shah P, Blum N, Khosla S, Weber J, Markul E, Tataris K, Campbell T, Vanden Hoek T, Del Rios M. Interhospital variability in Out-of-Hospital cardiac arrest survival in a large metropolitan area. Resusc Plus. 2023 Mar 31;14:100385. doi: 10.1016/j.resplu.2023.100385.
- Li J, Zhu X, Oberdier MT, Lee CP, Lin S, Fink SJ, Justice CN, Qin K, Begeman, AW, Damen FC, Kim H, Chen J, Cai K, Halperin HR, Vanden Hoek TL. A cell-penetrating PHLPP peptide improves cardiac arrest survival in murine and swine models. J Clin Invest. 2023;133(9): e164283. PMID: 37115695.
- Leora Horwitz, Tanayott Thaweethai, Shari B. Brosnahan, Lin J. et al. Researching COVID to enhance recovery (RECOVER) adult study protocol: Rationale, objectives, and design. PLOS ONE
- Prendergast H, Khosla S. Lessons Learned about Policy Making: Moving an Emergency Department-initiated Screening Protocol to Systemwide Input in the Development and Implementation Process. Academic Emergency Medicine. Academic Emergency Medicine. 2023.
- Spratt F, Eilbert W. Child with fever and a rash. J Am Coll Emerg Physicians Open. 2023;4(2):e12932.
- Wang HE, Panchal A, Hyer JM, Nichol G, Callaway CW, Aufderheide T, Nassal M, Vanden Hoek TL, Li J, Daya MR, Hansen M, Schmicker RH, Idris A, Wei L. Assessment of intensive care unit-free and ventilator-free days as alternative outcomes in the pragmatic airway resuscitation trial. Resuscitation. 2022;179:50-58. PMID:35940492
- Weinreich Heather, Pavitra Kotini-Shah, Bernice Man, Ruth Pobee, Laura E. Hirshfield, Barbara J. Risman, Irina A. Buhimschi. Work-Life Balance and Academic Productivity among College of Medicine Faculty during the Evolution of the COVID-19 Pandemic – The New Normal-Women’s Health Report