Research Opportunites
The Emergency Medicine Residency at Brown is very active and dedicated to basic science research, clinical research, as well as public health research. With over 60 attending physicians in our faculty group, diverse research opportunities are readily available to our residents and fellows.
Emergency Medicine Research Laboratory Website
Injury Prevention Center Website
First-Ever Study: Lack of Critical Lubricant Causes Wear in Joints
Research Projects Open in RIH and Hasbro as of October 2007
| Clinical Research Project | Principal Investigator |
| Rhode Island Hospital | |
| Interventional Management of Stroke (IMSIII) | Peter Panagos |
| Validation of a Scoring System for Distinguishing Subtle ST-segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction from Benign Early Repolarization | Anthony Napoli |
| Correlation of Impedance Cardiography with Transcutaneous Ultrasound in the Noninvasive hemodynamic measurement | Anthony Napoli |
| Femoral nerve blocks in elderly patients with hip fractures | Otto Liebmann Francesca Beaudoin |
| Wound Irrigation: Comparison of Normal Saline with Chlorous-acid Chlorine Dioxide Solution | Jonathan Valente |
| Normalization of the D-dimer in Post-Arthroscopy Patients | Anthony Napoli |
| Non-invasive techniques to understand cardiovascular hemodynamics and cardiac dysfunction in sepsis | Anthony Napoli |
| Non-Invasive Device to Measure Hemoglobin Levels | Gregory Jay |
| Isolation of Lubricin from Human Synovial Fibroblasts and Development of Immunological Probes | Gregory Jay |
| Methamphetamine and Ecstasy Use in Rhode Island Hospital Trauma Patients | Anthony Napoli |
| Early Acute Phase Response to Influenza Infection in the Emergency Department | Selim Suner |
| Feasibility of Emergency Physician Performed Ultrasonography of the Carotid Artery | Otto Liebmann |
| PIER: Pelvic Imaging in the ER | Otto Liebmann Kristy McAteer |
| Injury and Illness Patterns of Workers During Rescue and Recovery Operation at the World Trade Center | Selim Suner |
| Hasbro Children’s Hospital | |
| A Study of Respirophasic Changes in Blood Pressure Among ED Pediatric Patients with Dyspnea | Aris Garro |
| Aseptic Meningitis in the Pediatric Emergency Department | Greg Lockhart |
| Concussion Management in the ED: Translational Use of BioBehavioral Markers | Elizabeth Jacobs |
| Intranasal Ketamine for Procedural Sedation in Pediatric Laceration Repair | James Linakis |
| Teaching Alcohol Intervention to Pediatric ER Staff | Tom Chun |
| VEINVIEWER® Assisted Intravenous Catheter Placement in the Pediatric ED | Bruce Becker |
| Adolescents’ and their Parents’ Perceptions of BMI in Relationship to Food and Exercise Choices: a pilot study in the Pediatric Emergency Department | Bruce Becker |
| Injury Prevention Center | |
| RYDD MI and ED experience for youths from courts | Ted Nirenberg |
| ACT: Does SO improve BI? | Michael Mello |
| Sailing Injuries | Andrew Nathanson |
| ROAD (MI and ED experience for youths from courts) | Ted Nirenberg |
| Motorcycle Helmet | Michael Mello (Ranney) |
| Car Seat Class Evaluation | Michael Mello (Weis-Laser) |
| Cycling Injury & Health Survey | Mark Greve |