Research Learning Series (RLS) - Developing an Independently Funded Emergency Medicine Researcher

Moderator: Layne Dylla, MD, PhD

Panelists: James Miner, MD, Robert W. Neumar, MD, PhD, Manish Shah, MD, MPH, and Edward Panacek, MD, MPH

This Research Learning Series (RLS) webinar will focus on developing Emergency Medicine research programs with funded researchers. Join us as we discuss the key departmental and infrastructural elements required of Department Chairs to support and develop researchers, and how to best utilize mentorships to grow EM research programs.

Authors

Layne Dylla, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor

University of Colorado School of Medicine

Dr. Dylla has a passion for medicine and using research to advance her treatment of many patients. She pursued this passion for medicine and research as dual MD/PhD student at the University of Colorado in the Medical Scientist Training program where she studied the oncogenic role of microRNAs in Ewing Sarcoma. Dr. Dylla subsequently completed her Emergency Medicine Residency training and a dual Experimental Therapeutic and Emergency Medicine Research fellowships at the University of Rochester Medical Center. Dr. Dylla has been the recipient of several career development and pilot study research grants. This work continues to focus on development of stroke treatments for the prehospital and ED settings, with an emphasis on sex differences in the underlying response to stroke and gender disparities in the care for stroke.
James Miner, MD

Chair of Emergency Medicine

Hennepin County Medical Center

James Miner, MD, is the Chair of Emergency Medicine at Hennepin County Medical Center (HCMC) and Professor and Department Head of EM at the University of Minnesota. He earned his medical degree in 1996 from Mayo Medical School in Rochester, MN and completed his residency in EM at HCMC in 1999, and then joined the HCMC Emergency Department faculty. He was the research director of the Department of Emergency Medicine from 2005-2013, the Associate Medical Director for Physician Development of HCMC from 2011-2013, and has been the Chair of Emergency Medicine there since 2014. He also became the Department Head of Emergency Medicine at the University of Minnesota in 2019. Dr. Miner is the Senior Associate Editor for Electronic Publications of Academic Emergency Medicine.
Dr. Miner conducts research in the areas of agitation management, airway management, pain management, and procedural sedation in the Emergency Department. He has edited a textbook on pain management and sedation (Emergency Pain and Sedation, Cambridge University Press, 2008) and has authored chapters about pain management and sedation in several other textbooks. He also conducts research in the effects of poverty on patients seen in the Emergency Department.
Robert W. Neumar, MD, PhD

Professor and Chair of Emergency Medicine

University of Michigan Medical Center
Manish Shah, MD, MPH

Azita G. Hamedani Distinguished Chair of Emergency Medicine

University of Wisconsin-Madison
Manish Shah, MD, MPH, is Professor and Chair of the BerbeeWalsh Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Wisconsin, where he holds the Azita G. Hamedani Distinguished Chair of Emergency Medicine. Dr. Shah is a national leader in prehospital and geriatric emergency medicine research. His efforts, with funding from NIH, AHRQ, CDC, and HRSA, have helped establish the field of geriatric emergency medicine and advanced the role of paramedics to support community health efforts. He is passionate about developing the next generation of emergency care researchers and research leaders. He led the NIH-funded KL2 Career Development Award program until 2022 and is a mentor on numerous NIH and AHRQ career development awards. Dr. Shah is the Immediate Past President of the SAEM Foundation (SAEMF).
Edward Panacek, MD, MPH

Professor and Chair of Emergency Medicine

University of South Alabama College of Medicine

Dr. Panacek received his undergraduate education at UCLA, and his MD degree from the University of South Alabama. His postgraduate training was in Emergency Medicine, Internal Medicine, and Critical Care Medicine, all at UC Davis Medical Center. From 1986-1992, he was an Assistant Professor of Medicine (critical care and emergency medicine) at Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals of Cleveland. During that time, he developed a clinical trials program focused on sepsis and critical care. In 1992 he joined the faculty at the University of California, Davis, as an Associate Professor in Emergency Medicine and in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. He was promoted to Professor in 1997, and served as the EM Residency Program Director from 1992-2000. From 2000-2014 he served as the Director of the Office of Clinical Trials and the EM Research Associates Program at UCD. In 2015 he moved to the University of South Alabama in Mobile as the new Chair of Emergency Medicine, and while there he developed a new EM residency, 3 new EDs, and a clinical research program.
Dr. Panacek has over 300 scientific publications (over 150 peer-reviewed articles, over 50 Book Chapters/Invited Manuscripts, and over 130 research abstracts). He has served as an associate editor for two of the major journals in emergency medicine and is on the editorial board of multiple other journals. He has chaired the Executive Committees and served as the overall Academic Principal Investigator for multiple large multi-center national and international clinical trials. He has won numerous national awards, including the prestigious "Outstanding contributions in research award" from the American College of Emergency Medicine in 2002, the "Hal Jayne Academic Excellence Award" from the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine in 2012, and the Lifetime Achievement Awards, from the University of Maryland in 2007 and from the ACEP in 2017, for contributions in EM research and academics.