Research Learning Series (RLS) - Grant Writing Pearls and Pitfalls

Moderator: Alice Chen, MD

Panelists: Stephanie Eucker, MD, PhD, Jeffrey Kline, MD, & Catherine Staton, MD

Authors

Catherine Staton, MD, MSc

Professor in Emergency Medicine, Neurosurgery, & Associate Professor of Global Health

Duke University

Dr. Staton is a Professor in Emergency Medicine (EM) & Neurosurgery & Associate Professor of Global Health with tenure at Duke University. She is the Director of the GEMINI (Global EM Innovation & Implementation) Research Center and the EM Vice Chair of Research Strategy & Faculty Development. Her research integrates innovative implementation methods into health systems globally to improve access to acute care. In 2012, with an injury registry at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center, Tanzania Dr. Staton demonstrated 30% of injury patients had at risk alcohol use, providing preliminary data for a K01/Career Development Award. Her K01 award adapted a brief alcohol intervention to the KCMC ED and Swahili and is now being trialed in an NIAAA funded R01 pragmatic adaptive clinical trial. Dr. Staton and her mentor and collaborator Dr. Mmbaga are co-PD of the “The TReCK Program: Trauma Research Capacity Building in Kilimanjaro” to train 12 masters and doctoral learners to conduct innovative implementation and data science projects to improve care for injury patients. Dr. Staton has designed and managed multiple clinical trials in global and US settings from efficacy trials, to pragmatic trials and hybrid implementation trials. Currently, Dr. Staton and GEMINI partners with over a dozen faculty from over 6 low- and middle-income countries to conduct research, has mentored over 150 learners from undergraduate to post-doctoral levels from high, middle and low- income settings and has over 130 manuscripts.
Jeffrey Kline, MD

AEM Editor-In-Chief

Wayne State University School of Medicine
Alice Chen, MD

Cleveland Clinic Akron General
Alice Chen, MD is a Staff Physician and Clinical Instructor at Cleveland Clinic Akron General and Northeast Ohio Medical University. She received her MS in Physiology and Biophysics at Georgetown University and has worked several years as an IRB specialist at Roswell Cancer Research Institute in Buffalo, NY. Her research interest is mainly in improvement of sepsis diagnosis.
Stephanie Eucker, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Surgery