Research Learning Series (RLS): Pearls and Pitfalls for Building an EM Research Program

Dr. Kiran Faryar, MD, MPH, is a practicing board-certified emergency physician and clinician researcher with a focus on integrating public health and public health services into emergency department settings. Her primary research work is in the field of implementation science, investigating screening and intervention best practices in the ED. She has initiated, managed, and disseminated on community health projects in both academic and community EDs including HIV, HCV, and latent TB infection screening and linkage to care; take-home naloxone distribution; initiation of medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD) for ED patients with opioid use disorder with next-day linkage to care; county-wide COVID-19 testing through an $18 million COVID program funded by the CARES Act. To date, she has >15 peer-reviewed publications in top-tier emergency medicine and public health journals and has been awarded numerous industry, local, state, and federal grants for public health and health services. In 2021, she was appointed Director of Research for the Department of Emergency Medicine at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, where she oversees departmental research infrastructure, capacity building, and faculty, resident, and student research development. 

Dr. Newgard is an emergency physician, physician-scientist, and Professor of Emergency Medicine at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) in Portland, Oregon. He serves as Vice Chair of Research & Academic Affairs and Director of the Center for Policy and Research in Emergency Medicine at OHSU. He has been continuously funded through federal research grants (NIH, AHRQ, CDC, and HRSA) for over 20 years, with a focus on improving systems of care for emergency services and trauma. He has served on multiple national committees, including the Steering Committee for the 2021 National Guideline for the Field Triage of Injured Patients through the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma. He currently has two federal grants (NICHD and HRSA) to study emergency department (ED) pediatric readiness and outcomes in children across the US and an NICHD grant to develop risk prediction tools for firearm violence in children. Dr. Newgard has been involved in multiple national scientific leadership positions, emergency care research networks, mentored over 60 interdisciplinary trainees, and has led two NIH K12 institutional training programs in emergency care research. He was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2019. 

Dr. Paxton is an Associate Professor and Director of Clinical Research for Detroit Receiving Hospital / Wayne State University Department of Emergency Medicine, and currently serves as Chairman of the SAEM Research Committee (2021-2024). He received both his MD and MBA degrees from the University of Cincinnati (Cincinnati, OH), and completed EM residency training at Henry Ford Hospital (Detroit, MI). Dr. Paxton has served as core academic faculty for the EM residencies at both Sinai-Grace Hospital and Detroit Receiving Hospital since 2011, and has mentored hundreds of medical students and residents at Wayne State University during that time. He is an active clinical researcher and has served as PI for numerous industry- and publicly-funded trials. He is the editor of several books on emergency medicine topics, and is a recognized expert and invited speaker for many regional, national and international lectures on emergent vascular access, cardiac arrest, and emergent resuscitation, and is a past Chair of the WSU institutional review board.