James F. Holmes, MD, MPH

Dr. Holmes is a Professor and Executive Vice Chair in the UC Davis Department of Emergency Medicine. He is an emergency medicine physician and clinical researcher. His research is primarily focused on the initial evaluation of injured patients with a special focus on injured children. His research has been highly cited and published in high impact journals including JAMA, The Lancet and The New England Journal of Medicine. Dr. Holmes has additionally devoted much of his career to mentoring junior investigators. In 2006, he started the UC Davis Emergency Medicine Research Fellowship. He was Co-Director of the UC Davis Emergency Medicine K12 Research Training Program and in 2013 he became the Director of the UC Davis Clinical Translational Science Center’s KL2 Research Training Program. Over his career he has received $20 million in NIH grant funding as principal investigator for both his studies on injured children and research training programs that he directs. Finally, Dr. Holmes has been heavily involved in the Society for Academic Emergency (SAEM) during his career. He has served on both the SAEM Research and Grants Committees (Chair 2011-2013). Finally, he served on the SAEM Board of Directors from 2013 – 2022, including as SAEM President from 2020-2021.