Jude Luke

Jude Luke is a fourth-year medical student at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. He completed his undergraduate education at the University of Cincinnati, where he was a member of the Connections Dual Admissions Program with the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. Inspired by his experience volunteering in the emergency department (ED) of NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue in Manhattan, where he learned about ED diabetes screening efforts, Jude, at the age of 19, began designing a program tailored to the unique needs of Cincinnati’s community. With support from the SAEMF/RAMS Resident Research Grant, he is piloting a comprehensive ED-based A1C diabetes screening program to assess its feasibility and potential to connect affected patients to primary care. Jude is an active emergency medicine (EM) researcher, contributing to projects on chest pain stratification, mild traumatic brain injury management, and ED quality improvement, resulting in multiple publications and presentations at the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) annual meeting and other national EM conferences. Within the University of Cincinnati Department of Emergency Medicine, Jude serves as the senior student research advisor for the Medical Student Scholars Program and as a medical student member in the Division of Social Emergency Medicine. He is passionate about a career in emergency medicine and aspires to advance health equity and improve patient care through innovative systems-based solutions.