Kiran A. Faryar, MD, MPH

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 >20 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 Research Director for the Department of Emergency Medicine at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, where she oversees departmental research infrastructure, capacity building, and faculty research development. On a national level, she is the Chair of the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) Research Director’s Interest Group and an active member of the SAEM Research Committee and EMTIDE (Emergency Medicine Transmissible Infectious Diseases and Epidemics) Interest Group.