Susan J. Duffy, MD, MPH

Susan Duffy, MD, MPH, Vice Chair Academic Affairs Deprtment of Emergency Medicine, Professor Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics, Brown University. Medical Director RI SAFE Program I am a pediatric emergency medicine physician at Hasbro Children's Hospital, in Providence ,RI and my career has focused on alleviating disparities in emergency care and improving care for children, youth. As current Vice Chair for Academic Development, and former Medical Director, I have over 28 years of experience developing and implementing quality programs and as an educator and researcher. I have significant experience in assessing and developing systems for emergency care and community ED outreach, particularly working with multidisciplinary experts formulating best practices and guidelines for patients with complex medical and social issues including victims of sexual trauma and domestic violence, care of children with mental health crises. I am the Medical Director of the RI SAFE program and PI on a Department of Justice Grant (RI-SAFE) to develop a sexual assault forensic examiner program in Rhode Island EDs I was also awarded a Brown Physicians, Inc. grant to investigate the Implementation of the RI-SAFE program. I am the recipient of a Brown Grant to develop and investigate a virtual education program for clinicians to Improve Care for Victims of Acute Sexual Assault that is now a CME program offered to medical providers throughout the region. Icollaborate in national efforts through the American Academy of Pediatrics, HRSA-Emergency Medical Services for Children (EMS-C), and other medical organizations in the US and Canada to improve equitable care for children with mental health issues presenting to EDs.This has resulted in the collaborative development of best practices for ED patients with acute mental health crises, most recently involvement with HRSA supported EMSC initiatives to develop tools for ED providers to respond to the children’s mental health crisis, facilitate emergency departments in an EMSC/EII quality collaborative to improve care at risk for suicide, developing virtual training for ED pediatric providers on agitation management through an AAP educational platform, through collaborative effort sponsored by HRSA to develop a toolkit to assist EDs to improve preparedness to care for children with mental health crises, through a NIMH Grant to develop an ED screening tool for Adolescent Suicide (ED STARS) and a NIMH Grant to assess the impact of acute trauma on the development of PTSD using social media (ED EAR) and an AAP Healthy Tomorrows Grant to Incorporate Adolescent Substance Abuse Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment into pediatric practice (Adolescent SBIRT).