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  • Corey Bills

    Assistant Professor

    University of Colorado

    Dr. Corey Bills is an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado in the Department of Emergency Medicine and the Global Health Fellowship Director. Dr. Bills’ current global health work focuses on methods of assessing quality in the development of acute care referral and prehospital systems in resource-limited settings, with particular focus in Liberia, Uganda, and India.

  • Nicole Zamignani

    Medical Education Coordinator

    Stanford University School of Medicine

  • Catherine Staton, MD, MSc

    Professor in Emergency Medicine, Neurosurgery, & Associate Professor of Global Health

    Duke University

    Dr. Staton is a Professor in Emergency Medicine (EM) & Neurosurgery & Associate Professor of Global Health with tenure at Duke University. She is the Director of the GEMINI (Global EM Innovation & Implementation) Research Center and the EM Vice Chair of Research Strategy & Faculty Development. Her research integrates innovative implementation methods into health systems globally to improve access to acute care. In 2012, with an injury registry at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center, Tanzania Dr. Staton demonstrated 30% of injury patients had at risk alcohol use, providing preliminary data for a K01/Career Development Award. Her K01 award adapted a brief alcohol intervention to the KCMC ED and Swahili and is now being trialed in an NIAAA funded R01 pragmatic adaptive clinical trial. Dr. Staton and her mentor and collaborator Dr. Mmbaga are co-PD of the “The TReCK Program: Trauma Research Capacity Building in Kilimanjaro” to train 12 masters and doctoral learners to conduct innovative implementation and data science projects to improve care for injury patients. Dr. Staton has designed and managed multiple clinical trials in global and US settings from efficacy trials, to pragmatic trials and hybrid implementation trials. Currently, Dr. Staton and GEMINI partners with over a dozen faculty from over 6 low- and middle-income countries to conduct research, has mentored over 150 learners from undergraduate to post-doctoral levels from high, middle and low- income settings and has over 130 manuscripts.

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