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The Society of Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) provides educational resources for novice and mid-career researchers through the Research Learning Series or RLS. These are recorded lectures, panel discussions, and podcasts.These sessions feature valuable research content delivered by experts in the field of emergency research. Sign up for the upcoming live webinars for free or view past recordings below.

In this Research Learning Series (RLS) webinar, participants learned from our panel of biostatisticians as they discussed:

Improving the quality of unfunded observational studies through randomization
Improving the quality of randomized trials through appropriate research methods and statistical analysis

Authors

Lynn P. Roppolo, MD

John Peter Smith Health Network
Dr. Roppolo is a retired Professor of Emergency Medicine from the University of Texas Southwestern (UTSW) and is currently core faculty and the Assistant Ultrasound Director at John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth Texas. She is an Adjunct Professor at the University of North Texas and Texas Christian University. She is a Senior Editor for the Journal of Emergency Medicine and has published numerous peer reviewed papers as first or senior author. She has assisted with coordinating the Research Learning Series for the last two years. Her scholarly and research interests involve anything related to ultrasound and managing acutely agitated patients to reduce physical assaults on ED staff. She is a graduate of the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, did her emergency medicine residency at the George Washington University and an emergency ultrasound fellowship at UTSW after being part of the residency leadership for 15 years.
Christine Ramdin, PhD

Faculty

Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
Christine Ramdin, PhD, is a faculty member at the Instructor level at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School Department of Emergency Medicine. She has a PhD in Biomedical Informatics, and has research interests in Addiction Medicine, Medical Toxicology, Pain Medicine, and Stroke. She has published several studies using big data sources such as NHAMCS, HCUP, and NSSATs, and has worked with the NSDUH and TEDs dataset, along with several other local and national datasets. She has experience in conducting big data analyses and utilizing several different types of statistical methods.
Robert Ehrman, MD, MS

Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine

Wayne State University
Dr. Robert Ehrman is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Wayne State University in Detroit, MI. He completed his Emergency Medicine Residency at Yale-New Haven Hospital and a Fellowship in Emergency Ultrasound at Cook County Hospital in Chicago, IL. In 2019, he received a Master of Science in biostatistics and research design from the University of Michigan. He is the Director of Emergency Ultrasound Research at Detroit Medical Center, a member of the Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Research Design group at Wayne State University, and a methods and statistics editor for Academic Emergency Medicine. Dr. Ehrman’s research focuses on the use of heart and lung ultrasound, in combination with biomarkers, to optimize fluid resuscitation in sepsis. As a principal investigator, he has received research funding from NIGMS, SAEMF, and multiple industry contracts. He has collaborated on multiple studies involving echocardiography and lung ultrasound in acute heart failure, with funding from NHLBI, NIMHD, and EMF.

Archived Online Lectures

Learning from the Past Rigorous Retrospective Studies	Bryn Mumma, MD, MAS
Research within the EMS for Child Program	Mohsen Saidinejad, MD, MBA & Kate Remick, MD
Presenting Your Research	Annahieta Kalantari, DO, FACEP, FACOEP, FAAEM
Introduction to Missing Data in Clinical Research	Rebecca E Cash, PhD, MPH, NRP Harvard Medical School
An Introduction to Network Science	Zachrison, MD, MSc Massachusetts General Hospital
Pediatric Procedual Sedation in the Emergency Department	Corrie E Chumpitazi MD, MS, FAAP, FACEP Baylor College of Medicine
Strategies for making the NIH K to R Transition	Willard W. Sharp M.D, Ph.D. FACEP, FAAEM Assistant Professor of Medicine Section of Emergency Medicine University of Chicago
Challenges in Ultrasound-Based Research	Mark Joseph Favot, MD, RDMS, RDCS Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Director of Emergency Ultrasound Wayne State University
Manuscript Publishing Pitfalls and Pearls	Chadd K. Kraus, DO, DrPH, MPH Director, EM Research, Geisinger Health System Emergency Medicine
Deep Learning	Richard Andrew Taylor, MD Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine ED Director of Clinical Informatics and Analytics Yale School of Medicine