Ongoing Research Projects

Project funding source

  • Surrogates Reasoning to Decline Trial Consent  CTSI
  • Skills Determination, Decay and Delay Study (SD3)  Advanced Technology International (ATI)
  • The Features of High Performing EMS Agencies on Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest AHA
  • FDA ACMT ToxIC Reporting Program American College of Medical Toxicology
  • Predicting medical consequences of novel fentanyl analog overdose using the Toxicology Investigators Consortium (ToxIC) American College of Medical Toxicology
  • Volume Outcome Link in Trauma for Emergency Medical Services (VOLT-EMS) American College of Surgeons Faculty Research Scholarship (ACSFR)
  • Evaluating respiratory virus vaccine effectiveness in a large, diverse healthcare system CDC
  • Real-time Intervention to Reduce Fatigue among Emergency Medicine Service Workers CDC/NIOSH
  • Sensor observed Treatment, Annotation and Timing (STAT) DARPA
  • Rapid Assessment for Prehospital Triage of Evacuation and medical Resources en Route Care Award (RAPTER ERCA) DMRDP/DoD
  • Biomarkers in the Brain Oxygen Optimization in Severe TBI Trial (Bio-BOOST) DoD
  • NeuroImmunoEndocrine Interface: Exploring a Unifying Axis for Precision Care in PH & TBI: NEXUS DoD
  • TraumaChek: A Field-deployable Dielectric Coagulometer for Comprehensive Hemostatic Assessment in Remote Damage Control Resuscitation (RDCR) DoD
  • Enhancing the Deployability of the Sotair to Improve Ventilation and Survivability During Prolonged Field Care DoD/SafeBVM
  • Multicenter Implementation Trial of Targeted Normoxia Strategy to Define Oxygen Requirements for Combat Casualty Care DoD/University of Colorado
  • Center for Cardiac Arrest Survival Hillman Foundation
  • Before "Time Zero": The Epidemiology of Pre-Sepsis Kaiser Foundation Research Institute/Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
  • Cold-Sleep for Long-duration Spaceflight NASA/TRISH/Baylor College of Medicine
  • AR with Sensor Fusion for Extreme Environment National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
  • Optimal timing of prehospital advanced airway management and epinephrine administration for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest NIH/NHLBI
  • Autonomous diagnosis and management of the critically ill during air transport (ADMIT) NIH/NHLBI
  • Electrocardiographic Detection of Non-ST Elevation Coronary Events for Accelerated Classification of Chest Pain Encounters (ECG-SMART) NIH/NHLBI
  • Resolution of inflammation after cardiac arrest NIH/NHLBI
  • Covid-19 Convalescent Plasma in High Risk Outpatients (C3PO)  NIH/NHLBI
  • ICECAP: Influence of Cooling duration on Efficacy in Cardiac Arrest Patients NIH/NHLBI-NINDS
  • Evaluation of the Sotair safety accessory for manual bag-valve-mask ventilation NIH/NHLBI/SafeBVM
  • Development and feasibility testing of a novel intervention to implement trauma triage guidelines NIH/NIA
  • Using video games to increase implementation of clinical practice guidelines in trauma triage NIH/NIA
  • An in-depth examination of the psychological processes involved in the transition from acute to chronic pain after a traumatic musculoskeletal injury NIH/NIAMS
  • Molecular SignAtures and Clinical outcomes in acute Pancreatitis (MOSAIC) NIH/NIDDK
  • Effectiveness of Synergistic, Neuroplasticity-Based intervention for Rapid and Durable Suicide Risk Reduction NIH/NIMH
  • ELECTRO-BOOST: Electroencephalography for cerebral trauma recovery and oxygenation NIH/NINDS
  • Menstrual Phase, Sexual Dysfunction, mTBI  NIH/NINDS
  • Optimizing Recovery prediction after Cardiac Arrest (ORCA) NIH/NINDS
  • Pediatric Dose Optimization for Seizure in EMS (PediDOSE) NIH/NINDS
  • Phenotyping Of Survivors Recovery Trajectories in the ICECAP Trial (POST-ICECAP) NIH/NINDS
  • PREcision Care In Cardiac ArrEst - ICECAP NIH/NINDS
  • Predictive Biomarkers & Models Assessing Systemic Response to Injury after Moderate-to-Severe TBI NIH/NINDS
  • Brain Oxygen Optimization in Severe TBI Phase-3 (BOOST-3)  NIH/NINDS
  • Strategies to Innovate Emergency Care Clinical Trials Network (SIREN) - Pittsburgh NIH/NINDS-NHLBI
  • Development of Sotair Safety Valve for Improving Performance and Minimizing Complications of Manual Ventilation NSF/SafeBVM
  • Pain-Related Disparities in Emergency Department Patients (PRIME) Pennsylvania Department of Health
  • Pittsburgh Prehospital Care Registry Pittsburgh Emergency Medicine Foundation (PEMF)
  • Precision Methods of Bacterial Infection Recognition in the Acute Care Setting Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Foundation (SAEMF)
  • Resuscitation culture of emergency medical services systems for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Foundation (SAEMF)
  • Trauma Care in a Rucksack (TRACIR) US Army
  • LITES Network – Task Order 005: Prehospital Airway Control Trial (PACT) US Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity
  • LITES Network – Task Order 004: CSP Early Intervention Trial US Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity
  • LITES Network – Task Order 006: Prehospital Analgesia INtervention trial (PAIN)  US Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity
  • LITES Network – Task Order 007: Type O Whole Blood assessment of Age and prehospital Resuscitation (TOWAR) Trial US Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity
  • LITES Network – Task Order 008: Acceptability of DSUVIA in Emergency Room Settings US Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity
  • LITES Network – Task Order 010: CAlcium and VAsopressin following Injury Early Resuscitation (CAVALIER) Trial  US Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity
  • Evaluation of Vapotherm Device for Rapid Therapeutic Cooling Vapotherm
  • Reduction of prothrombotic antibodies in COVID-19 patients who received convalescent plasma Zoll Foundation
  • BASSO 3 Zoll Medical Corporation