Welcome to the Department of Emergency Medicine
The Department of Emergency Medicine has 22 clinical faculty, 2 research faculty, and 6 adjunct faculty involved in the teaching, administration, research, and clinical care missions of the Department. Our residency program is directed by Doug Trocinski, MD, and has 8 year RRC approval. The three-year residency program has up to 9 residents per year, and clinical time is shared equally between UNC Hospitals and WakeMed. An EMS Fellowship is directed by Jane Brice, MD, MPH.
The Department has two Divisions, Emergency Medical Services and Informatics. Jane Brice, MD, MPH, is Chief of Emergency Medical Services. Greg Mears, MD is Executive Director of the NC State EMS Performance Improvement Center which is housed here at UNC. Dr. Mears also heads up the Pre-hospital Medical Information System (PreMIS), which collects EMS data for the state of North Carolina. Anna Waller, ScD, is the Principal Investigator of the North Carolina Disease Event Tracking and Epidemiological Collection Tool (NC DETECT), which has been developed with the Division of Informatics to provide data and analysis tools for public health surveillance in North Carolina. NC DETECT utilizes data from several sources, including PreMIS and the North Carolina Emergency Department Database (NCEDD) which was developed by faculty and staff in this department.
The resuscitation research laboratories, under the direction of Dr. James Manning and Dr. Larry Katz, emphasize cardiac and cerebral resuscitation. Current projects include the pharmacologic production of hypothermia and its effects upon resuscitation, and is investigating hemoglobin substitutes in resuscitation. |
