Department of Emergency Medicine

Emergency Medicine sits at a unique position in our Health Care System, between community care and acute care. Emergency Physicians deal with the failure of chronic disease management, trauma, sudden and unexpected critical illness, and a wide range of physical, social and psychological emergencies.

The role of the Academic Department of Emergency Medicine is to discover new and better ways to manage patients presenting to emergency departments and to share the knowledge of best practices with all emergency medicine practitioners and new learners. Our faculty have an impressive record of research and discovery.

Research Supervisors

Name Research Interests
Besserer, Floyd
Brubacher, Jeffrey drugs and driving, alcohol impaired driving, road safety
Christenson, Jim Other clinical medicine; sudden cardiac death; chain of survival; out of hospital cardiac arrest; emergency medical services; resuscitation science
Grunau, Brian Medical, health and life sciences; Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest; Resuscitation; Extracorporeal-CPR
Ho, Kendall eHealth, knowledge translation, educational research, continuing professional development, interprofessional education, evidence informed policy, eLearning, global eHealth
Hohl, Corinne Medical, health and life sciences; National Research Networks; Toxic Drug Crisis; Pandemic and Health Emergencies Preparedness; Drug safety and effectiveness; Health Information Technology; Clinical Decision Making; Health services research
Lau, Erica Knowledge translation and implementation science in health; Health services and systems, n.e.c.; Learning Health System ; Implementation Science; Emergency Care Research
Moe, Jessica Clinical medicine; Substance Use; Addictions; Identifying, characterizing and developing interventions for high risk emergency department patients; Evaluating optimal naloxone dosing in ultra-potent opioid overdoses; Developing approaches to emergency department screening for opioid use disorder; Evaluating buprenorphine/naloxone standard dosing and microdosing interventions; Overdose prevention
Purssell, Roy Emergency medicine, impaired driving, substance abuse, laboratory testing, adverse drug reactions