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The UC Irvine School of Medicine’s Department of Emergency Medicine is committed to advancing knowledge in our specialty through research.

Our internationally recognized faculty are experts in population-based health, education and administration research. Our goal is to engage in translational research that brings discoveries from the bedside to the broader population.

Our emergency department serves a diverse patient population with a variety of pathologies. This gives us a natural pool of patients to explore numerous research questions. As a result, we are simultaneously involved in many federal and foundation grants, as well as industry-sponsored trials. During the past five years, the department has published approximately 400 peer-reviewed articles. 

As one of the prominent nationally funded institutions for clinical and translational science, we have the departmental and university resources to enable our faculty to thrive in their research pursuits.
 

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The UC Irvine School of Medicine’s Department of Emergency Medicine conducts innovative research to prevent injury and disease. Emergency departments are the front door to all that ails our society, and they sit at the crossroads for almost all other medical specialties.
It is only natural that we as emergency medicine specialists are the shepherds of that discovery process. Our faculty members have a multitude of research interests, including:

  • Alcohol and substance abuse
  • Health policy
  • Ultrasound
  • Education
  • Emergency medical services
  • Disaster services
  • Administrative research

We are a collaborative team eager to strengthen our translational research presence with other medical specialties and other branches of science. The department is an active site for several research consortium groups.

We also have research staff dedicated to supporting our enterprise and a well-established emergency medicine research associates program, which helps collect data for our studies.

If you are interested in learning more about our research endeavors, please do not hesitate to contact us directly. We look forward to working with the greater scientific community to add to the breadth of emergency medicine research.

Regards,

Bharath Chakravarthy, MD, MPH

Research Director, Department of Emergency Medicine