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The Emory University Department of Emergency Medicine - one of the nation's oldest, largest and best training programs in Emergency Medicine - is committed to providing excellent training in all aspects of Emergency Medicine. Our training programs are designed to incorporate the unsurpassed patient resources of a large inner-city hospital with the expansive academic resources of a premier university system and the state-of-the-art technology of a modern community setting. Our Emergency Medicine faculty includes many of the nation's most accomplished clinicians, teachers, researchers, and leaders.

Our clinical faculty teach every Emory medical student the essentials of emergency care. We also teach 40-60 visiting medical students each year. We support one of the nation's largest and most highly regarded emergency medicine residency programs, based at Grady. Not content to follow the lead of others, we are pioneering a variety of advanced educational techniques to enhance our trainees' experience, including use of computer-assisted instruction, professional actors, and robotic human simulators.

The Emory University Emergency Medicine Department's research program is concentrated in three "laboratories" covering each of the major domains of Emergency Medicine research:

Basic Science
The Brain Research Laboratory

Clinical Science
The Emergency Medicine Research Center

Public Health / Public Policy
The Center for Injury Control

Our faculty members also serve on numerous local, state and federal and agencies and nongovernmental organizations. Accolades include prestigious publications, leadership positions, and major awards

Latest Development
Our emergency physician, Sheryl LeAnn Heron, MD, has just been recognized by the American College of Emergency Physicians as a “Hero of Emergency Medicine”. details

The Emory University Department of Emergency Medicine faculty and staff provide medical direction and 24/7 staffing for five of Metro Atlanta's most important emergency departmentsGrady Memorial Hospital, which is the only level-1 trauma center in metro Atlanta, and for Emory Crawford Long and Emory University Hospitals, which are private hospitals specializing in advanced patient care. As well as Children's Healthcare of Atlanta/Egleston Hospital , and Children's Healthcare/Hughes Spalding Pavilion. Next spring, we will add Emory Johns Creek, a hospital under construction in North Fulton County.

The department also provides medical direction for the Georgia Poison Center - the third busiest poison center in the United States - and plays an integral role in the delivery of Emergency Medical Services (EMS) throughout metro Atlanta and the state of Georgia.

We provide care to over 250,000 patients annually in five metro Atlanta Emergency Departments, including the region's only Level 1 trauma center and the leading adult and pediatric referral centers.
Our mission is to be the preeminent Department of Emergency Medicine in the country by conducting ground breaking research; developing innovative educational programs; delivering excellent healthcare; and enhancing public health.

We treat all people with dignity
We value diversity
We promote professional growth, development and opportunity
We value creativity, intellectual curiosity, innovation, critical thinking, and diffusion of knowledge
Through our research, teaching, and service, we are committed to making a difference in the lives of our patients, the careers of our trainees, safety in our community, and the health of the world

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Members of our Section of Prehospital and Disaster Medicine provide medical direction to key components of Atlanta's EMS system, including Grady EMS, Rural/Metro EMS, Fulton County 911 and Office of EMS, Emory Flight air EMS, and the Emory First Responders. The Section is also leading the prehospital cardiac care research projects described above. With funding from HRSA, the Section is providing statewide training to enhance EMS response to acts of terrorism, whether due to explosives, poison gas, or biological agents.

Working in concert with Emory's Department of Pediatrics, members of our Section of Medical Toxicology provides medical direction to the Georgia Poison Center, the 3rd busiest in the nation. This Section also staffs Atlanta's only inpatient toxicology consult service, a community continuity clinic, and the nationally renowned Emory/CDC medical toxicology residency program.
Our Center for Injury Control works extensively with the Department of Violence and Injury Prevention at the World Health Association (WHO) to promote injury prevention worldwide. We house the WHO Helmet Initiative, a global partnership devoted to preventing traumatic brain injury. Last year, 2 Emory EM faculty members led an international effort to produce the WHO's first monograph on prehospital trauma care systems. With funding provided by the NIH's Fogarty International Center, we are working to improve trauma care and trauma research in Mozambique and ultimately, throughout southern Africa.

Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States and throughout the developed world. Timely diagnosis and treatment can save tens of thousands of lives each year. Current projects include:
CARES (Cardiac Arrest Registry to Enhance Survival). This CDC funded project is intended to develop a simple but powerful EMS information system to help cities across the United States improve treatment and outcomes of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.
Simple CPR - In partnership with the American Red Cross and Turner Broadcasting, we are developing ultra-low cost educational system to help citizens quickly and easily teach themselves how to perform CPR.
TIME (Timely Intervention In Myocardial Emergencies) - Based on a pilot program developed by Emory EM in concert with Grady EMS the Emory Heart Center, Medtronic/Physio-Control and Cingular Wireless, TIME is a community wide consortium that allows metro Atlanta EMS crews to acquire a 12 lead EKG in the homes of heart attack victims, transmit to an ED receiving station, and transport consenting patients directly to the nearest cardiac catheterization lab for emergent angioplasty.
HyperNet - Emory EM is a key partner in a network of academic emergency departments that are exploring strategies to improve the diagnosis and treatment of patients with hypertension, a leading cause of stroke, heart attacks and kidney failure.

Brain injury and stroke kill huge numbers of Americans annually, and permanently disable many more. Few effective treatments. Donald Stein, the world-renowned leader of our Brain Injury Research Laboratory, was the first scientist in the world to note that progesterone, a naturally occurring hormone, protects damaged brain tissue. With funding provided by the NIH, we recently completed the world's first study of this treatment in human victims of acute traumatic brain injury. Research conducted in our lab suggests that progesterone may also confer protection in the setting of acute stroke. If our promising observations are confirmed, this research will revolutionize treatment of both conditions.
The Emory Center for Injury Control, jointly supported by our department and Emory's School of Public Health, is one of only 4 programs in the US designated as "Collaborating Centers" for injury control and emergency health services by the World Health Association. In recent years, the staff of this center have: 1) evaluated a DOJ-funded initiative to reduce gun violence in Atlanta, 2) conducted federally funded research to screen and refer women victims of intimate partner violence, 3) conducted a landmark study that identified risk factors for deaths of children in the custody of Child Protective Services; 4) evaluated the impact of a state law intended to reduce fatal crashes by teen drivers, and 5) repeatedly blocked efforts to repeal Georgia's "all rider" motorcycle helmet law.