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The University of Cincinnati Department of Emergency Medicine has enjoyed a reputation of excellence in the field for over 30 years. Nationally recognized faculty are leaders in clinical teaching and research. As the first Emergency Medicine Resident Training Program established in 1970, it attracts the country’s top medical students. University Hospital was judged by U.S. News and World Report 2002 to be among the nation’s top 100 hospitals. We welcome you to learn more about our department. Read our Mission Statement

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IN THE SPOTLIGHT
Resident and Air Care save soldiers life!
Soldier's life saved
Docs Go Deep in the Wilderness to Test Emergency Skills
On an unusually warm day in Michigan this past October, medical students Patrick Harvey and Conal Roche were hiking in the woods when they encountered a small plane wreck. Inside the wreckage, they found a male pilot and a woman with her infant child. Harvey and Roche quickly determined there was nothing they could do medically for the mother. They decompressed the pilot’s collapsed lung by inserting a needle into his chest and put his leg in traction to restore blood flow to the limb ......... read more

RESIDENCY PROGRAM

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Brian Bales
Indiana University
Virginia Daughtery
Medical University of South Carolina
Jon Etheridge
Johns Hopkins University
Jeffery Hill
University of Cincinnati
Meagan Hunt
University of North Carolina
Nicole Kibbee
University of Kansas
Roberto Lopez-Freeman
UCLA
Daniel NeissUniversity of Cincinnati
Christopher Palmer
SUNY Upstate
Allison Phelps
University of Louisville
Jonathan Ratcliff
Emory University
Christopher Zammit
New York Medical College
RESEARCH NEWS
In-vitro Imaging Study of Combination Thrombolytic Therapy for Ischemic Stroke
George J. Shaw, MD, PhD has been awarded a National Institutes of Health Independent Scientist Award (NIH K02) through the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. Th e award will focus on the study of new combination thrombolytic therapies using a novel in-vitro microscopic imaging technique. The therapies include tissue plasminogen activator (tPA), ultrasound, and drug carrying echogenic liposomes (ELIP). ... read more
Dr. Lyon's receives K23 award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to study HIV testing in the ED
In his research projects, he will be studying which methods of screening for HIV in emergency department patients have greatest success at identfying HIV positive patients. The research builds on the Early Intervention Project, a Health Department funded program that complements ED staff with dedicated HIV counselors who offer HIV testing and counseling services to several thousand patients a year. ... read more