1. Emergency Medicine Network
Founded in 1996
Mission: To advance public health objectives through diverse projects in emergency care, particularly multicenter clinical research
MARC, NEDI, ED-SAFE, other projects
Funding: government (~95%), foundations, industry
526 publications (as of Oct 2016);
all age groups, diverse topics 1

2. Massachusetts General Hospital
Established 1811
Harvard teaching hospital
Emergency Department
Level 1 Trauma Center
(children & adults)
Level 1 Burn Center
110,000 ED visits / year
Harvard-Affiliated EM Residency (HAEMR) 2

3. EMNet Sites (204 US and 41 International = 245 sites)
Oct 2016 9

4. EMNet Research Focuses on three areas: Respiratory/allergy emergencies
Health policy
Other public health 4

5. Research - MARC Examples Asthma COPD Bronchiolitis Anaphylaxis
Food allergy
Stinging insect
Angioedema
Smoking cessation
Pneumonia
Inappropriate use of antibiotics 5

6. Research – Health Policy
Examples
Childhood Health Insurance Program (CHIP)
National ED Safety Study (NEDSS)
National ED Inventories (NEDI)
USA, 2001 to present
13 states & Indian Health Service
International (multiple)
EM Workforce
Emergency Physicians
NPs and PAs
Pediatric emergency care 6

7. Research – Other Public Health
Examples
Mental health
Depression
Acute psychiatric services
Opioid overdose
Suicide prevention (ED-SAFE)
Health literacy
Diabetes
Healthcare-associated infections
Large dataset analyses (eg, NHAMCS, NEDS, SEDD/SID, Medicare) 7

8. Publications, 1997-2016 (as of October 1, 2016)
# of manuscript publications: 526
# of investigators with manuscript publications: 667
# sites with manuscript publications: 167
Top 4 journals: Acad Emerg Med (68), Ann Emerg Med (31), J Allergy Clin Immunol (30), Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol (24) To
date

9. Education n=17 Research Fellowship Pre-doctoral Research Fellowship
Started 1996 … folded into the MGH ED fellowship ~2006
Dr Camargo serves as faculty on multiple NIH training grants
Pre-doctoral Research Fellowship
Started 2002
Duration: 12 months (June to June)
Summer Research Fellowship
Started 1999
Duration: 8 weeks (June to August)
Visiting Researcher
n=17
n=27
n=60
n=8 9

10. Community (examples) ED Alert Network (2001-2002)
Annual 5k Run for Asthma ( )
EMNet findERnow (2010-present) 10

11. EMNet findERnow Developed by EMNet at MGH (www.emnet-usa.org)
Locates closest ERs and provides directions
Available for free for both iPhone and Android
Pediatric version ($0.99) will be released in Nov/Dec 2016 11

12. Clinical (examples) Asthma Education in the ED (2001)
AHRQ-sponsored conference at NY Academy of Medicine
National Guidelines
NIH anaphylaxis (2004, 2005)
NIH asthma (2007)
NIH food allergy (2010)
AANMA Posters 12

13. EMNet Coordinating Center
Director: Carlos Camargo, MD, DrPH
Associate Director: Ashley Sullivan, MS, MPH
Investigators: Kohei Hasegawa, MD, MPH
Maggie Samuels-Kalow, MD, MPhil
Biostatisticians: Janice Espinola, MPH & Kamal Faridi, MPH
Research Fellows: Leili Behrooz, MD, MPH & Tadahiro Goto, MD
Grant and Finance Manager: Kathryn Entner, MBA
Biorepository Manager: Courtney Tierney, MPH
Program Coordinator: Erica Ruggles
Sr. Project Coordinators: Krislyn Boggs, MPH
Catalina Gimenez-Zapiola Daphne Suzin
Project Coordinators: Vebhav Garg, Elie Mitri, David Zheng
Students, Residents, and Visiting Researchers 13

14. EMNet Coordinating Center

15. EMNet Steering Committee
Carlos Camargo, MD, DrPH (chair) – Boston, MA
Jeffrey Caterino, MD, MPH – Columbus, OH
Sunday Clark, MPH, ScD – New York, NY
Robert Freishtat, MD, MPH – Washington, DC
Jonathan Mansbach, MD, MPH – Boston, MA
Ashley Sullivan, MS, MPH – Boston, MA