The Division of Emergency Medicine Research was created to support a growing number of faculty researchers in multidisciplinary collaborative research endeavors. The Research Division conducts basic science, translational, and clinical research in several settings on the Medical University of South Carolina campus and at collaborative academic institutions. The Division has grown rapidly to now involve 5 faculty members with significant research efforts.

The Division of Emergency Medicine Research is committed to improving overall healthcare through innovative research, and is equally committed to providing research education to medical students, emergency medicine residents,allied health care providers, and junior faculty members. Current research activities involving MUSC collaborations include the Departments of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Biostatistics Bioinformatics and Epidemiology, Medicine, Neurosciences, Pediatrics, and Surgery. Additionally, several investigators are involved in NIH funded multi-center studies.

Areas of Research include:

Neurosciences Dr. Keith Borg Dr. Edward Jauch Infectious Disease Dr. Dag Shapshak Disaster Medicine Dr. Lance Scott EM Post Discharge Care Dr. Steven Saef

Recent Publications:

• Scott LA, Tintinalli JE, Brewer KL, Salgado, CD. Lumbar Puncture for Suspected Meningitis in Adults. Infectious Disease and Clinical Practice. 16(6):298-302, September 2008
• Scott LA, Lobbying Mediocrity. Academic Emergency Medicine. 15(7):669-71, July 2008
• Laskowitz DT, Kasner SE, Saver J, Remmel KS, Jauch EC and the BRAIN Study Group. Clinical utility of a biomarker based diagnostic test for acute stroke: The Biomarker Rapid Assessment in Ischemic Injury (BRAIN) trial. Stroke, in press
• Kleindorfer D, Broderick JP, Khoury J, Woo D, Flaherty ML, Alwell K, Moomaw CJ, Pancioli A, Jauch EC, Miller R, Kissela BM. Emergency Department Arrival Times After Acute Ischemic Stroke During the 1990s. Neurocritical Care, in press.
• Xu H, Tang Y, Liu DZ, Ran R, Ander BP, Apperson M, Liu XS, Khoury JC, Gregg JP, Pancioli A, Jauch EC, Wagner KR, Verro P, Broderick JP, Sharp FR. Gene expression in peripheral blood differs after cardioembolic compared with large-vessel atherosclerotic stroke: biomarkers for the etiology of ischemic stroke. J Cereb Blood Flow Metab. 2008 Jul;28(7): 1320-8.
• Khatri p, Hill MD, Palesch YY, Spilker J, Jauch EC, Carrozzella JA, Demchuk AM, Martin R, Mauldin P, Dillon C, Ryckborst KJ, Janis S, Tomsick TA, Broderick JB. Methodology of the Interventional Management of Stroke III Trial. International Journal of Stroke 2008 May;3(2): 130-137.
• House J, Bourne CL, Brewer K. "Location of the Appendix in the Gravid Patient" Poster presentation, Annual Scientific Assembly, Chicago, IL. Oct. 2008
• House J, Bourne CL, Brewer K. "Location of the Appendix in the Gravid Patient" Abstract accepted to ACEP Research Forum, Annual Scientific Assembly, Chicago, IL. Oct. 2008