Doing Research in Emergency and Acute Care

Kama Z. Guluma, MD, is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and the Research Education Coordinator in the UC San Diego Health Systems Department of Emergency Medicine. He is a board-certified and clinically active Emergency Physician with over 10 years of hands on experience in clinical and basic science research, specifically with regards to acute stroke. He has served -- and currently serves as a Principal Investigator in NIH? funded clinical trials, and has published both clinical and pre-clinical research manuscripts. He has been a member of the NIH Stroke Progress Review Group, a national panel convened by the National Institutes of Neurological Diseases and Stroke (NINDS) to identify and outline national research priorities in acute stroke. He is also a reviewer for the Annals of Emergency Medicine, Internal and Emergency Medicine, and the Journal of Emergency Medicine. Michael P. Wilson, PhD, MD, is an Attending Physician in the UC San Diego Health Systems Department of Emergency Medicine, as well as Director of the Department of Emergency Medicine Behavioral Emergencies Research lab. He is a board certified and clinically active Emergency Physician, and brings a cross-trained perspective, having received his PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience. He has published numerous articles on both Emergency Medicine research and behavioral emergencies, sits on numerous journal editorial boards, and is a reviewer for both the Journal of Emergency Medicine and Western Journal of Emergency Medicine. Stephen Hayden, MD, is a Professor in the UC San Diego Health Systems Department of Emergency Medicine, is the previous Director of Residency Training and currently serves as Dean of Graduate Medical Education. He is a board-certified and clinically active Emergency Physician, has lectured nationally on evidence-based medicine, and is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Emergency Medicine.