2020 GEMSSTAR for Emergency Medicine Supplemental Funding Program - $25,000

“Improving Diagnostic Accuracy for Older Emergency Department Patients with Suspected Pneumonia: The Role of Diagnostic Criteria and Novel Antimicrobial Peptides”

I aspire to be a national expert in geriatric emergency department with a focus in the diagnosis of infection in geriatric emergency department patients. This project builds upon my past projects and will serve as the basis for my next grant application, a K23. Ultimately, my objective is to obtain an NIH R01 award to support a multi-center trial to develop and validate a clinical tool to diagnose pneumonia in older adult emergency department patients.

Recipient(s)

  • Katie Buck, MD, MPH

    Associate Professor with Tenure

    The Ohio State University

    Katie Buck, MD, MPH, is an associate professor with tenure at Ohio State University and Director of the Level 1 Geriatric Emergency Department. She received her medical degree from the University of Virginia and completed EM residency and a research fellowship at Ohio State University. She is a current NIA Beeson K76 award recipient. Her research focus is improving diagnostic accuracy in older adult ED patients with current work on pneumonia. She has been involved in geriatric EM and AGEM since she was an undergraduate student.