Research Learning Series (RLS): "Get Them While They're Young" - Engaging Medical Students in EM Research

Joshua Davis, MD, is an emergency physician in Wichita, KS, who teaches as a faculty member instructor at the Simulation Center University of Kansas School of Medicine - Wichita and a Course Director and Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine at Kansas College of Osteopathic Medicine. He is the Assistant Medical Director for Ultrasound, Quality, and Research with Vituity in Wichita, KS. His research interests are broad and include emergency medicine clinical topics along with patient safety, interprofessional communication, handoff communication, procedural competency, and medical education. He has published over 75 peer reviewed articles, given multiple national presentations, and written several book chapters. He is involved in developing several national guidelines and curricula.

Peter Hou, MD, is an assistant professor of emergency medicine (EM) at Brigham and Women's Hospital. He is dual-boarded in EM and critical care medicine, practicing in both the emergency department (ED) and intensive care unit (ICU). His clinical research interests include sepsis, acute respiratory distress syndrome, COVID-19, and quality improvement processes focused on the care of patients being admitted from the ED to the ICU. He was site-PI for the Protocolized Care for Early Septic Shock (ProCESS) Trial and multiple NIH-sponsored ProCESS ancillary studies evaluating the microcirculation and long-term outcomes of acute kidney injury and host immune response. He currently serves as Co-Lead for the Acute Lung Injury of New England Clinical Center, is a Steering Committee member for the NIH-sponsored Prevention and Early Treatment of Acute Lung Injury network, and the site-PI for the PETAL network trials.

James H. Paxton, MD, MBA, is an associate professor and the Director of Clinical Research for Detroit Receiving Hospital / Wayne State University (WSU) Department of Emergency Medicine, and previously served as Chairman of the WSU MP2 Institutional Review Board (2015-2020). He is a senior member of multiple national emergency medicine research committees, and recently served as Chairman of the SAEM research committee (2021-2024). Dr. Paxton received both his MD and MBA from the University of Cincinnati and completed EM residency training at Henry Ford Hospital. He has been core academic faculty for the EM residencies at both Sinai-Grace Hospital and Detroit Receiving Hospital since 2011, and has mentored hundreds of medical students and residents at WSU during that time. He is an active clinical researcher and has served as PI for dozens of industry- and publicly-funded trials.

Vicken Totten, MD, MS, is a pioneer in emergency medicine (EM). When she started in medicine, there were ten men for everyone woman physician and there was no specialty of EM. After an internship, two years in the U.S. Public Health Service in remote rural America, she returned to a family practice residency and was "grandmothered" into EM. A few years later she was working full time in rural emergency rooms and raising children as a single mom. She has a passion for academia and started her academic career as faculty in Brooklyn, NY. After spending six months working in Sweden as their first full time emergency physician and the only American-trained board certified EP in the country, she got a degree from the University of Michigan in Research Design and Statistics. Through her career, Dr. Totten has had the experience of helping residents get excited about projects. She finally retired in 2018 but remains engaged in the EM community.