Moving Towards Research Independence: NIH Career Development Awards

Michael Puskarich, MD, MS

Director of Research and Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Associate Director

University of Minnesota

Jane Scott, ScD, MSN

Candace McNaughton, MD, PhD, MPH

Elizabeth Schoenfeld, MD, MS

Assistant Professor

University of Massachusetts Medical School - Baystate

Elizabeth M. Schoenfeld, MD, MS is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School - Baystate Medical Center and a Fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Delivery and Population Science, also at the University of Massachusetts Medical School- Baystate. Dr. Schoenfeld completed an Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship received a Masters in Clinical and Translational Science at the graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Tufts University. Dr. Schoenfeld’s research focuses on the use of Shared Decision-Making in the Emergency Department. She received an R03 from AHRQ in 2015 to study Emergency Physicians’ perspectives of Shared Decision-Making and has published extensively regarding SDM in the ED. Dr. Schoenfeld is currently funded by a Career Development Award (K08) from AHRQ to study and promote Shared Decision-Making in the context of diagnostic decision-making. Her other areas of interest include improving the ability of Emergency Departments to address patients’ social needs, decreasing unnecessary advanced imaging, and improving the patient experience.

Faheem Guirgis, MD

Professor of Emergency Medicine, Vice Chair of Research and Co-director

University of Florida College of Medicine