Phillip C. Moschella, MD, PhD

Dr. Moschella is a board-certified Emergency Physician Scientist (MD/PhD) with an extensive background in cellular signaling. He is a full-time clinician, associate professor and the assistant research director for the Department of Emergency Medicine for Prisma Health-Upstate. He manages all the research projects within the department of over 70 physicians and 30 resident physicians. His primary research emphasis surrounds HIV and HCV recognition, and linkage to care from the emergency department (ED), with several publications in top-tier emergency medicine journals. He has expanded his research interests into substance use disorders and specifically opioids. He is the PI on a large ($1.5 million over 3 years) grant from SAMHSA to evaluate the use of Alternatives to Opioids in the ED. He has recently published an exciting systematic review on the effects of peer-recovery services in the ED and on his alternatives to opioids project. His mix of clinical experience and basic science allowed him to advance medical design to solve real-world clinical problems. His collaboration with engineers at Clemson University, have produced publications on a novel portable negative pressure environment for treatment of COVID-19 and a novel pH sensing peritoneal dialysis catheter to aid in early detection of infection in top-tier engineering journals.