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Research Interns and Projects 

Research Internship

Sacramento and Roseville

Pre-med Research Interns

Cole Florio finished his undergraduate studies at George Fox University in 2023. He is a full-time researcher at UC Davis while also supporting CREST projects on pulmonary embolism. Cole plans to apply to medical school in the upcoming 2024-2025 cycle.

Prevalence, characteristics, and outcomes of patients who decline pulmonary vascular imaging during antenatal pulmonary embolism diagnostics.

Qiao E, Campbell AR, Heringer GV, Florio CJ, Somers MJ, Sperling JD, Roubinian NH, Vinson DR, for the KP CREST Network.

Ann Emerg Med. 2024;84(4S):S131 [abstract 282].

Grace Heringer is currently in her third year at UC Davis studying Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior and minoring in Spanish. She was recruited by David Vinson of CREST to assist with a report on orbital myositis and continues to support additional projects on pulmonary embolism.

Prevalence, characteristics, and outcomes of patients who decline pulmonary vascular imaging during antenatal pulmonary embolism diagnostics.

Qiao E, Campbell AR, Heringer GV, Florio CJ, Somers MJ, Sperling JD, Roubinian NH, Vinson DR, for the KP CREST Network.

Ann Emerg Med. 2024;84(4S):S131 [abstract 282].

 

Child with right eye pain following streptococcal pharyngitis.

Campbell AR, Heringer GV, Yamagata AS, Vinson DR.

Ann Emerg Med. 2024; 84(1):84-85.

Aidan R. Campbell is an undergraduate biology student at New York University. He joined CREST in 2022 and is working with Sam Rouleau (EM resident at UC Davis) on several pulmonary embolism projects. Aidan is interested in a medical career.

 

Prevalence, characteristics, and outcomes of patients who decline pulmonary vascular imaging during antenatal pulmonary embolism diagnostics.

Qiao E, Campbell AR, Heringer GV, Florio CJ, Somers MJ, Sperling JD, Roubinian NH, Vinson DR, for the KP CREST Network.

Ann Emerg Med. 2024;84(4S):S131 [abstract 282].

Child with right eye pain following streptococcal pharyngitis.

Campbell AR, Heringer GV, Yamagata AS, Vinson DR.

Ann Emerg Med. 2024; 84(1):84-85.

Atrial fibrillation triggered by cold drinks: increasing clinician and patient awareness [letter].

Vinson DR, Campbell AR, Qiao E.

Proc (Baylor Univ Med Cent). 2023;36(4):540-541.

Disha Bahl completed her first two years of undergraduate work at De Anza Community College in Cupertino, CA, before transferring to the University of California, Davis, at which time she joined the CREST Network. She graduated from UCD in 2018 with a degree in genetics. Her initial project with CREST focused on acute pulmonary embolism. Disha began medical school in January 2020 at St. George's School of Medicine, Grenada, West Indies. She is now working with us on a study of guideline recommendations for atrial fibrillation.  

Presyncope increases risk for intensive care in emergency department patients with acute pulmonary embolism.
Vinson DR, Engelhart DC, Bahl D, Othieno AA, Abraham AS, Huang J, Reed ME, Swanson WP, Clague VA, Cotton DM, Krauss WC, Mark        DG.
          West J Emerg Med. 2020; 21(3):703-713.
          Presented at the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, IN, 2018.

Prevalence and prognostic value of proximal clot location in patients with acute pulmonary embolism presenting with presyncope or syncope.

Bahl D, Engelhart DC, Swanson WP, Cotton DM, Krauss WC, Huang J, Reed ME, Mark DG, Vinson DR. 
Acad Emerg Med. 2018;25(S1):S29 [abstract 58].
Presented at the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, IN, 2018.

Darcy C. Engelhart began her CREST internship while an undergraduate at the University of California, San Diego, where she stayed on for a master's degree in biology. With CREST she helped discover that pulmonary embolism patients who present with presyncope have similarly elevated risks as those with full syncope. Darcy began medical school in 2020 at California Northstate University of Medicine in Sacramento and continues to work with CREST. Her current projects include a study of decision rules for advanced imaging in ED patients with suspected ureteral colic and a study of RV strain measurements on CTPA. She will be pursuing a residency in child neurology.  

Accuracy of medical student measurements of CT right-to-left ventricular diameter in patients with acute pulmonary embolism.

Durant EJ, Fetterolf SM, Engelhart DC, Farshidpour LS, Shan J, Hung YY, Chang JC, Roudsari BS, Vinson DR. 

J Med Educ Curric Dev. 2023; in press.

CT Use Reduction In Ostensive Ureteral Stone (CURIOUS).

Durant EJ, Engelhart DC, Ma AA, Warton EM, Arasu V, Bernal RM, Rauchwerger AS, Reed ME, Vinson DR.

Am J Emerg Med. 2023;67:168-175.

Presented at the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Annual Meeting, New Orleans, May 2022

Accuracy of medical student measurement of right ventricular strain on computed tomography for pulmonary embolism.

Fetterolf SM, Engelhart DC, Farshidpour LS, Shan J, Hung YY, Chang JC, Roudsari BS, Vinson DR, Durant EJ.

Acad Emerg Med. 2022;29(S1):S262-S263 [abstract 550].

Presented at the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, May 2022.

 
Presyncope increases risk for intensive care in emergency department patients with acute pulmonary embolism.
          Vinson DR, Engelhart DC, Bahl D, Othieno AA, Abraham AS, Huang J, Reed ME, Swanson WP, Clague VA, Cotton DM, Krauss                                  WC, Mark DG.
          West J Emerg Med. 2020;21(3):703-713.                    
Presented at the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, IN, 2018.

Prevalence and prognostic value of proximal clot location in patients with acute pulmonary embolism presenting with presyncope or syncope.

Bahl D, Engelhart DC, Swanson WP, Cotton DM, Krauss WC, Huang J, Reed ME, Mark DG, Vinson DR. 
Acad Emerg Med. 2018;25(S1):S29 [abstract 58].
Presented at the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, IN, 2018.

 

Daphne D. Le joined CREST during her undergraduate years at University of California, Berkeley. She graduated in 2019. Her first project was an exploration of the management of stable wide-complex tachycardia in the prehospital setting. Daphne also led a case report on ibutilide-induced torsade de pointes. She also was involved in our prospective TAFFY study on atrial fibrillation, contributing to a study on predictors of hospitalization. She was accepted to medical school at the University of Vermont but declined, pursuing a career in video advertising.

Predictors of acute atrial fibrillation and flutter hospitalization across 7 U.S. emergency departments: a prospective study. 

Kea B, Warton EM, Ballard DW, Mark DG, Reed ME, Rauchwerger AS, Offerman SR, Chettipally UK, Ramos PC, Le DD, Glaser DS, Vinson DR. 

J Atrial Fib. 2021 May 8 [Epub ahead of print].

Changing U.S. recommendations on lidocaine for stable monomorphic ventricular tachycardia: have Emergency Medical Services kept pace? [letter]
Le DD, Abraham AS, Vinson DR.
Am J Emerg Med. 2019;37(11):2114-2115.
ECG Diagnosis: Ibutilide-induced Torsade de Pointes.
Le DD, Levis JT, Lugovskaya N, Vinson DR.
Perm J. 2019;23:18-187.
Prevalence of guideline-discordant lidocaine use in the U.S. prehospital treatment of stable monomorphic ventricular tachycardia.
Le DD, Abraham AS, Vinson DR.
Acad Emerg Med. 2018;25(S1):S267-268 [abstract 759].
Presented at the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, IN, 2018.

Wide variation in hospitalization of emergency department patients with atrial fibrillation and flutter in a U.S. integrated health care delivery system.

Le DD, Abraham AS, Kea B, Warton EM, Reed ME, Rauchwerger AS, Ballard DW, Vinson DR.
Acad Emerg Med. 2018;25(S1):S42-43 [abstract 97].
Presented at the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, IN, 2018.

 

Ashley S. Abraham began her CREST internship during her undergraduate years at the University of the Pacific in Stockton. She graduated with a major in bioengineering and a minor in social determinants of health. She continued her research work during her medical school years at UC Davis, Sacramento, CA (2018-2022), during which she was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society. She participated in two case reports and studies on pre-hospital ventricular tachycardia management and pulmonary embolism. She began residency training in family medicine and obstetrics at UC Davis in 2022. 

Presyncope increases risk for intensive care in emergency department patients with acute pulmonary embolism.

          Vinson DR, Engelhart DC, Bahl D, Othieno AA, Abraham AS, Huang J, Reed ME, Swanson WP, Clague VA, Cotton DM, Krauss WC, Mark                  DG.
          West J Emerg Med. 2020; 21(3):703-713.
          Presented at the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, IN, 2018.
Changing U.S. recommendations on lidocaine for stable monomorphic ventricular tachycardia: have Emergency Medical Services kept pace? [letter]
Le DD, Abraham AS, Vinson DR.
Am J Emerg Med. 2019;37(11):2114-2115.

 

ECG Diagnosis: Acute Myocardial infarction in a ventricular-paced heart.

Abraham AS, Vinson DR, Levis JT.

Perm J. 2019; 23:19-001.

Screening for and treatment of submassive pulmonary embolism in community emergency departments in the U.S.

Abraham AS, Othieno AA, Huang J, Reed ME, Mark DG, Vinson DR. 
Acad Emerg Med. 2018;25(S1):S28-29 [abstract 57].
Presented at the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, IN, 2018.
Prevalence of guideline-discordant lidocaine use in the U.S. prehospital treatment of stable monomorphic ventricular tachycardia.
Le DD, Abraham AS, Vinson DR.
Acad Emerg Med. 2018;25(S1):S267-268 [abstract 759].
Presented at the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, IN, 2018.

Wide variation in hospitalization of emergency department patients with atrial fibrillation and flutter in a U.S. integrated health care delivery system.

Le DD, Abraham AS, Kea B, Warton EM, Reed ME, Rauchwerger AS, Ballard DW, Vinson DR.
Acad Emerg Med. 2018;25(S1):S42-43 [abstract 97].
Presented at the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, IN, 2018.

Image diagnosis: Iliopsoas abscess from Crohn disease.

Abraham AS, Liu MY, Vinson DR. 

Perm J. 2017;21:16-150.

Nelya Lugovskaya was our 2015/2016 pre-med intern. She did her undergraduate work at American River College, then transferred to UC Davis. She contributed to our large study of pharmacologic cardioversion of atrial fibrillation. Nelya trained our other investigators, from medical students to physicians, on methods of data collection. She graduated from medical school at UC Davis in 2020 and from family medicine residency at Virginia Commonwealth University and Fairfax Family Practice in 2023. She stayed on as faculty to work with residents.

ECG Diagnosis: Ibutilide-induced Torsade de Pointes.
Le DD, Levis JT, Lugovskaya N, Vinson DR.
Perm J. 2019;23:18-187.

 

Improving an outpatient pathway for the emergency management of atrial fibrillation and flutter [letter].

Vinson DR, Lugovskaya N, Nagam MR.

Acad Emerg Med. 2018;25(9):1076-1077.

 

Ibutilide Effectiveness and Safety in the Cardioversion of Atrial Fibrillation and Flutter in the Community Emergency Department

Vinson DR, Lugovskaya N, Rome AM, Warton EM, Stevenson MD, Reed ME, Nagam MR, Ballard DW.

Ann Emerg Med. 2018;71(1):96-108.e2. 

Presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, New Orleans, LA, 2016.

Oligoantiemesis: a premature neologism for an intervention insufficiently substantiated.

Vinson DR, Nagam MR, Lugovskaya N, Nasrollahi F, Egerton-Warburton D, Furyk JS, Meek RA.

J Emerg Med. 2017;52(3):366-368. 

Paroxysmal atrial fibrillation and brain freeze: a case of recurrent co-incident precipitation from a frozen beverage.

Lugovskaya N, Vinson DR.

Am J Case Rep. 2016;17:23-26. 
 

Effectiveness and safety of procainamide in the cardioversion of atrial fibrillation and flutter in the community ED setting: a Pharm CAFÉ study.

Lugovskaya L, Warton EW, Nagam MR, Reed ME, Ballard DW, Rome AR, Stevenson MD, Vinson DR, for the KP CREST Network.

Ann Emerg Med. 2016;68(4S):S40 [abstract 100].

 

Matt D. Stevenson had finished two years of undergrad work at Sierra College before transferring to the University of Nevada, Reno. During his UNR time he did a one-year research internship with us. He contributed to both the central venous catheterization studies and our atrial fibrillation work, pitching in periodically during research electives. Matt graduated from medical school at Loma Linda University and completed his emergency medicine residency training at Stanford. Upon graduating in 2020 he joined The Permanente Medical Group and is working now at the Sacramento Area Medical Centers. 

Prevalence and prognosis of delayed diagnosis of acute pulmonary embolism.
Nasrollahi F, Makin CW, Arangan J, McLachlan DI, Stevenson MD, Huang J, Reed ME, Ballard DW, Vinson DR.
Ann Emerg Med. 2018;72(4S):S147 [abstract 374].

Presented at the American College of Emergency Physicians Scientific Assembly, San Diego, CA, 2018.

Patient selection, dosing patterns, safety, and delayed time to effect of IV amiodarone in the cardioversion of atrial fibrillation and flutter in 13 U.S. community EDs.

Nagam MR, Thiel GG, Dutczak O, Stevenson MD, Warton EM, Reed ME, Lugovskaya N, Ballard DW, Vinson DR.
Acad Emerg Med. 2018;25(S1):S224 [abstract 627].
Presented at thSociety for Academic Emergency Medicine Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, IN, 2018.

Ibutilide Effectiveness and Safety in the Cardioversion of Atrial Fibrillation and Flutter in the Community Emergency Department

Vinson DR, Lugovskaya N, Rome AM, Warton EM, Stevenson MD, Reed ME, Nagam MR, Ballard DW.

Ann Emerg Med. 2018;71(1):96-108.e2. 

Effectiveness and safety of procainamide in the cardioversion of atrial fibrillation and flutter in the community ED setting: a Pharm CAFÉ study.

Lugovskaya L, Warton EW, Nagam MR, Reed ME, Ballard DW, Rome AR, Stevenson MD, Vinson DR, for the KP CREST Network.

Ann Emerg Med. 2016;68(4S):S40 [abstract 100].

Pneumothorax is a rare complication of thoracic central venous catheterization in community emergency departments.

Vinson DR, Ballard DW, Hance LG, Stevenson MD, Clague VA, Rauchwerger AS, Reed ME, Mark DG, for the Kaiser Permanente CREST Network Investigators.

Amer J Emerg Med. 2015;33(1):60-66. 

Predictors of unattempted central venous catheterization in septic patients eligible for early goal-directed therapy.

Vinson DR, Ballard DW, Stevenson MD, et al.

West J Emerg Med. 2014;15(1):67-75.

 

Casey Hoehn completed his undergraduate studies at La Sierra University, Riverside, CA, and medical school at Loma Linda University. During his summer internship, he led the data collection of our study of the safety of procedural sedation. Casey completed his emergency medicine residency at the Western Michigan program in Kalamazoo, and graduated in 2019. He began his emergency medicine career in Southern CA, before returning to Kaiser Permanente Sacramento and Roseville in 2022. 

Sedation-assisted reduction of common orthopedic injuries in Emergency Medicine:  The safety and success of a One Physician/One Nurse Model.

Vinson DR, Hoehn C.

West J Emerg Med. 2013;14(1);47-554.

 

Jason Patel completed his undergraduate studies at Washington University, St Louis, MO, and his medical training at the University of Arizona, Tucson. He worked as a hospitalist in Tucson, before relocating to Cincinnati, OH, where he now lives and works in academics. During his college summer internship he did chart reviews for one of our DVT studies.

Pretest probability estimation in the evaluation of patients with possible deep vein thrombosis.

Vinson DR, Patel JP, Irving CS.

Amer J Emerg Med. 2011;29:594-600. 

 

Dom Hickey at the time was an undergraduate at UC Irvine. He went on to pursue an additional year of research at the National Institute of Health. He finished medical school at Case Western Reserve, Cleveland, OH, and stayed on for residency training in neurology. He finished an epilepsy fellowship in 2016 and is now a practicing neurologist. He worked on one of our early DVT studies.  

Outpatient management of deep venous thrombosis: Two models of integrated care.

Vinson DR, Berman DA, Patel PB, Hickey DO.

Amer J Manag Care. 2006;12:405-410. 

 

Medical Student Research Interns

Sarah Fetterolf graduated from Cornell University with an undergraduate degree in human biology, health, and society. She started medical school at California Northstate University College of Medicine in Sacramento in 2018. She joined CREST in early 2021 to help with one of our pulmonary embolism studies involving right ventricular strain measurements. She began her residency training in emergency medicine at NYU in 2022. 

Accuracy of medical student measurements of CT right-to-left ventricular diameter in patients with acute pulmonary embolism.

Durant EJ, Fetterolf SM, Engelhart DC, Farshidpour LS, Shan J, Hung YY, Chang JC, Roudsari BS, Vinson DR. 

J Med Educ Curric Dev. 2023; in press.

Accuracy of medical student measurement of right ventricular strain on computed tomography for pulmonary embolism.

Fetterolf SM, Engelhart DC, Farshidpour LS, Shan J, Hung YY, Chang JC, Roudsari BS, Vinson DR, Durant EJ.

Acad Emerg Med. 2022;29(S1):S262-S263 [abstract 550].

Presented at the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, May 2022.

Leyla Farshidpour graduated from the Smittcamp Family Honors College of Fresno State in 2017 with a BS in Biochemistry. After spending a few years working as a research assistant, scribe, and court appointment special advocate for foster children, she began medical school at UC Davis in 2019. Leyla joined the CREST Network in 2021 by working on a project looking at right ventricular strain in the setting of pulmonary embolism and has since been working on a diverse array of projects with topics such as ectopic pregnancy and atrial fibrillation. She began residency in emergency medicine in 2023 at the UCSF/Fresno program and will continue her work with the CREST Network.

Accuracy of medical student measurements of CT right-to-left ventricular diameter in patients with acute pulmonary embolism.

Durant EJ, Fetterolf SM, Engelhart DC, Farshidpour LS, Shan J, Hung YY, Chang JC, Roudsari BS, Vinson DR. 

J Med Educ Curric Dev. 2023; in press.

Bilateral tubal pregnancies presenting 11 days apart: a case report.

Farshidpour LS, Vinson DR, Durant EJ.

Clin Pract Cases Emerg Med. 2023;7(1):11-15.

Young woman with black spots and a red rash on her forearm. 

Farshidpour L, Caldwell NJ, Vinson DR.

J Am Coll Emerg Physicians Open. 2022;3:e12771.

Accuracy of medical student measurement of right ventricular strain on computed tomography for pulmonary embolism.

Fetterolf SM, Engelhart DC, Farshidpour LS, Shan J, Hung YY, Chang JC, Roudsari BS, Vinson DR, Durant EJ.

Acad Emerg Med. 2022;29(S1):S262-S263 [abstract 550].

Presented at the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, May 2022.

Dayna J. Isaacs graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara, with a BS in biopsychology. She then picked up a Master's in Public Health at UC Davis. She began medical school at UC Davis in 2017 and also served as a delegate for the California and American Medical Associations. Dayna joined the CREST Network in the fall of 2018 by taking on a few arrhythmia topics as well as research on pulmonary embolism. Before graduating from medical school, Dayna was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha honor society. She will complete her internal medical residency at UCLA in 2024, then relocate to Sacramento for a heme/onc fellowship at UC Davis. 

Management and outcomes of adults diagnosed with acute pulmonary embolism in primary care: community-based retrospective cohort study.​

Vinson DR, Hofmann ER, Johnson EJ, Huang J, Isaacs DJ, Rangarajan S, Shan J, Rauchwerger AS, Reed ME, Mark DG.

J Gen Intern Med. 2022 Jan 12 [Epub ahead of print].

Presented at American College of Physicians Internal Medicine Meeting,  April 2021.

Presented at the American Thoracic Society 2021 Virtual Conference, May 2021.

Challenges in managing isolated subsegmental pulmonary embolism.

Vinson DR, Isaacs DJ, Taye E, Balasubramanian MJ. 

Perm J. 2021;25:21.077.

Presented at the American Thoracic Society 2021 Virtual Conference, May 2021.

Comprehensive management of acute pulmonary embolism in primary care using telemedicine in the COVID-era.

Chang JC, Isaacs DJ, Leung J, Vinson DR. 

BMJ Case Rep. 2021;14:e243083.

Presented at the American Thoracic Society 2021 Virtual Conference, May 2021.

Outpatient management of adults diagnosed with acute pulmonary embolism in primary care: an interim analysis of a retrospective cohort study.
Presented at the American College of Physicians Northern California Virtual Annual Regional Scientific Meeting, November 2020.
Awarded First Place in the Research Competition.

           “Outpatient Management” of Pulmonary Embolism Defined in the Primary Literature: A Narrative Review.

          Shan J, Isaacs DJ, Bath H, Johnson EJ, Julien D, Vinson DR.
          Perm J. 2021;25:20.233.
                   Presented at the CHEST Annual Meeting, October 2020.

          Primary care physicians comprehensively manage acute pulmonary embolism without higher-level-of-care transfer. A report of two cases.
          Isaacs DJ, Johnson EJ, Hofmann ER, Rangarajan S, Vinson DR.
          Medicine (Baltimore). 2020;99:45; e23031.

           How is outpatient management of acute pulmonary embolism defined in the primary literature? A narrative review.

          Shan J, Isaacs DJ, Bath H, Johnson EJ, Julien D, Vinson DR.
          Chest. 2020;158(4S):A2228.
                   Presented at the CHEST Annual Meeting, October 2020.

          Managing acute pulmonary embolism in primary care in a patient declining emergency department transfer: A case report
          Vinson DR, Isaacs DJ, Johnson EJ.
          Eur Heart J Case Rep. 2020;4(5):1-4. 

         Comprehensive management of acute pulmonary embolism in the primary clinic setting without transfer of care: A case report.

          Isaacs DJ, Johnson EJ, Vinson DR.

          Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2020;201:A7257.

                    Presented at the American Thoracic Society meeting, Philadelphia, PA, May 2020.

ECG diagnosis: Brugada syndrome.

Othieno AA, Isaacs DJ, Vinson DR, Levis JT. 

Perm J. 2019;23:19.044.

Improving first shock success in patients with atrial fibrillation undergoing electrical cardioversion.
Vinson DR, Isaacs DJ, Othieno AA, Liu TI.
Europace. 2019;21(5):833.

Harjot Bath received a combined undergraduate/medical education at the Royal College of Surgeons Ireland. Dr. Harjot joined the CREST Network in the summer of 2019 to help with one of our pulmonary embolism studies. In addition to working with CREST, Harjot was also involved in gastrointestinal research at UC Davis. She completed an internal medicine residency  at St Agnes in Fresno, CA, followed by a hepatology fellowship at UCSF-Fresno. In 2024 she will begin a GI fellowship at University of Illinois, Peoria. 

 

           “Outpatient Management” of Pulmonary Embolism Defined in the Primary Literature: A Narrative Review.

          Shan J, Isaacs DJ, Bath H, Johnson EJ, Julien D, Vinson DR.
          Perm J. 2021;25:20.233.
                   Presented at the CHEST Annual Meeting, October 2020.

           How is outpatient management of acute pulmonary embolism defined in the primary literature? A narrative review.

          Shan J, Isaacs DJ, Bath H, Johnson EJ, Julien D, Vinson DR.
          Chest. 2020;158(4S):A2228.
                  Presented at the CHEST Annual Meeting, October 2020.

           Hospitalization is less common in ambulatory patients with acute pulmonary embolism diagnosed before emergency department referral than             after arrival.
          Vinson DR, Bath H, Huang J, Reed ME, Mark DG. 
          Acad Emerg Med. 2020;27(7):588-599.

 Emergency department patients arriving with a clinic-based diagnosis have lower resource needs than those diagnosed in the emergency   department.

 Bath H, Huang J, Mark DG, Reed ME, Vinson DR.

 Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2020;201:A2012.

Presented at the Northern California regional meeting of the American College of Physicians, San Jose, CA, 2019.

Presented at the American Thoracic Society meeting, Philadelphia, PA, May 2020

Alisha A. Othieno is a CAL grad who completed medical school at UC Davis in 2020. She did a research elective with us on two pulmonary embolism studies: one on the risk associated with presyncope and the other on submassive emboli. Alisha led a case report on Brugada Syndrome and a letter on methods of improving electrical cardioversion in patients with atrial fibrillation. Alisha was elected to membership in Alpha Omega Alpha. She will complete her ob/gyn residency at UC San Francisco in 2024.  

Presyncope increases risk for intensive care in emergency department patients with acute pulmonary embolism.

          Vinson DR, Engelhart DC, Bahl D, Othieno AA, Abraham AS, Huang J, Reed ME, Swanson WP, Clague VA, Cotton DM, Krauss WC, Mark                   DG.
          West J Emerg Med. 2020; 21(3):703-713.
          Presented at the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, IN, 2018.
ECG diagnosis: Brugada syndrome.

Othieno AA, Isaacs DJ, Vinson DR, Levis JT. 

Perm J. 2019;23:19.044.

Improving first shock success in patients with atrial fibrillation undergoing electrical cardioversion.
Vinson DR, Isaacs DJ, Othieno AA, Liu TI.
Europace. 2019;21(5):833.
Screening for and treatment of submassive pulmonary embolism in community emergency departments in the U.S.
Abraham AS, Othieno AA, Huang J, Reed ME, Mark DG, Vinson DR. 
Acad Emerg Med. 2018;25(S1):S28-29 [abstract 57].
Presented at the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, IN, 2018.

Farrah Nasrollahi is a CAL grad and a 2019 graduate of California Northstate University College of Medicine. She began her residency in 2019 in emergency and internal medicine at the University of Illinois, Chicago. She joined the CREST team in the summer of 2016. Her primary project was evaluating the delayed diagnosis of pulmonary embolism (the ROPE study), though her first CREST publication was a letter to the editor on antiemetic efficacy in the ED. 

Prevalence and prognosis of delayed diagnosis of acute pulmonary embolism.
Nasrollahi F, Makin CW, Arangan J, McLachlan DI, Stevenson MD, Huang J, Reed ME, Ballard DW, Vinson DR.
Ann Emerg Med. 2018;72(4S):S147 [abstract 374].

Presented at the American College of Emergency Physicians Scientific Assembly, San Diego, CA, 2018.

Oligoantiemesis: a premature neologism for an intervention insufficiently substantiated.

Vinson DR, Nagam MR, Lugovskaya N, Nasrollahi F, Egerton-Warburton D, Furyk JS, Meek RA.

J Emerg Med. 2017;52(3):366-368. 

Manvi R. Nagam completed her medical school training and first year of post-graduate work in India. She started an academic research sabbatical with us in early 2016. She has contributed to our study of the pharmacologic cardioversion of atrial fibrillation (the Pharm CAFE Study), evaluating the safety and effectiveness of ibutilide, procainamide, and amiodarone, the last of which she led. She also co-authored other projects on heart attacks and antiemetics. She completed an internal medicine residency at the University of Nevada, Reno, in 2021, and is now working in Reno as a hospitalist. 

Improving an outpatient pathway for the emergency management of atrial fibrillation and flutter [letter].

Vinson DR, Lugovskaya N, Nagam MR.

Acad Emerg Med. 2018;25(9):1076-1077.

 

Ibutilide Effectiveness and Safety in the Cardioversion of Atrial Fibrillation and Flutter in the Community Emergency Department

Vinson DR, Lugovskaya N, Rome AM, Warton EM, Stevenson MD, Reed ME, Nagam MR, Ballard DW.

Ann Emerg Med. 2018;71(1):96-108.e2.

Patient selection, dosing patterns, safety, and delayed time to effect of IV amiodarone in the cardioversion of atrial fibrillation and flutter in 13 U.S. community EDs.

Nagam MR, Thiel GG, Dutczak O, Stevenson MD, Warton EM, Reed ME, Lugovskaya N, Ballard DW, Vinson DR.
Acad Emerg Med. 2018;25(S1):S224 [abstract 627].
Presented at thSociety for Academic Emergency Medicine Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, IN, 2018. 

ECG Diagnosis: Right ventricular myocardial infarction.

Nagam MR, Vinson DR, Levis JT.

Perm J. 2017;21:16-105. 

Oligoantiemesis: a premature neologism for an intervention insufficiently substantiated.

Vinson DR, Nagam MR, Lugovskaya N, Nasrollahi F, Egerton-Warburton D, Furyk JS, Meek RA.

J Emerg Med. 2017;52(3):366-368. 

Effectiveness and safety of procainamide in the cardioversion of atrial fibrillation and flutter in the community ED setting: a Pharm CAFÉ study.

Lugovskaya L, Warton EW, Nagam MR, Reed ME, Ballard DW, Rome AR, Stevenson MD, Vinson DR, for the KP CREST Network.

Ann Emerg Med. 2016;68(4S):S40 [abstract 100].

 Presented at the American College of Emergency Physicians Scientific Assembly, Las Vegas, NV, 2016.

Bay Area

Pre-med Research Intern

Janani Arangan completed her undergraduate studies at Duke University and graduated in 2023 from the Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University. She began a combined family medicine/psychiatry residency at Boston Medical Center in 2023. She joined CREST in the spring of 2018 and heavily contributed to the ROPE study, which evaluated the delayed diagnosis of pulmonary embolism, and the stable monomorphic ventricular tachycardia (stable VT) study, which assessed stable VT treatment in the emergency department.

Treatment variation of stable ventricular tachycardia in the emergency department
Arangan J, Lin JS, Bouvet SC, Warton EM, Reed ME, Liu TI, Vinson DR, McLachlan ID.
Ann Emerg Med. 2019;74(4S):S27 [abstract 69].
Presented at the American College of Emergency Physicians Research Forum, Denver, CO, 2019.
 
The management of stable ventricular tachycardia across 21 community emergency department.
Fazleabas QG, Arangan J, Lin JS, Bouvet SZ, Vinson DR, Warton EM, Reed MR, Liu TI, McLachlan ID.
Acad Emerg Med. 2019;26(S1):S169 [abstract 440].
Presented at Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV, 2019.
Prevalence and prognosis of delayed diagnosis of acute pulmonary embolism.
Nasrollahi F, Makin CW, Arangan J, McLachlan DI, Stevenson MD, Huang J, Reed ME, Ballard DW, Vinson DR.
Ann Emerg Med. 2018;72(4S):S147 [abstract 374].

Presented at the American College of Emergency Physicians Research, San Diego, CA, 2018.

Paid Research Assistant Position

Oakland

Daniel D. DiLena graduated from UC Berkeley in 2023 before starting as a CREST research assistant at the Division of Research in Oakland, CA.

 

A prospective trial of the effect of Canadian syncope risk score recommendations on emergency physician management of unexplained syncope.

Nguyen T, Farshidpour LS, Gupta N, Somers MJ, Ma AA, Hofmann ER, Sax DR, Zhang JY, DiLena DD, Reed ME, Vinson DR, for the KP CREST Network.

Ann Emerg Med. 2024;84(4S):S80-S81 [abstract 172].

Predictors of blood culture results and ordering decision for febrile children in the emergency department.

Casey SD, Greenhow TL, DiLena DD, Somers MJ, Nguyen T, Reed ME, Ballard DW.

Acad Emerg Med. 2024;31(S1):337 [abstract 762].

Clinical and patient characteristics associated with long-haul symptoms following an acute COVID-19 infection.

DiLena DD, Durant EJ, Warton M, Reed ME, Rauchwerger AS, Skarbinski J, Siqueiros MH, Cholleti SM, Mark DG, Vinson DR, Ballard DW.

Acad Emerg Med. 2024;31(S1):348-349 [abstract 788].

Impact of emergency department decision support on initiation of atrial fibrillation thromboprophylaxis.

Vinson DR, Warton M, Durant EJ, Rauchwerger AS, DiLena DD, Solomon MD, Kea B, Reed ME, Mark DG.

Acad Emerg Med. 2024;31(S1):189 [abstract 397].

 

Smells like a variant: How the association between COVID-19 and olfactory dysfunction changed between 2019 and 2022

DiLena DD, Warton EM, Vinson DR, Siqueiros MH, Rauchwerger AS, Mark DG, Skarbinski J, Choletti SM, Durant EJ, Reed ME, Ballard DW.

J Intern Med. 2023 Dec 13. Online ahead of print.

Presented at the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, November 2023

Jennifer Y. Zhang graduated from UC Berkeley in 2020, then did research for a year with the Diabetes Technology Society before starting as a CREST research assistant at the KP Division of Research in Oakland, CA. She is currently contributing to our studies on syncope, atrial fibrillation and infant fever. She is interested in immunology, diabetes, and healthcare disparities. She begins an MPH program in 2023 at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

CA FIRST (California Febrile Infant Risk Stratification Tool) algorithm development in a learning health system.

Greenhow TL, Nguyen THP, Young BR, Somers MJ, Huang J, Alabaster AL, Vinson DR, Mark DG, Van Winkle PJ, Sharp AL, Reed ME, Shan J, Zhang JY, Rauchwerger AS, Ballard DW.

Perm J. 2023 Aug 10 [online ahead of print].

Automated measures of mis-triage to assess accuracy of the Emergency Severity Index among pediatric patients.
Zhang JY, Warton M, Reed ME, Rauchwerger AS, Vitale-McDowell TJ, McGauhey KR, Ballard DW, Kene MV, Sax DR.
Acad Emerg Med. 2023;30(S1):233 [abstract 491].
Presented at the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Annual Meeting, Austin, May 2023

Validation of the Oakland Score among emergency department patients with lower gastrointestinal bleeding.

Bouvet S, Zhang JY, Rauchwerger AS, Somers MJ, Merchant M, Sax DR.
Acad Emerg Med. 2023;30(S1):367-368 [abstract 792].
Presented at the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Annual Meeting, Austin, May 2023
Co-administering long-acting oral with intravenous bolus rate reducers in treating rapid atrial fibrillation.
Vinson DR, Warton M, Hofmann ER, Durant EJ, Rauchwerger AS, Zhang JY, Reed ME, Mark DG.
Acad Emerg Med. 2023;30(S1):63 [abstract 119].
Presented at the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Annual Meeting, Austin, May 2023

Clinical decision support to Optimize Care of patients with Atrial Fibrillation or flutter in the Emergency department: protocol of a stepped-wedge cluster randomized pragmatic trial (O’CAFÉ trial).

Vinson DR, Rauchwerger AS, Karadi CA, Shan J, Zhang JY, Warton EM, Ballard DW, Mark DG, Hofmann ER, Cotton DM, Durant EJ, Lin JS, Sax DR, Poth LS, Bouvet SC, Gamboa SH, Ghiya MS, Kene MV, Ganapathy A, Whiteley PM, Babakhanian L, Kwok E, Solomon MD, Go AS, Reed ME, & on behalf of the Kaiser Permanente CREST Network.

Trials. 2023;24:246.

Patient Characteristics Associated with Telephone and Video Telemedicine Utilization for Adult Patients with Emergency Department-Sensitive Conditions in the COVID-19 Pandemic Era

Zhang JY, Kene MV, Warton EM, Somers MJ, Rauchwerger AS, Reed ME, Sax DR.

Presented at Annual Meeting and Expo, American Public Health Association, November, 2022.

Short-term emergency department encounters following primary care telemedicine visits in the era of COVID-19.

Zhang JY, Sax DR, Warton EM, Somers MJ, Rauchwerger AS, Reed ME, Kene MV.

Ann Emerg Med. 2022;80(4S):S145 [abstract 341].

Presented at the Research Forum, American College of Emergency Physicians, San Francisco, October, 2022.

Ten Additional Cases of Atrial Fibrillation Triggered by the Sequence of Strenuous Exercise and Cold Drink

Zhang JY, Rauchwerger AS, Vinson DR.

J Emerg Med. 2022;63(1):131-132.

All-inclusive model for predicting invasive bacterial infection in febrile infants age 7-60 days.

Ballard DW, Huang J, Sharp AL, Vinson DR, Young BR, Nguyen T, Mark DG, Kene MV, Rauchwerger AS, Park S, Zhang JY, Van Winkle P, Reed ME, Greenhow TL.

Acad Emerg Med. 2022;29(S1):S33 [abstract 53].

Presented at the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, May 2022.

Judy Shan graduated from UC Berkeley in 2019 before starting as a CREST research assistant at the KP Division of Research in Oakland, CA. She is contributed to our studies on outpatient management of pulmonary embolism, clinical decision support for pediatric traumatic brain injury, chest pain, atrial fibrillation, and COVID-19, among others. She began medical school at UC San Francisco in 2021.

Accuracy of medical student measurements of CT right-to-left ventricular diameter in patients with acute pulmonary embolism.

Durant EJ, Fetterolf SM, Engelhart DC, Farshidpour LS, Shan J, Hung YY, Chang JC, Roudsari BS, Vinson DR. 

J Med Educ Curric Dev. 2023; in press.

CA FIRST (California Febrile Infant Risk Stratification Tool) algorithm development in a learning health system.

Greenhow TL, Nguyen THP, Young BR, Somers MJ, Huang J, Alabaster AL, Vinson DR, Mark DG, Van Winkle PJ, Sharp AL, Reed ME, Shan J, Zhang JY, Rauchwerger AS, Ballard DW.

Perm J. 2023; in press.

Clinical decision support to Optimize Care of patients with Atrial Fibrillation or flutter in the Emergency department: protocol of a stepped-wedge cluster randomized pragmatic trial (O’CAFÉ trial).

Vinson DR, Rauchwerger AS, Karadi CA, Shan J, Zhang JY, Warton EM, Ballard DW, Mark DG, Hofmann ER, Cotton DM, Durant EJ, Lin JS, Sax DR, Poth LS, Bouvet SC, Gamboa SH, Ghiya MS, Kene MV, Ganapathy A, Whiteley PM, Babakhanian L, Kwok E, Solomon MD, Go AS, Reed ME, & on behalf of the Kaiser Permanente CREST Network.

Trials. 2023;24:246.

Using AAP guidelines to manage febrile infants without C-reactive protein and procalcitonin.

Nguyen THP, Young BR, Alabaster A, Vinson DR, Mark DG, Van Winkle PJ, Sharp AL, Shan J, Rauchwerger AS, Greenhow T, Ballard DW.

Pediatrics. 2023;151(1):e2022058495.

Lumbar puncture and clinical outcomes in febrile infants 29-60 days of age evaluated at community emergency departments.
Van Winkle P, Lee S, Chen Q, Baecker A, Ballard D, Greenhow T, Nguyen T, Young B, Shan J, Vinson D, Musigdilok V, Park S, Sharp A. 

J Am Coll Emerg Physicians Open. 2022; in press.

Accuracy of medical student measurement of right ventricular strain on computed tomography for pulmonary embolism.

Fetterolf SM, Engelhart DC, Farshidpour LS, Shan J, Hung YY, Chang JC, Roudsari BS, Vinson DR, Durant EJ.

Acad Emerg Med. 2022;29(S1):S262-S263 [abstract 550].

Presented at the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, May 2022.

A Retrospective analysis of the performance characteristics of the 2021 American Academy of Pediatrics Guidelines.

Shan J, Alabaster A, Nguyen T, Young B, Vinson D, Sharp A, Vanwinkle P, Mark D, Rauchwerger A, Greenhow T, Ballard D.

Acad Emerg Med. 2022;29(S1):S90-S91 [abstract 176].

Presented at the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, May 2022.

Higher intensity of 72-hour non-invasive cardiac test referral does not improve short-term outcomes among emergency department patients with chest pain.

Mark DG, Shan J, Huang J, Ballard DW, Vinson DR, Kene MV, Sax DR, Rauchwerger AS, Reed ME; for the Kaiser Permanente CREST Network Investigators.

Acad Emerg Med. 2022;29(6):736-747.

Management and outcomes of adults diagnosed with acute pulmonary embolism in primary care: community-based retrospective cohort study.​

Vinson DR, Hofmann ER, Johnson EJ, Huang J, Isaacs DJ, Rangarajan S, Shan J, Rauchwerger AS, Reed ME, Mark DG.

J Gen Intern Med. 2022 Jan 12 [Epub ahead of print].

Presented at American College of Physicians Internal Medicine Meeting, April 2021.

Presented at the American Thoracic Society 2021 Virtual Conference, May 2021.

Computed tomography use in children with minor blunt head trauma presenting to 21 community emergency departments within an integrated health care system.

Shan J, Warton EM, Reed ME, Vinson DR, Kuppermann N, Dayan P, Dalziel S, Rauchwerger AS, Ballard DW.

Perm J. 2021;25:21.096.

Graded coronary risk stratification for ED patients with chest pain: a controlled cohort study.

Mark DG, Huang J, Ballard DW, Kene MV, Sax DR, Chettipally UK, Lin JS, Bouvet SC, Cotton DC, Anderson MC, McLachlan ID, Simon LE, Shan J, Rauchwerger AS, Vinson DR, Reed ME.

J Am Heart Assoc. 2021;10:e022539.

 

Clinical characteristics of COVID-19 patients evaluated in the emergency department: a retrospective cohort study of 801 cases.

Cotton DM, Liu L, Vinson DR, Ballard DW, Sax DR, Hofmann ER, Lin JS, Durant EJ, Kene MV, Casey SD, Ghiya M, Shan J, Bouvet SC, McLachlan ID, Rauchwerger AS, Mark DG, Reed ME for the Clinical Research on Emergency Services and Treatment (CREST) Network.

J Am Coll Emerg Physicians Open2021;2:e12538.

Presented at the American College of Emergency Physicians Research Forum, August 2021

 

“Outpatient Management” of Pulmonary Embolism Defined in the Primary Literature: A Narrative Review.

          Shan J, Isaacs DJ, Bath H, Johnson EJ, Julien D, Vinson DR.
          Perm J. 2021;25:20.233.
                   Presented at the CHEST Annual Meeting, October 2020.
Lumbar puncture and clinical outcomes in febrile infants 29-60 days of age evaluated at community emergency departments.
Van Winkle P, Lee S, Chen Q, Baecker A, Ballard D, Greenhow T, Nguyen T, Young B, Shan J, Vinson D, Musigdilok V, Park S, Sharp A. 
J Hosp Med. 2021 May 26: abstract 148 [Epub].

Prospective validation and comparative analysis of coronary risk stratification strategies among emergency department chest pain patients.

Mark DG, Huang J, Kene MV, Sax DR, Cotton DM, Lin JS, Bouvet SC, Chettipally UK, Anderson ML, McLachlan ID, Simon LE, Shan J,                  Rauchwerger AS, Vinson DR, Ballard DW, Reed ME
          J Am Heart Assoc. 2021;10(7):e020082.

Publication Non Grata: The Challenge of Publishing Non-COVID-19 Research in the COVID Era.

Shan J, Ballard D, Vinson DR.
Cureus. 2020;12(11):e11403.

How is outpatient management of acute pulmonary embolism defined in the primary literature? A narrative review.

Shan J, Isaacs DJ, Bath H, Johnson EJ, Julien D, Vinson DR.
Chest. 2020;158(4S):A2228.
                   Presented at the CHEST Annual Meeting, October 2020.
Automated retrospective calculation of the EDACS and HEART scores in a multicenter prospective cohort of emergency department chest            pain patients: a validation study.
Mark DG, Huang J, Kene MV, Sax DR, Cotton DM, Lin JS, Bouvet SC, Chettipally UK, Anderson ML, McLachlan ID, Simon LE, Shan J,                  Rauchwerger AS, Vinson DR, Ballard DW, Reed ME.
Acad Emerg Med. 2020;27(10):1028-1038.
                 Abstract: https://doi.org/10.1111/acem.14068

          Paramedics’ perspectives on telemedicine in the ambulance: A survey study.

          Simon LE, Shan J, Rauchwerger AS, Reed ME, Warton EM, Vinson DR, Konik ZI, Vlahos JW, Groves K, Ballard DW.

          JEMS. 2020 Apr 30 [Epub].

Effect of clinical decision support on head computed tomography for children with minor head trauma.

Shan J, Warton EM, Reed M, Vinson D, Kuppermann N, Dayan P, Dalziel S, Rauchwerger A, Ballard D. 

Ann Emerg Med. 2020;76(4S):S44-45 [abstract 114].

                   Presented at the Pediatric Academic Society Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, May 2020.

                   Presented at the American College of Emergency Physicians Scientific Assembly, October 2020. 

          Accurately identifying pulmonary embolism in computed tomography pulmonary angiography reports using natural language processing.

             Kene M, Arasu V, Warton M, Reed ME, Rauchwerger AS, Shan J, Vinson DR.

            Acad Emerg Med. 2020;27(S1):S76-S77 [abstract 155].

                   Presented at the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, May 2020.

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Laura E. Simon graduated from UC Berkeley in 2017 before beginning her two-year assignment as a CREST research assistant at the KP Division of Research in Oakland, CA. Laurie contributed to many projects before starting medical school at UC San Diego in 2019. After graduating, she began emergency medicine residency at the University of Colorado, Denver. 

           Prospective validation and comparative analysis of coronary risk stratification strategies among emergency department chest pain patients.

          Mark DG, Huang J, Kene MV, Sax DR, Cotton DM, Lin JS, Bouvet SC, Chettipally UK, Anderson ML, McLachlan ID, Simon LE, Shan J,                        Rauchwerger AS, Vinson DR, Ballard DW, Reed ME
          J Am Heart Assoc. 2021;10(7):e020082.
          Effect of clinical decision support on diagnostic imaging for pediatric appendicitis: A cluster randomized trial.

          Kharbanda AB, Vazquez-Benitez G, Ballard DW, Vinson DR, Chettipally UK, Dehmer SP, Ekstrom H, Rauchwerger AS, McMichael B, Cotton                DM, Kene MV, Simon LE, Zhu J, Warton EM, O’Connor PJ, Kharbanda EO. 

          JAMA Netw Open. 2021 Feb 9 [Epub ahead of print].

          Automated retrospective calculation of the EDACS and HEART scores in a multicenter prospective cohort of emergency department chest                  pain patients: a validation study.
          Mark DG, Huang J, Kene MV, Sax DR, Cotton DM, Lin JS, Bouvet SC, Chettipally UK, Anderson ML, McLachlan ID, Simon LE, Shan J,                        Rauchwerger AS, Vinson DR, Ballard DW, Reed ME.
          Acad Emerg Med. 2020;27(10):1028-1038.
                 Abstract: https://doi.org/10.1111/acem.14068

          Paramedics’ perspectives on telemedicine in the ambulance: A survey study.

          Simon LE, Shan J, Rauchwerger AS, Reed ME, Warton EM, Vinson DR, Konik ZI, Vlahos JW, Groves K, Ballard DW.

          JEMS. 2020 Apr 30 [Epub].

           Diagnostic performance of emergency physician gestalt in predicting acute appendicitis in patients age 5-20 years.

           Simon LE, Kene MV, Warton EM, Rauchwerger AS, Vinson DR, Reed ME, Chettipally UK, Mark DG, Sax DR, McLachlan DI, Cotton DM, Lin               JS, Kharbanda AB, Kharbanda EO, Ballard DW.

           Acad Emerg Med. 2020;27(9):821-831.

                   Abstract: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/acem.13931

                   Research Spotlight: https://spotlight.kaiserpermanente.org/emergency-physicians-can-use-clinical-experience-to-predict-appendicitis/

                   Presented at the American College of Emergency Physicians Scientific Assembly, Washington, DC, 2017.

                   Presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 2017

           Text message alerts to emergency physicians identifying potential study candidates increases clinical trial enrollment.

          Simon LE, Rauchwerger AS, Chettipally UK, Babakhanian L, Vinson DR, Warton EM, Kharbanda AB, Kharbanda EO, Ballard DW.
          J  Am Med Inform Assoc. 2019;26(11):1360-1363.

Presented at the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, 2018.

Presented at the Health Care Systems Research Network Annual Conference, Minneapolis, MN, 2018. 

Validation of the pediatric Appendicitis Risk Calculator (pARC) in a community setting.
Cotton DM, Vinson DR, Vazquez-Benitez G, Warton EM, Chettipally UK, Kene MV, Lin JS, Mark DG, Sax DR, McLachlan ID, Rauchwerger AS, Simon LE, Kharbanda AB, Kharbanda EO, Ballard DW. 
Ann Emerg Med. 2019;74(4):471-480.
Emergency department patient satisfaction with treatment of low-risk pulmonary embolism.
Simon LE, Iskin HR, Vemula R, Huang J, Rauchwerger AS, Reed ME, Ballard DW, Vinson DR.
West J Emerg Med. 2018;19(6):938-946.
Presented at the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, IN, 2018.

Predictors of physician gestalt in the diagnosis of acute coronary syndrome in the emergency department.
Simon LE, Reed ME, Huang J, Rauchwerger AS, Vinson DR, Ballard DW, Mark DG.
Ann Emerg Med. 2018;72(4S):S13-S14 [abstract 27].

Presented at the American College of Emergency Physicians Scientific Assembly, San Diego, CA, 2018.

Emergency medical service providers’ perspectives on telemedicine in the ambulance: a survey-based study.
Simon LE, Rauchwerger AS, Warton EM, Reed ME, Vinson DR, Vlahos JW, Konik ZI, Ballard DW.
Acad Emerg Med. 2018;25(S1):S248 [abstract 700].
Presented at the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, IN, 2018.
Presented at the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, 2018. 

Michelle Y Liu graduated from UC Berkeley in 2016 before beginning her stint as CREST research assistant in Oakland. She led our study of the treatment of patients who develop acute pulmonary embolism despite anticoagulation. Michelle began her medical training at University of Rochester Medical School in 2017. She began her internal medical residency at Yale in 2021. 

Acute pulmonary embolism in emergency department patients despite adequate anticoagulation

Liu MY, Ballard DW, Huang J, Rauchwerger AS, Reed ME, Bouvet SC, Vinson DR.

West J Emerg Med. 2018;19(3):510-516.

Presented at Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL, 2017.

Enhancing the electronic health record: clinical decision support via risk stratification at the emergency department point of care

Rauchwerger AS, Chettipally UK, Ballard DW, Reed ME, Liu MY, Vinson DR.

J Am Public Health Assoc. 2017 Nov 7. 

Presented at American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, 2017.

Performance of clinical gestalt in predicting pediatric appendicitis: does experience matter? 

Kene MV, Ballard DW, Liu MY, Warton EM, Kharbanda EO, Vinson DR, Kharbanda AB.

Ann Emerg Med. 2017;70(4S):S98 [abstract 247].

Presented at the American College of Emergency Physicians Scientific Assembly, Washington, DC, 2017.

Association between clinical gestalt and diagnosis of appendicitis in children (age 5-19) in a community ED setting 

Liu MY, Vinson DR, Kharbanda AB, Kharbanda EO, Reed ME, Warton EM, Kene MV, Rauchwerger AS, Mark DG, Chettipally UK, Bouvet SC, Ballard DW.

Presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 2017

Image diagnosis: Iliopsoas abscess from Crohn disease.

Abraham SA, Liu MY, Vinson DR. 

Perm J. 2017;21:16-150.

Ridhima Vemula also graduated from CAL before beginning her one-year stint as CREST research assistant in Oakland.  She played a critical role on several projects, mostly notably the MAPLE study (Management of Acute PuLmonary Embolism). She graduated from medical school in 2020 at the University of Cincinnati, and is now an ob/gyn resident at TriHeath in Cincinnati, OH. 

Emergency department patient satisfaction with treatment of low-risk pulmonary embolism.
Simon LE, Iskin HR, Vemula R, Huang J, Rauchwerger AS, Reed ME, Ballard DW, Vinson DR.
West J Emerg Med. 2018;19(6):938-946.
Increasing safe outpatient management for emergency department patients with pulmonary embolism: a controlled pragmatic trial.
Vinson DR, Mark DG, Chettipally UK, Huang J, Rauchwerger AS, Reed ME, Lin JS, Kene MV, Wang DH, Sax DR, Pleshakov TS, McLachlan ID, Yamin CK, Elms AR, Iskin HR, Vemula R, Yealy DM, Ballard DW.
Ann Intern Med. 2018;169(12):855-865. 

Optimizing clinical decision support in the electronic health record: clinical characteristics associated with the use of a decision tool for disposition of ED patients with pulmonary embolism.

Ballard DW, Vemula R, Chettipally UK, Kene MV, Mark DG, Elms AK, Lin JS, Reed ME, Huang J, Rauchwerger AS, Vinson DR, for the KP CREST Network Investigators.

Appl Cli Inform. 2016;7(3):883-98.

Presented at Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, 2016.

Risk stratifying emergency department patients with acute pulmonary embolism: does the simplified Pulmonary Embolism Severity Index perform as well as the original?

Vinson DR, Ballard DW, Mark DG, Huang J, Reed ME, Rauchwerger AS, Wang DH, Lin DS, Kene MV, Pleshakov TS, Sax DK, Sax JM, McLachlan DI, Yamin CK, Swap CJ, Iskin HR, Vemula R, Fleming BS, Elms AR, Aujesky D; for the MAPLE Investigators of the KP CREST Network.

Thromb Res. 2016;148:1-8.

Hilary R. Iskin, upon graduating from UC Berkeley, stepped into a full-time two-year position as research assistant with the CREST Network. She contributed to several of our research projects, particularly our stroke and pulmonary embolism studies. She graduated from medical school at the University of Michigan in 2019 and was elected to membership in Alpha Omega Alpha. She graduated from internal medicine residency at the University of Washington in Seattle where she now works in primary care. 

Emergency department patient satisfaction with treatment of low-risk pulmonary embolism.
Simon LE, Iskin HR, Vemula R, Huang J, Rauchwerger AS, Reed ME, Ballard DW, Vinson DR.
West J Emerg Med. 2018;19(6):938-946.
Increasing safe outpatient management for emergency department patients with pulmonary embolism: a controlled pragmatic trial.
Vinson DR, Mark DG, Chettipally UK, Huang J, Rauchwerger AS, Reed ME, Lin JS, Kene MV, Wang DH, Sax DR, Pleshakov TS, McLachlan ID, Yamin CK, Elms AR, Iskin HR, Vemula R, Yealy DM, Ballard DW.
Ann Intern Med. 2018;169(12):855-865. 

Risk stratifying emergency department patients with acute pulmonary embolism: does the simplified Pulmonary Embolism Severity Index perform as well as the original?

Vinson DR, Ballard DW, Mark DG, Huang J, Reed ME, Rauchwerger AS, Wang DH, Lin DS, Kene MV, Pleshakov TS, Sax DK, Sax JM, McLachlan DI, Yamin CK, Swap CJ, Iskin HR, Vemula R, Fleming BS, Elms AR, Aujesky D; for the MAPLE Investigators of the KP CREST Network.

Thromb Res. 2016;148:1-8

Implementation of computerized physician order entry is associated with increased thrombolytic administration for emergency department patients with ischemic stroke.

Ballard DW, Kim AS, Huang J, Park DK, Kene MV, Chettipally UK, Iskin HR, Hsu J, Vinson DR, Mark DG, Reed ME.

Ann Emerg Med. 2015;66(6):601-10.

Presented at Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Annual Meeting, Dallas, TX, 2014.

Presented at Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, 2015.

 

Emergency physician attitudes, preferences, and risk tolerance for stroke as a potential cause of dizziness symptoms.

Kene MV, Ballard DW, Vinson DR, Rauchwerger AS, Iskin HR, Kim AS.

West J Emerg Med. 2015;16(5):768-776.

In-person neurology consultation before the administration of tPA for stroke is not associated with improved outcomes compared to phone consultation.

Iskin HR, Reed ME, Huang J, Kim AS, Park DK, Kene MV, Ballard DW.

Acad Emerg Med. 2015;22(S1):S54-5 [abstract 108].

Presented at Society of Academic Emergency Medicine Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, 2015.

The characteristics and outcomes of ED patients with acute pulmonary embolism discharged home within 24 hours.

Vinson DR, Mark DG, Huang J, Iskin HR, Rauchwerger AS, Reed ME, Pleshakov T, Wang DH, Ballard DW.

Acad Emerg Med. 2015;22(S1):S93-4 [abstract 201]

Presented at Society of Academic Emergency Medicine Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, 2015.

Nimmie Singh did her undergraduate studies at UCLA. After her internship she was hired by the CREST Network as a research assistant for two years. She completed medical school at Touro University, Vallejo, CA and then a family medicine residency at Mercy Medical Center in Redding, CA. She now works in the Bay Area caring for patients in a skilled nursing facility.

Thromboprophylaxis for high-risk adults with atrial fibrillation and flutter discharged from the Emergency Department

Vinson DR, Warton EM, Mark DG, Ballard DW, Reed ME, Chettipally UK, Singh N, Bouvet SZ, Kea B, Ramos PC, Glaser DS, Go AS, for the TAFFY investigators of the CREST Network. 

West J Emerg Med. 2018; in press.

Presented at Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL, 2017.

Emergency department management of atrial fibrillation/flutter and patient quality of life at one month post-visit.

Ballard DW, Reed ME, Singh N, Rauchwerger AS, Hamity CA, Chettipally UK, Mark DG, Vinson DR.  

Acad Emerg Med. 2014;21(4):S132 [abstract 306].

Presented at Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Annual Meeting, Dallas, TX, 2014.

Poster: Emergency Department Management of Atrial Fibrillation/Flutter and Patient Quality of Life at One Month Post-Visit.

Adaptation of a disease-specific research instrument for quality of life assessments in emergency department patients with atrial fibrillation/flutter.  

Singh N, Ballard DW, Rauchwerger AS, Reed ME, Chettipally UK, Mark DG, Offerman SR, Vinson DR.

Acad Emerg Med. 2013;20(5) Suppl:S138. 

Presented at Society of Academic Emergency Medicine Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, 2013.

Presented at the HMO Research Network Annual Conference, San Francisco, CA, 2013.

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