On Thursday, September 12, 2024, the Department of Emergency Medicine held its annual Research Showcase in the Trent Semans Center for Health Equity’s Great Hall. Given the new accommodations for the event, this year the planners wanted to show a broad perspective on how the faculty and students participate in the department’s research mission. And it did not disappoint.
The attendees were welcomed with coffee and a continental breakfast before Dr. Alexander Limkakeng, Vice Chair of Research, took the stage at 8 a.m. His introduction to this year’s event encapsulated both Duke’s Centennial through a generational look at academia and research in the field of Emergency Medicine and the future of the field through inspiration.
Dr. Limkakeng also introduced our hosts for the event, the current Chief Residents: Amna Nawaz, Carmen Estrada Huerta, and Sekar Novika. Dr. Novika, in turn, introduced this year’s Keynote Speaker, Theodore “Ted” Corbin, MD.
Dr. Corbin, Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, presented our audience an overview of his work in solving violence in under-served youth through trauma-informed, hospital-based interventions. In his presentation, "Viewing Violence through the Lens of Trauma and Healing," Dr. Corbin touched on topics ranging from the applied tools he has found beneficial in helping young victims of interpersonal injury, to discussing his behavioral health services program. He also touched on how research, in using different methodologies, can inform new research approaches which, in turn, can inform policy change too.
Dr. Corbin set the stage for the wide-ranging, community-focused and emergency medicine field-focused research presented throughout the rest of the event.
Throughout the program of interlaced podium research and abstract presentations, those assembled learned of studies ranging from underwater hyperbaric research to medicines in space, and everything in between. One special video highlighted a GEMINI Center collaborator, Dr. Abiola Fasina, and her research entitled "Three Delays Model in Sepsis Care in Lagos, Nigeria."
Two breaks in our program schedule, centered around abstract posters on bulletin boards displayed around the Great Hall, gave attendees a chance to talk directly to project investigators (PIs) and their research.
The event closed with comments from Dr. Charles Gerardo, Professor and Chair of Duke University Department of Emergency Medicine. He reviewed the far-reaching research our faculty and students engage in and how this research touches communities far beyond Durham, North Carolina. The event adjourned with prepared lunches for the participants.
We invite you to view the 2024 Research Showcase with our on-demand stream.