Section on Emergency Medicine - Collaborative Research Committee (PEM CRC)

The PEM CRC is a committee whose function is to promote and facilitate collaborative research in the field of pediatric emergency medicine. In order to carry out our mission, the governing body (consisting of 6 senior PEM physicians) performs the following functions:

Reviews collaborative research proposals and facilitates the recruitment of other centers for approved projects prepared to enroll patients.
Helps junior investigators develop collaborative research proposals and helps to clarify and focus early drafts of proposals.
Provides some research design and statistical guidance for junior investigators preparing collaborative research proposals.
Investigates research funding opportunities.
Facilitates and arbitrates authorship issues on collaborative research proposals.
Will serve as the body to judge applications for the Ken Graff Junior Investigator Award and select award recipients (when the award endowment goals are reached!).

The PEM CRC has a membership of approximately 150 and is currently overseen by a chairperson and a five-member governing body ("Recommendation Group"): The PEM CRC meets twice per year: Once at the annual scientific meeting of the AAP, and once at the Pediatric Academic Societies' annual meeting. Minutes are generated at each meeting and an abbreviated version will be posted on the web. Published collaborative research projects include:

Levine DA, Platt SL, Dayan PS, Macias CG, Zorc JJ, Krief W, Schor J, Bank D, Fefferman N, Shaw KN, MD, Kuppermann N, for the Multicenter RSV-SBI Study Group of the Pediatric Emergency Medicine Collaborative Research Committee of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Risk of serious bacterial infection in young febrile infants with respiratory syncytial virus infections. Pediatrics 2004;113(6):1728-1734.

Chamberlain JM, Patel KM, Pollack MM, Brayer A, Macias CG, Okada P, Schunk JE for the Collaborative Research Committee of the Emergency Medicine Section of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Recalibration of the pediatric risk of admission score using a multi-institutional sample. Ann Emerg Med 2004;43(4):461-468.

doi:10.1016/j.annemergmed.2003.08.001

Marcin JP. Glaser N. Barnett P. McCaslin I. Nelson D. Trainor J. Louie J. Kaufman F. Quayle K. Roback M. Malley R. Kuppermann N, for the Pediatric Emergency Medicine Collaborative Research Commitee. Factors associated with adverse outcomes in children with diabetic ketoacidosis-related cerebral edema. Journal of Pediatrics 2002; 141(6):793-7.

Glaser N, Barnett P, McCaslin I, Nelson D, Trainor J, Louie J, Kaufman F, Quayle K, Roback M, Malley R, Kuppermann N., for the Pediatric Emergency Medicine Collaborative Research Committee of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Risk factors for cerebral edema in children with diabetic ketoacidosis. New England Journal of Medicine 2001; 344(4):264-9.

Pediatric Emergency Medicine Collaborative Research Committee: Losek JD, Endom E, Dietrich A, Stewart G, Zempsky W, Smith K. Adenosine and pediatric supraventricular tachycardia in the emergency department: multicenter study and review. Annals of Emergency Medicine 1999; 33(2):185-91.

Dowd MD, Krug S, for the Pediatric Emergency Medicine Collaborative Research Committee: Working Group on Blunt Cardiac Injury. Pediatric blunt cardiac injury: epidemiology, clinical features, and diagnosis.. Journal of Trauma-Injury Infection & Critical Care 1996; 40(1):61-7.

Pediatric Emergency Medicine Collaborative Research Committee, Losek JD. Characteristics, workload, and job satisfaction of attending physicians from pediatric emergency medicine fellowship programs. Pediatric Emergency Care 1994; 10(5):256-9.

New participants and new research proposals are welcome. Each new proposal is reviewed by the PEM CRC Recommendation Group and returned to the principal investigator with comments and an invitation to present the proposal at a PEM CRC meeting. Please join us in furthering these important collaborative efforts!

For further information, contact:

Marc Gorelick, MD
Chief, Division of Emergency Medicine
Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, MS-677
9000 W Wisconsin Ave
Milwaukee, WI 53266
Office: 414/266-2635
E-mail: mgorelic@mcw.edu

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