Request for Funding

Mentor: Gregory Luke Larkin, MD, MSPH
Department: Surgery/Emergency Medicine
Room number: CS2.122
Mail Code: MC 8579
Phone number: (214) 648-2904
E-mail: Gregory.larkin@utsouthwestern.edu
Project title: Emergency Provider Willingness to Respond to Disasters, Threats of Terrorism, and Weapons of Mass Effect

Human subjects IRB approved project number (where applicable):

#1202-722

Animal subjects IRB approved project number (where applicable):

Project Type (patient-based) research:

In the wake of 9/11 and national anthrax scares, professional obligations and the duty of care in national disaster preparedness are ill defined.

Brief Description of Project:

This HRSA funded project will measure the willingness of health-care providers to respond to bioterrorism events and public health emergencies at baseline and then again after exposure to an interactive, AMA-supplied, Basic Disaster Life Support (BDLS) course. This pre-post, quasi-experimental design will allow us to measure baseline ethical understanding of the duty to treat and the impact of exposure to BDLS on this baseline willingness. Student researchers will participate in all phases of the project, including pre/post tests, data processing, structured literature review, data analysis, abstract writing, manuscript preparation and dissemination of the results. Student researchers will be exposed to the curriculum and will help follow-up participants to determine willingness to respond and volunteer for a Medical Reserve Corps. Authorship on abstracts and manuscripts is expected.

Previous Research Activities or Publications with Medical Students:

Occult Suicidality in an Emergency Department Population
Daniel Moon, Cindy Claassen, Ph.D., Gregory Larkin, M.D., Gabriela Blanco, David Farman, Luis Villareal

Prevalance of Depressive Symptomatology in a General Emergency Department Population
Luis Villareal, Cindy Claassen, Ph.D., Gregory Larkin, M.D., Gabriela Blanco, David Farman, Daniel Moon

Prevalance and Spectrum of Psychopathology in a Cohort of Injured Emergency Department Patients
David Farman, Gregory Larkin, M.D., Cindy Claassen, Ph.D., Daniel Moon, Luis Villareal, Gabriela Blanco

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