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The Department of Emergency Medicine is pleased to announce that award-winning Dr. Andrew Taylor has joined us as our new Vice Chair of Research and Innovation!
Dr. Taylor is transitioning to our team from Yale University and brings expertise in AI-driven healthcare and machine learning. He is an award-winning researcher who recently received his latest award from CTeL. We invite you to join us in recognizing and congratulating Dr. Taylor.
View the full award announcement: Dr. Andrew Taylor Honored with 2025 CTeL Tr-AI-lblazer Award for Excellence in AI-Driven Healthcare — CTeL.org
In other news, our Clinical Research Coordinators are active in organizations this year. In February, Colleen Mullins traveled to the VACEP 2025 Annual Conference in Hot Springs, VA to present research on behalf of the department. Our CRCs have also attended a recent CIREN meeting in Baltimore, MD, and will travel in April to the ACRP conference in New Orleans, LA.
In the News...
Dr. Moira Smith, and her multidisciplinary team members from the University of Virginia, have been awarded a $100,000 Large Seed Grant from the TYDE Grand Challenge for their project, "Bridging…
Dr. Thomas Hartka, and UVA Colleagues, Secure Third Place in DARPA Challenge
Read the full article on UVA School of Data Science's blog: Underdogs Take on DARPA Triage Challenge, Secure Third Place In a Nutshell: DARPA organized a competition to improve trauma…Dr. Andrew Taylor: New Vice Chair and a Distinguished Award Winner
The Department of Emergency Medicine is pleased to announce that award-winning Dr. Andrew Taylor has joined us as our new Vice Chair of Research and Innovation! Dr. Taylor is transitioning…
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Emergency Medicine Faculty Win at AAEM/MEMC International Conference
Congratulations to our Emergency Medicine research team! At the recent AAEM/MEMC international conference in Malta, they won an award for “Best Research Presentation.” Furthermore, Dr. Joshua Easter and Kunal Agarwal,…Publications
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NIH Grant
2021-2022: Novel deep learning strategy to translate ICD Codes to the Abbreviated Injury Scale. National Center For Advancing Translational Sciences of the National Institutes of Health.
Role: Principal Investigator – Thomas R. Hartka, MD, MS
Recent Publications
- Kent R, Cormier J, McMurry TL, Johan Ivarsson B, Funk J, Hartka T, Sochor M. Spinal injury rates and specific causation in motor vehicle collisions. Accid Anal Prev. 2023 Mar 30;186:107047. doi: 10.1016/j.aap.2023.107047. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37003164.
- George Glass, Pavel Chernyavskiy, Thomas Hartka, Bethany Neri & James F. Calland (2022): Proximity to fatal accidents predicts police citation rates on urban and rural roads, Traffic Injury Prevention, DOI: 10.1080/15389588.2022.2110590
- Hartka T, Glass G, Chernyavskiy P. Evaluation of mechanism of injury criteria for field triage of occupants involved in motor vehicle collisions. Traffic Inj Prev. 2022 Jul 25:1-6. doi: 10.1080/15389588.2022.2092101. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35877985.
- Remington WD, Ott BC, Hartka TR. Effectiveness of barrier devices, high-volume evacuators, and extraoral suction devices on reducing dental aerosols for the dental operator: A pilot study. J Am Dent Assoc. 2021 Dec 21:S0002-8177(21)00546-8. doi: 10.1016/j.adaj.2021.08.011. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34952682.
- Thomas R. Hartka, Timothy McMurry, Ashely Weaver & Federico E. Vaca (2021): Development of a concise injury severity prediction model for pediatric patients involved in a motor vehicle collision, Traffic Injury Prevention, DOI: 10.1080/15389588.2021.1975275
- Makonnen, T. Hartka, H. Sadatsafavi, 86 Comparison of Mortality in Emergency Department Patients With Immediate versus Delayed Hypotension, Annals of Emergency Medicine, Volume 78, Issue 4, Supplement, 2021, Pages S34-S35, ISSN 0196-0644, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annemergmed.2021.09.095 (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0196064421009367)
- Schieffer S, Costa C, Hartka T, Stitzel JD, Shayn Martin R, Kiani B, Miller AN, Weaver AA. The relationship of body mass index, belt placement, and abdominopelvic injuries in motor vehicle crashes: A Crash Injury Research and Engineering Network (CIREN) study. Traffic Inj Prev. 2021 Oct 18:1-3. doi: 10.1080/15389588.2021.1982596. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34663141.
- Malik A, Patel P, Ehsan L, Guleria S, Hartka T, Adewole S, et al. (2021) Ten simple rules for engaging with artificial intelligence in biomedicine. PLoS Comput Biol 17(2): e1008531. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008531
- Kent R, Cormier J, McMurry TL, Johan Ivarsson B, Funk J, Hartka T, Sochor M. Spinal injury rates and specific causation in motor vehicle collisions. Accid Anal Prev. 2023 Mar 30;186:107047. doi: 10.1016/j.aap.2023.107047. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37003164.
- Sadatsafavi H, Vanable L, DeGuzman P, Sochor M. Sensory-Friendly Emergency Department Visit for Patients with Autism Spectrum Disorders –A Scoping Review. J Autism Dev Disord, 2022-04-23. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40489-022-00318-6
- Alshareef A, Giudice JS, Forman JL, Shedd DF, Reynier KA, Wu T, Sochor S, Sochor MR, Salzar RS, and Panzer MB (2020). Human Brain Deformation During Dynamic Rotation of the Head. Journal of Neurotrauma. 37:1-10. Published Online:13 Mar 2020, https://doi.org/10.1089/neu.2019.6847
- Bero M, Sochor M, Wong S, Brady W. Changing the management of refractory ventricular fibrillation: The consideration of earlier utilization of dual sequential defibrillation [published online ahead of print, 2019 May 29]. Am J Emerg Med. 2019;S0735-6757(19)30359-6. doi:10.1016/j.ajem.2019.05.
- Hartka TR, Carr HM, Smith BR, Melmer M, Sochor MR. Does obesity affect the position of seat belt loading in occupants involved in real-world motor vehicle collisions? Traffic Inj Prev. 2018 Feb 28;19 (sup1):S70-S75.
- Althoff S, Overberger R, Sochor M, Bose D, Werner J. Erratum: This Article Corrects: GLASS Clinical Decision Rule Applied to Thoracolumbar Spinal Fractures in Patients Involved in Motor Vehicle Crashes. West J Emerg Med. 2018 Mar;19(2):445.
- The Electrocardiogram in Emergency and Acute Care. Korin B. Hudson (Editor), Amita Sudhir (Editor), George Glass (Editor), William J. Brady (Editor) Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell 1st Edition, August 21, 2023
- George Glass, Pavel Chernyavskiy, Thomas Hartka, Bethany Neri & James F. Calland (2022): Proximity to fatal accidents predicts police citation rates on urban and rural roads, Traffic Injury Prevention, DOI: 10.1080/15389588.2022.2110590
- Hartka T, Glass G, Chernyavskiy P. Evaluation of mechanism of injury criteria for field triage of occupants involved in motor vehicle collisions. Traffic Inj Prev. 2022 Jul 25:1-6. doi: 10.1080/15389588.2022.2092101. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35877985.
- Dodd KW, Zvosec DL, Hart MA, Glass G 3rd, Bannister LE, Body RM, Boggust BA, Brady WJ, Chang AM, Cullen L, Gómez-Vicente R, Huis In ‘t Veld MA, Karim RM, Meyers HP 3rd, Miranda DF, Mitchell GJ, Reynard C, Rice C, Salverda BJ, Stellpflug SJ, Tolia VM, Walsh BM, White JL, Smith SW; PERFECT study investigators (the complete list of PERFECT study investigators is provided in Appendix E1, available at http://www.annemergmed.com). Electrocardiographic Diagnosis of Acute Coronary Occlusion Myocardial Infarction in Ventricular Paced Rhythm Using the Modified Sgarbossa Criteria. Ann Emerg Med. 2021 Jun 22:S0196-0644(21)00249-3. doi: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2021.03.036. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34172301.
- Glass G, Hartka TR, Keim-Malpass J, Enfield KB, Clark MT. Dynamic data in the ED predict requirement for ICU transfer following acute care admissions. J Clin Monit Comput 2020 Mar 19
- Glass G, O’Connor R, Brady WJ. Useful addition to acute myocardial infarction diagnosis in patients with left bundle branch block: an algorithm using electrocardiographic and biomarker analysis. Heart. 2019;105(20):1530–1532. doi:10.1136/heartjnl-2019-315380.
- Glass GF 3rd, Brady WJ. Bystander Intervention in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest. JAMA Netw Open. 2019;2(3):e191008. Published 2019 Mar 1. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2019.1008.
- Hartka T, Glass G, Kao C, McMurry T. Development of injury risk models to guide CT evaluation in the emergency department after motor vehicle collisions. Traffic Inj Prev. 2018;19(sup2):S114–S120. doi:10.1080/15389588.2018.1543872.