Strategic Programs and Initiatives

Founded in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Emory, we lead highly collaborative innovation that reimagines the acute care continuum and serves the needs of diverse patient populations. Our unique footprint across academic, community, and safety-net hospitals, enables us to universally design for technology enabled models of care delivery that are effortless and equitable.  

ARC oversees multicenter clinical trials coordination inside and outside of Emory. ARC provides trial design, scientific leadership, operations and logistics, finance and budgeting, regulatory, and analysis for multicenter clinical trials.

Our core research focuses on whether neurosteroid hormones (progesterone and its metabolites) can mitigate inflammatory responses following TBI, stroke, and glioblastoma metastasis.

The Section of Prehospital and Disaster Medicine is also home to the Cardiac Arrest Registry to Enhance Survival (CARES), which is a performance and quality improvement initiative that provides communities with data to compare patient populations, interventions, and outcomes related to sudden cardiac death. Since inception at Emory and implementation in Atlanta, the registry has grown to include 23 statewide registries and 63 additional communities in 18 states, representing a catchment area of more than 115 million people, 1400 EMS agencies and over 1900 hospitals. CARES has recorded over 400,000 cardiac arrest events in its registry.

IPRCE seeks to mitigate the staggering impact of injury in our community. Using a data-driven approach, the Center is addressing the most significant injury concerns in Georgia and the Southeast.  Through task force collaboration with the Marcus trauma center, Grady Health System, Georgia Department of Health, Emory University, regional academic institutions, statewide organizations, industry partners, philanthropists, and community stakeholders, the Center aims to make our community a better, safer place to live.

The Crash Injury Research and Engineering Network (CIREN) is multi-center data collection program led by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) that aims to improve the prevention and treatment of clinically relevant injuries in motor-vehicle crashes.  CIREN does this by collecting medical data from of a sample of patients who are injured in motor-vehicle crashes and performing an in-depth field investigation of the crashes that resulted in a patient