Opeolu Adeoye, MD, MS
BJC HealthCare Professor and Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine; Emergency Physician-in-Chief, Barnes-Jewish Hospital
Dr. Adeoye’s area of research focus is in acute neurological emergencies, including stroke clinical trials, biomarkers of acute stroke and thrombosis and inflammation in acute stroke.
Rachel Ancona, PhD, MS
Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine
Dr. Ancona is a PhD researcher whose primary focus is on the intersection of public health and emergency medicine. She is particularly interested in how social determinants of health affect patient outcomes, especially in the context of opioid use disorder. Technically, her work involves leveraging existing data for novel data extraction and application using advanced approaches such as natural language processing and machine learning algorithms.
Kevin Baumgartner, MD
Director, Toxicology Quality Improvement; Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine
Dr. Kevin Baumgartner is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine in the Division of Medical Toxicology. He is board-certified Emergency Medicine, Medical Toxicology, and Addiction Medicine. He is a clinical researcher with a primary focus on the safe and effective use of sedatives and psychoactive medications in the acute care setting, with a current focus on post-intubation sedation in the emergency department and on the use of dexmedetomidine. Other areas of research interest include pharmacologic management of opioid use disorder and alcohol use disorder, snake envenomation, and antimuscarinic poisoning.
Alexander Croft, MD
Assistant Medical Director, Howard and Joyce Wood Simulation Center; Co-Director, Simulation; Director, In-Situ Simulation Acute Care (ISSAC) Program; Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine
Dr. Croft is a Healthcare Simulationist. His research interests include in-situ simulation, human factors in healthcare, and time critical diagnoses. His current research pertains to identifying and resolving latent safety threats, improving clinical care through simulation based activities, and implementation of new operational changes.
Richard Griffey, MD, MPH
Vice Chair for Patient Safety & Quality; GME Director, Patient Safety & Quality Improvement; Professor, Emergency Medicine
Laura Heitsch, MD
Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine; Neurology
Stephen Liang, MD
Associate Professor, Medicine; Emergency Medicine
Dr. Liang’s research interests include trauma-related infections, orthopedic infections, and the management of infectious diseases and infection prevention in emergency care settings. Other interests include a range of topics within disaster medicine.
David Liss, MD
Division Chief for Medical Toxicology; Program Director, Medical Toxicology Fellowship; Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine
Dr. Liss’ research interests include screening for substance use disorders with brief intervention, medication prescription, and referral to care in the emergency department and other acute care settings.
Philip Mudd, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine
The Mudd lab studies human CD4+ and CD8+ T cell responses to viruses. We evaluate these responses in unique tissue samples we obtain from human subjects following natural infection or vaccination. We study these responses to improve our understanding of the human T cell immune response and to design better vaccines.
Daniel Theodoro, MD, MSCI
Division Chief for Ultrasound; Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine
