About the Project
The GLEMSCRN project is headed by Rachel Stanley, MD, MHSA, assistant professor of emergency medicine at the U-M Health System. She says the network focuses on a broad range of children's emergency medical issues, including pre-hospital care, injuries, violence, acute infectious diseases, access to emergency care and medical training.
Since receiving funding almost eight years ago, the network has developed an infrastructure to conduct multi-site research in the Great Lakes Region. The network focuses on research and education for physicians and emergency responders in the specific needs of children. "Compared with adults, medical emergencies in kids are rare, so much more cooperation is needed to gather data and prove the effectiveness of treatment," says Stanley.
 The grant was given under the federal Emergency Medical Services for Children program, administered by the Health Services Research Administration's Maternal and Child Health Bureau.
The Great Lakes EMSC Research Network is one of four research networks funded nationwide. The other three networks funded under the regional emergency medical services grants program are the Pediatric Emergency Department Northeast Team (PEDNET), centered at Columbia University in New York City; the Chesapeake Applied Research Network (CARN), centered at Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C.; and the Academic Centers Research Node (ACORN), centered at the University of California, Davis Medical Center.
EMSC is a national initiative designed to reduce disability and death in children and young people from severe illness and injury. It focuses on prevention, and on ensuring that all ill or injured children receive state-of-the-art emergency medical care from emergency medical technicians and paramedics, emergency department personnel, and rehabilitation specialists.
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