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 over 10 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 six research networks funded nationwide. The other five networks funded are the Hospitals of the Midwest Emergency Research Node (HOMERUN) centered at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center; the Pediatric Emergency Medicine Northeast, West & South (PEM-NEWS), centered at Columbia University in New York City; the Pediatric Research in Injures and Medical Emergencies (PRIME), centered at the University of California, Davis Medical Center ; the Pittsburgh, Rhode Island, Delaware Network (PRIDENET), centered at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh; and the Washington, Boston, Chicago Applied Research Node (WBCARN) centered at Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C. 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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Great Lakes EMS-C Research Network University of Michigan Emergency Medicine Research 24 Frank Lloyd Wright Drive, Suite H-3200 PO Box 443 Ann Arbor MI 48106 (734) 936-1724   FAX (734) 936-2706 This study is supported by grant U03 MC 00003 from the Maternal and Child Health Bureau (Title V, Social Security Act), Health Resources and Services Administration, Department of Health and Human Services.