Strategic Programs and Initiatives

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.

Center for Advanced Emergency Care at Emory University offers certificates in high yield areas of advanced emergency medicine for visiting scholars from around the world. CAEC enables professionals in their field to learn key topics of advanced emergency medicine in an accelerated fashion, while still practicing clinically and providing leadership at their home institution.

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 benchmarked data to compare patient populations, interventions, and outcomes related to out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. The program was founded by the Emory Department of Emergency Medicine and the CDC and began implementation in Atlanta in 2004. Since that time, the registry has grown to include 40 statewide registries representing a catchment area of more than 200 million people, more than 2,600 EMS agencies and over 2,200 hospitals. CARES has recorded over 1.3 million cardiac arrest events in its registry.

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

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.  

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 Prehospital and Ambulatory Virtual Emergency Services (PAVES) program addresses disparities in access to medical care, supports rural EMS personnel, and provides rural patients with high‑quality care through access to advanced technical expertise and a broad network of subject matter experts across multiple specialties.

Leveraging its statewide reach, PAVES is designed to rapidly scale during public health emergencies and disasters, providing virtual physician support to EMS and healthcare partners. Through a partnership with the Southern Regional Disaster Response System (SRDRS), PAVES serves as a critical telehealth resource to strengthen disaster preparedness, response, and recovery across the southeastern United States.

Accelerating the discovery and translation of new treatments for traumatic brain injury (TBI), spinal cord injury (SCI) and neuropathic pain.