PECARN Cooperative Agreements Awarded

Published August 31, 2023

Seven cooperative agreements have been awarded as part of EMSC’s Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN). PECARN works to conduct and disseminate rigorous clinical research that advances equitable pediatric emergency care through seven research nodes.

PECARN has two categories of research nodes or “nodes”, each led by a research node center (RNC):

Category 1 (“Research Nodes”): Six (6) research nodes are composed of three hospital emergency department affiliates (HEDAs) and one co-located EMS affiliate. The RNC is co-located at one of the three HEDAs. Research nodes will coordinate multi-center prehospital EMS and hospital ED clinical care research.
Category 2 (“EMS Research Node”): One EMS research node is composed of three EMS affiliates. In addition, this research node will help to coordinate multi-center, prehospital EMS clinical care research that may take place with the nine EMS affiliates in PECARN.

The new cooperative agreements are effective Sept. 1, 2023 through Aug. 31, 2027.

Charlotte, Houston, and Milwaukee Prehospital (CHaMP)

State University of New York at Buffalo

PI: E. Brooke Lerner, PhD


Nodal Administrator:	Ariel Peters, MSW
EMS Affiliates:	Mecklenburg EMS Agency - Jonathan Studnek, PhD Milwaukee County EMS - Lorin Browne, DO Houston Fire Department - Manish Shah, MD, MS

Great Lakes-Atlantic Children’s Emergency Research (GLACiER)

The Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital

PI: Julie C. Leonard, MD, MPH


HEDAs:	The Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital - Daniel Cohen, MD Nemours Children’s Health Delaware Valley - Amy Thompson, MD University of Pittsburgh, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC - Robert Hickey, MD
EMS Affiliate:	Columbus (OH) Division of Fire - Robert Lowe, MD
EMS Affiliate Scientific Advisor:	The Ohio State University - Henry E. Wang, MD, MPH, MS
Scientific Advisory:	Nemours Children’s Health Delaware Valley - David Brousseau
Chair, Workforce Development Committee	The Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital - Rachel Stanley, MD, MHSA

The Hospitals of the Midwest Emergency Research Node (HOMERUN)

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati

PI: Lynn Babcock, MD, MS


Nodal Administrator:	Patricia (Tricia) Cobb, MS, CCRC
HEDAs:	Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin, Medical College of Wisconsin - Danny Thomas, MD, MPH St. Louis Children's Hospital, Washington University - Fahd Ahmad, MD, MSCI Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati - David Schnadower, MD, MPH
EMS Affiliate:	City of Cincinnati Fire Department - Carstell Winston
EMS Scientific Advisor:	Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati - Lauren Riney, DO

Pediatric Emergency Medicine Northeast, West, and South (PEM-NEWS)

The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York

PI: Peter Dayan, MD


Nodal Administrator:	Raquel Shrager
Co-Nodal Administrator:	Yakira Nolasco
HEDAs:	The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York - Maria Kwok, MD University of Colorado Denver (Colorado Children's Hospital) - Halden Scott, MD Baylor College of Medicine - Andrea Cruz, MD
EMS Affiliate:	Aurora Fire Department - R. Weber, FF-EMT
EMS Scientific Advisor	The Children's Hospital of Colorado - Kathleen Adelgais, MD, MPH

Pediatric Research in Injuries and Medical Emergencies (PRIME)

University of California, Davis School of Medicine and UC Davis Health

PI: Nathan Kuppermann, MD, MPH


Nodal Administrator:	Maria Marois, PhD, MPH
HEDAs:	University of California, Davis School of Medicine and UC Davis Health - Leah Tzimenatos, MD University of Utah and Primary Children’s Medical Center - Michael Johnson, MD, MS Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia - Angela Ellison, MD, MSc
EMS Affiliate:	Sacramento Fire Department - Brian Morr
EMS Scientific Advisor	University of California, Davis School of Medicine and UC Davis Health - Daniel Nishijima, MD, MAS

The San Francisco/Oakland, Providence, Atlanta Research Collaborative (SPARC)

Emory University

PI: Claudia Morris, MD, FAAP


Nodal Administrator:	Bridget Wynn, MPH
HEDAs:	Emory University - Mark Griffiths, MD Hasbro Children's Hospital and Brown University - Mark Zonfrillo, MD, MSCE University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco (UCSF) Benioff Children’s Hospitals - Jacqueline Grupp-Phelan MD, MPH
EMS Affiliate:	University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco (UCSF) Benioff Children’s Hospitals, Alameda County EMS and City of San Francisco EMS - Nicolaus Glomb, MD, MPH
Senior Scientific Advisor:	Brown University - Tom Chun, MD

Seattle, Texas (Dallas), Los Angeles Research (STELAR)

Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle Children's Research Institute

PI: Eileen Klein, MD, MPH


Nodal Administrator:	Bonnie Strelitz, MPH
HEDAs:	Seattle Children's Hospital - Neil Uspal, MD University of Texas Southwestern - Mohamed Badawy, MD Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles - Todd Chang, MD, MAcM
EMS Affiliate:	University of Washington - Michael Sayre, MD

For more information about PECARN, visit https://pecarn.org/.