Shannon Findlay, MD, MPH, CTropMed
- Human Trafficking
- Educating medical professionals and our community on human trafficking.
- Anti-Human Trafficking Faculty Advisor
- Johnson County of Human Trafficking Co-Leader
- Global Health
- Developed a conference and educational materials with my colleagues on human trafficking in Indonesia
- Lectured ot medical providers in Indonesia on Emergency Medicine topics
- Lectured to medical providers in Japan on Emergency Medicine topics
- Participated in health clinics in Haiti
Angie Wild, MD, MPH
- Director of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion for the department
- Incarceration: Quality improvement, policy change
- Human Trafficking: Screening for survivors in the ED
- Structural Determinants of Health
- Increasing underrepresented minorities in medicine to be reflective of the population served
Marina Del Rios, MD, MS, FAHA
- Information as a social determinant of health.
- Principal investigator of the NIH funded study Dime la VerDAD (Verify, Debunk And Disseminate), a 4.5 year study to evaluate the use of storytelling by promotores de salud as a communication strategy to identify and debunk misinformation on social media and improve vaccine uptake for COVID-19 and influenza in largely Hispanic communities.
- Multiple visiting lectures on addressing misinformation in minoritized communities
- Cardiac arrest inequities.
- Utilizing community level factors to improve prediction of out of hospital cardiac arrest outcome using machine learning
- Co-investigator of the NIH funded Reducing Ethnic-racial Disparities in Cardiac Arrest Survival Outcomes (RED-CASO). This study will identify best resuscitation practices at EMS agencies with the highest survival rates for OHCA, especially at EMS agencies that work in majority Black or Hispanic communities
- Volunteers as an instructor with Rotary Kerber HeartSafe Campaign and Project Adam to increase community bystander CPR and AED use
- Multiple publications in peer reviewed medical journals on racial, ethnic, and gender inequities in cardiac arrest.
- Linguistic preparedness.
- Developed a conference and educational materials on linguistic preparedness and collaborating with interpreters to communicate with patients with limited English proficiency.
- Resuscitation guidelines
- Member of the Adult Life Support Writing group for the American Heart Association 2025 resuscitation guidelines
- Chair of the Science Subcommittee of the American Heart Association Emergency Cardiovascular Committee. In this role I provide oversight to the AHA resuscitation guidelines writing process.
- Neighborhood health
- Use of geographic information systems to identify hot spots of acute and chronic disease
- Capacity building of community health workforce to increase health literacy in underserved communities
- Partnered with community-based organizations to advocate for resources for underserved neighborhoods during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Latine health
- Develop capacity building programs for promotores de salud (community health workers)
- Secured philanthropic funding for Latine community-based organizations to combat COVID19 in Chicago
- Multiple guest appearances on Spanish news media discussing health topics relevant to the Latine community
Josh Radke, MD
- Medical Director, Iowa Harm Reduction Coalition
- Provider in the Addiction and Recovery Collaborative at UIHC
- Co-PI on a grant to expand addiction medicine education for medical and PA students
Hans House, MD
I have taught physicians in the field in Palestine, Japan, Niger, and Ecuador. I have an ongoing medical mission to Palestine, assisting the emergency physicians in Hebron with ultrasound training.