Jill Antoniazzi
Jill received her medical degree from the Medical College of Pennsylvania Hahnemann University in 2002 and completed residency in Emergency Medicine at Carolinas Medical Center in 2005. She returned to the faculty in July 2008 after 3 years of private and academic practice in Chicago. Her interests include injury prevention and patient safety.

Andrew W. Asimos, MD, FACEP
Andrew received his Medical Degree from the University of Pittsburgh in 1990 and completed his residency in Emergency Medicine at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan. In 1994, he joined the CMC faculty, after pursuing a one-year fellowship in Emergency Medicine Administration at Detroit Receiving Hospital and Wayne State University School of Medicine, during which he completed the program on Management in Healthcare at the Kenan Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina. Andrew’s major academic and research interests include neurologic emergencies, particularly stroke. He is the Director of Emergency Stroke Care at Carolinas Medical Center and the current Chairman of the Tri-State Stroke Network, which is a CDC funded collaboration including members from North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. Andrew is a member of the American Heart Association Stroke Council and has been active in regional and national American Stroke Association and NINDS initiatives and task forces.

Jayne J. Batts, MD, FACEP
Jayne is a 1993 graduate of the Carolinas Medical Center Emergency Medicine Residency Program. She joined the faculty in August 1994 after spending a year in private practice as an Emergency Medicine physician in a local hospital. Her interests include clinical forensic medicine, dermatologic disorders and resident education. She is co-director for an Emergency Medicine Oral Board Review Course, which is given each year to the Senior EM residents.

Michael C. Beuhler, MD
Michael completed his Emergency Medicine Residency at North Shore University Hospital in 2000 and completed his Medical Toxicology training at Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona. Michael joined the CMC faculty in 2002 as the Medical Director of the Carolinas Poison Center. He works part-time in the emergency department and is actively involved with resident and specialist education. He has written and lectured on several topics in medical toxicology with a special focus on molecular mechanisms of action. His current research interests include toxicosurveillance and mushroom toxicity.

Tom Blackwell, MD, FACEP
Tom is medical director of the Center for Prehospital Medicine and the Mecklenburg Emergency Medical Services Agency (Medic). He received his training in Emergency Medicine at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center, and became a faculty member at CMC in July 1992. Tom has had an interest in prehospital care for many years and has been formally involved with EMS quality assurance, training, protocol development, and research. Along with Medic, he also serves as medical director for the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police SWAT Team, Lake Patrol, and Aviation Unit; Charlotte FBI SWAT Team; the Charlotte Office for the US Secret Service; Ericsson Stadium, Lowe's Motor Speedway, and Paramount's Carowinds. Tom created the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Advanced Local Emergency Response Team (ALERT) which serves as the local interagency terrorism response program. He has served on the Board of Directors for the National Association of EMS Physicians and ACEP's EMS Committee. His research interests include EMS system design, terrorism preparedness and response, and disaster management.

Mark J. Bullard, MD
Mark received his Medical Degree for the University of Cincinnati in 2001 and completed his residency in Emergency Medicine at Carolinas Medical Center in 2004. After spending nearly 2 years in private practice in Charlotte, Mark returned as faculty in April of 2006. Mark’s interests include resident teaching, hematologic disorders, and involvement in the ED ultrasound program at CMC.

Stephen Colucciello, MD, FACEP
Steve joined our faculty in 1992, after working for many years in large county hospitals in south Florida. He trained in emergency medicine at the Colombia University Affiliated Hospitals. He has a strong interest in emergency medicine education, and speaks frequently at national and international meetings on such topics as ED violence, trauma management, and cardiovascular emergencies. In 1992, Steve was elected ACEP's National Speaker of the Year. He is an assistant chair, the director of Clinical Services, and Trauma Coordinator for our department. His research pursuits at CMC include cardiovascular emergencies and trauma management. He is an editor of a textbook on trauma and past editor-in-chief of an Emergency Medicine journal entitled "EM Practice."

Randolph Cordle, MD, FACEP, FAAP, FAAEM, PEM
Dr. Cordle completed his undergraduate work at The Ohio State University in 1988. He then completed medical school at the University of Cincinnati in 1992. Dr. Cordle then completed a combined residency in Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine through Methodist Hospital and The Indiana University. He has since served on numerous local, state and national committees dealing with all aspects of pediatric emergency care. He also served as the President of the Idaho Chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians. His major interests are the expansion and improvement of pediatric emergency care with an emphasis on the critical role played by preventative health initiatives and the continuity of the child's primary care home. He has special interest in child maltreatment, resuscitation, sedation and analgesia as well as educational methods and post-residency continuing education. He has written and lectured on numerous topics in emergency medicine with a special focus on pediatric emergency care. He serves as the Medical Director of the Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine.

Sandra Craig, MD, FACEP
Sandy is a board certified and CMC residency-trained emergency physician who completed her training in July 1990. She joined the CMC emergency medicine faculty in 1990 and served as the assistant residency director and director of the resident conference curriculum from 1991 until June 1999. She acts as consultant for the Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Service.  Sandy is a member of the federal Special Operations Response Team (SORT) and a staff emergency physician for Carolinas Medical Center’s newly constructed mobile disaster response vehicle, Carolinas MED-1.  She has been a faculty participant and judge at the annual SAEM CPC competition, a lecturer for the American College of Emergency Physicians Scientific Assembly since 1993, and has served on the Board of the Council of Residency Directors (CORD).  Current areas of interest include electrocardiography (especially tachydysrhythmias) and abdominal emergencies.

Marsha Ford, MD, FACEP, FACMT, FIFEM
Marsha has been a faculty member since 1982 and is currently Assistant Chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Carolinas Medical Center and Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. She trained in Internal Medicine, and subsequently completed a fellowship in Medical Toxicology at NYU/Bellevue and the New York City Poison Center. Marsha is certified by the American Boards of Internal Medicine (1982) and Emergency Medicine (1987, 1997), and has Special Qualifications in Medical Toxicology certified by the American Board of Emergency Medicine (1995). She recently completed terms on the Medical Toxicology SubBoard of the American Board of Emergency Medicine, including two years as Chair, and the Board of Directors of the American Association of Poison Control Centers. At Carolinas Medical Center she chairs the Pharmacology & Therapeutics committee.

Marsha spends her time as Director of the Carolinas Poison Center, the official state poison center for North Carolina; she was instrumental in its creation and development. As Director of the Division of Toxicology, Marsha has developed an active division with consult services for inpatients and an outpatient occupational toxicology clinic. She participates in the clinical research activities of the division.

She serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Toxicology Clinical Toxicology, and she has written and received several grants that support the work of the poison center. During 2003 she served as an ad hoc reviewer for the FDA, and as a member of the AAPCC Advisory Panel for Terrorism and Hazard Surveillance Using TESS, a joint advisory panel with the CDC.

Marsha lectures nationally and internationally. She currently serves on the ACEP Finance Committee and as a Councillor for the North Carolina College of Emergency Physicians. In October 2003 she was awarded the American College of Emergency Physicians Council Meritorious Service Award.

For fun, she enjoys reading, traveling and eating wonderful and diverse foods.

Sean Fox, MD
Dr. Fox completed a residency in Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of Maryland after completing medical school at the University of Maryland, School of Medicine. He received a Bachelor of Science degree at Loyola as well. He is a member of numerous organizations including the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American College of Emergency Physicians, the American Academy of Emergency Medicine, and the American Society for Academic Emergency Medicine. He wrote the EMRA, Emergency Medicine Pediatrics column from 2006 to 2008 and was the resident representative to the Board of Directors for the Maryland Chapter for the American College of Emergency Physicians. He will be helping to develop a medical student Pediatric Emergency Medicine program here at Levine Children’s Hospital, Department of Emergency Medicine, Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine.

Victoria Garrett, MD
Victoria completed her residency at Emory University in 2001 and a Sports Medicine fellowship in 2002. After working in Washington, D.C. for 3 years, she joined the clinical faculty in 2005. Her interest include sport and event medicine.

Lee Garvey, MD, FACEP
Lee is a 1991 graduate of the CMC Emergency Medicine Residency Program. Following graduation, he began his career with our faculty. Prior to medical school Lee was a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at the University of Cincinnati where his dissertation project centered on the mechanism of cardiac muscle contraction. He is the director of Clinical Research and his current research interests relate to ischemic cardiac emergencies. Lee is the medical director for the Chest Pain Evaluation Center in CMC's Emergency Department and serves on the Board of Directors for the Society of Chest Pain Centers and Providers where he is also the current Vice President and Chairman of the Accreditation Committee. He is a member of the Coordinating Committee of the NIH's National Heart Attack Alert Program and ACEP's Scientific Review Committee. Locally he is a member of CMC's IRB and Research Review Committee. In the summer of 1997, Lee was a visiting scientist at St. George's Hospital in London, England, where he worked on a research project related to electrocardiography.

E. Parker Hays Jr., MD, FACEP
Following completion of his residency at CMC, Parker joined the clinical faculty in 1994. He is currently the Director of the EM Residency Program. Previously he has served the department as Director of Medical Student Education and later as the Associate Residency Director. His educational and research interests are varied, but particularly deal with emergency wound care and orthopedics. He is a frequent national lecturer on emergency wound care, and won the national CPC competition as Best Discussant in 2003. Parker's interests are also in international emergency medicine. He has practiced medicine in Europe, the Caribbean, Africa, South America, Australia, and the Middle East.

Jennifer Isenhour, MD, FACEP
Jennifer is a former CMC chief resident who rejoined the faculty in August of 2002 after spending 3 years as an attending at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. While at Vanderbilt she served as the Director of Medical Student Education and was an Assistant Residency Director. At CMC she is the Associate Residency Director. Her interests in EM include airway management and resident and medical student education.

Alan Jones, MD
Dr. Jones received his BS in Molecular Biology in 1994 from Millsaps College and his MD from the University of Mississippi in 1999. He completed his residency in emergency medicine at Carolinas Medical Center in 2002, during which he served as chief resident. He completed a research fellowship at Carolinas Medical Center in 2003. He joined the Faculty in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Carolinas Medical Center in 2003, and currently is the Assistant Director of Clinical Research. Dr. Jones' primary research interest is the emergency department diagnosis and management of non-traumatic shock. His present research focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of undifferentiated shock. He also serves as a mentor for residents interested in completing clinical research projects.

William P. (Russ) Kerns, MD
Russ received his training in Emergency Medicine at Penn State University and at Carolinas Medical Center, graduating in 1988. After one year in private Emergency Medicine practice, he accepted an academic faculty position at Carolinas Medical Center. In order to pursue subspecialty interest in toxicological emergencies, Russ became the first physician to complete a medical toxicology fellowship at Carolinas Medical Center in June 1994. Currently, he is certified by the American Board of Emergency Medicine (1989, 1999) with special qualifications in Medical Toxicology (1994).

Russ now serves as the Fellowship Director for the clinical toxicology fellowship and coordinates research within the toxicology division. Research interests include cardiovascular toxins, kinetics of toxic alcohols, and decontamination. National endeavors include textbook contributions in several Emergency Medicine and Toxicology texts, American Heart Association Emergency Cardiac Care subcommittee participation, and Abstract Review Committee membership for the North American Congress of Toxicology. In 1994, he received the ACEP Young Investigator Award for work on the pathophysiology of beta blocker cardiotoxicity.

Jeffrey Kline, MD
Dr. Kline received his BS in Biochemistry in 1986 from Virginia Tech and his MD from the Medical College of Virginia in 1990. He completed his residency in emergency medicine at Carolinas Medical Center in 1994, during which he completed a one-year research fellowship and served as chief resident. He joined the Faculty in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Carolinas Medical Center in 1994, and currently is the Assistant Director of Research and Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and adjunct Professor of Biology at UNC Charlotte where he serves on the interdisciplinary Ph.D. program committee.

My major contribution to the faculty by functioning is as a research mentor to the residents and the research fellow for both basic science and clinical research. Dr. Kline has mentored 18 residents or fellows to the endpoint of a first-authored manuscript in a peer-reviewed journal. His main research interest is pulmonary embolism and cardiac function in acute stress conditions. Dr. Kline actively publishes in both basic and clinical research.

From 1993-1995, Dr. Kline studied cardiac depression from verapamil toxicity, and discovered the role of insulin as a positive inotropic agent to treat calcium channel blocker (CCB) toxicity. He examined mechanisms of how insulin works in CCB overdose and described its use as rescue therapy in 5 severely poisoned humans. At present time, 13 published human cases of severe calcium channel blocker toxicity have been reported to have responded to insulin-euglycemia treatment. The use of insulin was advocated in the latest ACLS manual.

From 1995-1999, Dr. Kline studied the role of accelerating myocardial lactate oxidation to improve post-resuscitative cardiac function. He and his collegues found that activation of pyruvate dehydrogenase increased rate of myocardial lactate oxidation which improved in-vivo and ex-vivo cardiac function. However, non-specific systemic inhibition of the PDH kinase with dichloroacetate over-depleted lactate as a cardiac substrate, leading to reduced cardiac function and efficiency in-vivo. We concluded with a report demonstrating that the removal of fatty acid oxidation as a measure to accelerate lactate oxidation would jeopardize cardiac function during hemorrhage.

Since 1999, Dr. Kline's work has focused on screening, risk stratifying, and treatment of pulmonary embolism. His long-term goals are to develop easier methods to rule out PE, more reliable ways to recognize patients at risk from death and disablity after the diagnosis of PE is made, and to explore the mechanisms that lead to long-term cardiopulmonary disability from PE. He has investigated the role of using the alveolar deadspace (estimated using caponometry and arterial PaCO2 in the Severinghouse equation) plus a whole-blood D-dimer to screen for PE. At Carolinas Medical Center (CMC), we use a combination of a decision rule and the deadspace/D-dimer in what we term the "PE rule out" procedure. We use this procedure approximately three times each day in the ED. To improve PE rule out procedure, he has developed a device and signal processing algorithm that uses expired CO2 to O2 to recognize alveolar deadspace from PE (US patent issued) and a novel method of assessing pretest probability of PE using a database referencing technique (US patent pending). For the latter project, Dr. Kline has been the PI on two STTR grants from the NIH/NHLBI. Also, through funding from his RO1 from the NIH as PI, Dr. Kline studies risk-stratification of patients with PE, and have an ongoing study to examine the utility of a screening battery (the ECG, troponin, and pulse oximetry reading) to recognize PE associated with right ventricular hypokinesia on echocardiography.

In this ongoing study, Dr. Kline and his research associates are also actively examining the importance of genetic mutations in the clotting pathways as mechanisms of persistant pulmonary vascular occlusion in diagnosed PE. In the laboratory, Dr. Kline collaborates with two Ph.D. scientists, John Zagorski and John Watts, who use a rat model of PE, developed by Dr. Kline, to examine mechanisms of pulmonary vascular remodelling and cardiac damage from PE.

Emily MacNeill, MD
Emily MacNeill comes to us from the Indiana School of Medicine where she completed a combined residency in Emergency medicine and Pediatrics. She attended medical school at the Indiana School of Medicine after completing a Bachelor of Science and Biology at Brown University in Rhode Island. Dr. MacNeill has varied interests in international medicine community outreach and is a member of multiple organizations including the Academy of Emergency Medicine, the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, the American Academy for Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine Resident’s Association. Dr. MacNeill is the Associate Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship Director and has coordinated the Pediatric Emergency Medicine Journal Club and Book Club.

John A. Marx, MD
John assumed the chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine in July 1991. He came to CMC after training at the Denver Affiliated Residency in Emergency Medicine and spending 11 years on the faculty at Denver General Hospital and the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center (UCHSC). John held a variety of positions in Denver's training program, including research coordinator, medical student coordinator, faculty-student advisor at the UCHSC, and Associate Director of Emergency Medical Services.

He was co-founder and Editor of Case Studies in Emergency Medicine and co-founder and Associate Editor of Emergindex. Currently, he is the Original Contributions editor for Journal of Emergency Medicine and Deputy Editor of Journal Watch in Emergency Medicine (NEJM). He served as Associate Editor for the third and fourth editions of Emergency Medicine: Concepts and Clinical Practice (Rosen’s) and is the Editor-in-Chief of the recent fifth edition, published in 2002 and upcoming 6th edition (2005). He is one of the editors of Trauma Management for the Emergency Physician published in 2000, and is guest editorial reviewer for several journals within and outside of emergency medicine. He has served two terms on the Board of Directors, and is a Past President of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) and was a founding Associate Editor for Academic Emergency Medicine, the Society's peer review journal. John's research interests have been focused on abdominal trauma and alcohol-related emergencies. He has written numerous chapters, clinical papers, original contributions and was the recipient of the 1991 SAEM Academic Excellence Award, the 2000 ACEP Contributions to Education Award, and the 2004 AAEM David K. Wagner Award.

John's primary goals for the department are faculty and resident development. He believes the residency should offer a balance of clinical, didactic and academic exposure through a faculty invested in each of these areas.

JP McBryde, MD
JP joined our faculty in July 2003 after spending 18 months practicing Emergency Medicine in New Zealand. He is residency trained in EM from Cook County Hospital in Chicago, where he was chief resident in 1995-1996. He completed a Sports Medicine fellowship here at Carolinas Medical Center in 1996-1997. JP is board certified in both Emergency Medicine and Sports Medicine. His interests include the clinical teaching of EM, international medicine and travel, and sports related injuries.

Jo Anna Leuck
Jo Anna graduated from University of Texas-Southwestern Medical School in 2005 and completed her residency at Carolinas Medical Center in 2008. She is a former chief resident and her interests include resident education, medical simulation and community outreach projects. She is currently involved in implementing a medical simulation program for the residents and medical students.

David A. Pearson, MD, MS
Dave received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Florida in 1997 and 1998, respectively. He completed medical school at Vanderbilt University in 2002 and completed an emergency medicine residency at the Denver Health Medical Center in 2006, shortly thereafter joining the Carolinas Medical Center clinical faculty. His interests include clinical teaching, therapeutic hypothermia, post-resuscitation stabilization, and international medicine.

Maria T. Pelucio, MD, FACEP
Maria joined the clinical faculty in 1994 after completing her residency at George Washington/Georgetown University where she served as chief resident during the 1993-94 academic year. She is currently the Director of Medical Student Education for the Departent of Emergency Medicine. Maria has a long-term interest in international medicine, learning and teaching medical Spanish, and hopes to increase resident exposure to overseas work experiences. Her recent interests includes issues of domestic violence identification, documentation, and counseling referral in the emergency department.

Michael Runyon, MD, FAAEM
Mike worked full-time as a paramedic for 5 years before completing his undergraduate work at the University of West Florida in 1996, graduating with a B.A. in Interdisciplinary Social Science. He received his M.D. from the University of Florida in 2000 and completed his emergency medicine residency at Carolinas Medical Center in 2003, serving as chief resident during his final year. He remained at Carolinas Medical Center for a research fellowship, joined the emergency medicine faculty in 2005, and currently serves as the Director of Medical Student Education. Mike’s research has focused on the pathophysiology and diagnosis of pulmonary embolism, and the comparison of physician gestalt to clinical decision rules.

Robert W. Schafermeyer, MD, FACEP, FAAP
Bob has been a faculty member since 1981. He served as Residency Program director from 1982-1991 and as acting chairman from 1989-1991. Bob is currently the associate chair for the Department of Emergency Medicine and director of the Division of Education and oversees the Subspecialty Fellowship programs.

Bob is board certified in Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics. He received a certificate of added qualifications in Pediatric Emergency Medicine from ABEM. He was a member and chair of the American Board of Emergency Medicine Subspecialty Exam Committee on Pediatric Emergency Medicine and, currently, serves as an Oral Board Examiner for ABEM.

Bob is serving a three year term on the board of directors of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine. He served as president-elect, president and immediate-past president for the American College of Emergency Physicians. He served on the board of directors for eight years. He is past president of the North Carolina Chapter of ACEP and was a councilor for North Carolina. Bob has served on the ACEP council since 1984 until he was elected to the board of directors in 1994. He served and chaired several committees of the Council and of the College.

Bob was founder and past chairman of the Pediatric Emergency Medicine Section and was chairman of the Pediatric Emergency Medicine Committee for three years for ACEP. He served as the College's liaison to the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Pediatric Emergency Medicine.

Bob has published many articles and book chapters and is one of the editors for Pediatric Emergency Medicine, a study guide, and is an associate editor for the Barkin Textbook of Pediatric Emergency Medicine. He currently serves as a reviewer for Annals of Emergency Medicine and for Academic Emergency Medicine.

Bob has a long-standing interest in education and research. He believes that the greatest aspect of a career in academic Emergency Medicine is fostering the growth and development of the residents, seeing their contributions to the specialty by the graduates of our residency program and their involvement in advocacy efforts on behalf of their patients and their specialty.

D. Matthew Sullivan, MD, FACEP
Dr. Sullivan graduated from Hahnemann University in 1996 and completed his residency training in 1999 at Carolinas Medical Center. He continued his training with a research fellowship where he studied the cardiac effects of pulmonary embolism and received the Best Basic Science Fellow Presentation of 2000. His interests include infectious disease, pulmonary embolism, residency education, and wound care. Dr. Sullivan joined the faculty in July 2000 and is the associate director of emergency department operations. Dr. Sullivan also maintains an interest in research, hand-held technologies, and digital photography.

Doug Swanson, MD, FACEP
Doug joined the clinical faculty in 1995 after completing his residency at CMC. As an attending, he also completed an EMS fellowship here in 2002. Doug is currently the Medical Director for MedCenter Air, a Carolinas Healthcare System's specialty transport service. In addition, he is co-Medical Director of CMC's Special Events Team which provides medical coverage at Ericsson Stadium and Lowe's Motor Speedway along with other mass gatherings. He is a member of NCCEP’s EMS subcommittee. Doug is also a physician member of Mecklenburg County's ALERT (Advanced Local Emergency Response Team) response to mass casualty events.

Vivek S. Tayal, MD, FACEP
Vivek is a 1989 graduate of the Emergency Medicine Residency at CMC. Vivek joined the faculty in the fall of 1993 after serving as chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Wilford Hall Medical Center, San Antonio, Texas. He was intimately involved with EM education as a faculty member of the Joint Military Medical Centers Emergency Medicine Residency and research director (1989-92). He currently serves as the director of Emergency Ultrasound in the CMC Dept of EM, and has been active nationally in the ACEP Emergency Ultrasound Section and SAEM Ultrasound Interest group. He also teaches nationally for the Emergency Ultrasound Course, and represents national ACEP regarding ultrasound. He also directs Quality Improvement activities for the EM department including audits, documentation issues, and interdepartmental concerns. His academic interests include new avenues in ultrasonography, resuscitation, and computerization of ED operations. He has administrative interest in medical informatics, airway management and quality improvement in the ED setting. He is also on the Board of Directors of the North Carolinas College of Emergency Physicians.

Amit Raj Trivedi, MD
Raj Trivedi obtained his medical education at the University of Alabama at Birmingham after working as an EMT in Montgomery, Alabama. Dr. Trivedi completed his Emergency Medicine Residency at University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and joined the clinical faculty at CMC in July 2005. During his residency at U of M, Raj worked as a flight physician with U of M's Survival Flight, and was involved in resident and student education. Dr. Trivedi was also selected and served as a member of the Medical Ethics Committee at University of Michigan Hospital. His interests include Medical Ethics as well as resident and medical student education.

John A. Watts, Ph.D.
John joined the Emergency Medicine faculty at CMC in September 1994, and is the Director of the Research Laboratories. He has a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, trained as a postdoctoral fellow at Hershey Medical Center, and was a faculty member for 15 years at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He has been awarded research grants from the NIH, the American Heart Association and from the pharmaceutical industry. Currently he serves as a member of the Mid-Atlantic Affiliate Research Committee of the American Heart Association. John's current research examines causes of cardiac dysfunction resulting from pulmonary embolism. John uses pharmacological, biochemical, molecular and physiological approaches to examine the changes in cardiovascular function that occur during this stress.