Research at the Intersection of Crisis, Safety, and Care
Our work spans four interconnected domains, all united by a commitment to real-world impact for patients, providers, and healthcare systems.
Patient-Centered Behavioral Interventions
We design and evaluate innovative approaches that place patients' goals, experiences, and dignity at the center of behavioral emergency care. By partnering with patients, families, and community stakeholders, we develop solutions responsive to the needs of those most directly affected — improving trust, reducing coercion, and promoting recovery.
- Trauma-informed care
- Peer support programs
- Community engagement
- Patient-centered approaches
- Reducing coercive interventions
- Recovery-oriented care
- Community-engaged research
- Mixed methods
- Pragmatic trials
- Implementation science
Improving Safety During Behavioral Emergency Care
Behavioral emergencies pose significant risks to both patients and healthcare workers. We study strategies to prevent workplace violence, reduce coercive interventions, and create safer care environments — identifying effective approaches to agitation management, staff support, and organizational policy.
- Workplace violence prevention
- Staff safety & well-being
- Patient safety
- Agitation management
- Crisis protocols
- Organizational policy
- Systems dynamics modeling
- Implementation science
- Pragmatic trials
- Qualitative methods
Interprofessional Teamwork and Emergency Care
Exceptional emergency care depends on strong collaboration across disciplines. Our research examines how physicians, nurses, EMS clinicians, security personnel, social workers, and other team members work together during high-stakes situations — improving communication, coordination, and resilience across the care continuum.
- Team science
- Interprofessional collaboration
- EMS & interdisciplinary care
- Communication in crises
- Team resilience
- Simulation-based research
- Teamwork assessment
- Implementation research
- Observational methods
Technology to Improve Safety and Quality
We leverage data, simulation, and emerging technologies to transform behavioral emergency care. Our work applies clinical informatics, advanced statistical methods, digital health tools, and computational modeling to better understand complex care systems, predict outcomes, and support decision-making at scale.
- Clinical informatics
- Artificial intelligence
- Digital health tools
- Patient-facing technologies
- EHR & data science
- Computational modeling
- Advanced statistics
- Simulation
- Machine learning
- Systems modeling
Interested in our research?
We welcome collaborators, clinicians, community partners, and trainees who share our commitment to improving behavioral emergency care.
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