Principal Investigator	PI Home Department	Source of Support	Dates	Total Cost
Nathan Kuppermann, M.D.	Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics	HSRA	9/30/01 - 9/29/06	$2,530,000

Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB) of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), the goal of this network is to conduct high priority multi-institutional research into the prevention and management of acute illnesses and injuries in children and youth of all ages.

PECARN, comprised of four regional multi-institutional nodes and a coordinating data center, is the first federally funded pediatric emergency medicine research network. In PECARN, each node works collaboratively with the others and with MCHB/HRSA to initiate, implement, and administer network research. The four Regional Nodal centers, one center being the UC Davis Medical Center (UC Davis Medical Center), and their 24 Hospital Emergency Department Affiliates, five within the UC Davis Medical Center node, serve approximately 840,000 acutely ill and injured children every year. These HEDAs represent academic, community, urban, rural, general, and children’s hospitals across the United States.

PECARN performs meaningful and rigorous multi-institutional research across the continuum of emergency medicine health care delivery for children and youth. We work with diverse demographic populations and across varied geographical regions to promote the health of children in all phases of care. To accomplish these tasks PECARN provides the leadership and infrastructure needed to promote multicenter studies, support research collaboration among EMSC investigators, and encourage informational exchanges between EMSC investigators and providers.