The UC Davis Department of Emergency Medicine offers a two-year Emergency Medicine Research Fellowship. The program combines training in clinical emergency medicine research with graduate level training at UC Davis leading to either a Masters of Science in Clinical Epidemiology (MAS) or Masters in Public Health (MPH). The research fellowship is Society of Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) approved.

The UC Davis Department of Emergency Medicine maintains a strong commitment to clinical research in emergency medicine. The Department has a broad area of research interests and expertise and participates in several multi-departmental collaborations and multi-center clinical trials. Areas of focused research include but are not limited to: trauma evaluation and management, injury prevention, clinical emergency cardiology, prehospital care, pediatric emergency medicine, development and validation of clinical prediction models, infectious disease, international emergency medicine and ultrasonography.

In addition, UC Davis is a leading center in the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN), the first federally funded research network in pediatric emergency medicine. Research fellows will also have access to research resources and infrastructure through the UC Davis Clinical and Translational Science Center.

Curriculum

Coursework through the UC Davis School of Medicine.

Fellowship Director

Daniel Nishijima, MD, MAS
Research Fellowship Director
Vice Chair of Research
Department of Emergency Medicine


Current and previous fellows

Daniel Nishijima, MD, MAS
2008-2010; Professor, UC Davis

Bryn Mumma, MD, MAS
2010-2012; Associate Professor, UC Davis

James Chenoweth, MD, MAS
2013-2016; Associate Professor, UC Davis

Austin Johnson, MD, MAS
2014-2016; Associate Professor, University of Utah

Brock Daniels, MD, MAS
2014-2016; Assistant Professor, Weill Cornell

Jeff Greene, MD, MAS
2016-2018; Staff Physician Kaiser Vacaville

Sonia Singh, MD, MPH, MBA, MSc
2018-2022; Assistant Professor, UC Davis

Hunter Pattison, MD
2021-2022; Current Fellow, UC Davis

How to apply and deadline

Email CV or biosketch and letter of interest to Daniel Nishijima

Candidate requirements and eligibility

Successful completion of an accredited Emergency Medicine Residency Program or Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship though will consider non-clinician applicants on a case-by-case basis.