Queen's University Departments of Emergency Medicine and Community Health and Epidemiology have developed a collaborative research program of applied epidemiological and medical research. This program has a special focus on injury prevention and control. The EMIRG unit is housed in Kingston General Hospital, and is currently staffed by two faculty (Dr. William Pickett, Dr. Rob Brison), a nurse coordinator, a research associate, a project coordinator, and a unit secretary. Graduate students from Community Health and Epidemiology have undertaken thesis projects in collaboration with this unit. The unit also supports residence research project in the Department of Emergency Medicine. The program is supported by external grants from a variety of internal and external agencies. Specific research foci include the surveillance and/or study of agricultural injuries, child injuries, intentional injuries (e.g. homicide, suicide), neurotrauma, whiplash disorders, and the applied use of cardiac markers in the emergency department. The EMIRG group coordinates a national program for the surveillance of agricultural injuries (the Canadian Agricultural Injury Surveillance Program), and is a regional site of the Canadian Hospitals Injury Research and Prevention Program.
Updated 9 March 2000