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Lawrence Brown, MPH-TM Associate Director of Research Graduate School: James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia Lawrence Brown is a member of the Board of Advisors for the Prehospital Care Research Forum, served as a co-investigator for the National EMS Research Agenda project, and is the lead author for the text, “An Introduction to EMS Research.”  In 2006, Lawrence moved to Queensland, Australia to study at the Anton Breinl Center at James Cook University, earning a Master of Public Health and Tropical Medicine degree in February of 2007.  Since returning to the U.S., Lawrence has worked to strengthen the links between research, EMS and public health, specifically in resource-poor settings.

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Current Projects include: Evaluating System Status Management for Emergency Medical Services. View details The IMMEDIATE Trial. View details Recent Publications: Are EMS Call Volume Predictions Based on Demand Pattern Analysis Accurate? Brown LH, Lerner EB, Larmon B, LeGassick T, Taigman M:   Prehospital Emergency Care 2007;11:199-203. Patient Perceptions of Emergency Physicians: The Gender Gap Still Exists. Prince LA, Pipas L, Brown LH:  Journal of Emergency Medicine 2006;31:361-364. Emergency Department Treatment of Viral Gastritis Using Intravenous Ondansetron or Dexamethasone in Children. Stork CM, Brown KM, Reilly TH, Secreti L, Brown LH:  Academic Emergency Medicine 2006;13:1027-1033. Location of Cardiac Arrests in the Public Access Defibrillation Trial. Reed DB, Birnbaum A, Brown LH, O'Connor RE, Fleg JL, Peberdy MA, Van Ottingham L, Hallstrom AP, and the PAD Trial Investigators:   Prehospital Emergency Care 2006;10:61-67. Can stock rotation effectively mitigate EMS medication exposure to excessive heat and cold? Brown LH, Wojcik SM, Bailey LC, Tran CD:   American Journal of Emergency Medicine 2006;24:14-18. Medication Storage Temperatures on U.S. Ambulances: Exposures of Varying Duration and Effects of a Simple Stock-Rotation Scheme. Brown LH, Wojcik SM, Bailey LC, Tran CD:   American Journal of Emergency Medicine 2006;24:14-18. Additional Publications   <<previous || next>> Research Home          EM Home          EM Contact Us