EMSC National Resource Center and HRSA State Contacts


Beginning August 1, 2010, staff of the Emergency Medical Services for Children (EMSC) National Resource Center (NRC) will provide technical assistance to State Partnership grantees in the areas of (1) identification of resources and model programs, (2) development of interfacility transfer guidelines/agreements and facility designation, and (3) development of legislation and regulation. Please contact Ian Weston at 301-244-6220 for questions about resources and model programs; Diana Fendya at 301-244-6239 for issues related to interfacility transfer guidelines and facility designation; and Karen Belli at 301-244-6227 for legislative and regulatory issues.
 
Staff of the Health Resources and Services Administration will provide technical assistance to State Partnership grantees in all other areas. Please contact your HRSA representative directly using the map below.

State Partnership Technical Assistance Liaisons

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Green states 

 Yolanda Baker
301-443-6601
ybaker@hrsa.gov

Yellow states 

 Therese Morrison-Quinata
301-443-1527
tmorrison-quinata@hrsa.gov

Red states 

 Jocelyn Hulbert
301-443-7436
jhulbert@hrsa.gov

Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) Technical Assistance Liaison

Jaclynn Haymon, MPA, RN
PECARN program manager
301.244.6222
jhaymon@childrensnational.org


Targeted Issue Staff Liaison

Diana Fendya, MSN(R), RN
301.244.6239
dfendya@childrensnational.org

  • CALIFORNIA – UC Davis School of Medicine. Utility of Abdominal Ultrasound during Emergency Department Evaluation of Children with Blunt Trauma (Primary Investigator: James Holmes, MD, MPH).
  • CONNECTICUT – Yale University. Small Victims, Big Challenges: Refining Pediatric Disaster Triage Algorithms and Education in the Prehospital Setting (Primary Investigator: Mark Cicero, MD).
  • DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA – Children’s National Medical Center. Reducing Errors in Pediatric Trauma Resuscitation Using a Checklist (Primary Investigator: Randall Burd, MD, PhD).
  • ILLINOIS – Loyola University, School of Medicine. Pediatric Facility Recognition/Categorization: Models of Best Practice, Implementation and Evaluation (Primary Co-investigators: Mark Cichon, MD, and Evelyn Lyons, RN, MPH).
  • MASSACHUSETTS – Brigham & Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School.* ExSTRA: Evidence-Based Screening for Siblings and Contacts of Abused Children (Primary Investigator: Daniel Lindberg, MD).
  • MICHIGAN – University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.* Progesterone for Traumatic Brain Injury in Children: Planning a Safety and Efficacy Trial (Primary Investigator: Rachel Stanley, MD).
  • NORTH CAROLINA – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. EMS and Pediatric Trauma: A North Carolina Population-based Performance Improvement Intervention and Evaluation Using Multiple-linked Healthcare Databases (Primary Investigator: Jane Brice, MD). 
  • NORTH CAROLINA – Wake Forest University. Evaluation of a Pediatric Emergency Care Recognition Program on Care of Injured Children (Primary Investigator: J. Wayne Meredith, MD).
  • TEXAS – Texas Children’s Hospital. Integrating Evidence-Based Pediatric Prehospital Protocols into Practice (Primary Investigator: Manish Shah, MD).