The mission of the Research Directors Interest Group is to provide an interactive group of research leaders at EM residency and EM departments interested in furthering Research whether Clinical, Basic , Science , Social, Database or Educational  in origin.

The interest group was initially intended for the Research Directors but will allow for all those with research interest and desire to fulfill leadership in their Departments to participate.

The objectives of the Research Directors Interest Group are to:

• Collaborate with the EBHI interest group to submit a lecture for the annual meeting.
• Submit a proposal to the annual meeting about the difference in resource utilization for research departments between a community, community/academic, and university hospital.

Chair:  John Ashurst, DO, MSc
Board Liaison: Jeff Druck, MD
Staff Liaison: Melissa McMillian, CAE, CNP