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Department of Emergency Medicine

Department of Emergency Medicine

The Warren Alpert Medical School's Department of Emergency Medicine is a world-class program dedicated to providing exceptional and equitable emergency medical care, education, research, and service to the people of Rhode Island and beyond.

Department of Emergency Medicine

The Warren Alpert Medical School's Department of Emergency Medicine is a world-class program dedicated to providing exceptional and equitable emergency medical care, education, research, and service to the people of Rhode Island and beyond.

Emergency Medicine at Brown

With more than 120 academic physicians, we have one of the largest and most well-rounded academic departments in the country, representing a wide range of subspecialties.

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Meet Our Faculty

Brown Emergency Medicine has a dedicated team of over 120 academic physicians committed to providing exceptional care, innovative research, and education programs to the next generation of emergency medicine professionals.
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Education

The department of Emergency Medicine offers numerous opportunities to teach, serve, and lead through education.
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Research

The department has a diverse and successful research enterprise with two basic science laboratories and a full infrastructure to support clinical research.
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Divisions

Brown Emergency Medicine consists of seven specialized divisions dedicated to providing exceptional care, innovative research, and educational programs.
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Belonging & Engagement

We embrace all types of diversity as strength and as part of our commitment to excellence in our mission areas of patient care, research, and education.
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By the Numbers

250,000 +

Patient Visits per Year

8

World-Class Divisions

$ 8 million

in faculty-led research funding

Pediatric Emergency Medicine

The Pediatric Emergency Department at Hasbro Children’s Hospital is the only ED in the region dedicated to the emergent and urgent medical needs of children and adolescents, caring for children and adolescents from birth to age 18 and beyond.

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Brown Physicians, Inc.

A community-based not-for-profit multi-specialty practice group founded and led by faculty affiliated with The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.

Brown Physicians Inc logoOur mission is to provide outstanding patient care, exceptional medical education, and groundbreaking advances in research to promote better health for the people of Rhode Island and its surrounding communities.

BPI is composed of six foundations -- Brown Dermatology, Brown Emergency Medicine, Brown Medicine, Brown Neurology, Brown Urology, and University Surgical Associates.

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Brown EM In the News

A collection of news stories involving our emergency medicine faculty and community initiatives.

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Brown University Health expands SAFE program statewide

September 19, 2025
"This was the first initiative to have an expert team of trained nurses and advance practice providers," said Dr. Susan Duffy, the medical director of the SAFE program.
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Rhode Island PBS

Pioneering Program Helps Victims of Sexual Violence

September 5, 2025
Sexual violence is demographically unbounded: no age group, economic or educational identity, or geographic location is unaffected. And these are among the reasons that Brown University Health’s SAFE program serves a vulnerable population.

The practitioners responsible for creating and overseeing the Sexual Assault Forensic Examiner (SAFE) program, as it’s formally known, nurse, Lori Clements and Dr. Susan J. Duffy, recently took the time to explain the pioneering program for Ocean State Stories.
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How hot is too hot for health? Brown emergency room doctor shares heat-related red flags

July 30, 2025
Amid cresting heat waves around the globe, Dr. Katelyn Moretti of the Warren Alpert Medical School relays the risks of high temperatures and how to keep cool and prevent dehydration.
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AOL

Snack, treat, or toxin? Keeping children safe from edible cannabis products | Opinion

July 26, 2025
As of January 2024, 24 states have legalized cannabis for recreational purposes with five more pursuing legalization. Even more have legalized cannabis for medical use. This has led to an unforeseen and alarming consequence: an increase in unintentional ingestion of edible cannabis products (known as “edibles”) by children. At Hasbro Children’s Hospital alone, there has been an over 700% increase in emergency department visits for younger children with unintentional cannabis exposure since the passing of the state law and opening of the first recreational dispensary, with rates continuing to rise.
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NBC 10 News

Pediatrician shares summer water safety tips

July 23, 2025
"Drowning is silent. I think movies and media sometimes make us think that drowning is a big splashing event with a lot of noise but that is not the case," said Dr. Rebecca Wingerter, an emergency medicine pediatrician at Hasbro Children's Hospital. "We know from an abundance of data that when children drown it's largely quite and they go under and you don't necessarily know."
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Newport Daily News

Summer Safety Tips from a Newport Hospital Emergency Physician

July 10, 2025
Tips to keep safe this summer from Dr. Anthony Napoli.
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