The Department of Emergency Medicine has a strong history encouraging faculty members to seek and obtain external funding for academic research, and with over $8.5 million in external funding annually, ranks among the top-funded departments of EM in the nation.The Department has nine NIH-funded investigators. Currently active within the Department are over 27 NIH funded projects, including 9 R01 grants & subcontracts, two R21 grants & subcontracts, one R33 grant, one R25 subcontract, one R43 subcontract, one UH3 grant, and one K23 grant. The Department is home to a $12 million P20 NIGMS award for the Injury Control COBRE at Rhode Island Hospital. The Department also holds one HRSA and one NHTSA grant and has a faculty member serving as co-Principal investigator on the COBRE for Opioids and Overdose at Rhode Island Hospital. The Department serves as a site for the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) in the San-Francisco, Providence, Atlanta Research Collaborative node, and three PECARN studies are currently active in our department. Additionally, several industry-sponsored & foundation projects are active in the Emergency Departments at Rhode Island Hospital, The Miriam Hospital, and Hasbro Children’s Hospital.