# The Indiana EMergency Care REsearch (Indiana EMCARE) training program at Indiana University School ofMedicine (IUSM)

> **NIH NIH K12** · INDIANA UNIVERSITY INDIANAPOLIS · 2020 · $340,086

## Abstract

This application proposes the Indiana Emergency Care Research training program (Indiana
EMCARE) at the Indiana University School of Medicine (IUSM), currently the nation's largest
allopathic medical school. As a unique identifier, Indiana EMCARE will offer specific expertise in
training scholars to conduct clinical trials. For the scholars, the clinical trials focus will provide skill to
address a critical gap in knowledge translation, but will accommodate and facilitate virtually any
intrinsic clinical interest held by scholars. Clinical trials can include a wide range of topics from early
phase, translational trials with emphasis in technology transfer, to single center studies of device
diagnostic accuracy, to multicenter randomized controlled treatment trials. This focus will be driven by
the manifest clinical trial expertise of both co-principle investigators, one from emergency medicine
(Jeffrey Kline MD) and the other from internal medicine (Kurt Kroenke MD). Dr. Kline brings decades
of experience training 12 research fellows in emergency medicine, and continuous NIH or AHRQ
funding as PI since 2003. Dr. Kroenke brings decades of experience as PI on multiple training
grants, including a T32, KL2, R25 and K30 awards. Dr. Kroenke will direct the coursework portion of
Indiana EMCARE, known as the Career development, Education, and Research Training, or CERT
program, which grants a Master of Science in Clinical Research. To be responsive to the published
request for applications, Indiana EMCARE leadership that includes a program director from
emergency medicine (Kline) and psychiatry (Alexander Niculescu, MD PhD) with mentorship and
tangible commitment from the School of Nursing. Scholars can choose from 15 clinician-researchers
who represent 10 disciplines, including emergency medicine, cardiology, pulmonology, psychiatry,
rehabilitative medicine, and nursing. The program will seek and recruit the true rising stars in the field,
with a plan to enhance diversity, evidenced already by the list of potential scholars in waiting.
Oversight is provided by an internal committee comprising five senior leaders, all of whom have at
minimum, directed a T32 program and three external advisors with R01 funding and collective
expertise in emergency medicine and psychiatry. The program will incorporate bidirectional evaluation
of the scholars, their mentors and the PDs, as well as evaluation of the program by the advisory
committees.  Each scholar must produce a manuscript submitted for peer review and write a first draft
of a K23 application (or, depending upon the particular trainee, another relevant NIH application such
as an R21).

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9973209
- **Project number:** 5K12HL133310-05
- **Recipient organization:** INDIANA UNIVERSITY INDIANAPOLIS
- **Principal Investigator:** KURT KROENKE
- **Activity code:** K12 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $340,086
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2016-08-15 → 2022-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9973209

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9973209, The Indiana EMergency Care REsearch (Indiana EMCARE) training program at Indiana University School ofMedicine (IUSM) (5K12HL133310-05). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9973209. Licensed CC0.

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