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E. Brooke Lerner

Professor of Emergency Medicine
Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

Emergency medicine, emergency care for children, mass shootings, mass casualty incidents

Head shot of E. Brooke Lerner, University at Buffalo emergency medicine expert, including in relation to mass shootings and other mass casualty incidents.

E. Brooke Lerner, a former paramedic, is an emergency medical services researcher. She can comment on mass casualty incidents, including shootings and natural disasters, especially where children are among the victims.

Lerner studies field and disaster triage and acute injury care. She led the development of national guidelines in the U.S. for mass casualty triage, and her research contributed to national field triage guidelines for trauma.

Lerner conducts research on the epidemiology of prehospital (emergency) care for children in order to improve the delivery of care to this vulnerable population.

She has served as a leading investigator on prehospital care for the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network. In addition, she has significant experience working with local, regional and national governmental and nongovernmental agencies to assist in interpreting and translating emergency medical services research into practice.

CONTACT:

E. Brooke Lerner, PhD
Professor of Emergency Medicine
Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo

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