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| Eric Goralnick, MD, MS | Li Zhou, MD, PhD |
Eric Goralnick, MD, MS, medical director of Emergency Preparedness and the Access Center, and Li Zhou, MD, PhD, of the Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care, were awarded a grant by the National Collaborative for Gun Violence Research (NCGVR) for their project, “Evaluating and Improving the Accuracy of ICD-Coded Hospital Data Systems in Estimating the Incidence of Nonfatal Firearm Injuries by Intent Type.”
With the support of the NCGVR Grant, Goralnick and Zhou’s research will aim to improve hospital data systems that track nonfatal firearm injuries by type of incident, such as assault, unintentional, legal intervention and self-inflicted. Goralnick and Zhou will collaborate with colleagues from Northeastern University, the Harvard Injury Control Center and the University of Washington on this study.
The National Collaborative on Gun Violence supports research designed to inform the development of fair and effective gun policy. Goralnick and Zhou’s study is among 15 new projects to be funded by the organization.
More broadly in his work at the Brigham, Goralnick specializes in the application of military medical innovation to a civilian setting. He is also interested in emergency preparedness, leadership training, trauma care and operations management. Zhou’s research focuses on biomedical informatics and the development of novel computational methods to improve the quality and safety of care.
