Biography

Megan Ranney is an attending physician at Rhode Island Hospital, The Miriam Hospital, and Hasbro Children's Hospital, as well as core research faculty at the Injury Prevention Center of Rhode Island Hospital. Her training includes a B.A. in History of Science at Harvard University; two years in Cote d'Ivoire as a Peace Corps Volunteer; a medical degree from Columbia University; residency and chief residency at Brown University's program in Emergency Medicine; and a fellowship in Injury Prevention.

Her primary research focus is: 1. prevention of injuries from violence; 2. development of technology-based interventions to deliver behavioral interventions in the ED. Current grants include development of web-based violence education for MDs, and studying the overlap between violence & depression using text-messaging.

Previous work includes the establishment of a sexual assault prevention center in Western Kenya; and investigation of predictors of motorcycle helmet use among new motorcyclists.

Awards

Loan Repayment Award for Clinical Research, National Institutes for Health - 2008-2010
Dean's Excellence in Teaching Award - June 2010
Haffenreffer Award - June 2008
Gregory D. Jay Resident Research Award -June 2008
Daniel L. Savitt Resident Teaching Award - June 2008

Affiliations

Society for the Advancement of Violence & Injury Research (SAVIR), 2008-present.

Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM), 2006-present.
Chair, Didactics Subcommittee, 2010-2012.
Board of Directors, resident member, 2007-2008.
Member, Public Health Interest Group (PHIG) and Research Interest Group.

Member, Academy for Women in Academic Emergency Med (AWAEM)
AWAEM New England Regional Advisory Committee, 2010-present.

American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) 2003-present
Newsletter editor, Trauma and Injury Prevention Section, 2010-2012
Member, Research Section.

American Medical Women's Association (AMWA), 2003-present.

Funded Research

ONGOING:
SAEM Research Training Grant (Ranney) 7/1/11-6/30/13
A Cellphone Intervention to Reduce Depression and Violence in Teen ED Patients
Violence and depression are significant public health problems, especially for adolescent females. SAEM, ACEP, NIH, and Healthy People 2010 call for prevention of these co-morbidities. This grant will create an innovative, cellphone-based tool to address these overlapping issues for adolescent female ED patients. It will also prepare Dr. Ranney for a career as a funded emergency medicine physician-researcher.
Role: Principal Investigator

University Emergency Medicine Foundation Small Projects Grant (Ranney/Choo) 8/16/10-present
Patient Attitudes toward Technology-based Behavioral Health Interventions in the Emergency Department
The specific aims of this systematic survey of adult and adolescent ED patients are two-fold: 1) To assess adult and adolescent emergency department patients' attitudes toward, comfort with, and acceptance of technology-based health behavior screening, intervention, and follow-up; and 2) To determine the relative likelihood of interest in technology-based screening & intervention, according to age, sex, self-reported comfort with computers/cellphones, and self-reported risky health behaviors.
Role: Co-Principal Investigator

American Association of Medical Colleges (Schweigler) 1/15/08-9/20-11
A Longitudinal Curriculum in Public Health for Emergency Medicine Residents
The major goal of this project is to provide a curriculum in public health for emergency medicine residents that incorporates focused scholarly concentrations in public health topics. My sub-project is to develop a web-based curriculum to train emergency medicine and pediatric residents in the identification of, and intervention in, youth violence.
Role: Consultant

Teaching Experience

- PHP2170: Injury as a Public Health Problem. Co-instructor, 2012-present.
- Community Health Rotation, research mentor: 2008-present
- Biol 3710-O, Healing Medicine: A Workshop Exploring Literature, Humanities and the Art of Practicing of Medicine: Guest lecturer
- BC 1520, Emergency Medicine Systems – A Critical Analysis of Performance: Guest lecturer
- Regular lecturer for Brown Residency Program in Emergency Medicine

Courses Taught

• Injury as a Public Health Problem (PHP2170)

Selected Publications

• Ranney ML, Madsen T, Gjelsvik A. "Predictors of Being Unsafe: Participation in the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System 2006 Intimate Partner Violence Module." J Interpers Violence, accepted January 13 2011. IN PRESS.(2011)
• Ranney ML, Chai P, Mello MJ, Baird J, Clark M. "Correlates of helmet use among newly licensed motorcyclists: a survey." Accid Anal Prev, 2010 42(6):2057-2062.(2010)
• Ranney ML, Rennert-May E, Spitzer R, Mabeya H. "A Novel ED-based Sexual Assault Center in Western Kenya: Description of Patients and Analysis of Treatment Patterns." EMJ, accepted September 2 2010. IN PRESS.(2010)
• 10. Ranney ML, Rennert-May E, Spitzer R, Mabeya H. "A Novel ED-based Sexual Assault Center in Western Kenya: Description of Patients and Analysis of Treatment Patterns." EMJ, accepted September 2 2010. IN PRESS.(2010)
• Broderick K, Ranney ML, Vaca F, Rothman R, Rhodes K, Becker B, D'Onofrio G, Haukoos J. "Study Designs and Evaluation Models for Emergency Department Public Health Research." Academic Emergency Medicine, 2009 16(11):1124-1131.(2009)
• Ranney ML, Verhoek-Oftedahl W, Rommel J, Mello MJ. "Analysis of Intentional and Unintentional Injuries Caused by Firearms and Cutting/piercing Instruments among Providence Youth, Nov 2004-Dec 2007." Medicine & Health Rhode Island, 2009 92(6):200-204.(2009)
• Ranney ML, Odero WW, Mello MJ, Waxman M, Fife RS. "Injuries from Interpersonal Violence Presenting to a Rural Health Center in Western Kenya: Characteristics and Correlates." Injury Prevention, 2009 15(1):36-40.(2009)
• Ranney ML, Mello MJ, Baird JB. "Helmet use by 510 injured motorcyclists in a state with limited helmet laws." Medicine & Health Rhode Island, 2008 91(4):100-102.(2008)
• Arnold LK, Alomran H, Anantharaman V, Halpern P, Hauswald M, Malmquist P, Molyneux E, Rajapakse B, Ranney M, Razzak J. "Knowledge translation in international emergency medical care." Acad Emerg Med, 2007 14(11):1047-1051.(2007)
• Ranney, ML, Partridge R, Jay G, Rozzoli DE, Pandey P. "Rabies antibody seroconversion rates among travelers in Nepal." J Trav Med, 2006 13(6):329-333.(2006)
• Ranney ML, Gee E, Merchant RC. "Non-prescription availability of emergency contraception in the United States: Current status, controversies, and impact on the emergency department." Ann Emerg Med, 2006 47(5):461-71.(2006)
• Krosin MT, Klitzman R, Levin B, Cheng J, Ranney ML. "Problems in comprehension of informed consent in rural and peri-urban Mali, West Africa." Clinical Trials, 2006 3(3):306-313.(2006)