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# Catherine Ann Staton

Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine
Emergency Medicine
catherine.staton@duke.edu
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## Overview

Catherine Staton MD MSc

Dr. Staton is an Associate Professor in Emergency Medicine (EM), Neurosurgery & Global Health with tenure at Duke University. She is the Director of the GEMINI (Global EM Innovation & Implementation) Research Center and the EM Vice Chair of Research Strategy & Faculty Development. Her research integrates innovative implementation methods into health systems globally to improve access to acute care. In 2012, with an injury registry at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center, Tanzania Dr. Staton demonstrated 30% of injury patients had at risk alcohol use, providing preliminary data for a K01/Career Development Award. Her K01 award adapted a brief alcohol intervention to the KCMC ED and Swahili and is now being trialed in an NIAAA funded R01 pragmatic adaptive clinical trial. Dr. Staton and her mentor and collaborator Dr. Mmbaga are co-PD of the “The TReCK Program: Trauma Research Capacity Building in Kilimanjaro” to train 12 masters and doctoral learners to conduct innovative implementation and data science projects to improve care for injury patients. Currently, Dr. Staton and GEMINI partners with over a dozen faculty from over 6 low- and middle-income countries to conduct research, has mentored over 150 learners from undergraduate to post-doctoral levels from high, middle and low- income settings and has over 130 manuscripts.

## Current Appointments & Affiliations

Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine · 2021 - Present Emergency Medicine, Clinical Science Departments
Associate Professor in Neurosurgery · 2019 - Present Neurosurgery, Neurosurgery
Associate Research Professor of Global Health · 2019 - Present Duke Global Health Institute, University Institutes and Centers

## Education, Training & Certifications

Duke University · 2014 M.S.
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey · 2005 M.D.