Catherine Ann Staton

Catherine Staton MD MSc

Dr. Staton is a Professor in Emergency Medicine (EM), Neurosurgery, Population Health & 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 and locally 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. This intervention has been proven to reduce 24 binge drinking events per year compared to usual care, and the team is now funded to plan for regional implementation. 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. The success of this program has been impressive with learners writing, submitting and being awarded and R21 to improve care for older adult trauma patients at KCMC. Dr. Staton also is working stateside as an implementation scientist on both health system and quality care at Duke as well as implementation science for climate change work in the Carolinas. Dr. Staton and GEMINI partners with over two dozen faculty from 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 200 manuscripts.