Steve Davis
Mr. Davis is Co-Director of Clinical Research for the West Virginia University Department of Emergency Medicine and holds an Adjunct Assistant Professor appointment within the West Virginia University (WVU) School of Medicine. He graduated summa cum laude from WVU with a degree in Social Work, and received both his Master's degree in Public Administration and Master's degree in Social Work with a curricular emphasis on community organization and social administration from WVU in 2000. Since 2000, Mr. Davis has taught research design, applied statistics, and evidence based medicine to WVU emergency medicine residents and faculty. Mr. Davis was also a faculty member for the Drexel University College of Medicine's Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) program from 2001-2006 where he taught principles of financial accounting and statements to medical and dental school faculty from the United States and abroad. Mr. Davis was appointed Vice Chair of the WVU Institutional Review Board for the Protection of Human Subjects in March 2009 and will assume the Chair position starting in July 2009. Mr. Davis is a current member of the West Virginia Cardiovascular Healthcare Advisory Council and the West Virginia Stroke Executive Committee.
Recent research endeavors include implementation and assessment of a community based emergency medical services (EMS) intervention to improve stroke treatment and care, the development of a statewide stroke registry, and research on the most effective public stroke education messages to help prevent morbidity and mortality from this debilitating disease. Other research interests include prescription drug abuse screening and prevention, as well as analyses of the Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS) and the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NHAMCS) to create national estimates of visits to hospital emergency departments (NHAMCS) and hospital discharges (NIS) for various injury conditions to help guide public policy and injury prevention efforts. He has also conducted research in the area of employee satisfaction and needs assessment using the quantitative-qualitative technique of Q methodology, and has published several journal articles on the topic.
Email: sdavis@hsc.wvu.edu