Dr. Samuels is an emergency medicine physician, health services trained researcher, and Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University. She completed her emergency medicine training at the Brown Emergency Medicine Residency Program, a health service research and health policy fellowship at the Yale National Clinician Scholars Program, and is board certified in Emergency Medicine and Addiction Medicine. Her work focuses on social emergency medicine and health equity initiatives, specifically community health worker/peer recovery programs, harm reduction services, low barrier substance use disorder treatment, care of transgender and gender nonbinary people, health care workforce diversity, and emergency department programs to address health related social needs.
She currently serves as the consulting Assistant Medical Director for the Rhode Island Department of Health’s (RIDOH) Drug Overdose Prevention Program. In this role, Dr. Samuels is leading implementation and evaluation of Rhode Island's statewide standards of care for ED and hospital treatment of opioid overdose and opioid use disorder, including expansion of ED-initiated buprenorphine. In 2020, she helped establish the Substance Misuse Assistance Response Team (SMART), at Rhode Island Hospital, an emergency department-based community health worker-peer recovery specialist program to both address the social determinants of recovery and link patients to harm reduction services and addiction treatment. She currently helps lead the Rhode Island Buprenorphine Hotline, an audio-only buprenorphine telehealth service which provides low barrier buprenorphine treatment access with linkage to maintenance treatment.
| Im, Dana D., Scott, Kirstin W., Venkatesh, Arjun K., Lobon, Luis F., Kroll, David S., Samuels, Elizabeth A., Wilson, Michael P., Zeller, Scott, Zun, Leslie S., Clifford, Kathleen C., Zachrison, Kori S. "A Quality Measurement Framework for Emergency Department Care of Psychiatric Emergencies." Annals of Emergency Medicine, 2022. |
| Samuels EA, Martin AF. "Beyond the Waiver: Multilevel Interventions Needed to Expand Buprenorphine Treatment." JAMA Network Open, vol. 5, no. 5, 2022, pp. e2212425. |
| Samuels, Elizabeth A., Khatri, Utsha G., Snyder, Hannah, Wightman, Rachel S., Tofighi, Babak, Krawczyk, Noa. "Buprenorphine Telehealth Treatment Initiation and Follow-Up During COVID-19." Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2022. |
| Ryus CR, Samuels EA, Wong AH, Hill KA, Huot S, Boatright D. "Burnout and Perception of Medical School Learning Environments Among Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Medical Students." JAMA Network Open, vol. 5, no. 4, 2022, pp. e229596. |
| Beaudoin, Francesca L., Jacka, Brendan P., Li, Yu, Samuels, Elizabeth A., Hallowell, Benjamin D., Peachey, Alyssa M., Newman, Roxxanne A., Daly, Mackenzie M., Langdon, Kirsten J., Marshall, Brandon D. L. "Effect of a Peer-Led Behavioral Intervention for Emergency Department Patients at High Risk of Fatal Opioid Overdose." JAMA Network Open, vol. 5, no. 8, 2022, pp. e2225582. |
| Kelly, Timothy, Hawk, Kathryn, Samuels, Elizabeth, Strayer, Reuben, Hoppe, Jason. "Improving Uptake of Emergency Department-initiated Buprenorphine: Barriers and Solutions." Western Journal of Emergency Medicine, vol. 23, no. 4, 2022, pp. 461-467. |
| Samuels, Elizabeth A, Taylor, Richard Andrew, Pendyal, Akshay, Shojaee, Abbas, Mainardi, Anne S, Lemire, Evan R, Venkatesh, Arjun K, Bernstein, Steven L, Haber, Adam L. "Mapping emergency department asthma visits to identify poor-quality housing in New Haven, CT, USA: a retrospective cohort study." The Lancet Public Health, vol. 7, no. 8, 2022, pp. e694-e704. |
| Teshome BG, Desai MM, Gross CP, Hill KA, Li F, Samuels EA, Wong AH, Xu Y, Boatright DH. "Marginalized identities, mistreatment, discrimination, and burnout among US medical students: cross sectional survey and retrospective cohort study." BMJ, vol. 376, 2022, pp. e065984. |
| Samuels EA, Doran KM. "Moving Upstream: A Social Emergency Medicine Approach to Opioid Use Disorder." Annals of Emergency Medicine, vol. 79, no. 2, 2022, pp. 168-171. |
| Samuels EA, Bailer DA, Yolken A. "Overdose Prevention Centers: An Essential Strategy to Address the Overdose Crisis." JAMA Network Open, vol. 5, no. 7, 2022, pp. e2222153. |
| O’Marr, Jamieson M., Chan, Shin Mei, Crawford, Lake, Wong, Ambrose H., Samuels, Elizabeth, Boatright, Dowin. "Perceptions on Burnout and the Medical School Learning Environment of Medical Students Who Are Underrepresented in Medicine." JAMA Network Open, vol. 5, no. 2, 2022, pp. e220115. |
| Hallowell, Benjamin D., Chambers, Laura C., Samuels, Elizabeth A., Bratberg, Jeffrey, McDonald, James, Nitenson, Adam, Onyejekwe, Collette, Beaudoin, Francesca L. "Sociodemographic and prescribing characteristics that impact long-term retention in buprenorphine treatment for opioid use disorder among a statewide population." Drug and Alcohol Dependence, vol. 241, 2022, pp. 109680. |
| Naeem AH, Davis CS, Samuels EA. "The Importance of Federal Action Supporting Overdose-Prevention Centers." New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 386, no. 21, 2022, pp. 1965-1967. |
| Gallagher, Timothy H., Doran, Kelly M., Samuels, Elizabeth A., McCormack, Ryan P. "The Perceived Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Social Needs of Adult Emergency Department Patients." Health Equity, vol. 6, no. 1, 2022, pp. 610-615. |
| Wunsch, Caroline, Wightman, Rachel, Pratty, Claire, Jacka, Brendan, Hallowell, Benjamin D., Clark, Seth, Davis, Corey S., Samuels, Elizabeth A. "Thirty-day Treatment Continuation After Audio-only Buprenorphine Telehealth Initiation." Journal of Addiction Medicine, vol. Publish Ahead of Print, 2022. |
| Martinez-Strengel A, Samuels EA, Cross J, Cramer LD, Desai MM, Gotian R, Gross CP, Latimore D, Cavazos JE, Boatright D. "Trends in U.S. MD-PhD Program Matriculant Diversity by Sex and Race/Ethnicity." Academic Medicine, 2022. |
| Lemire E, Samuels EA, Wang W, Haber A. "Unequal Housing Conditions And Code Enforcement Contribute To Asthma Disparities In Boston, Massachusetts." Health Affairs, vol. 41, no. 4, 2022, pp. 563-572. |
| Khatri UG, Samuels EA, Xiong R, Marshall BDL, Perrone J, Delgado MK. "Variation in emergency department visit rates for opioid use disorder: Implications for quality improvement initiatives." The American Journal of Emergency Medicine, vol. 51, 2022, pp. 331-337. |
| Long, Ruby, Cleveland Manchanda, Emily C., Dekker, Annette M., Kraynov, Liliya, Willson, Susan, Flores, Pedro, Samuels, Elizabeth A., Rhodes, Karin. "Community engagement via restorative justice to build equity-oriented crisis standards of care”." Journal of the National Medical Association, vol. 114, no. 4, 2022, pp. 377-389. |
| Samuels EA, Kelley L, Pham T, Cross J, Carmona J, Ellis P, Cobbs-Lomax D, D'Onofrio G, Capp R. "I wanted to participate in my own care": Evaluation of a Patient Navigation Program." Western Journal of Emergency Medicine, vol. 22, no. 2, 2021, pp. 417-426. |
| Samuels EA, Boatright DH, Wong AH, Cramer LD, Desai MM, Solotke MT, Latimore D, Gross CP. "Association Between Sexual Orientation, Mistreatment, and Burnout Among US Medical Students." JAMA Network Open, vol. 4, no. 2, 2021, pp. e2036136. |
| Macmadu, Alexandria, Batthala, Sivakumar, Correia Gabel, Annice M., Rosenberg, Marti, Ganguly, Rik, Yedinak, Jesse L., Hallowell, Benjamin D., Scagos, Rachel P., Samuels, Elizabeth A., Cerdá, Magdalena, Paull, Kimberly, Marshall, Brandon D. L. "Comparison of Characteristics of Deaths From Drug Overdose Before vs During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Rhode Island." JAMA Network Open, vol. 4, no. 9, 2021, pp. e2125538. |
| Weiss J, Balasuriya L, Cramer LD, Nunez-Smith M, Genao I, Gonzalez-Colaso R, Wong AH, Samuels EA, Latimore D, Boatright D, Sharifi M. "Demographic Differences in Medical Students' Perceptions of Respect for Diversity Among Faculty." Academic Medicine, vol. 96, no. 11S, 2021, pp. S218-S219. |
| Samuels E.A., Coupet E., D’Onofrio G. "Emergency Department Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder." Treating Opioid Use Disorder in General Medical Settings, edited by Wakeman S.E., Rich J.D., Springer, 2021, pp. 57-75. |
| Collins, Alexandra B., Beaudoin, Francesca L., Samuels, Elizabeth A., Wightman, Rachel, Baird, Janette. "Facilitators and barriers to post-overdose service delivery in Rhode Island emergency departments: A qualitative evaluation." Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, vol. 130, 2021, pp. 108411. |
| Samuels EA, Orr L, White EB, Saadi A, Padela AI, Westerhaus M, Bhatt AD, Agrawal P, Wang D, Gonsalves G. "Health Care Utilization Before and After the "Muslim Ban" Executive Order Among People Born in Muslim-Majority Countries and Living in the US." JAMA Network Open, vol. 4, no. 7, 2021, pp. e2118216. |
| Jacka BP, Ziobrowski HN, Lawrence A, Baird J, Wentz AE, Marshall BDL, Wightman RS, Mello MJ, Beaudoin FL, Samuels EA. "Implementation and maintenance of an emergency department naloxone distribution and peer recovery specialist program." Academic Emergency Medicine, vol. 29, no. 3, 2021, pp. 294-307. |
| Davis CS, Carr DH, Glenn MJ, Samuels EA. "Legal Authority for Emergency Medical Services to Increase Access to Buprenorphine Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder." Annals of Emergency Medicine, 2021. |
| Yedinak, Jesse L., Li, Yu, Krieger, Maxwell S., Howe, Katharine, Ndoye, Colleen Daley, Lee, Hyunjoon, Civitarese, Anna M., Marak, Theodore, Nelson, Elana, Samuels, Elizabeth A., Chan, Philip A., Bertrand, Thomas, Marshall, Brandon D.L. "Machine learning takes a village: Assessing neighbourhood-level vulnerability for an overdose and infectious disease outbreak." International Journal of Drug Policy, vol. 96, 2021, pp. 103395. |
| Weiss, Jasmine, Balasuriya, Lilanthi, Cramer, Laura D., Nunez-Smith, Marcella, Genao, Inginia, Gonzalez-Colaso, Rosana, Wong, Ambrose H., Samuels, Elizabeth A., Latimore, Darin, Boatright, Dowin, Sharifi, Mona. "Medical Students’ Demographic Characteristics and Their Perceptions of Faculty Role Modeling of Respect for Diversity." JAMA Network Open, vol. 4, no. 6, 2021, pp. e2112795. |
| Macmadu A, Paull K, Youssef R, Batthala S, Wilson KH, Samuels EA, Yedinak JL, Marshall BDL. "Predictors of enrollment in opioid agonist therapy after opioid overdose or diagnosis with opioid use disorder: A cohort study." Drug and Alcohol Dependence, vol. 219, 2021, pp. 108435. |
| Reddy NG, Jacka B, Ziobrowski HN, Wilson T, Lawrence A, Beaudoin FL, Samuels EA. "Race, ethnicity, and emergency department post-overdose care." Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, vol. 131, 2021, pp. 108588. |
| Samuels EA, Wentz A, McCormick M, McDonald JV, Marshall BDL, Friedman C, Koziol J, Alexander-Scott NE. "Rhode Island's Opioid Overdose Hospital Standards and Emergency Department Naloxone Distribution, Behavioral Counseling, and Referral to Treatment." Annals of Emergency Medicine, vol. 78, no. 1, 2021, pp. 68-79. |
| Self JL, Montgomery MP, Toews KA, Samuels EA, Imbert E, McMichael TM, Marx GE, Lohff C, Andrews T, Ghinai I, Mosites E, COVID-19 Homelessness Response Team. "Shelter Characteristics, Infection Prevention Practices, and Universal Testing for SARS-CoV-2 at Homeless Shelters in 7 US Urban Areas." American Journal of Public Health, vol. 111, no. 5, 2021, pp. 854-859. |
| Samuels E.A., Xuan Z., Bernstein E. "Substance Use: A Social Emergency Medicine Perspective." Social Emergency Medicine Principles and Practice, edited by Alter H.J., Dalawari P., Doran K.M., Raven M.C., Springer, 2021, pp. 157-184. |
| Wightman RS, Jacka B, Uber J, McKenzie M, Reddy NG, Winters R, Jordison Keeler LA, Samuels EA. "Tele-buprenorphine for emergency department overdose visit follow up and treatment initiation." The American Journal of Emergency Medicine, vol. 50, 2021, pp. 409-412. |
| Clark SA, Davis C, Wightman RS, Wunsch C, Keeler LAJ, Reddy N, Samuels EA. "Using telehealth to improve buprenorphine access during and after COVID-19: A rapid response initiative in Rhode Island." Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, vol. 124, 2021, pp. 108283. |
| Hill KA, Samuels EA, Gross CP, Desai MM, Sitkin Zelin N, Latimore D, Huot SJ, Cramer LD, Wong AH, Boatright D. "Assessment of the Prevalence of Medical Student Mistreatment by Sex, Race/Ethnicity, and Sexual Orientation." JAMA Internal Medicine, 2020. |
| Duong, David K., Samuels, Elizabeth A., Boatright, Dowin, Wilson, Taneisha. "Association between Emergency Medicine Clerkship Diversity Scholarships and Residency Diversity." AEM Education and Training, 2020. |
| Davis CS, Samuels EA. "Continuing increased access to buprenorphine in the United States via telemedicine after COVID-19." International Journal of Drug Policy, 2020, pp. 102905. |
| Goldman JE, Samuels EA, Rich JD, Marshall BDL. "Correlates of death during outpatient treatment for opioid use disorder: A national study." Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, vol. 112, 2020, pp. 76-85. |
| Karb, Rebecca, Samuels, Elizabeth, Vanjani, Rahul, Trimbur, Catherine, Napoli, Anthony. "Homeless Shelter Characteristics and Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2." Western Journal of Emergency Medicine, vol. 21, no. 5, 2020, pp. 1048-1053. |
| Samuels EA, Clark SA, Wunsch C, Jordison Keeler LA, Reddy N, Vanjani R, Wightman RS. "Innovation During COVID-19: Improving Addiction Treatment Access." Journal of Addiction Medicine, vol. 14, no. 4, 2020, pp. e8-e9. |
| Jacka, Brendan, Beaudoin, Francesca, Li, Yu, Nimaja, Evelyn, Yedinak, Jesse, Samuels, Elizabeth, Marshall, Brandon D.L. "Objective Outcome Measures in Randomized Clinical Trials of Interventions to Reduce Risk of Opioid Overdose Following Discharge From the Emergency Department: Utility of Administrative Data Linkage." Journal of Addiction Medicine, vol. Publish Ahead of Print, no. 2, 2020, pp. 174-175. |
| Davis CS, Samuels EA. "Opioid Policy Changes During the COVID-19 Pandemic - and Beyond." Journal of Addiction Medicine, vol. 14, no. 4, 2020, pp. e4-e5. |
| Kim, Howard S., Samuels, Elizabeth A. "Overcoming Barriers to Prescribing Buprenorphine in the Emergency Department." JAMA Network Open, vol. 3, no. 5, 2020, pp. e204996. |
| Collins, Alexandra B., Beaudoin, Francesca L., Samuels, Elizabeth A., Wightman, Rachel, Baird, Janette. "The Impact of COVID-19 on Service Provision for Emergency Department Patients Post-Opioid Overdose." Journal of Addiction Medicine, vol. Publish Ahead of Print, 2020. |
| Samuels, Elizabeth A., Orr, Lilla, White, Elizabeth B., Saadi, Altaf, Padela, Aasim I., Westerhaus, Michael, Bhatt, Aarti D., Agrawal, Pooja, Wang, Dennis, Gonsalves, Gregg. "The Impact of the “Muslim Ban” Executive Order on Healthcare Utilization in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota." [], 2020. |
| Gaur, Dhruv S., Jacka, Brendan P., Green, Traci C., Samuels, Elizabeth A., Hadland, Scott E., Krieger, Maxwell S., Yedinak, Jesse L., Marshall, Brandon D.L. "US drug overdose mortality: 2009–2018 increases affect young people who use drugs." International Journal of Drug Policy, vol. 85, 2020, pp. 102906. |
| Samuels EA, D'Onofrio G, Huntley K, Levin S, Schuur JD, Bart G, Hawk K, Tai B, Campbell CI, Venkatesh AK. "A Quality Framework for Emergency Department Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder." Annals of Emergency Medicine, vol. 73, no. 3, 2019, pp. 237-247. |
| Samuels EA, Baird J, Yang ES, Mello MJ. "Adoption and Utilization of an Emergency Department Naloxone Distribution and Peer Recovery Coach Consultation Program." Academic Emergency Medicine, vol. 26, no. 2, 2019, pp. 160-173. |
| Samuels EA, Bernstein SL, Marshall BDL, Krieger M, Baird J, Mello MJ. "Corrigendum to "Peer navigation and take-home naloxone for opioid overdose emergency department patients: Preliminary patient outcomes" [J. Subst. Abus. Treat. 94 (2018 Nov) 29-34]." Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, vol. 99, 2019, pp. 8. |
| Samuels EA, McDonald JV, McCormick M, Koziol J, Friedman C, Alexander-Scott N. "Emergency Department and Hospital Care for Opioid Use Disorder: Implementation of Statewide Standards in Rhode Island, 2017-2018." American Journal of Public Health, vol. 109, no. 2, 2019, pp. 263-266. |
| Samuels EA. "Emergency Departments as Barometers for Prescription Opioid Morbidity and Mortality." American Journal of Public Health, vol. 109, no. 5, 2019, pp. 655-656. |
| Waye KM, Goyer J, Dettor D, Mahoney L, Samuels EA, Yedinak JL, Marshall BDL. "Implementing peer recovery services for overdose prevention in Rhode Island: An examination of two outreach-based approaches." Addictive Behaviors, vol. 89, 2019, pp. 85-91. |
| Davis CS, Carr DH, Samuels EA. "Paraphernalia Laws, Criminalizing Possession and Distribution of Items Used to Consume Illicit Drugs, and Injection-Related Harm." American Journal of Public Health, vol. 109, no. 11, 2019, pp. 1564-1567. |
| Goedel WC, Marshall BDL, Samuels EA, Brinkman MG, Dettor D, Langdon KJ, Mahoney LA, Merchant RC, Nizami T, O'Toole GA, Ramsey SE, Yedinak JL, Beaudoin FL. "Randomised clinical trial of an emergency department-based peer recovery support intervention to increase treatment uptake and reduce recurrent overdose among individuals at high risk for opioid overdose: study protocol for the navigator trial." BMJ Open, vol. 9, no. 11, 2019, pp. e032052. |
| Cheng TH, Samuels EA. "Reflection: An Ecologic Model of Social Emergency Medicine." Annals of Emergency Medicine, vol. 74, no. 5S, 2019, pp. S71-S73. |
| Hopson LR, Regan L, Bond MC, Branzetti J, Samuels EA, Naemi B, Dunleavy D, Gisondi MA. "The AAMC Standardized Video Interview and the Electronic Standardized Letter of Evaluation in Emergency Medicine: A Comparison of Performance Characteristics." Academic Medicine, vol. 94, no. 10, 2019, pp. 1513-1521. |
| Samuels, Elizabeth A., Warren, Otis U., Davis, Corey S., Christopher, Paul P. "Will Emergency Holds Reduce Opioid Overdose Deaths?." New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 381, no. 19, 2019, pp. 1795-1797. |
| Samuels EA, Tape C, Garber N, Bowman S, Choo EK. "Sometimes You Feel Like the Freak Show": A Qualitative Assessment of Emergency Care Experiences Among Transgender and Gender-Nonconforming Patients." Annals of Emergency Medicine, vol. 71, no. 2, 2018, pp. 170-182.e1. |
| Boatright DH, Samuels EA, Cramer L, Cross J, Desai M, Latimore D, Gross CP. "Association Between the Liaison Committee on Medical Education's Diversity Standards and Changes in Percentage of Medical Student Sex, Race, and Ethnicity." JAMA, vol. 320, no. 21, 2018, pp. 2267-2269. |
| Jarman AF, McGregor AJ, Moll JL, Madsen TE, Samuels EA, Chesis M, Becker BM. "Looking Through the Prism: Comprehensive Care of Sexual Minority and Gender-nonconforming Patients in the Acute Care Setting." AEM Education and Training, vol. 2, no. Suppl Suppl 1, 2018, pp. S82-S84. |
| Doran KM, Raja AS, Samuels EA. "Opioid Overdose Protocols in the Emergency Department: Are We Asking the Right Questions?." Annals of Emergency Medicine, vol. 72, no. 1, 2018, pp. 12-15. |
| Samuels EA, Bernstein SL, Marshall BDL, Krieger M, Baird J, Mello MJ. "Peer navigation and take-home naloxone for opioid overdose emergency department patients: Preliminary patient outcomes." Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, vol. 94, 2018, pp. 29-34. |
| Boatright D, Branzetti J, Duong D, Hicks M, Moll J, Perry M, Pierce A, Samuels E, Smith T, Angerhofer C, Heron S. "Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Academic Emergency Medicine: How Far Have We Come? Next Steps for the Future." AEM Education and Training, vol. 2, no. Suppl Suppl 1, 2018, pp. S31-S39. |
| Samuels EA, Boatright D, Sanchez LD, Heron SL, Liferidge AT, Wilson T, Pierce A, Landry A, Moreno-Walton L, Druck J, Moll J, Lopez BL. "Clinical Vignettes Inadequate to Assess Impact of Implicit Bias: Concerning Limitations of a Systematic Review." Academic Emergency Medicine, vol. 24, no. 12, 2017, pp. 1531-1532. |
| Samuels EA, Ross JS, Dhruva SS. "Medicare Formulary Coverage Restrictions for Prescription Opioids, 2006 to 2015." Annals of Internal Medicine, vol. 167, no. 12, 2017, pp. 895-896. |
| Samuels, Elizabeth A., Dwyer, Kristin, Mello, Michael J., Baird, Janette, Kellogg, Adam R., Bernstein, Edward. "Emergency Department-based Opioid Harm Reduction: Moving Physicians From Willing to Doing." Academic Emergency Medicine, vol. 23, no. 4, 2016, pp. 455-465. |
| Samuels E. "Emergency department naloxone distribution: a Rhode Island department of health, recovery community, and emergency department partnership to reduce opioid overdose deaths." Rhode Island medical journal (2013), vol. 97, no. 10, 2014, pp. 38-9. |
| Wang EA, Hong CS, Samuels L, Shavit S, Sanders R, Kushel M. "Transitions clinic: creating a community-based model of health care for recently released California prisoners." public health reports, vol. 125, no. 2, 2010, pp. 171-7. |
R01CE003516 (Samuels) 9/30/22 – 9/29/25
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Project: Emergency department community health worker-peer recovery navigation for linkage to recovery: A mixed methods evaluation
Funding type: Research Grant
Role: Principal Investigator
Emergency Medicine Foundation/Society for Academic Medicine Foundation 7/01/22 – 6/30/23
Medical Student Research Grant (Naeem)
Project: Feasibility and Barriers to Implementation of an Emergency Department Community Health Worker-Peer Recovery Specialist Program for Patients with Substance Use Disorders
Funding type: Medical Student Mentored Research Grant
Role: Mentor
P20 GM125507 (Rich) 4/1/2022-10/31/2023
NIH / NIGMS COBRE Center on Opioids and Overdose – Project 2
Project: Implementation evaluation of an emergency department community health worker-peer recovery specialist program for people with opioid use disorder
Role: Project Lead Principal Investigator
Brown Physicians Incorporated Academic Assessment Grant (Samuels) 10/01/21 – 3/31/23
Project: Implementation evaluation of an emergency department community health worker-peer recovery specialist program for people with opioid use disorder
Role: Principal Investigator
SAMHSA UR1 TI080209 (Becker) 9/30/17 – 9/29/22
Project: Addiction Technology Transfer Center of New England
Role: Co-Investigator
The ATTC Network is an international, multidisciplinary resource for professionals in the addictions treatment and recovery services field. As Co-I, I provide content expertise and technical assistance about implementing emergency department harm reduction, behavioral counseling, and addiction treatment initiation.
Rhode Island Department of Behavioral Health, Development Disabilities, and Hospitals (Samuels) 4/20/2020 – 4/30/2022
Project: Buprenorphine Hotline
Funding type: Contract
Role: Lead Physician
Project lead on SAMHSA-funded COVID emergency response project to establish and run a 24/7 Buprenorphine telehealth hotline for the state of Rhode Island.
NIDA CTN 0099 (D’Onofrio and Fiellin) 1/1/20 – 8/31/22
Project: Emergency Department-Initiated Buprenorphine Validation Network Trial (ED-INNOVATION)
Funding type: Research Grant
Role: Site Principal Investigator Randomized control trial comparing sublingual to an investigational injection buprenorphine formulation.
NIH/NIGMS IDeA-CTR grant (U54GM115677) (Samuels) 11/5/19 – 11/4/21 Advance CTR Mentored Research Award
Funding type: Research Grant
Project: Identifying Opioid Overdose Hotspots for Targeted Overdose Prevention and Treatment
Role: Principal Investigator Identifying characteristics of overdose hotspots and intervention development.
Harvard NIEHS Center for Environmental Health Pilot Project Program (Haber) 2020 – 2021
Project: Healthy homes: statistical surveillance of emergency departments for early identification of dangerous housing conditions.
Funding type: Research Grant
Role: Co-I
This project will determine the feasibility of detecting sites of indoor exposure that are contributing to asthma burden using statistical analysis of the emergency department electronic health record.
NIDA R01 (Marshall) 9/30/19 – 9/29/24
Project: Preventing Overdose using Information and Data from the Environment (PROVIDENT)
Funding type: Research Grant
Role: Co-Investigator
Rhode Island Department of Health CDC Overdose Data to Action Grant (Samuels) 9/01/2019 – 8/31/2022
Funding type: Contract
Role: Assistant Medical Director
1) Lead implementation and evaluation of state emergency department standards of care for treatment of overdose and opioid use disorder; 2) Leading pilot project The Substance Misuse Assistance Response Team (SMART), an emergency department-based community health worker peer/recovery specialist program for emergency department patients with substance use disorders; 3) Co-lead overdose hotspot community engagement and intervention development
CDC R01 (Beaudoin and Baird) 9/1/19 – 8/31/22
Project: Implementing statewide emergency department care pathways for addiction recovery after opioid overdose
Funding type: Research Grant
Role: Co-Investigator
Medical Education Research Challenge Grant (Chisolm-Straker) 9/1/19 – 8/31/20
Institute of Medical Education at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Funding type: Research Grant
Project: TRANS ED: Transgender Non-Binary Research Applying Novel Strategies in Education
Role: Co-Investigator
Rhode Island Foundation (Samuels) 4/1/19 – 9/30/20
Project: Quality Improvement of Emergency Department Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder
Funding type: Research Grant
Role: Principal Investigator
P20 GM125507 (Rich) 9/1/18 – 8/31/23
NIH / NIGMS COBRE Center on Opioids and Overdose – Project 1
Project: The Navigator Trial
Funding type: Research Grant
Role: Co-Investigator
Arnold Foundation (Beaudoin and Marshall) 3/1/18-2/28/22
Project: The Navigator Trial
Funding type: Research Grant
Role: Co-Investigator
NIGMS, IDeA-CTR grant U54GM115677 (Ranney) 5/1/2018-4/30/2019
Project: ED Smart Notifications: Real-time Predictive Modeling of At-Risk Emergency Department Patients
Funding type: Research Grant
Role: Co-Investigator
Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Foundation (Wong) 7/1/2018-6/30/2019
Academy for Diversity and Inclusion in Emergency Medicine Research Grant Project: Well Being and Mistreatment of Sexual and Gender Minority Medical Students
Funding type: Research Grant
Role: Co-Investigator
Northeast Group on Educational Affairs Collaborative Research Grant (Boatright) 11/9/2017-11/9/2018
Project: Mistreatment and Microaggressions Against Sexual Minorities in US Medical Schools
Funding type: Research Grant
Role: Co-Investigator
NIDA-Emergency Medicine Foundation (Samuels) 11/1/2014-10/31/2015
Training Award in Drug Abuse and Addiction
Project: Emergency Department Naloxone Distribution and Opioid Peer Recovery Coaching
Funding type: Research Grant
Role: Principal Investigator
Small Project Grant (Samuels) 8/2013-12/2014
University Emergency Medicine Foundation Resident Research Grant
Project: Barriers to Seeking Emergency Care and Emergency Department Experiences Among Trans and Gender-non-Conforming Patients: an Exploratory Qualitative Study
Funding type: Research Grant
Role: Principal Investigator
Samuels EA, Coupet E, D’Onofrio G. “Emergency Department Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder.” In: Treating Substance Use Disorder in General Medical Settings. Wakeman S and Rich J, eds. Springer Nature Switzerland, Cham, Switzerland, 2021.
Samuels EA, Xuan Z, Bernstein E. “Substance Use: A Social Emergency Medicine Perspective.” In: Social Emergency Medicine: Principles and Practice. Dalawari P, Doran KM, Alter HJ, Raven MC, eds. Springer Nature Switzerland, Cham, Switzerland, 2021.
Zeidan A, Dekker A, Hsieh D, Schneberk T, Samra S, Marte D, Agrawal P, Samuels EA. Emergency Department Immigration Advocacy Toolkit, 2021 ed. Society for Academic Emergency Medicine. 2021.
Khatri U, Davis CS, Krawczyk N, Lynch M, Berk J, Samuels EA. These Key Telehealth Policy Changes Would Improve Buprenorphine Access While Advancing Health Equity. Health Affairs Blog. 2020.
Streed CG, Samuels EA, Rosenfeld J. Emergency Medicine. In: Lehman J., Diaz K., Ng H., Petty E., Thatikunta M., Eckstrand K. (eds) The Equal Curriculum. Springer, Cham, 2020
Hawk K, Samuels EA, Weiner SG, D’Onofrio G, Bernstein E. “Substance Use Disorders.” In: Tintinalli’s Emergency Medicine: A Comprehensive Study Guide. 9th ed: Tintinalli JE, Stapczynski JS, Ma JO, Yealy DM, Meckler GD, Cline DM, eds. McGraw-Hill Inc.; 2019.
Gettel C, Kharel R, Samuels EA.“Non-Emergent Visits and Challenges to the Prudent Layperson Standard” In: EMRA Advocacy Handbook, Schlicher N and Haddeock A, eds. 4th Ed. Dallas, TX: Emergency Medicine Residency Association; 2019.
Samuels E, Maughan B. “Health Services Research.” EMRA Advocacy Handbook, 4th Ed. Dallas, TX: Emergency Medicine Residency Association; 2016, 177-181.
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| Year | Degree | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | MD | Tufts University |
| 2012 | MPH | Tufts University |
| 2004 | BA | Reed College |
| UCSF Implementation Science Online Program | 2019-2021 | ||
| Training Institute in Dissemination Research in Health | 2017-2017 | ||
| Fellow | National Clinician Scholars Program, Health Services Research | 2016-2018 | |
| Emergency Medicine Resident | Brown Emergency Medicine, Emergency medicine | 2012-2016 |
2022 American College of Emergency Physicians 2022 Research Forum Young Investigator Award
2022 Lifespan Barnet Fain Quality Improvement Award- Honorable Mention, “Quality Improvement of Emergency Department Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder”
2021 Rhode Island ACEP Early Career Achievement Award
2019 Brown Emergency Medicine Rising Star Faculty Award
2019 Rhode Island Medical Society 4 under 40
2018 American Society for Addiction Medicine 49th Annual Conference Best Abstract by a Fellow
2016 Rhode Island Hospital Haffenreffer Family House Staff Excellence Award
2016 Gregory D. Jay Resident Research Award
2016 Senior Resident Pediatric Clinical Award
2016 Dorothy Miller Clinical Excellence Award
2015 Lifespan Barnet Fain Quality Improvement Award-- Honorable Mention
2015 University Emergency Medicine Foundation Community Impact Award
2014 October Rhode Island Hospital Anderson Emergency Department Employee of the Month
2012 Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society
2012 American Medical Women’s Association Glasgow-Rubin Citation for Academic Achievement
2012 Tufts University School of Medicine Worth F. Bloom M’25 Prize
2009-2010 Boston Schweitzer Fellow
2009 Gold Foundation Student Summer Service Fellow
Brown Emergency Medicine
Brown School of Public Health
| Board Certification | ABPM, Addiction medicine | 2021-Present | #61-20298 |
| Board Certification | ABEM, Emergency medicine | 2018-Present | #59744 |
| Assistant Professor of Epidemiology. Brown School of Public Health, 2022- |
| Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine. 2016- |
| Attending Physician. Rhode Island Hospital & The Miriam Hospital, 2016- |
| Chief Resident. Brown Emergency Medicine, 2015-2016 |
