About
Gerald Beltran, DO, MPH, FACEP, FAEMS works as a clinical scientist with expertise in Emergency and Emergency Medical Services (EMS) medicine. Beltran has rendered aid and care to patients with medical and traumatic ailments in both the hospital and prehospital environments with increased attention on improving patient care through healthcare integration. Much of Beltran’s clinical and prehospital focus has been working collaboratively with other local, regional, state, and national entities in understanding and improving integration processes in the prehospital and hospital environments as well as optimizing patient outcomes. As a police officer and former EMT, Beltran has been able to better integrate the prehospital systems with the hospital systems to improve patient care. Beltran completed his residency in Emergency Medicine in 2009 and has been working clinically teaching residents, medical students, paramedics and EMTs, first responders, paramedic students, first responder students, and advanced practitioners about acute and emergency medical care for over 10 years. Beltran completed a Prehospital and Disaster Medicine Fellowship at Emory University which further refined his prehospital and teaching skills. Beltran has collaborated with the researcher scientists at Clemson on prehospital topics such as bacteriology and devices to reduce injury to prehospital providers. Through their collaborative efforts, Beltran and others are investigating these topics to not only improve safety to the prehospital providers, but most importantly, the safety well-being of patients.
How their research is transforming health care
Beltran’s work as an Emergency Medicine and Emergency Medical Services physician specialist, has provided him with the opportunity to publish various topics of interest including environmental illness, bacteriology, improving prehospital safety processes and devices, risk management, facial injuries, and prehospital care. Most of Beltran’s focus has been interweaving prehospital care impact on Emergency Medicine outcomes. With years of experience in collaboratively integrating different key healthcare stakeholders in addressing emergency and acute care, Beltran has been able to contribute this interest and experience in a research venue with prehospital ( e.g. EMS, police, fire, first responders, public health, etc) and academic colleagues. Improving patient safety and outcomes through projects to reduce pediatric medication dosing errors, develop and improve strategies to improve patient safety, evaluation, and management of patients in the prehospital domain, identification and management of environmental bacteria, substance use disorder, as well as improving prehospital provider safety through process improvement and devices.
Health research keywords
EMS, Prehospital, Bacteria, Emergency medicine, Substance use disorder, Public Safety vehicle engineering, Disaster Medicine, Tactical Medicine, Impaired Driving, Drunk Driving, Drugged Driving, Environmental Illness, Search and Rescue, Urban search and Rescue
