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Peter G. Delaney

Peter G. Delaney is the Executive Director of LFR International and a road safety researcher responsible for the Lay First Responder Model of emergency medical services development in resource-limited countries, awarded the Prince Michael International Road Safety Award in 2020.[1][2]

Peter G. Delaney
EducationUniversity School
Washington University in St. Louis (BA)
University of Michigan Medical School (MD)
Known forLFR Model
LFR International
AwardsPrince Michael International Road Safety Award (2020)
Scientific career
FieldsGlobal road safety

Education

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Delaney attended Washington University in St. Louis after being awarded the Florence Moog Fellowship in Biological and Chemical Sciences.[3][4] He wrote his senior honors thesis under Bradley Stoner on unconventional emergency medical services development in austere, resource-limited settings after conducting ethnographic research in Uganda and Chad on local notions of traumatic injury and first responder training,[5][6] which was awarded the W.H.R. Rivers Award for exceptional research in medical social science and public health.[7]

Delaney attended the University of Michigan Medical School, where he became a researcher at the Michigan Center for Global Surgery under Krishnan Raghavendran.[8] While at Michigan, he received the annual University of Michigan Department of Surgery's Student Research Award and was one of 43 medical students nationally to be awarded an Alpha Omega Alpha Carolyn L. Kuckein Student Research Fellowship.[9][10] He graduated AΩA with Distinction in Research, the Sujal Parikh Award, and the Dean's Award for Research Excellence.[11][12]

Career

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Delaney advises the United Nations Road Safety Fund: Platform on Health and Road Safety to identify high-impact global road safety projects and to advise funding allocation supporting Sustainable Development Goal 3.6 to halve the number of road traffic deaths and injuries by 2030.[13]

He was a signatory of the First Responder Coalition of Sierra Leone in Makeni, Sierra Leone in 2019.[14][15]

Research career

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His research focuses on emergency medical services development in resource-limited settings, especially in regard to cost-effectiveness, impact measurement, and mobile dispatch integration, which has appeared in Injury, World Journal of Surgery, Journal of Surgical Research, Prehospital and Disaster Medicine and Emergency Medicine Journal, among others.[16][6][17][18][19] He is an invited peer reviewer to academic journals for injury-related research.[20]

LFR Model

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Delaney first described the Lay First Responder Model in the World Journal of Surgery in 2018, as an approach to out-of-hospital emergency care development that leverages pre-existing transportation infrastructure by training transportation providers as first responders to rapidly deploy and scale emergency medical services in austere prehospital settings of resource-limited low- and middle-income countries.[5][16] Since initial implementation in Uganda, the LFR model has been deployed in Chad, Sierra Leone, Kenya, and Nigeria.[6][21][22][23][24][25][26]

PETCAT

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He developed PETCAT (Prehospital Emergency Trauma Care Assessment Tool), a survey tool now used to independently assess the provision of out-of-hospital emergency care in resource-limited low- and middle-income settings.[27]

Honours

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His work in post-crash response with LFR International on the "LFR Post-Crash Response Program Model for Road Traffic Injuries in Resource-Limited African Settings" received the Prince Michael International Road Safety Award for outstanding achievement and innovation to improve global road safety in December 2020.[1][2]

He received the 2020 Excellence in Research Award from the American College of Surgeons and was subsequently profiled in a supplemental issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons.[28] In 2022, he was interviewed by the vice-chair of the American College of Surgeons Board of Regents, Steven Wexner, on the ACS podcast Surgeons Voices regarding his work in prehospital trauma care.[29]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Road Safety Awards: Lay First Responder International receives Royal Award for Post-Crash Response Innitiative". www.roadsafetyawards.com. Retrieved 2023-04-11.
  2. ^ a b "RoadSafe: Lay First Responder International receives Royal Award for Post-Crash Response Innitiative". www.roadsafe.com. Retrieved 2023-04-11.
  3. ^ Keaggy, Diane Toroian (2018-08-31). "Campaign raises $591 million for scholarships". The Source. Washington University in St. Louis. Retrieved 2024-03-17.
  4. ^ McCarthy, Leslie Gibson (2018-04-20). "An innovation mindset". The Source. Washington University in St. Louis. Retrieved 2024-03-17.
  5. ^ a b Delaney, Peter G.; Bamuleke, Richard; Lee, Yang Jae (2018-08-01). "Lay First Responder Training in Eastern Uganda: Leveraging Transportation Infrastructure to Build an Effective Prehospital Emergency Care Training Program". World Journal of Surgery. 42 (8): 2293–2302. doi:10.1007/s00268-018-4467-3. ISSN 1432-2323.
  6. ^ a b c Hancock, Canaan J.; Delaney, Peter G.; Eisner, Zachary J.; Kroner, Eric; Mahamet-Nuur, Issa; Scott, John W.; Raghavendran, Krishnan (2020-07-29). "Developing a Lay First Responder Program in Chad: A 12-Month Follow-Up Evaluation of a Rural Prehospital Emergency Care Program". Prehospital and Disaster Medicine. 35 (5): 546–553. doi:10.1017/S1049023X20000977. ISSN 1945-1938. PMID 32723421. S2CID 220848454.
  7. ^ Delaney, Peter (2018-04-01). "Understanding Local Medical Emergencies and Treatment Options to ImprovePre-hospital Emergency Medical Carein Iganga District, Uganda". Washington University Senior Honors Thesis Abstracts: WUSHTA, Spring 2018.
  8. ^ "Student project aims to bolster first responder services in Africa". University of Michigan Global REACH. February 13, 2020.
  9. ^ "Moses Gunn Research Conference: Department of Surgery Research". University of Michigan Department of Surgery.
  10. ^ "Carolyn L. Kuckein Student Research Fellowship". Alpha Omega Alpha. Retrieved 2023-06-01.
  11. ^ "Student Awards | Med Students Gateway". medstudents.medicine.umich.edu. Retrieved 2023-06-01.
  12. ^ "Scholastic Awards | Med Students Gateway". medstudents.medicine.umich.edu. Retrieved 2023-06-01.
  13. ^ "SDG 3: Health and Road Safety | UNRSF". roadsafetyfund.un.org. Retrieved 2023-04-11.
  14. ^ Thomas, Abdul Rashid (2019-07-05). "Sierra Leone's road accident First Responder Coalition to save thousands of lives". The Sierra Leone Telegraph. Retrieved 2023-04-11.
  15. ^ Thomas, Abdul Rashid (2019-07-16). "Sierra Leone's First Aid Responders to Reach 3,500 People to Save Road Accident Victims". The Organiser: Sierra Leone Newspaper Online. Archived from the original on 2019-07-20. Retrieved 2024-03-17.
  16. ^ a b Delaney, Peter G.; Eisner, Zachary J.; Blackwell, T. Scott; Ssekalo, Ibrahim; Kazungu, Rauben; Lee, Yang Jae; Scott, John W.; Raghavendran, Krishnan (2021-01-01). "Exploring the factors motivating continued Lay First Responder participation in Uganda: a mixed-methods, 3-year follow-up". Emergency Medicine Journal. 38 (1): 40–46. doi:10.1136/emermed-2020-210076. ISSN 1472-0205. PMID 33127741.
  17. ^ Eisner, Zachary J.; Delaney, Peter G.; Klapow, Maxwell C.; Raghavendran, Krishnan; Klapow, Joshua C. (2021-10-06). "Identifying a 'super-responder' phenomenon in three African countries: Implications for prehospital emergency care training". Injury. 53 (1): 176–182. doi:10.1016/j.injury.2021.09.064. ISSN 1879-0267. PMID 34645565.
  18. ^ Delaney, Peter G.; Eisner, Zachary J.; Bustos, Aiza; Hancock, Canaan J.; Thullah, Alfred H.; Jayaraman, Sudha; Raghavendran, Krishnan (2021-10-11). "Cost-Effectiveness of Lay First Responders Addressing Road Traffic Injury in Sub-Saharan Africa". The Journal of Surgical Research. 270: 104–112. doi:10.1016/j.jss.2021.08.032. ISSN 1095-8673. PMID 34649070.
  19. ^ Delaney, Peter G.; Eisner, Zachary J.; Thullah, Alfred H.; Turay, Patrick; Sandy, Kpawuru; Boonstra, Philip S.; Raghavendran, Krishnan (2022-10-12). "Evaluating feasibility of a novel mobile emergency medical dispatch tool for lay first responder prehospital response coordination in Sierra Leone: A simulation-based study". Injury. 54 (1): 5–14. doi:10.1016/j.injury.2022.10.010. ISSN 1879-0267. PMID 36266111.
  20. ^ "Web of Science: Peter G. Delaney Profile". www.webofscience.com. Retrieved 2023-04-11.
  21. ^ Eisner, Zachary J.; Delaney, Peter G.; Thullah, Alfred H.; Yu, Amanda J.; Timbo, Sallieu B.; Koroma, Sylvester; Sandy, Kpawuru; Sesay, Abdulai Daniel; Turay, Patrick; Scott, John W.; Raghavendran, Krishnan (2020-09-03). "Evaluation of a Lay First Responder Program in Sierra Leone as a Scalable Model for Prehospital Trauma Care". Injury. 51 (11): 2565–2573. doi:10.1016/j.injury.2020.09.001. ISSN 1879-0267. PMID 32917385.
  22. ^ Wambugu, Wangari (2023-03-17). "MMUST-LFR International Conduct First Responder Training to Community Health Workers to Develop Formal Emergency Medical Services in Kakamega County". Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology, Kenya. Archived from the original on 2023-04-12. Retrieved 2024-03-17.
  23. ^ Obinna, Chioma (2022-03-16). "LFR International expands to Nigeria via partnership with HEI". Vanguard News.
  24. ^ "FRSC Joins Groups to Empower Emergency Responders in Lagos". African Times Magazine. 2022-09-19. Retrieved 2023-04-12.
  25. ^ Eki, Cleopatra (2022-03-18). "LFR lnternational partners with Health Emergency lnitiative to train 350 responders". AV1 News. Retrieved 2023-04-12.
  26. ^ "LFR Int'l partners HEI to train 350 emergency responders". Punch Newspapers. 2022-03-17. Retrieved 2023-04-12.
  27. ^ Delaney, Peter G.; Eisner, Zachary J.; Thullah, Alfred H.; Muller, Benjamin D.; Sandy, Kpawuru; Boonstra, Philip S.; Scott, John W.; Raghavendran, Krishnan (2021-04-28). "Evaluating a Novel Prehospital Emergency Trauma Care Assessment Tool (PETCAT) for Low- and Middle-Income Countries in Sierra Leone". World Journal of Surgery. 45 (8): 2370–2377. doi:10.1007/s00268-021-06140-1. ISSN 1432-2323. PMID 33907897.
  28. ^ "American College of Surgeons: Owen H Wangensteen Scientific Forum Excellence in Research Awards 2020". Journal of the American College of Surgeons. 231 (4): S4. 2020-10-01. doi:10.1016/S1072-7515(20)32161-X. ISSN 1879-1190.
  29. ^ "Surgeon Voices: Medical Student Discusses Training Lay First Responders in Resource-Limited Nations". ACS. Retrieved 2023-04-11.
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