Overview
The University of Washington established the Center for Prehospital Emergency Care (CPEC) at Harborview Medical Center in 2004 to bring together its longstanding activities that provide excellent prehospital emergency care, train others to do the same, and discover future methods of further improving care for patients with acute life-threatening illness in the out-of-hospital setting.
Current activities include single-center and multi-center observational and randomized studies of tests and treatments intended to improve care for patients with acute life-threatening illness in the out-of-hospital and early-hospital setting.
Center faculty have ongoing collaborations with clinicians and researchers at more than 20 other hospitals or universities in 12 different countries.
Leadership
Graham Nichol, MD, MPH
Center Director
Professor, Department of Medicine
Leonard A Cobb Medic One Foundation Endowed Chair in Prehospital Emergency Care
Director, University of Washington–Harborview Center for Prehospital Emergency Care
Medical Director, Resuscitation Outcome Consortium Clinical Trial Center