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Ambrose Wong, MD, MSEd, MHS

Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine
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Director of Simulation Research, Yale Center for Healthcare Simulation

Fellowship Director, Medical Simulation, Emergency Medicine

About

Titles

Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine

Director of Simulation Research, Yale Center for Healthcare Simulation; Fellowship Director, Medical Simulation, Emergency Medicine

Biography

Ambrose Wong, MD, MSEd, MHS, is a physician-scientist in the Department of Emergency Medicine, with a focus on teamwork, patient safety, behavioral health, and healthcare disparities. He is the Research Director and Simulation Fellowship Director at the Yale Center for Healthcare Simulation. He also has expertise in qualitative and mixed-methods techniques for health services research.

Dr. Wong applies healthcare simulation technology to address workplace violence and improve behavioral care in the emergency setting. He has authored over twenty-five peer-reviewed publications on behavioral emergency care and has received funding from multiple federal agencies and foundations including NIH, YCCI, AHRQ, and PCORI.

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Research

Overview

Dr. Wong applies healthcare simulation technology to address workplace violence and improve behavioral care in the emergency setting. He has authored eighteen peer-reviewed publications on behavioral emergency care and received an NIH NCATS KL2 & YCCI Scholar Award to implement an agitation code team response intervention. He is the current recipient of an NIMH K23 career development award to investigate the use of health IT in preventing episodes of agitation for behavioral patients in the emergency department. He also received an NIMHD R21 exploratory/developmental research grant that will identify factors contributing to bias and disparities during episodes of agitation using natural language processing and cognitive methods. In 2023-2024, he received PCORI funding for a broad pragmatic study to implement peer support enhanced behavioral crisis response teams in the emergency department as well as an NIMH R01 award that uses system dynamics modeling techniques to develop patient-centered interventions for agitation management.

Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)

Aggression; Behavioral Medicine; Behavioral Research; Competency-Based Education; Education, Medical; Interprofessional Relations; Mental Health; Patient Safety; Patient Simulation; Workplace Violence

Research at a Glance

Yale Co-Authors

Frequent collaborators of Ambrose Wong's published research.

Publications

Featured Publications

2024

Academic Achievements & Community Involvement

  • activity

    Society for Academic Emergency Medicine - Simulation Academy

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    Annals of Emergency Medicine

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    Academic Emergency Medicine Education & Training

  • honor

    R01 Research Project Grant "System Dynamics Modeling to Promote Health Equity in Management of Agitation"

  • honor

    Peer Support Enhanced Behavioral Crisis Response Teams in the Emergency Department (Broad Pragmatic Study)

Clinical Care

Overview

Clinical Specialties

Emergency Medicine

Board Certifications

  • Emergency Medicine

    Certification Organization
    AB of Emergency Medicine
    Original Certification Date
    2015

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