Program Coordinator, UAB Department of Surgery

Karen Brown joined the Center for Injury Science in October of 2019. Overseeing the regulatory activities for CIS, her duties include developing and submitting IRB applications to UAB and other local hospitals, as well as FDA applications for drug and device studies. Brown holds a BA in Philosophy and a Master of Science in Health Administration from The University of Alabama at Birmingham.

She first came to UAB in 1992 and has worked in regulatory affairs since 2002. Brown previously served as division administrator for a large HIV/AIDS research and service program located in Zambia, based at UAB. In addition to her employment at UAB, she writes web content for U.S. and multinational health care companies and academic institutions, including content for patients, students and business associates.

Executive Director, Center for Injury Science

Instructor, Division of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery
UAB Department of Surgery

Research Interests
cardiac arrest, trauma resuscitation, emergency medical services, bioethics

Publications

Shannon Stephens, UAB critical care paramedic, has worked in EMS for more than 25 years. He is currently the executive director of the Center for Injury Science in the Department of Surgery at The University of Alabama at Birmingham. Previously he was the director of the Alabama Resuscitation Center in the Department of Emergency Medicine at UAB and he has been researcher in the UAB School of Medicine since 1998.

Stephens has published several manuscripts and presented nationally and internationally on EMS-related topics including cardiac arrest, severe traumatic injury, prehospital research, advanced airway management and disaster medicine. As an EMS field provider, an EMS educator and an EMS researcher, he has focused his efforts on collaborative clinical trial networks to build a body of evidence to advance and improve prehospital emergency care. Stephens has served as the National Coordinating Center director for several NIH- and DOD-funded clinical trial networks, and he actively serves on several national, state and local committees. He is also a member of the American Heart Association, the Project Management Institute, the Commission on Accreditation of Ambulance Services and the National Association of Emergency Medical Services Physicians.