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Karin Verlaine Rhodes, MD, MS

Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine

Director, Division of Emergency Care Policy Research, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Research Faculty, School of Social Policy & Practice, University of Pennsylvania

Faculty, Ortner Center on Domestic Violence, School of Social Policy & Practice, University of Pennsylvania.

Department: Emergency Medicine

Contact information

Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Department of Emergency Medicine
3400 Spruce Street
Ground Floor Ravdin Building

University of Pennsylvania
School of Social Policy and Practice
3815 Walnut Street, Rm 201
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Office: 215-421-1036
Fax: 215-662-3953

Email:
kvr@sp2.upenn.edu

Links
Link to faculty web page at The Evelyn Jacobs Ortner Center on Family Violence and links to Selected Publications

Education:
A.S. (Nursing)
University of Albuquerque, 1976.
B.S. (Biology)
University of Illinois, 1978.
M.D. (Medicine)
University of Illinois, 1983.
M.S. (Health Studies)
University of Chicago, 2002.

Post-Graduate Training
Intern in Primary Care Internal Medicine, Michael Reese Hospital, Chicago, IL, 1983-1984.
Resident in Emergency Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 1996-1999.
Fellow in Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 1999-2001.

Certifications
American Board of Emergency Medicine, 2000.
American Board of Emergency Medicine (recertification), 2010.

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Description of Research Expertise

Karin Rhodes, MD, MS (Health Studies) is an Assistant Professor and Director of the Division of Emergency Care Policy Research in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on use of the acute health care setting for screening and intervention with intimate partner violence and other major psychosocial health risks. Dr. Rhodes is involved in a number of studies investigating the quality of emergency services, access to follow-up care and the intersection between acute care and mental health, social service, and criminal justice systems.