Sanjay Arora, MD

Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine

Vice Chair of Academic Affairs

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Sanjay Arora, MD is an Associate Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California. He completed his clinical training at the University of California, Los Angeles in 2005 and joined the faculty at USC where he currently serves as the Chief of the Research Division in Emergency Medicine. He is also a clinical fellow at the Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics and is a faculty mentor at the USC Resource Center for Minority Aging Research. Additionally he is the Director of the research fellowship at USC, Director of the research education and dissemination fellowship at USC, and Director of the undergraduate/ medical student emergency medicine research program in his department. His research area of interest is utilizing emerging technology to improve the quality and efficacy of emergency care, and to bridge the gap between an emergency department visit and a stable outpatient medical home for low-income, inner city patients with chronic disease. As chronic disease and its impact on the emergency department is a large topic, he has focused his efforts on diabetes and HIV as model diseases on which to evaluate interventions centered largely around improving appointment and medication adherence. His work has been funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), CAL/ACEP Emergency Medicine Research and Education Foundation (EMREF), the McKesson Foundation, the Southern California Clinical and Translational Science Institute (SC CTSI), Gilead Sciences, the Office of AIDS Programs and Prevention, and the California HIV/AIDS Research Program (CHRP). In 2015 he was named the top section editor by the Western Journal of Emergency Medicine and the received the Required Scholarly Project Mentor of the Year award from the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California. In addition to conducting research, he is a prominent educator in his field and received the speaker of the year award at both of the largest national conferences in emergency medicine (the American College of Emergency Physicians Scientific Assembly and the Essentials of Emergency Medicine) in 2011.

Publications

  • Fragile health status of Latino patients with diabetes seen in the emergency department of an urban, safety-net hospital. Ethn Dis. 2013; 23(1):49-55.. View in PubMed
  • Gender differences in diabetes self-management: a mixed-methods analysis of a mobile health intervention for inner-city Latino patients. J Diabetes Sci Technol. 2013 Jan 01; 7(1):111-8.. View in PubMed
  • A mobile health intervention for inner city patients with poorly controlled diabetes: proof-of-concept of the TExT-MED program. Diabetes Technol Ther. 2012 Jun; 14(6):492-6.. View in PubMed
  • The role of point-of-care β-hydroxybutyrate testing in the diagnosis of diabetic ketoacidosis: a review. Hosp Pract (1995). 2012 Apr; 40(2):73-8.. View in PubMed
  • Procedural sedation: is two better than one? Answers to the May 2011 Journal Club questions. Ann Emerg Med. 2011 Oct; 58(4):383-94.. View in PubMed
  • Point-of-care beta-hydroxybutyrate testing for assessing diabetic ketoacidosis severity prior to treatment in the emergency department. Diabetes Res Clin Pract. 2011 Dec; 94(3):e86-8.. View in PubMed
  • Diagnostic accuracy of venous blood gas electrolytes for identifying diabetic ketoacidosis in the emergency department. Acad Emerg Med. 2011 Oct; 18(10):1105-8.. View in PubMed
  • Trends in diabetes-related visits to US EDs from 1997 to 2007. Am J Emerg Med. 2012 Jun; 30(5):754-8.. View in PubMed
  • Test characteristics of urine dipstick for identifying renal insufficiency in patients with diabetes. West J Emerg Med. 2011 May; 12(2):250-3.. View in PubMed
  • Procedural sedation: is two better than one? Ann Emerg Med. 2011 May; 57(5):442-3. Arora S , Menchine M , Schriger DL . View in PubMed