Other Work
Firearm injury prevention research accounts for a minority of Kellermann’s research output. Only 30 percent of his papers address the issue. He has published extensively in other areas of emergency medicine and public health, including studies of emergency cardiac care, use of diagnostic technologies in the emergency department, and a promising treatment for traumatic brain injury. He has also published research on the role of emergency departments in providing health care to the poor, the role of insurance and the situation of the uninsured . In recent years, he has written about domestic preparedness to respond to different forms of terrorism . Kellermann was very instrumental in the planning and implementation of the American Heart Association's "Racing the Clock to Restart Atlanta's Hearts" initiative, one of the largest cardiopulmonary resuscitation and automated external defibrillator programs in the nation. He also played an important role in the Institute of Medicine’s three-volume report on the Future of Emergency Care in the United States, .
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