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Marie-Carmelle Elie
Dr. Marie-Carmelle Elie, M.D., (born October 12, 1973 in Manhattan, New York) is a research associate professor of emergency medicine, critical and palliative care at the University of Florida Department of Emergency Medicine.

Background
Dr. Marie-Carmelle Elie received her pre-med education from Columbia University in New York City. She then pursued her M.D. from the State University of New York, where she spent her residency split between the Mount Sinai Hospital (Manhattan) and the Amherst County Hospital in Queens.

She then gained a fellowship with the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, one of the best ICU centers for training emergency physicians, under Dr. Thomas Scalea, to practice critical care and trauma care with the the sickest patients in the nation. She was certified for palliative care in 2008.

Career and Research
After working for a year at the R Adams Cowley center, Dr. Elie moved on to work with Rutgers University as a member of the emergency medical department and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey hospital system as a whole. She spearheaded a program for teaching doctors and nurses to talk to families and plan out what to do in the case that the patient dies. During her time as a medical researcher at Rutgers, she and her coworkers decreased the death rate of sepsis patients from 60% to 30%.

After joining the University of Florida medical department, Dr. Elie continued to research the symptoms of sepsis and prevention of mortality; by training EMTs to recognize sepsis on ambulances and call their destination hospital in advance, she lowered the sepsis mortality rate of Alachua county over a course of five years from 70% to about 20%. She holds the position of co-chair of the UF sepsis committee.

She is also a member of the US Critical Illness and Injury Trials Group (USCIITG).

Her primary research interests lie in sepsis, the outcomes of critical care, and the development of palliative care. Her current research projects involve creating a potential treatment for deadly cases of the influenza virus by infusing the inflicted with the plasma of healthy, recovered patients, as well as a study to test the comparative effectiveness of nurse-led telephonic case management versus facilitated, outpatient specialty palliative care on quality of life, healthcare utilization, loneliness in older adults with serious, life-limiting illness.

Awards and Honors

 * ACEP Fellow
 * Faculty Teaching Excellence Award, 2013
 * Emergency Medicine Teaching Award, 2012-13
 * Annual Scientific Award, 2011
 * Faculty Mentor of the Year Award, 2010
 * Best Session Abstract Presentation, 2009
 * Excellence in Teaching Award, 2009-10
 * Golden Apple Commendation for Teaching Faculty, 2008
 * Top 20 Faculty, 2005
 * Service Award, 2002-03
 * Distinction in Research, 1999
 * Silver Crown Award for Student Leadership, 1995
 * Bronze Crown Award for Student Leadership, 1994
 * Research Fellowship for Underrepresented Minorities in Science, 1992
 * Regents Scholar, 1991
 * Ann Macrae-Sylke Scholarship, 1991

Select Publications

 * Beigel, John H.; Marie-Carmelle Elie. (May 15, 2017). "Immune plasma for the treatment of severe influenza: an open-label, multicentre, phase 2 randomised study": The Lancet Respiratory Medicine Journal.
 * Elie, Marie-Carmelle & Fernandes, Helen et al. (2010). Prevalence and Characteristics of Staphylococcus aureus Colonization among Healthcare Professionals in an Urban Teaching Hospital. Infection control and hospital epidemiology : the official journal of the Society of Hospital Epidemiologists of America. 31. 574-80. 10.1086/652525.