Juliana Tolles, MD, MHS is a member of the core faculty and an Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.
Dr. Tolles completed her undergraduate studies in biochemistry at Harvard University (AB), her medical training at Yale University School of Medicine (MD, MHS) and also earned an M. Litt in Scottish and Irish studies at the University of Aberdeen, UK. She completed her residency training in Emergency Medicine and a subsequent research fellowship at Harbor-UCLA. She pursued additional training in advanced research methodology through the NINDS Clinical Trials Methodology Course.
Dr. Tolles’ research interests include resuscitation, prehospital medicine, and adaptive clinical trial design. She is an investigator for the southwest SIREN research network (https://siren.network/), a clinical trials network created with the goal improving the outcomes for patients with neurologic, cardiac, respiratory and hematologic emergencies by identifying effective treatments given in the early stages of care. She also supports the research efforts of the Los Angeles County EMS agency research consortia. She is a member of the board of the Society for Clinical Trials.
Dr. Tolles has authored peer-reviewed articles in wide variety of clinical areas, ranging from clinical trial design to resuscitation care, including five brief educational primers on clinical methodology for the JAMA “Guide to Statistics and Methods” series. She has lectured nationally on statistical methodology and innovative clinical trial designs at the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine’s Annual Meeting, the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine ‘ARMED’ clinical research methodology course, and the Society for Clinical Trials Annual Meeting. She serves as a reviewer for Annals of Emergency Medicine.
Dr. Tolles received a commendation from the Los Angeles Board of Supervisors for her work as part of the COVID-19 Los Angeles Hospital Demand Modeling Team, a multidisciplinary group created in the spring of 2020 with the goal of providing predictive forecasts to guide the COVID-19 pandemic response in Los Angeles County. The modeling team was also awarded the 2021 “Gold Eagle” Award, the highest honor bestowed by the Los Angeles County Quality and Productivity Commission.