Dr. Krista Brucker is a faculty member at the Indiana University School of Medicine’s Department of Emergency Medicine and works clinically in the Emergency Department at Eskenazi Health. Her research focuses on mental health and substance abuse treatment in the Emergency Department setting. Her current work includes the design and implementation of Project POINT, a collaborative effort aimed at identifying, treating and linking patients with opioid use disorders to outpatient treatment services. She also runs an observational study assessing a new risk stratification tool for emergency department patients with suicidal ideation. Brucker completed her emergency medicine residency at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. She is a graduate of Harvard Medical School and earned her undergraduate degree in biochemistry from DePauw University. Born and raised in Minnesota, she currently resides in Indianapolis.