Clinical Interests

Quality improvement of care for underserved children with asthma; improving care delivery and medical education through family-centered care; resident and fellow education in pediatric hospital medicine

Research Interests

Predictors of hospital readmission for asthma; interventions to decrease rates of admission and readmission for asthma; measuring the impact of material hardship on health outcomes

MD: Wake Forest University School of Medicine, 2000.

Residency: Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, 2000-2003.

Chief Residency: Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, 2003-2004.

Certification: Pediatrics, 2003.

Pressman JG, Richardson SD, Speth TF, Miltner RJ, Narotsky MG, Hunter ES 3rd, Rice GE, Teuschler LK, McDonald A, Parvez S, Krasner SW, Weinberg HS, McKague AB, Parrett CJ, Bodin N, Chinn R, Lee CF, Simmons JE. Concentration, chlorination, and chemical analysis of drinking water for disinfection byproduct mixtures health effects research: U.S. EPA's Four Lab Study. Environ Sci Technol. 2010 Oct 1;44(19):7184-92.

Miethke AG, Saxena V, Shivakumar P, Sabla GE, Simmons J, Chougnet CA. Post-natal paucity of regulatory T cells and control of NK cell activation in experimental biliary atresia. J Hepatol. 2010 May;52(5):718-26.

Rice GE, Teuschler LK, Bull RJ, Simmons JE, Feder PI. Evaluating the similarity of complex drinking-water disinfection by-product mixtures: overview of the issues. J Toxicol Environ Health A. 2009;72(7):429-36.

Rice G, Teuschler LK, Speth TF, Richardson SD, Miltner RJ, Schenck KM, Gennings C, Hunter ES 3rd, Narotsky MG, Simmons JE. Integrated disinfection by-products research: assessing reproductive and developmental risks posed by complex disinfection by-product mixtures. J Toxicol Environ Health A. 2008;71(17):1222-34.

Speth TF, Miltner RJ, Richardson SD, Simmons JE. Integrated disinfection by-products mixtures research: concentration by reverse osmosis membrane techniques of disinfection by-products from water disinfected by chlorination and ozonation/postchlorination. J Toxicol Environ Health A. 2008;71(17):1149-64.

 Miltner RJ, Speth TF, Richardson SD, Krasner SW, Weinberg HS, Simmons JE. Integrated disinfection by-products mixtures research: disinfection of drinking waters by chlorination and ozonation/postchlorination treatment scenarios. J Toxicol Environ Health A. 2008;71(17):1133-48.