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Karen E. Jerardi, MD, MEd

Associate Division Director, Clinical Operations

Academic Affiliations

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Phone 513-636-9349

Fax 513-803-9245

Email karen.jerardi@cchmc.org

Clinical & Research Interests
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Clinical

Pediatric hospital medicine

Research

Medical education; quality measure development

Biography
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Dr. Jerardi serves as the associate division director for clinical operations. In this role she oversees the five main service lines of Hospital Medicine at both the Burnet and Liberty campuses. She is also the fellowship director of the PHM fellowship. She serves as the vice-chair of the national PHM fellowship directors and served as the first author for the curricular framework for PHM fellowships nationwide.

Her additional research interests have focused on developing quality measures for the management of children hospitalized with common infections such as urinary tract infection and pneumonia. In this area, she has served as a site leader for a two multicenter studies and as a primary investigator in an additional study of UTI inpatient care.

Education and Training
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MD: University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 2006.

Residency: Categorical Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH.

Certification: Pediatrics, 2009.

MEd: University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 2013.

Publications
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Williams D, Shah SS, Myers A, Hall M, Auger K, Queen M, Jerardi K, McClain L, Wiggleton C, Tieder J. Identifying Pediatric Community-acquired Pneumonia Hospitalizations:  Accuracy of Administrative Billing Codes. JAMA Pediatrics. 2013.

Jerardi K, Elkeeb D, Weiser J, Brinkman W. Rapid Implementation of Evidence Based Guidelines for Imaging after First Urinary Tract Infection. Pediatrics. 2013.

Myers AL, Hall M, Williams DJ, Auger K, Tieder JS, Statile A, Jerardi K, McClain L, Shah SS. Prevalence of Bacteremia in Hospitalized Pediatric Patients with Community-acquired Pneumonia. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2013 Jul;32(7):736-740.

Jerardi KE, Auger KA, Shah SS, Hall M, Hain PD, Myers AL, Williams DJ, Tieder JS. Discordant Antibiotic Therapy and Length of Stay in Children Hospitalized for Urinary Tract Infection. J Hosp Med. 2012 Oct;7(8):622-7.

Tieder JS, Hall M, Auger KA, Hain PD, Jerardi KE, Myers AL, Rahman SS, Williams DJ, Shah SS. Accuracy of hospital billing codes to detect urinary tract infection hospitalizations. Pediatrics. 2011 Aug;128(2):323-30.

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