Emergency Medicine

Evaline Alessandrini, MD, MSCE, is an attending physician in the Division of Emergency Medicine at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and a professor of pediatrics at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. She is director of the Quality Scholars Program in Health Care Transformation in the James M. Anderson Center for Health Systems Excellence where she leads training for health care faculty to innovate to improve care and rigorously apply quality improvement methods.

Dr. Alessandrini’s research defines outcomes of quality emergency care and develops interventions to improve delivery of emergency care to children. She served as the American Academy of Pediatrics representative to the National Quality Forum’s Steering Committee on Hospital-based Emergency Care and currently serves as the NACHRI representative to the National Quality Forum’s Steering Committee on Ambulatory Care.

MD: Jefferson Medical College, 1988.

BS: Marquette University (Biology, summa cum laude), 1984.

MSCE: Master of Science in Clinical Epidemiology, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania, 1999.

Residency: Children’s National Medical Center, Washington, D.C., 1988 -1991.

Chief Residency: Children’s National Medical Center, Washington, D.C., 1991-1992.

Fellow: Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, 1992-1995.

Alessandrini EA, Varadarajan K, Alpern ER, Gorelick MH, Shaw KN, Ruddy RM, Chamberlain JM; Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network. Emergency department quality: an analysis of existing pediatric measures. Academ Emerg Medi. 2011 May;18(5):519-26.

Fiks AG, Alessandrini EA, Forrest CB, Khan S, Localio AR, Gerber A. Electronic medical record use in pediatric primary care. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2011 Jan 1;18(1):38-44.

Topjian AA, Localio AR, Berg RA, Alessandrini EA, Meaney PA, Pepe PE, Larkin GL, Peberdy MA, Becker LB, Nadkarni VM; American Heart Association National Registry of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Investigators. Women of child-bearing age have better inhospital cardiac arrest survival outcomes than do equal-aged men. Crit Care Med. 2010 May;38(5):1254-60.

Alessandrini EA, Alpern ER, Chamberlain JM, Shea JA, Gorelick MH. A New ICD-based Diagnosis Grouping System for Child ED Visits. Acedem Emerg Med. 2010 Feb;17(2):204-13.

Fiks AG, Hunter KF, Localio AR, Grundmeier RW, Bryant-Stephens T, Luberti AA, Bell LM, Alessandrini EA. Impact of Electronic Health Record-based Primary Care Clinical Alerts on Influenza Vaccination for Children and Adolescents with Asthma: A Cluster Randomized Trial. Pediatrics. 2009 Jul;124(1):159-169.

Hibbs AM, Walsh CM, Martin RJ, Truog WE, Lorch SA, Alessandrini EA, Cnaan A, Palermo L, Wadlinger SR, Coburn CE, Ballard PL, Ballard RA. One-Year Respiratory Outcomes of Preterm Infants Enrolled in the Nitric Oxide (to Prevent) Chronic Lung Disease Trial. J Pediatr. 2008 Jun;153 (4):525-529.

Fiks AG, Grundmeier RW, Biggs LM, Localio AR, Alessandrini EA. Impact of clinical alerts within an electronic health record on routine subsequent well child care. Pediatrics. 2008 May; 121:898-905..

Flores AI, Bilker WB, Alessandrini EA. The Effect of Continuity of Care in Infancy on Receipt of Lead, Anemia and Tuberculosis Screening. Pediatrics. 2008 Mar;121(3):e399-406.

Gorelick MH, Alessandrini EA, Cronan K, Shults J. Revised Pediatric Emergency Assessment Tool (RePEAT): A Severity Index for Pediatric Emergency Care. Academic Emergency Medicine. 2007 Apri 14(4):316-23.

Gorelick MH, Knight S, Alessandrini EA, Stanley RM, Chamberlain JM, Kuppermann N, Alpern ER. Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network. Lack of agreement in pediatric emergency department discharge diagnoses from clinical and administrative data sources. Academic Emergency Medicine. 2007;14(7):646-52.

Lynn Babcock, MD, MS

is involved in local and national pediatric emergency medicine research for over 10 years. Her primary focus is centered on the full spectrum of care related to traumatic injuries with a significant focus on traumatic brain injuries. Due to this research, she currently holds a KL2 Mentored Career Development Award in clinical and translational research from the University of Cincinnati Center for Clinical and Translational Science and Training.

513-803-2956 lynn.babcock@cchmc.org

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Lynn Babcock, MD, MS

Academic Affiliations

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Phone 513-803-2956

Email lynn.babcock@cchmc.org

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Pediatric injury; traumatic brain injury; prehospital care

Biography

Dr. Babcock is a board-certified pediatric emergency medicine physician with over 10 years of experience caring for acutely ill and injured children. She was a member of the faculty of emergency medicine and pediatrics at the University of Rochester for nine years prior to joining Cincinnati Children's in the summer of 2009.

She has an extensive academic portfolio that includes numerous clinical, teaching, administrative and research pursuits. Her true scholarly passion is to make a difference in the outcome of children who sustain mild traumatic brain injuries.

Despite traumatic brain injuries being the leading cause of death and disability for children, research in this field has been insufficient as compared to its public health importance. Dr. Babcock is interested in uncovering novel serum markers and radiographic markers to predict the outcomes of children after sustaining a traumatic brain injury.

MD: Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, NJ, 1995.

MS: University of Cincinnati, Clinical and Translational Science, Cincinnati, OH, 2012.

Residency: Pediatrics, Yale - New Haven Children's Hospital, 1998.

Fellowship: Pediatric Emergencey Medicine, Children's Hospital at Montefiore, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 2001.

Certification: General Pediatrics, 1998, 2005; Pediatric Emergency Medicine, 2002, 2012.

Babcock L, Byczkowski T, Bazarian J. Ability of S100B to predict abnormal CT in children with traumatic brain injury. Brain Injury. 2012.

Leonard JC, Scharff DP, Koors V, Lerner B, Adelgais KM, Anders J, Brown K, Babcock L, Lichenstein R, Lillis K, Jaffe DM. A qualitative assessment of factors that influence emergency medical services partnerships in prehospital research. Acad Emerg Med. 2012; 19(2) 161-173.

Leonard J, Kuppermann N, Olsen C, Babcock Cimpello L, Brown K, Mahajan P, Jaffe D and the PECARN C-spine Study Group. Factors associated with cervical spine injury in children. Ann of Emerg Med. 2011; 58(2) 145-155.

Kuppermann N, Holmes JF, Dayan PS, et al for PECARN. Identification of children at very low risk of clinically-important brain injuries after head trauma: a prospective cohort study. Lancet. 2009;374:1160-70.

Babcock Cimpello L, Garcia M, Rueckmann E, Markevicz C. Sledding: How Fast Can They Go? J Trauma. 2009; 66(3): S23-S26.

Berkeley L. Bennett, MD, MS Medical Director, Northern Kentucky Advocacy Center

combines her expertise in emergency medicine and child abuse pediatrics to investigate non-accidental trauma. She is currently funded by the Emergency Medicine Small Grant Program to prospectively investigate the utility of cardiac troponin I to detect occult inflicted cardiac injuries.

513-803-2983 berkeley.bennett@cchmc.org

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Berkeley L. Bennett, MD, MS

Medical Director, Northern Kentucky Advocacy Center

Academic Affiliations

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Phone 513-803-2983

Fax 513-636-0204

Email berkeley.bennett@cchmc.org

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Child abuse; cardiac troponin I in non-accidental trauma

BA: California State University, Fresno, CA, 1994.

MD: Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA, 1999.

MS: Baylor College of Medicine, Clinical Scientist Training Program, Houston, TX, 2006.

Internship: Children's Medical Center of Dallas, University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas, TX, 1999-2002.

Fellowship: Texas Children's Hospital, Baylor College of Medicine, 2002-2006; Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 2007- Present.

Bennett B. Basilar skull fractures. Frasier L, ed. Abusive Head Trauma Pocket Atlas. St. Louis, MO: STM Learning Inc. In press.

Bennett B. Non-accidental trauma fracture mimics. Frasier L, ed. Abusive Head Trauma Pocket Atlas. St. Louis, MO: STM Learning Inc. In press.

Siegel RM, Bennett BL. Pediatric Screening for Intimate Partner Violence. In: Chadwick D, ed. Child Maltreatment: A Clinical Guide and Reference 4E. St. Louis, MO: STM Learning Inc. In press.

Bennett BL, Mahabee-Gittens M, Chua MS, Hirsh R. Elevated Cardiac Troponin I in Cases of Thoracic Non-accidental Trauma. Pediatric Emergency Care, 2011 Oct;27(10):941-4.

Bennett BL, Chua MS, Care M, Kachelmeyer A, Mahabee-Gittens M. Retrospective Review to Determine the Utility of Follow-up Skeletal Surveys in Child Abuse Evaluations when the Initial Skeletal Survey is Normal. BMC Research Notes. 2011 Sep;12:4:354.

Laham F, Trott A, Bennett B, Kozinetz C, Jewell A, Garofalo R, Piedra P. Lactate dehydrogenase concentration in nasal-wash fluid as a biochemical predictor of disease severity in children with bronchiolitis presenting to the emergency department. Pediatrics. 2010;125:e225-33.

Bennett BL, Pierce MC. Bone Health and Development. In Jenny (ed) Child Abuse and Neglect: Diagnosis, Treatment and Evidence. Elsevier Publishing, May 2010.

Rangel EL, Cook BS, Bennett BL, Shebesta K, Ying J, Falcone RA. Eliminating disparity in evaluation for abuse in infants with head injury: use of a screening guideline. J Pediatr Surg. 2009 Jun;44(6):1229-34; discussion 1234-5.

Grants

Clinical Decision Rules to Discriminate Bruising Caused by Physical Child Abuse from Bruising Caused by Accidental Trauma. Site Principal Investigator. Apr 2011-Apr 2016.

Seema R. Bhatt, MD Attending Physician, Division of Emergency Medicine

is pursuing research interests in medical education.

513-803-2980 seema.bhatt@cchmc.org

Timothy M. Brenkert, MD

513-803-2570 timothy.brenkert@cchmc.org

Terri Byczkowski, MBA, PhD

is interested in the area of measuring and improving patient and family experiences of care and determining how the delivery of patient- and family-centered care ultimately affect health outcomes. She is currently focused on developing a measure of patient and family-centered care for pediatric emergency medicine.

513-636-7966 terri.byczkowski@cchmc.org

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Terri Byczkowski, MBA, PhD

Academic Affiliations

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Phone 513-636-7966

Fax 513-803-2581

Email terri.byczkowski@cchmc.org

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Biography

Terri Byczkowski, PhD, is an associate professor of pediatrics in the Division of Emergency Medicine at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center within the UC Department of Pediatrics.

Prior to joining Emergency Medicine in 2008, she was the assistant vice president of Data Systems for Quality in Health Policy and Clinical Effectiveness at Cincinnati Children’s. During that time she provided strategic planning, direction and coordination of activities related to the development and reporting of data and quality measures in order to support the hospital’s on-going quality improvement work. She has extensive training and experience in quality improvement methods, experimental design, survey methods, statistical process control, and measurement for quality improvement.

Her research interests are in the area of measuring and improving patient and family experiences of care and determining how the delivery of patient- and family-centered care ultimately affect health outcomes. She is currently focused on developing a measure of patient and family-centered care for pediatric emergency medicine.

PhD: University of Cincinnati, College of Business Administration, Department of Quantitative Analysis. Cincinnati, OH, 1991.

MBA: State University of New York at Buffalo, College of Business Administration, Department of Marketing, Buffalo, NY, 1982.

TL Byczkowski, LM Kollar, MT Britto. Family Experiences With Outpatient Care: Do Adolescents and Parents Have the Same Perceptions? Journal of Adolescent Health. 2010;47(1):92-98.

The Ohio Perinatal Quality Collaborative Writing Committee. A Statewide Initiative to Reduce Inappropriate Scheduled Births at 360/7 ─ 386/7 Weeks’ Gestation. American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology. 2010; 202(3):243e1-243e8.

DD Wirtschafter, MD, J Petit, P Kurtin, M Dalsey, K Chance, HW Morrow, M Seid, TL Byczkowski, TP Huber, JM Milstein, SM Bowles, S Fichera, S Kloman. A Statewide Quality Improvement Collaborative to Reduce Neonatal Central-Line Associated Blood Stream Infections. Journal of Perinatology. 2010; 30(3):170-181.

TL Byczkowski, MS Levy. When Does An Imperfect Sampling Frame Produce More Efficient Estimators Than a Perfect Frame? Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference. 2009;139:3679-3689.

MT Britto, TL Byczkowski, AM Anneken, J Hausfeld, PM Schoettker, MK Farrell, UR Kotagal. Improving Access to Pediatric Sub-Specialty Care: Initial Failures and Lessons Learned. Quality Management in Healthcare. 2008;17(4): 320-329.

KW Sparling, FC Ryckman, PJ Schoettker, TL Byczkowski, A Helpling, K Mandel, A Panchanathan, UR Kotagal. Financial impact of failing to prevent surgical site infection. Quality Management in Healthcare. 2007;16(3):219-225.

Patricia L. Chambers, MD Attending Physician, Division of Emergency Medicine

has focused on communication in healthcare, specifically the physician-patient interaction and conflict resolution. Her interests include the emotional aspects of emergency care and the care provider’s response to difficult outcomes.

513-636-7966 patricia.chambers@cchmc.org

Steven T. Chan, MD Member, Division of Emergency Medicine

investigates mild traumatic brain injury with a special interest in post-traumatic headaches. The goal of his research is to determine the impact of headache management on concussion recovery.

513-636-7966 steven.chan@cchmc.org

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Steven T. Chan, MD

Member, Division of Emergency Medicine

Academic Affiliations

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Phone 513-636-7966

Email steven.chan@cchmc.org

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Clinical

Pediatric emergency medicine

Research

Concussion; post-traumatic headaches

Biography

Steven Chan, MD, is a fellow in pediatric emergency medicine. His current area of research is the treatment of post-traumatic headaches in the emergency department.

MD: University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 2009.

Residency: Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, 2012.

Fellowship: Emergency Medicine, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, 2015.

Certification: Pediatrics, 2012.

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Chan S, Kurowski B, Byczkowski T, Timm N. Intravenous Migraine Therapy in Children with Post-Traumatic Headache in the Emergency Department. Am J Emerg Med. 2015 May;33(5):635-9.

Seftchick MW, Adler PH, Hsieh M, Wolfson AB, Chan ST, Webster BW, Frattaroli GD. The prevalence and factors associated with QTc prolongation among emergency department patients. Ann Emerg Med. 2009 Dec;54(6):763-8.

Holly Depinet, MD, MPH

has current research interests that include issues related to clinical decision support tools, appendicitis and sepsis.

513-636-4254 holly.brodzinski@cchmc.org

Judith W. Dexheimer, PhD

is a biomedical informatics researcher with an interest in clinical decision support systems with a goal of improving clinical care and patient outcomes. Her research focuses on decision support in the emergency department with an interest in the effectiveness and efficacy of alerts and reminders throughout the hospital.

513-636-7966 judith.dexheimer@cchmc.org

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Judith W. Dexheimer, PhD

Academic Affiliations

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Phone 513-636-7966

Email judith.dexheimer@cchmc.org

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Medical informatics; clinical decision support; artificial intelligence

Biography

Judith Dexheimer, PhD, has a background in developing, implementing and evaluating clinical information systems including clinical decision systems, organizational and workflow aspects of informatics applications, computerized applications for emergency medicine and implementation of artificial intelligence techniques, computerized guideline applications and evidence-based medicine, public health informatics, and preventive care measures.

Her research focuses on the design, implementation and evaluation of clinical decision support systems in pediatric emergency medicine to improve clinical care.

PhD: Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 2011.

MS: Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 2006.

Kurowski BG, Wade S, Dexheimer JW, Dyas J, Zhang N, Babcock L. Feasibility and potential benefits of a web-based intervention delivered acutely after mild traumatic brain injury in adolescents: a pilot study. Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation. 2015.

Borycki E, Cummings E, Dexheimer JW, Gong Y, Kennebeck S, Kushniruk A, Kuziemsky C, Saranto K, Weber JH, Takeda H. Patient-centered Coordinated Care in Times of Emerging Diseases and Epidemics. Yearb Med Inform. 2015 Aug 13;10(1):207-15.

Dexheimer JW, Scheid B, Babaoff A, Martens S, Kennebeck S. Preparing for International Classification of Diseases, 10th revision, clinical modification implementation: strategies for maintaining an efficient workflow. Pediatr Emer Care. 2015;31(1):65-69.

Ni Y, Kennebeck S, Dexheimer JW, McAneney CM, Tang H, Lingren T, Li Q, Zhai H, Solti I. Automated Clinical Trial Eligibility Pre-Screening: Increasing the Efficiency of Patient Identification for Clinical Trials in the Emergency Department. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2015 Jan;22(1):166-78.

Dexheimer JW, Borycki EM. Use of mobile devices in the emergency department: A scoping review. Health Informatics J. 2015 Dec;21(4):306-15.

Dexheimer JW, Borycki EM, Chiu K, Johnson KB, Aronsky D. A systematic review of the implementation and impact of asthma protocols. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2014;14:82.

Dexheimer JW, Abramo TJ, Arnold DH, Johnson KB, Shyr Y, Ye F, Fan K, Patel N, Aronsky D. Implementation and Evaluation of a Computerized Asthma Management System in a Pediatric Emergency Department: A Randomized Clinical Trial. Int J Med Inform. 2014;83(11):805-813.

Dixon CA, Ammerman RT, Dexheimer JW, Meyer B, Jung H, Johnson BL, Elliott J, Jacobs T, Pomerantz WJ, Mahabee-Gittens EM. Development of iBsafe: A Collaborative, Theory-based Approach to Creating a Mobile Game Application for Child Safety. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2014 Nov 14;2014:477-85.

Dexheimer JW, Kennebeck S. Modifications and Integration of the Electronic Tracking Board in a Pediatric Emergency Department. Pediatr Emer Care. 2013;29(7):852-7.

Elena M. Duma, MD

is part of the education focus group.

513-636-2277 elena.duma@cchmc.org

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Elena M. Duma, MD

Academic Affiliations

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Phone 513-636-2277

Fax 513-636-7967

Email elena.duma@cchmc.org

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Child abuse

Biography

Elena Duma, MD, is a physician in the Division of Emergency Medicine at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. She has been at Cincinnati Children's since 1991, with five years as a clinical staff physician in the Division of Emergency Medicine.

After receiving an undergraduate and medical degree at the University of Tennessee, Dr. Duma did her pediatric residency at Cincinnati Children's. She has been part of the Child Abuse Team since March 1999.

Dr. Duma's role on the team includes participating in weekly meetings, seeing patients in the Emergency Department as well as inpatient and outpatient units, and participating in weekly team meetings.

MD: University of Tennessee, Memphis, TN, 1991.

Residency: Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH.

Certification: Pediatrics, 1995.

Mahabee-Gittens EM, Grupp-Phelan J, Brody AS, Donnelly LF, Bracey SE, Duma EM, Mallory ML, Slap GB. Identifying children with pneumonia in the emergency department. Clin Pediatr (Phila). 2005 Jun;44(5):427-35.

Siegel R, Christie C, Myers M, Duma E, Green L. Incest and Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in a twelve-year-old girl: a case for early human immunodeficiency virus testing in sexually abused children. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 1992 Aug;11(8):681-2.

Michelle D. Eckerle, MD Clinical Fellow, Emergency Department

513-636-4315 michelle.eckerle@cchmc.org

Michael R. FitzGerald, PhD Research Education, Division of Emergency Medicine

leads the emergency medicine education research group. His current research efforts are focused on improving the frequency and quality of feedback residents receive in their training at Cincinnati Children’s and developing ways to capture and use the performance information for both formative and summative purposes. He is also conducting research to identify social and organizational factors that undermine the accuracy and utility of medical learner evaluations.

513-636-1373 mike.fitzgerald@cchmc.org

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Michael R. FitzGerald, PhD

Research Education, Division of Emergency Medicine

Academic Affiliations

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Phone 513-636-1373

Fax 513-636-7967

Email mike.fitzgerald@cchmc.org

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Feedback in medical education; assessment and evaluation of medical learners

BS: Marketing, Miami University, 1990.

MA: Social Psychology, University of Cincinnati, 1997.

PhD: Social Psychology, University of Cincinnati, 2001.

Davis JF, Choi DL, Shurdak JD, Krause EG, Fitzgerald MF, Lipton JW, Sakai RR, Benoit SC. Central melanocortins modulate mesocorticolimbic activity and food seeking behavior in the rat. Physiol Behav. 2010 Dec 21.

Davis JF, Choi DL, Schurdak JD, Fitzgerald MF, Clegg DJ, Lipton JW, Figlewicz DP, Benoit SC. Leptin Regulates Energy Balance and Motivation Through Action at Distinct Neural Circuits. Biol Psychiatry. 2010 Oct 28.

Choi DL, Davis JF, Fitzgerald ME, Benoit SC. The role of orexin-A in food motivation, reward-based feeding behavior and food-induced neuronal activation in rats. Neuroscience. 2010 Apr 28;167(1):11-20.

Li J, Walker SM, Fitzgerald M, Baccei ML. Activity-dependent modulation of glutamatergic signaling in the developing rat dorsal horn by early tissue injury. J Neurophysiol. 2009 Oct;102(4):2208-19.

Dahl SK, Amstalden M, Coolen L, Fitzgerald M, Lehman M. Dynorphin immunoreactive fibers contact GnRH neurons in the human hypothalamus. Reprod Sci. 2009 Aug;16(8):781-7.

Gittelman MA, Pomerantz WJ, Fitzgerald MR, Williams K. Injury prevention in the emergency department: a caregiver's perspective. Pediatr Emerg Care. 2008 Aug;24(8):524-8.

Monk KR, Wu J, Williams JP, Finney BA, Fitzgerald ME, Filippi MD, Ratner N. Mast cells can contribute to axon-glial dissociation and fibrosis in peripheral nerve. Neuron Glia Biol. 2007 Aug;3(3):233-44.

Davis BA, Fitzgerald ME, Brown JL, Amstalden KA, Coolen LM. Activation of POMC neurons during general arousal but not sexual behavior in male rats. Behav Neurosci. 2007 Oct;121(5):1012-22.

Wu J, Crimmins JT, Monk KR, Williams JP, Fitzgerald ME, Tedesco S, Ratner N. Perinatal epidermal growth factor receptor blockade prevents peripheral nerve disruption in a mouse model reminiscent of benign world health organization grade I neurofibroma. Am J Pathol. 2006 May;168(5):1686-96.

Coolen LM, Fitzgerald ME, Yu L, Lehman MN. Activation of mu opioid receptors in the medial preoptic area following copulation in male rats. Neuroscience. 2004;124(1):11-21.

Todd A. Florin, MD, MSCE Associate Research Director (Fellowship Research), Division of Emergency Medicine

is a pediatric emergency medicine physician and epidemiologist with an interest in the acute diagnosis and management of lower respiratory tract infections, namely bronchiolitis and pneumonia. His work is focused on the epidemiology of emergency department visits for pneumonia and bronchiolitis, clinical trials of treatment modalities for bronchiolitis and improved diagnostics for children with community-acquired pneumonia.

513-636-7966 todd.florin@cchmc.org

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Todd A. Florin, MD, MSCE

Associate Research Director (Fellowship Research), Division of Emergency Medicine

Attending Physician, Division of Emergency Medicine

Academic Affiliations

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Phone 513-636-7966

Email todd.florin@cchmc.org

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Clinical

Pediatric emergency medicine

Research

Pneumonia; bronchiolitis; clinical trials in the emergency department; translational research; biomarkers; clinical prediction models; epidemiology; resource utilization

MD: University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY, 2005.

Residency: Pediatrics, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, 2005-2008.

Chief Resident: Pediatrics, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, 2008-2009.

Fellowship: Pediatric Emergency Medicine, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, 2009-2012.

Graduate Training: Master of Science in Clinical Epidemiology (Clinical Trials), Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 2012.

Certification: Pediatrics, 2009; Pediatric Emergency Medicine, 2013.

Florin TA, Carron H, Huang G, Shah S, Ruddy R, Ambroggio L. Pneumonia in children presenting to the emergency department with an asthma exacerbation. JAMA Pediatr. 2016.

Florin TA, Aronson PL, Hall M, Kharbanda AB, Shah SS, Freedman SB, Alpern ER, Mistry RD, Simon HK, Berry J, Coley BD, Neuman MI. Emergency department use of computed tomography for children with ventricular shunts. J Pediatr. 2015 Dec;167(6):1382-1388.e2.

Beck A*, Florin TA*, Campanella S, Shah SS. Geographic variation in hospitalization for lower respiratory tract infections across one county. JAMA Pediatr. 2015 Sep;169(9):846-54. *Drs. Beck and Florin were co-first authors on this study.

Florin TA, Byczkowski T, Ruddy RM, Zorc JJ, Test M, Shah SS. Utilization of nebulized 3% saline in infants hospitalized with bronchiolitis. J Pediatr. 2015 May;166(5):1168-1174.e2.

Shah SS, Ambroggio L, Florin TA. Biomarkers for Predicting Illness Severity in Children with Acute Lower Respiratory Tract Infections. J Ped Infect Dis Soc. 2014.

Florin TA, Byczkowski T, Ruddy R, Zorc JJ, Test M, Shah SS. Variation in the Management of Infants Hospitalized for Bronchiolitis Persists After the 2006 American Academy of Pediatrics Bronchiolitis Guidelines. Journal of Pediatrics. 2014;165(4):786-792.

Florin TA, Shaw KN, Kittick M, Zorc JJ. Nebulized Hypertonic Saline for Bronchiolitis in the Emergency Department: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Pediatrics. 2014;168(7):664-70.

Florin TA, French BC, Zorc JJ, Alpern ER, Shah SS. Variation in Emergency Department Diagnostic Testing and its Effect on Outcomes in Children with Community-Acquired Pneumonia. Pediatrics. 2013;132(2):237-44.

Shah SS, Dugan MH, Bell LM, Grundmeier RW, Florin TA, Hines EM, Metlay JP. Blood Cultures in the Emergency Department Evaluation of Childhood Pneumonia. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2011;30(6):475-479.

Florin TA, Ludwig S, eds. Netter’s Pediatrics. Philadelphia: Elsevier, 2011. (Book)

Grants

Biomarkers and Risk Stratification in Pediatric Community-Acquired Pneumonia. Principal Investigator. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases/National Institutes of Health. 2016-2019. 1K23AI121325-01.

Procalcitonin and Risk Stratification in Children with Community-Acquired Pneumonia. Principal Investigator. Gerber Foundation Pediatric Research Award. 2014-2016.

Gary L. Geis, MD Medical Director, Center for Simulation and Research

uses medical simulation to investigate and improve knowledge, attitudes and behaviors of healthcare providers and care teams and to assess care systems and environment in the in situ setting allowing for identification and mitigation of latent threat to patient safety.
Visit the Center for Simulation and Research.

513-636-6992 gary.geis@cchmc.org

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Gary L. Geis, MD

Medical Director, Center for Simulation and Research

Attending Physician, Division of Emergency Medicine

Academic Affiliations

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Phone 513-636-6992

Fax 513-636-7967

Email gary.geis@cchmc.org

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Clinical

Pediatric emergency medicine

Research

Medical simulation; systems integration; patient safety; pediatric resuscitation

Biography

Academically, Dr. Geis has been recognized with multiple teaching awards from the pediatric, emergency medicine and family practice residencies in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 2015 he received an Educational Achievement Award from the Department of Pediatrics. In addition, he has served as an instructor at McMaster University’s How to Teach Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Workshop in Hamilton, Ontario.

He has been funded on a national level as primary investigator and co-investigator on multiple completed projects, has served on study sections for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the NIH, and is a reviewer for multiple peer-reviewed journals.

Medical School: University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, 1997.

Residency: Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters, Norfolk, VA, 2000.

Chief Residency: Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters, Norfolk, VA, 2001.

Fellowship: Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, 2004.

Certifications: Pediatrics, 2001, 2008; Pediatric Emergency Medicine, 2004, 2014.

Kerrey BT, Mittiga MR, Rinderknecht AS, Varadarajan KR, Dyas JR, Geis GL, Luria JW, Frey ME, Jablonski TE, Iyer SB. Reducing the incidence of oxyhaemoglobin desaturation during rapid sequence intubation in a paediatric emergency department. BMJ Qual Saf. 2015 Jul 16.

Couto TB, Farhat SC, Geis GL, Olsen O, Schvartsman C. High-fidelity simulation versus case-based discussion for teaching medical students in Brazil about pediatric emergencies. Clinics (Sao Paulo). 2015 Jun;70(6):393-9.

Moler FW, Silverstein FS, Holubkov R, Slomine BS, Christensen JR, Nadkarni VM, Meert KL, Clark AE, Browning B, Pemberton VL, Page K, Shankaran S, Hutchison JS, Newth CJ, Bennett KS, Berger JT, Topjian A, Pineda JA, Koch JD, Schleien CL, Dalton HJ, Ofori-Amanfo G, Goodman DM, Fink EL, McQuillen P, Zimmerman JJ, Thomas NJ, van der Jagt EW, Porter MB, Meyer MT, Harrison R, Pham N, Schwarz AJ, Nowak JE, Alten J, Wheeler DS, Bhalala US, Lidsky K, Lloyd E, Mathur M, Shah S, Wu T, Theodorou AA, Sanders RC Jr, Dean JM, THAPCA Trial Investigators. Therapeutic hypothermia after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in children. N Engl J Med. 2015 May 14;372(20):1898-908.

Couto TB, Kerrey BT, Taylor RG, FitzGerald M, Geis GL. Teamwork skills in actual, in situ, and in-center pediatric emergencies: performance levels across settings and perceptions of comparative educational impact. Simul Healthc. 2015 Apr;10(2):76-84.

Rinderknecht AS, Mittiga MR, Meinzen-Derr J, Geis GL, Kerrey BT. Factors associated with oxyhemoglobin desaturation during rapid sequence intubation in a pediatric emergency department: findings from multivariable analyses of video review data. Acad Emerg Med. 2015 Apr;22(4):431-40.

Wetzel EA, Lang TR, Pendergrass TL, Taylor RG, Geis GL. Identification of latent safety threats using high-fidelity simulation-based training with multidisciplinary neonatology teams. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2013 Jun;39(6):268-73.

Wheeler DS, Geis G, Mack EH, Lemaster T, Patterson MD. High-reliability emergency response teams in the hospital: improving quality and safety using in situ simulation training. BMJ Qual Saf. 2013 Jun;22(6):507-14.

Patterson MD, Geis GL, Lemaster T, Wears RL. Impact of multidisciplinary simulation-based training on patient safety in a paediatric emergency department. BMJ Qual Saf. 2013 May;22(5):383-93.

Patterson MD, Geis GL, Falcone RA, Lemaster T, Wears RL. In situ simulation: detection of safety threats and teamwork training in a high risk emergency department. BMJ Qual Saf. 2013 Jun;22(6):468-77.

Johnson K, Geis G, Oehler J. Meinzen-Derr J, Bauer J, Myer c, Kerrey B. Simulation to implement a novel system of care for pediatric critical airway obstruction. Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2012 Oct 1;138(10):907-11.

Mike A. Gittelman, MD Co-Director, Comprehensive Children's Injury Center

investigates effective methods to prevent injuries to children. Through educational, advocacy, research, and community interventions, he seeks techniques to minimize the number one cause of death to children. Recently, he has developed screening tools so providers can determine the greatest injury risks so that families can change their behaviors to make their children safer.

513-636-2274 mike.gittelman@cchmc.org

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Mike A. Gittelman, MD

Co-Director, Comprehensive Children's Injury Center

Attending Physician, Division of Emergency Medicine

Academic Affiliations

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Phone 513-636-2274

Fax 513-636-7967

Email mike.gittelman@cchmc.org

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Pediatric emergency medicine; injury prevention; advocacy

Research

Behavior change counseling; injury prevention; community prevention

Biography

Mike Gittelman, MD, FAAP, is a pediatric emergency room physician at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center in Cincinnati, OH, and he is a professor of clinical pediatrics at the University of Cincinnati School of Medicine. He completed his undergraduate work at Swarthmore College and his medical school training at the Medical College of Pennsylvania. He completed his residency in pediatrics at St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children in Philadelphia, PA, and a fellowship in emergency medicine at Cincinnati Children’s.

His area of expertise is within the field of injury control. Prior to their formation of a council, he served as the chairperson for the American Academy of Pediatrics’ Section on Injury and Poison Prevention. He is a board member and treasurer of the AAP’s Ohio Chapter, and he is a co-director of the Comprehensive Children’s Injury Center at Cincinnati Children’s. He is involved in resident education on injury prevention and he works with high-risk communities in an effort to reduce pediatric injuries. One of his research interests has been to study the impact of an ER encounter and education by a pediatrician about injury risks on promoting a behavior change to prevent injuries. More recently he has worked with the Ohio Chapter to develop a state-wide bicycle helmet intervention and to develop an injury QI program for practicing pediatricians. He is nationally recognized for his injury prevention efforts and research and much of his work has been published in peer reviewed journals.

MD: The Medical College of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 1994.

Residency: St. Christopher's Hospital for Children, Philadelphia, PA., 1997.

Fellowship: Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Cincinnati, OH, 2000.

Certifications: ABP Subspecialty Board in Pediatric Emergency Medicine, current; American Board of Pediatrics, current; Diplomate, United States Medical Licensure Examination, 1994.

McDonald EM, Gittelman MA, Rains CM, Hoffman B, Zonfrillo MR. Toward a centralized database for child safety centers: Results of a feasibility pilot study. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2015 Sep;79(3 Suppl 1):S15-20.

Wibbenmeyer L, Gittelman MA, Kluesner K, et al. A multicenter study of preventable contact burns from glass fronted gas fireplaces. J Burn Care Res. 2015;36:240–245.

Gittelman MA, Pomerantz WJ, McClanahan N, Damon A, Ho M. A Computerized Kiosk to Teach Injury Prevention: Is it as Effective As Human Interaction? The journal of trauma and acute care surgery. Sep 2014;77(3 Suppl 1):S2-7.

Kurowski BG, Pomerantz WJ, Schaiper C, Gittelman MA. Factors that Influence Concussion Knowledge and Self-Reported Attitudes in High School Athletes. The journal of trauma and acute care surgery. Sep 2014;77(3 Suppl 1):S12-17.

Zonfrillo MR, Melzer-Lange M, Gittelman MA. A comprehensive approach to pediatric injury prevention in the emergency department. Pediatr Emerg Care. 2014;30(1):56-62.

Wagers B, Gittelman M, Bennett B, Pomerantz W. Prevalence of male adolescent dating violence in the pediatric emergency department. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2013;75(4 Suppl 3):S313-318.

Pomerantz WJ, Gittelman MA, Ho M, Hornung RW. Can the reduction of pediatric injury rates be sustained using a community-based approach? J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2013;75(4 Suppl 3):S276-280.

Gittelman MA, Pomerantz WJ, Ho M, Hornung R, McClanahan N. Is an Emergency Department encounter for a motor vehicle collision truly a “Teachable Moment.” J of Trauma. 2012.

Gittelman MA, Pomerantz WJ. The Use of Focus Groups to Mobilize a High-Risk Community in an Effort to Prevent Injuries. Journal of Prevention & Intervention in the Community. 39:1–14, 2011.

Gittelman MA, Pomerantz WJ, Schubert CJ. Implementing and evaluating an injury prevention curriculum within a pediatric residency program. J Trauma. 2010; 69(4 Suppl): S239-44.

Javier A. Gonzalez del Rey, MD, MEd Co-Director, Pediatric Residency Program

major areas of interests include resident and subspecialty medical education and improvement science methodology applied to medical education and training. He has several publications and chapters in the areas of procedural skills, experiential learning and effects of new hour regulations in pediatric training. He has recently received grant funding for evaluation of transition of care (hand-offs) and for expansion of our residency primary care track (NIH / HRSA).

513-636-4906 javier.gonzalez@cchmc.org

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Javier A. Gonzalez del Rey, MD, MEd

Co-Director, Pediatric Residency Program

Associate Director, Division of Emergency Medicine

Academic Affiliations

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Phone 513-636-4906

Fax 513-636-7905

Email javier.gonzalez@cchmc.org

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Clinical

Procedural sedation; analgesia

Research

Medical education; quality improvement

Biography

Javier A. Gonzalez del Rey, MD, MEd, is currently associate director for the Division of Emergency Medicine and co-director of the Pediatric Residency Training Programs at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and professor of pediatrics for the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine.

He received his university and medical school education at the National University Pedro Henriquez Ureña in the Dominican Republic, completed his pediatric residency at the University of Connecticut Pediatric Primary Care Program, and fellowships training in general academic pediatrics and pediatric emergency medicine at the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. He is currently certified in pediatrics and pediatric emergency medicine. He has completed a Master of Medical Education and advanced training in quality improvement methodology (I2S2).

He has won numerous teaching awards including the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center Faculty Teaching Award, the University of Cincinnati Department of Emergency Medicine Golden Apple Award and most recently the Parker J. Palmer Courage to Teach Award by the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education. Under his leadership, the Cincinnati Children’s Residency Program received a nomination for “best practices” by the Pediatric RRC / ACGME. He was recently nominated and elected to the US Medical School's Alpha Omega Alpha Chapter and Golden Humanism Society for outstanding contributions to residents and medical students’ education.

He is currently a member of the National Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellows Conference and the organizer of many international educational exchange programs. He is currently a board member at the Association of Pediatric Program Directors and executive committee member at the American Academy of Pediatrics Section in Pediatric Emergency Medicine. He was a member and chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics PREP - EM Planning Committee course for 10 years. Gonzalez del Rey’s major areas of interests include resident and subspecialty medical education, and improvement science methodology applied to medical education and training.

MD: National University Pedro Henriquez Urena, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 1984.

Residency: Pediatric Primary Care Track, University of Connecticut, Waterbury, CT, 1985-1988.

Fellowships: Ambulatory and Community Pediatrics - Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, 1988-1991.

Master Medical Education: University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 2002.

Certifications (Active): Pediatrics and Pediatric Emergency Medicine.

Mendoza FS, Walker LR, Stoll BJ, Fuentes-Afflick E, St Geme JW 3rd, Cheng TL, Gonzalez del Rey JA, Harris CE, Rimsza ME, Li J, Sectish TC. Diversity and Inclusion Training in Pediatric Departments. Pediatrics. 2015 Apr;135(4):707-13.

Warrick D, Gonzalez-del-Rey J, Hall D, Statile A, White C, Simmons J, Wong SP. Improving Resident Handoffs for Children Transitioning from the Intensive Care Unit. Hosp Pediatr. 2015 Mar;5(3):127-33.

González del Rey J. Papel de los padres en las urgencias pediátricas: ¿tradición, conflicto o mejoría? An Pediatr (Barc). 2015;82:1-3.

Daily J, FitzGerald M, Downing K, King E, Del Rey JG, Ittenbach R, Marino B. Important knowledge for parents of children with heart disease: parent, nurse, and physician views. Cardiol Young. 2015 Jan 20:1-9.

Starmer J et all, Landrigan CP, I-PASS Study Group. Changes in medical errors after implementation of a handoff program. N Engl J Med. 2014 Nov 6;371(19):1803-12.

Schumacher DJ, Spector N, Calaman S, West DC, Cruz M, Frohna J, Gonzalez del Rey J, Gustafson KK, Poynter SE, Rosenbluth G, Southgate WM, Vinci RJ, Sectish TC. Putting the Pediatrics Milestones into Practice: A Consensus Roadmap and Resource Analysis. Pediatrics. 2014 May;133(5):898-906.

Philibert I, Gonzalez Del Rey JA, Lannon C, Lieh-Lai M, Weiss KB. Quality improvement skills for pediatric residents: from lecture to implementation and sustainability. Acad Pediatr. 2014 Jan-Feb;14(1):40-6.

Fitzgerald M, Mallory M, Mittiga M, Schubert C, Schwartz H, Gonzalez J, Duma E, McAneney C. Experience-Based Guidance for Implementing a Direct Observation Checklist in a Pediatric Emergency Department Setting. J Grad Med Educ. 2012 Dec;4(4):521-4.

Benito J, Mintegi S, Ruddy R, Gonzalez del Rey J. Changing Clinical Practices and Education in Pediatric Emergency Medicine Through Global Health Partnerships. Clinical Pediatric Emergency Medicine. Mar 2012;(13)1:37-43.

Auger KA, Landrigan CP, Gonzalez del Rey JA, Sieplinga KR, Sucharew HJ, Simmons JM. Better Rested, but More Stressed?: Evidence of the Effects of Resident Work Hour Restrictions. Acad Pediatr. 2012 Jul-Aug;12(4):335-43.

Jacqueline M. Grupp-Phelan, MD, MPH Director of Research, Division of Emergency Medicine

directs the research program in Pediatric Emergency Medicine and holds the Richard Ruddy chair of pediatric emergency medicine research. Her interests are focused on mental health screening and mental health services in the Pediatric Emergency Department. Her productivity and potential in this area were recognized by the receipt of a prestigious K23 Mentored Career Development Award from the National Institute for Mental Health.

513-636-7966 jackie.grupp-phelan@cchmc.org

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Jacqueline M. Grupp-Phelan, MD, MPH

Director of Research, Division of Emergency Medicine

Associate Director, Division of Emergency Medicine

Academic Affiliations

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Phone 513-636-7966

Fax 513-636-7967

Email jackie.grupp-phelan@cchmc.org

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Clinical

Pediatric emergency medicine

Research

Mental health services research

Biography

Jaqueline Grupp-Phelan, MD, MPH, graduated from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. After completing her pediatric residency and emergency medicine fellowship at Children’s Memorial/Northwestern in Chicago, she moved to Tuba City on the Navajo Reservation where her interest in mental illness developed. Dr. Grupp-Phelan then completed a Master in Public Health in Seattle before coming back to Cincinnati Children’s. Her research interests include screening and interventions for mothers and children with mental illness in the Pediatric Emergency Department. Dr. Grupp-Phelan recently completed a Career Development award from the National Institute of Mental Health and holds the Ruddy Chair for Pediatric Emergency Medicine Research, the first chair devoted to research in the Pediatric Emergency Department.

MPH: Medicine, University of Washington School of Public Health and Services, Seattle, WA, 1998.

MD: University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, 1990.

BA: History, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 1986.

Residency: Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL, 1993.

Fellowship: General Academic Pediatrics, Agency for Health Care Policy and Research Senior Research Fellow, Seattle, WA, 1998; Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL, 1995.

Certification: Pediatrics, 1994; Pediatric Emergency Medicine, 1997.

Williams JR, Ho ML, Grupp-Phelan J. The acceptability of mental health screening in a pediatric emergency department. Pediatr Emerg Care. 2011 Jul;27(7):611-5.

Rinderknecht AS, Ho M, Matykiewicz P, Grupp-Phelan JM. Referral to the emergency department by a primary care provider predicts severity of illness. Pediatrics. 2010 Nov;126(5):917-24.

Grupp-Phelan J, Ammerman RT. Maternal depression and child growth: definitional issues, longitudinal trajectories, and analytic considerations. J Pediatr. 2010 Sep;157(3):359-60.

Brodzinski H, Iyer S, Grupp-Phelan J. Assessment of disparities in the use of anxiolysis and sedation among children undergoing laceration repair. Acad Pediatr. 2010 May-Jun;10(3):194-9.

Grupp-Phelan J, Mahajan P, Foltin GL, Jacobs E, Tunik M, Sonnett M, Miller S, Dayan P; Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network. Referral and resource use patterns for psychiatric-related visits to pediatric emergency departments. Pediatr Emerg Care. 2009 Apr;25(4):217-20.

Pittsenbarger ZE, Grupp-Phelan J, Phelan KJ. Comparing the frequency of unrecognized attention deficit hyperactivity disorder symptoms in injured versus noninjured patients presenting for care in the pediatric emergency department. Pediatr Emerg Care. 2008 Jul;24(7):438-41.

Grupp-Phelan J, Delgado SV, Kelleher KJ. Failure of psychiatric referrals from the pediatric emergency department. BMC Emerg Med. 2007 Aug 15;7:12.

Grupp-Phelan J, Wade TJ, Pickup T, Ho ML, Lucas CP, Brewer DE, Kelleher KJ. Mental health problems in children and caregivers in the emergency department setting. J Dev Behav Pediatr. 2007 Feb;28(1):16-21.

Grupp-Phelan J, Harman JS, Kelleher KJ. Trends in mental health and chronic condition visits by children presenting for care at U.S. emergency departments. Public Health Rep. 2007 Jan-Feb;122(1):55-61.

Mahabee-Gittens EM, Grupp-Phelan J, Brody AS, Donnelly LF, Bracey SE, Duma EM, Mallory ML, Slap GB. Identifying children with pneumonia in the emergency department. Clin Pediatr (Phila). 2005 Jun;44(5):427-35.

Selena L. Hariharan, MD, FAAP

is a member of the prevention focus group. She is interested in anticipatory guidance screening in the Emergency Department.

513-636-7966 selena.hariharan@cchmc.org

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Selena L. Hariharan, MD, FAAP

Academic Affiliations

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Phone 513-636-7966

Email selena.hariharan@cchmc.org

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BA: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 1992.

MD: Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, IL, 1996.

Residency: University of Cincinnati Hospital Group Program, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, 1999.

Fellowship: Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, 2003.

Hariharan S, Pomerantz W. Correlation between hospitalization for pharmaceutical ingestion and attention deficit disorder in children aged 5 to 9 years old. Clin Pediatr (Phila). 2008 Jan;47(1):15-20.

Alloway R, Steinberg S, Khalil K, Gourishankar S, Miller J, Norman D, Hariharan S, Pirsch J, Matas A, Zaltzman J, Wisemandle K, Fitzsimmons W, First MR. Two years postconversion from a prograf-based regimen to a once-daily tacrolimus extended-release formulation in stable kidney transplant recipients. Transplantation. 2007 Jun 27;83(12):1648-51.

Alloway R, Steinberg S, Khalil K, Gourishankar S, Miller J, Norman D, Hariharan S, Pirsch J, Matas A, Zaltzman J, Wisemandle K, Fitzsimmons W, First MR. Conversion of stable kidney transplant recipients from a twice daily Prograf-based regimen to a once daily modified release tacrolimus-based regimen. Transplant Proc. 2005 Mar;37(2):867-70.

Sztajnkrycer MD, Hariharan S, Bond GR. Cardiac irritability and myocardial infarction in a 13-year-old girl following recreational amphetamine overdose. Pediatr Emerg Care. 2002 Aug;18(4):E11-5.

First MR, Gerber DA, Hariharan S, Kaufman DB, Shapiro R. Post-transplant diabetes mellitus in kidney allograft recipients: incidence, risk factors, and management. Transplantation. 2002 Feb 15;73(3):379-86.

Hariharan S, Adams MB, Brennan DC, Davis CL, First MR, Johnson CP, Ouseph R, Peddi VR, Pelz CJ, Roza AM, Vincenti F, George V. Recurrent and de novo glomerular disease after renal transplantation: a report from Renal Allograft Disease Registry (RADR). Transplantation. 1999 Sep 15;68(5):635-41.

Daoud AJ, Schroeder TJ, Shah M, Hariharan S, Peddi VR, Weiskittel P, First MR. A comparison of the safety and efficacy of mycophenolate mofetil, prednisone and cyclosporine and mycophenolate mofetil, and prednisone and tacrolimus. Transplant Proc. 1998 Dec;30(8):4079-81.

Al-Awwa IA, Hariharan S, First MR. Importance of allograft biopsy in renal transplant recipients: correlation between clinical and histological diagnosis. Am J Kidney Dis. 1998 Jun;31(6 Suppl 1):S15-8.

Hariharan S, Peddi VR, Savin VJ, Johnson CP, First MR, Roza AM, Adams MB. Recurrent and de novo renal diseases after renal transplantation: a report from the renal allograft disease registry. Am J Kidney Dis. 1998 Jun;31(6):928-31.

Rahusen F, Munda R, Hariharan S, First MR, Demmy A. Combined kidney-pancreas and parathyroid transplantation: a case report. Clin Transplant. 1997 Aug;11(4):341-3.

Srikant B. Iyer, MD, MPH Attending Physician, Division of Emergency Medicine

is focusing his initial efforts on using QI methods and operations management to improve the timeliness and efficiency of care delivery for patients presenting to the emergency department with acute pain. His most recent work has been directed toward efficient patient segmentation and the improvement of patient flow for larger groups of patients.

513-636-4421 srikant.iyer@cchmc.org

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Srikant B. Iyer, MD, MPH

Attending Physician, Division of Emergency Medicine

Academic Affiliations

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Phone 513-636-4421

Fax 513-636-0171

Email srikant.iyer@cchmc.org

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Clinical

Acute pain management; emergent care of children with congenital heart disease; acute management of sepsis/septic shock

Research

Process and systems improvement; patient flow/capacity management; acute pain management in ED settings; healthcare delivery system redesign

Biography

Srikant Iyer, MD, MPH, completed his residency in categorical pediatrics and fellowship in pediatric emergency medicine at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center in 2000 and 2005, respectively. He also completed his master's degree in 2005 from the Harvard School of Public Health.

Dr. Iyer’s initial research efforts were directed toward improving efficiency of care, specifically via the use of point-of-care testing. These efforts were funded by an industry-sponsored grant from Quidel, Inc., as well as a Cincinnati Children's T32 Award from 2004-2006.

His interests broadened to include both improvements in timeliness and efficiency, specifically toward improving acute pain management in acute care settings. These efforts were funded by a Place Outcomes Award and an award from the Mayday Fund from 2008 to 2010.

Dr. Iyer’s current work has broadened further to involve improvements in timeliness of care for patients seeking care in open access systems. His most recent effort has been directed toward designing an emergency department fast track care stream to improve the timeliness of care delivery in this system. To aid him in these efforts, he has received formal training in QI methods, LEAN, statistical process control, queuing theory, and improvement science from Cincinnati Children's and the Institute for Health Care Improvement (IHI).

Dr. Iyer has also served as the improvement advisor for the National Pediatric Cardiology Quality Improvement Collaborative since 2006.

In December 2012, Dr. Iyer was offered a one year appointment in the CMS Innovation Advisors Program (IAP). His appointment is administered by the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) on behalf of the Centers of Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Innovation Center.

MD: University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC.

MPH: Harvard School of Public Health.

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

Fellowship: Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.

Iyer SB, Anderson JB, Slicker J, Beekman RH, Lannon C. Using statistical process control to identify early growth failure among infants with hypoplastic left heart syndrome. World Journal for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery. 2011.

Iyer SB, Schubert CJ, Schoettker PJ, Reeves SD. Use of quality-improvement methods to improve timeliness of analgesic delivery. Pediatrics. 2011 Jan;127(1):e219-25.

Mittiga M, Schwartz H, Iyer SB, Gonzalez J. Pediatric emergency residency experience: Requirement vs. reality. J Grad Med Educ. 2010; December; 2(4): 571-576.

Kulkarni AA, Weiss AA, Iyer SS. Detection of carbohydrate binding proteins using magnetic relaxation switches. Anal Chem. 2010 Sep 1;82(17):7430-5.

Kulkarni AA, Fuller C, Korman H, Weiss AA, Iyer SS. Glycan encapsulated gold nanoparticles selectively inhibit shiga toxins 1 and 2. Bioconjug Chem. 2010 Aug 18;21(8):1486-93.

Millen SH, Lewallen DM, Herr AB, Iyer SS, Weiss AA. Identification and characterization of the carbohydrate ligands recognized by pertussis toxin via a glycan microarray and surface plasmon resonance. Biochemistry. 2010 Jul 20;49(28):5954-67.

Brodzinski H, Iyer S, Grupp-Phelan J. Assessment of disparities in the use of anxiolysis and sedation among children undergoing laceration repair. Acad Pediatr. 2010 May-Jun;10(3):194-9.

Kulkarni AA, Weiss AA, Iyer SS. Glycan-based high-affinity ligands for toxins and pathogen receptors. Med Res Rev. 2010 Mar;30(2):327-93. Review.

Flagler MJ, Mahajan SS, Kulkarni AA, Iyer SS, Weiss AA. Comparison of binding platforms yields insights into receptor binding differences between shiga toxins 1 and 2. Biochemistry. 2010 Mar 2;49(8):1649-57.

Timm N, Iyer SB. Embedded earrings in children. Pediatric Emergency Care. 2008;24(1):1-3.

Laurie H. Johnson, MD, FAAP Clinician Educator, Division of Emergency Medicine

is part of the clinical focus group and is interested in asthma-related research.

513-636-9378 laurie.johnson@cchmc.org

Stephanie S. Kennebeck, MD Director of Epic ASAP Development, Division of Emergency Medicine

investigates the impact of the electronic medical record and clinical decision support on care in the emergent care of pediatric patients. The goal of this research is to identify ideal structure and support for design of the ideal Electronic Health Record.

513-636-7966 stephanie.kennebeck@cchmc.org

Stephanie S. Kennebeck, MD

Director of Epic ASAP Development, Division of Emergency Medicine

Academic Affiliations

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Phone 513-636-7966

Fax 513-636-7967

Email stephanie.kennebeck@cchmc.org

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Clinical

Pediatric emergency medicine

Research

Electronic Health Record

Biography

Stephanie S. Kennebeck, MD, has served as the director of electronic health records for the Division of Emergency Medicine for many years. She works to incorporate new and important ideas and clinical practice changes into the Electronic Health Record. She also work to ensure that the Electronic Health Record is accurate and efficient for the professional providers in the Emergency Department.

MD: Northwestern University School of Medicine, Chicago, Il, 1996.

Residency: Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, 1999.

Fellowship: Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, 2002.

Certification: Pediatrics, 2002; Pediatric Emergency Medicine, 2003.

Byczkowski T, Gillespie GL, Kennebeck SS, Fitzgerald MR, Downing KA, Alessandrini EA. Family-Centered Care in Pediatric Emergency Medicine: A Framework for Measuring and Improving What Parents Want and Value. Acad Pediatr. 2016 May-Jun;16(4):327-35.

Dandoy CE, Hariharan S, Weiss B, Demmel K, Timm N, Chiarenzelli J, Dewald MK, Kennebeck S, Langworthy S, Pomales J, Rineair S, Sandfoss E, Volz-Noe P, Nagarajan R, Alessandrini E. Sustained reductions in time to antibiotic delivery in febrile immunocompromised children: results of a quality improvement collaborative. BMJ Qual Saf. 2016 Feb;25(2):100-9.

Borycki E, Cummings E, Dexheimer J, Gong Y, Kennebeck S, Kushniruk A, Kuziemsky C, Saranto K, Weber J, Takeda H (IMIA Working Group Health Informatics for Patient Safety). Patient-centered Coordinated Care in Times of Emerging Diseases and Epidemics. Yearb Med Inform. 2015 Aug 13;10(1):207-15.

Dexheimer J, Scheid B, Babaoff A, Martens S, Kennebeck S. Preparing for ICD-10-CM Implementation: Strategies for maintaining an efficient workflow. Ped Emerg Care. 2015 Jan;(31)1:65-69.

Ni Y, Kennebeck S, Dexheimer JW, McAneney CM, Tang H, Lingren T, Li Q, Zhai H, Solti I. Automated clinical trial eligibility prescreening: increasing the efficiency of patient identification for clinical trials in the emergency department. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2015 Jan;22(1):166-78.

Namjou B, Keddache M, Marsolo K, Wagner M ,Lingren T, Cobb B, Perry C, Kennebeck SS, Holm I, Li R, Crimmins N, Martin L, Solti I, Kohane I, Harley J. EMR-linked GWAS study: investigation of variation landscape of loci for body mass index in children. Frontiers in Genetics. 2013 Nov;4(268):1-9.

Byczkowski TB, Fitzgerald M, Kennebeck SS, Vaughn L, Myers K, Kachelmeyer A, Timm NL. A Comprehensive View of Parental Satisfaction With Pediatric Emergency Department Visits. Ann Emerg Med. 2013 Oct;62(4):340-350.

Dexheimer JW, Kennebeck SS. Modifications and integration of the electronic tracking board in a pediatric emergency department. Ped Emerg Care. 2013 Jul;29(7):852-7.

Showalter CD, Kerrey B, Spellman-Kennebeck SS, Timm NL. Gastrostomy Tube Replacement in a Pediatric ED: Frequency of Complications and Impact of Confirmatory Imaging. Am J E Med. Oct 2012;30(8):1501-6.

Spellman Kennebeck S, Timm NL, Spooner SA, Farrell M. Impact of Electronic Health Record implementation on patient flow metrics in a Pediatric Emergency Department. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2012 May 1;19(3):443-7.

Benjamin T. Kerrey, MD Attending Physician, Division of Emergency Medicine

is an attending physician in the Emergency Department at Cincinnati Children’s and conducts clinical research on medical resuscitations in the ED. He has a particular interest in the process and outcomes of emergent intubation in the pediatric ED as well as the use of simulation to assess systems of care in that environment.

513-636-7966 benjamin.kerrey@cchmc.org

Benjamin T. Kerrey, MD

Attending Physician, Division of Emergency Medicine

Academic Affiliations

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Phone 513-636-7966

Fax 513-636-7967

Email benjamin.kerrey@cchmc.org

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Acute and chronic anemia; pediatric radiology

Research

Ultrasound in pediatric emergency medicine

MD: University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, 2002.

Residency: Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, 2005.

Fellowship: Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Cincinnati Children's, Cincinnati, OH, 2008.

Certification: Pediatrics 2003; Pediatric Emergency Medicine, 2009.

E. Melinda Mahabee-Gittens, MD, MS, CTTS

Kerrey BT, Geis GL, Quinn AM, Hornung RW, Ruddy RM. A prospective comparison of diaphragmatic ultrasound and chest radiography to determine endotracheal tube position in a pediatric emergency department. Pediatrics. 2009 Jun;123(6):e1039-44.

Kerrey B, Reed J. A neonate with respiratory distress and a chest wall deformity. Pediatr Emerg Care. 2007 Aug;23(8):565-9.

Kerrey BT, Morrow A, Geraghty S, Huey N, Sapsford A, Schleiss MR. Breast milk as a source for acquisition of cytomegalovirus (HCMV) in a premature infant with sepsis syndrome: detection by real-time PCR. J Clin Virol. 2006 Mar;35(3):313-6.

Pamela Beth Lachniet, MD, PhD Staff Physician III, Division of Emergency Medicine

513-636-7966 pamela.lachniet@cchmc.org

is the director of the tobacco cessation clinic that provides comprehensive cessation counseling, resources, and medications for adults and adolescents. Her research focuses on testing the effects of healthcare based pediatric secondhand smoke reduction interventions on improving child health outcomes and the effectiveness of parental cessation interventions on increasing adult cessation outcomes.

513-636-7966 melinda.mahabee-gittens@cchmc.org

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E. Melinda Mahabee-Gittens, MD, MS, CTTS

Academic Affiliations

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Phone 513-636-7966

Email melinda.mahabee-gittens@cchmc.org

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Pediatric secondhand smoke exposure reduction; parental tobacco cessation; adolescent tobacco prevention

Biography

Dr. Melinda Mahabee-Gittens is a professor at the University of Cincinnati and attending emergency medicine physician in the Emergency Department at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. Her areas of expertise include research on tobacco prevention and education in medical settings.

She has extensive research experience in survey design and tobacco intervention development, and primary quantitative data collection and analysis. She has provided parents and adolescents with tobacco prevention, tobacco cessation and secondhand smoke reduction counseling both in the research and clinical setting. She has been successfully funded for her research by the NIH/National Cancer Institute (K23CA117864 and K22CA163747), Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (R03HS11038), the American Lung Association (CG-004-N), and the Charlotte R. Schmidlapp Woman Scholars Award.

She recently was co-investigator on a technology transfer grant, funded by NHLBI (1-R41HL083540 and 2-R42-HL083540) to develop and evaluate a web-based tobacco cessation educational program for pediatric respiratory therapists and nurses. She is currently the PI on a Career Development award from the National Cancer Institute which is designed to develop and evaluate a parental tobacco cessation intervention in the ED setting.

MD: State University of New York at Brooklyn, NY, 1992.

Residency: The Children's Hospital at Yale-New Haven, CT, 1995.

Fellowship: Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, 1999.

MS: University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 1999.

Dixon CA, Pomerantz WJ, Hart KW, Lindsell CJ, Mahabee-Gittens EM. An evaluation of a dog bite prevention intervention in the pediatric emergency department. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2013 Oct;75(4 Suppl 3):S308-12.

Mahabee-Gittens EM, Dixon CA, Vaughn LM, Duma EM, Gordon JS. Parental Tobacco Screening and Counseling in the Pediatric Emergency Department: Practitioners' Attitudes, Perceived Barriers, and Suggestions for Implementation and Maintenance. J Emerg Nurs. 2013 Sep 9. pii: S0099-1767(13)00217-1.

Mahabee-Gittens EM, Stone L, Gordon JS. Pediatric emergency department is a promising venue for adult tobacco cessation interventions. Nicotine Tob Res. 2013 Oct;15(10):1792-3.

Mahabee-Gittens EM, Xiao Y, Gordon JS, Khoury JC. The dynamic role of parental influences in preventing adolescent smoking initiation. Addict Behav. 2013 Apr;38(4):1905-11.

Gordon JS, Mahabee-Gittens EM, Andrews JA, Christiansen SM, Byron DJ. A randomized clinical trial of a web-based tobacco cessation education program. Pediatrics. 2013 Feb;131(2):e455-62.

Vaughn LM, Nabors L, Pelley TJ, Hampton RR, Jacquez F, Mahabee-Gittens EM. Obesity screening in the pediatric emergency department. Pediatr Emerg Care. 2012 Jun;28(6):548-52.

Mahabee-Gittens EM, Xiao Y, Gordon JS, Khoury JC. Continued importance of family factors in youth smoking behavior. Nicotine Tob Res. 2012 Dec;14(12):1458-66.

Mahabee-Gittens EM, Khoury JC, Huang B, Dorn LD, Ammerman RT, Gordon JS. The Protective Influence of Family Bonding on Smoking Initiation in Adolescents by Racial/Ethnic and Age Subgroups. J Child Adolesc Subst Abuse. 2011 Jul;20(3):270-287.

Bennett BL, Mahabee-Gittens M, Chua MS, Hirsch R. Elevated cardiac troponin I level in cases of thoracic nonaccidental trauma. Pediatr Emerg Care. 2011 Oct;27(10):941-4.

Bennett BL, Chua MS, Care M, Kachelmeyer A, Mahabee-Gittens M. Retrospective review to determine the utility of follow-up skeletal surveys in child abuse evaluations when the initial skeletal survey is normal. BMC Res Notes. 2011 Sep 12;4:354. 4-354.

Constance M. McAneney, MD, MS Director of Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship Program, Division of Emergency Medicine

is part of the education focus group. She has spent her career developing clinical and educational programs for pediatric transport, the Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship and Medical Student Education in Pediatrics both locally and nationally. She is concentrating on fostering innovative and productive educational endeavors, bringing the significance of education to the forefront within the Division of Emergency Medicine.

513-636-7966 connie.mcaneney@cchmc.org

Constance M. McAneney, MD, MS

Director of Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship Program, Division of Emergency Medicine

Associate Director, Division of Emergency Medicine

Academic Affiliations

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Phone 513-636-7966

Email connie.mcaneney@cchmc.org

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Education

Biography

Dr. McAneney, MD, MS, joined the newly formed Division of Emergency Medicine at Cincinnati Children's in 1991 and has participated in many committees and held positions including: founder of the Pediatric Transport Team in 1993 (continued as director until 1998); member of the Reappointment, Promotion and Tenure Committee; the chair of the Credentials Committee and member of the Executive Committee of the Cincinnati Children's. She served as program chair for the AAP Section of Emergency Medicine National Conference. She has been an associate director of the Division of Emergency Medicine since 1998 with specific interest in education.

Dr. McAneney has worked in medical student education beginning as a member of the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine Admission Committee for seven years and was then appointed the director of Medical Student Education for Cincinnati Children's and also served on multiple medical school committees. She designed the Medical Student Scholars Program in Child and Adolescent Health which is a specialized educational track that provides the medical students with an opportunity to expand their knowledge in academic pediatrics.

In 2001, she became the director of the Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship. Curriculum, evaluation process, size, schedule, scheduling process, educational opportunities and requirements, research opportunities, mentorship, infrastructure (educational and research) have all been redesigned and improved upon.

As director of education for the Division of Emergency Medicine at Cincinnati Children's, she helps foster innovative and productive educational endeavors and brings the significance of education to the forefront.

MS: Physiology, Georgetown University, Washington, DC.

MD: Georgetown University, Washington, DC, 1986.

Residency: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, 1986.

Fellowship: The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, 1991.

Certification: Pediatrics, 1989, 2000; Pediatric Emergency Medicine, 1992, 1998.

FitzGerald M, Mallory ML, Mittiga M, Schubert C, Schwartz HP, Gonzalez del Rey JA, Duma E, McAneney CM. Experience-Based Guidance for Implementing a Direct Observation Checklist in a Pediatric Emergency Department Setting. Journal of Graduate Medical Education. 2012 Dec;4(4):521-524.

Timm N, McAneney CM, Alpern E, Macy M, Ruddy RM. Is Pediatric Emergency Department Utilization by Pregnant Teens on the Rise?Pediatric Emergency Care. 2012 Apr;28(4):307-309.

Guiot A, Klein M, Peltier C, McAneney CM, Lehmann C. Third year medical student Pediatric Clerkship web site to enhance access to learning. The Open Medical Education Journal. 2011:412-17.

Emery KH, McAneney CM, Racadio JM, Johnson NO, Evora DK, Garcia VF. Absent peritoneal fluid on screening trauma ultrasonography in children: A prospective comparison with computed tomography. J Pediatr Surg. 2001;36(4):565-569.

Dowd MD, McAneney CM, Ruddy RR. Sensitivity and cost effectiveness of pediatric trauma team activation criteria. Academic Emergency Medicine. 2000;7(10):1119-1125.

Matthew R. Mittiga, MD

has a research focus in education, specifically resident education in the Emergency Department setting, procedural competency and mastery and maintenance of critical skills for pediatric emergency medicine practitioners. He is concentrating on optimizing the pediatric rapid sequence intubation process in the Cincinnati Children’s Emergency Department as well as development of the Emergency Department in situ simulation program to enhance patient safety by practicing high-risk, low-frequency medical case presentations.

513-636-4392 matthew.mittiga@cchmc.org

Eileen Murtagh Kurowski, MD Director of Quality Improvement, Division of Emergency Medicine

is a health services researcher who is interested in the emergency department care of adolescents and young adults with complex chronic conditions, with a particular focus on differences in care between pediatric and general EDs. She also has a secondary interest in care variations between pediatric and general EDs for common pediatric conditions.

513-803-6271 eileen.murtagh-kurowski@cchmc.org

Kieran J. Phelan, MD, MSc

is a general pediatrician and epidemiologist with a focus in injury epidemiology and control and evidence-based practice. He also has extensive experience in clinical practice guidelines and development. His federally-funded research is focused on preventing the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in younger US children: unintentional injury in the home environment.

513-803-3688 kieran.phelan@cchmc.org

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Kieran J. Phelan, MD, MSc

Academic Affiliations

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Phone 513-803-3688

Fax 513-636-0171

Email kieran.phelan@cchmc.org

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General pediatrics; community-based preventative medicine; public health trials

Biography

Kieran Phelan, MD, MSc, is a board certified general pediatrician, an experienced injury epidemiologist and residential injury control researcher. He has been active in the fields of injury epidemiology and residential injury control for over eight years.

His experience and success in this field includes multiple grants and publications, as well as the New Investigator Award from the National Center for Injury Prevention, control at the CDC, and an RO1-funded project. He has also has experience with the Cincinnati Home Injury Prevention (CHIP) and literacy promotion program and the National Institute of Child Health and Development (NICHD), which focuses on preventing injury and promoting literacy in a population of low-income mothers and their infants who were enrolled in a regional home visitation program. Lastly, he has experience with Every Child Succeeds (ECS), which tries to reduce residential injury and promote literacy in children from birth through 36 months of age.

BS: The University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IL, 1986.

MD: Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, IL, 1991.

Residency: Children’s Memorial Hospital, Northwestern University Medical School, 1994.

MSc: Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, School of Environmental Health, 2001.

Certification: American Board of Pediatrics, 2008; Pediatric Advanced Life Support, 2009.

Phelan KJ, Khoury J, Xu Y, Liddy S, Hornung R, Lanphear BP. A randomized controlled trial of home injury hazard reduction: the HOME injury study. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2011 Apr;165(4):339-45.

Phelan KJ, Khoury J, Xu Y, Lanphear B. Validation of a HOME Injury Survey. Injury Prevention. 2009;15:300-306.

Phelan KJ, Khoury J, Atherton H, Kahn RS. Maternal depression, child behavior, and injury. Injury Prevention. 2007 Dec;13(6):403-408.

Phelan KJ, Khoury J, Kalkwarf HJ, Lanphear BP. Residential Hazards in US Children and Adolescents. Public Health Reports. 2005;(120):63-70.

Nagaraja J, Menkedick J, Phelan KJ, Lanphear BP, Zhang X, Ashley P. Deaths from Residential Injuries in United States Children and Adolescents, 1987-99. Pediatrics. 2005 Aug;116(2):454-61.

Sandel M, Phelan K, Wright R, Haynes P, Lanphear B. The Effects of Housing Interventions on Child Health. Pediatric Annals. 2004;33(7):475-481.

Strand M, Phelan KJ, Donovan EF. Promoting the uptake and use of evidence: an overview of the problem. Clin Perinatol. 2003 Jun;30(2):389-402.

AAP Sub-Committee on Bronchiolitis (member and co-author). Diagnosis and Management of Bronchiolitis. Pediatrics. 2006 Oct;118(4):1774-1793.

Wendy J. Pomerantz, MD, MS Co-Director, Comprehensive Children's Injury Center

is a full-time clinician. In between clinical shifts, she is co-director of Injury Free Coalition for Kids. As well as co-director for Comprehension Children's Injury Center. She gives advocacy lectures and is known in the community for preventing injuries to children.

513-636-7153 wendy.pomerantz@cchmc.org

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Wendy J. Pomerantz, MD, MS

Co-Director, Comprehensive Children's Injury Center

Co-Director, Injury Free Coalition for Kids

Academic Affiliations

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Phone 513-636-7153

Fax 513-803-2581

Email wendy.pomerantz@cchmc.org

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Clinical

Pediatric emergency medicine

Research

Comprehensive Children's Injury Center; Injury Free Coalition for Kids

Biography

Wendy J. Pomerantz, MD, received her undergraduate degree from the University of Texas at Austin and her medical school degree from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, Texas. She completed a pediatrics residency at Children's Medical Center of Dallas, a Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and a Master of Science in epidemiology at the University of Cincinnati.

Currently, she has a faculty appointment as a professor of clinical pediatrics at the University of Cincinnati School of Medicine and Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. Her interests include injury and poison prevention, emergency medical services, ATV and motor bike injuries, education, and geographic information systems.

Besides being the co-director of Injury Free Coalition for Kids in Greater Cincinnati, she is chairperson of the Ohio EMSC (Emergency Medical Services for Children) Committee, a member of the Ohio EMS (Emergency Medical Services) Board, an executive board member of the National AAP Section on Injury, Violence and Poison Prevention Committee, a member of the Ohio AAP Committee on Injury and Poison Prevention, the American Red Cross Medical Assistance Team and the Greater Cincinnati Safe Kids Coalition.

BA: Biochemistry, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 1988.

MD: University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, Texas, 1992.

Residency: Pediatrics, Children's Medical Center of Dallas, Dallas, Texas, 1995.

Fellowship: Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, 1998.

Certification: Pediatrics, 1995; Pediatric Emergency Medicine, 1998.

MS: Epidemiology, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 1998.

Gittelman MA, Pomerantz WJ. The Use of Focus Groups to Mobilize a High-Risk Community in an Effort to Prevent Injuries. Journal of Intervention and Prevention in the Community. 2011;39:209-211.

Gittelman MA, Pomerantz WJ, Schubert CJ. Implementing and evaluating an injury prevention curriculum within a pediatric residency program. J Trauma. 2010 Oct;69(4 Suppl):S239-44.

Pomerantz WJ, Timm NL, Gittelman MA. Injury patterns in obese versus nonobese children presenting to a pediatric emergency department. Pediatrics. 2010 Apr;125(4):681-5.

Pomerantz W, Gittelman M, Farris S, Frey L. Drug ingestions in children 10-14 years old: an old problem revisited. Suicide Life Threat Behav. 2009 Aug;39(4):433-9.

Gittelman MA, Pomerantz WJ, Frey LK. Use of a safety resource center in a pediatric emergency department. Pediatr Emerg Care. 2009 Jul;25(7):429-33.

Gittelman MA, Pomerantz WJ. Starting a pediatric emergency department Safety Resource Center. Pediatr Ann. 2009 Mar;38(3):149-55. Review.

Gittelman MA, Pomerantz WJ, Fitzgerald MR, Williams K. Injury prevention in the emergency department: a caregiver's perspective. Pediatr Emerg Care. 2008 Aug;24(8):524-8.

Hariharan S, Pomerantz W. Correlation between hospitalization for pharmaceutical ingestion and attention deficit disorder in children aged 5 to 9 years old. Clin Pediatr (Phila). 2008 Jan;47(1):15-20.

Jennifer L. Reed, MD Attending Physician, Division of Emergency Medicine

focuses on interventions to improve the management of adolescents with sexually transmitted infections within a pediatric emergency department setting. Specifically, she is interested in improving the STI results and partner notification systems using improvement science methods.

513-636-7966 jennifer.reed@cchmc.org

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Jennifer L. Reed, MD

Attending Physician, Division of Emergency Medicine

Academic Affiliations

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Phone 513-636-7966

Email jennifer.reed@cchmc.org

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Clinical

Pediatric emergency medicine

Research

Adolescent gynecologic medicine; STI's; adolescent consent issues

BA: Miami University, Oxford, OH, 1993.

MD: University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, 1998.

Residency: Pediatrics, Indiana University School of Medicine Clarian Health, James Whitcomb Riley Hospital for Children, Wishard Memorial Hospital, Indiana University Hospital, Methodist Hospital, Indianapolis, IN, 1998-2001.

Fellowship: Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, 2002-2005.

Certification: USMLE- Step I 1996; Step II 1997; Step III 1998; Board Certified, American Board of Pediatrics, October 2001; Board Certified, American Board of Pediatrics Subspecialty Board in Pediatric Emergency Medicine, November 2006.

Reed JL, Simendinger L, Griffeth S, Kim HG, Huppert JS. Point-of-care testing for sexually transmitted infections increases awareness and short-term abstinence in adolescent women. J Adolesc Health. 2010 Mar;46(3):270-7.

Ekstrand R, Reed JL. A 12-year-old boy with a purpuric rash. Diagnosis: Dermatitis artefacta. Pediatr Ann. 2009 38(8):414, 416-8.

Pattullo L, Griffeth S, Ding L, Mortensen J, Reed JL, Kahn J, Huppert JS. Stepwise Diagnosis of Trichomonas Vaginalis in Adolescent Women. J Clin Microbiol. 2009 Jan; 47(1):59-63.

Sobolewski BA, Mittiga MR, Reed JL. Atlantoaxial rotary subluxation after minor trauma. Pediatr Emerg Care. 2008 Dec;24(12):852-6. Review.

Reed JL, Huppert JS. Predictors of adolescent participation in sexually transmitted infection research: brief report. J Adolesc Health. 2008 Aug;43(2):195-7.

Huppert JS, Mortensen JE, Reed JL, Kahn JA, Rich KD, Hobbs MM. Mycoplasma genitalium detected by transcription-mediated amplification is associated with Chlamydia trachomatis in adolescent women. Sex Transm Dis. 2008 Mar;35(3):250-4.

Huppert JS, Mortensen JE, Reed JL, Kahn JA, Rich KD, Miller WC, Hobbs MM. Rapid antigen testing compares favorably with transcription-mediated amplification assay for the detection of Trichomonas vaginalis in young women. Clin Infect Dis. 2007 Jul 15;45(2):194-8.

Reed JL, Thistlethwaite JM, Huppert JS. STI research: recruiting an unbiased sample. J Adolesc Health. 2007 Jul;41(1):14-8.

Reed JL, Mahabee-Gittens EM, Huppert JS. A decision rule to identify adolescent females with cervical infections. J Womens Health (Larchmt). 2007 Mar;16(2):272-80.

Reed JL, Pomerantz WJ. Emergency management of pediatric burns. Pediatr Emerg Care. 2005 Feb;21(2):118-29. Review.

Scott D. Reeves, MD Director, Liberty Campus, Division of Emergency Medicine

is primarily interested in the area of quality improvement. Recent projects have focused on the treatment of pain in the Emergency Department. Other areas of interest include ED crowding and evidence-based guidelines.

513-636-7966 scott.reeves@cchmc.org

Tara D. Rhine, MD, MS Attending Physician, Division of Emergency Medicine

513-803-7158 tara.rhine@cchmc.org

Andrea S. Rinderknecht, MD

is clinical faculty with a research focus in the resuscitation of the critically ill pediatric patient. Her primary focus is the quality and safety of critical procedures performed in the ED. Other interests include quality improvement efforts implemented to improve care in the resuscitation suite and tools utilized to accurately triage patients in the ED.

513-636-2918 andrea.rinderknecht@cchmc.org

Richard M. Ruddy, MD

is one of the nodal principal investigators for Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN). His research focus is on pediatric emergency care and network research with a specific interest in respiratory illness and in the use of implementation / improvement science to deliver higher quality clinical care to children.

513-636-7966 richard.ruddy@cchmc.org

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Richard M. Ruddy, MD

Academic Affiliations

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Phone 513-636-7966

Fax 513-636-7967

Email richard.ruddy@cchmc.org

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Multicenter pediatric emergency projects; acute respiratory illness; improving the quality of pediatric emergency care

Biography

Richard M. Ruddy, MD, is a professor of pediatrics at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine.

Dr. Ruddy has been at Cincinnati Children’s since 1991, and until 2015 had served as director of the Division of Emergency Medicine. Previous appointments include being an assistant professor of pediatrics at University of Pennsylvania and CHOP from 1980-85 and associate professor of pediatrics at New York Medical College and Westchester County Medical Center from 1985-91. He earned a bachelor’s degree, graduating cum laude, at the University of Notre Dame, and a medical degree at Georgetown University Medical School, where he was elected to the AOA.

Dr. Ruddy is a member of numerous professional organizations, including the American Academy of Pediatrics, Academic Pediatric Association, American College of Emergency Physicians, Society of Academic Emergency Medicine, and American Pediatric Society. He served on the executive committee and as Chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics – Section of Emergency Medicine. He served on the Board of Health for the City of Cincinnati from 2007-2010 and has been serving on the Hamilton County Infant Mortality Board for two years.

Dr. Ruddy is the author of numerous papers, abstracts, books and book chapters, including chapters in the Textbook of Pediatric Emergency Medicine and the Textbook of Pediatric Emergency Procedures.

MD: Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.

Residency: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pa., 1976.

Certification: Pediatrics, 1981; Pediatric Emergency Medicine, 1992, 1998, 2007.

Takakuwa KM, Biros MH, Ruddy RM, FitzGerald M, Shofr FS, on behalf of the Aging and Generational Issues Taskforce of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine. A National Survey of Academic Emergency Medicine Leaders on the Physician Workforce and Institutional Workforce and Aging. Academic Medicine. 2013 Feb;88(2).

Shaw KN, Lillis KA, Ruddy RM, Mahajan PV, Lichenstein R, Olsen CS, Chamberlain JM, for the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN). Reported Medication Events in a Paediatric Emergency Research Network: Sharing to Improve Patient Safety. Emergency Medicine Journal. 2012 Oct.

Butsch, KM, Biagini Myers JM, Lindsey M, Patterson T, Sauter S, Ericksen MB, Ryan P, Assa’ad A, Lierl M, Fischer T, Kercsmar C, McDowell K, Lucky AW, Sheth AP, Hershey AD, Ruddy RM, Rothenberg ME, Khurana Hershey GK. The Greater Cincinnati Pediatric Clinic Repository: A Novel Framework for Childhood Asthma and Allergy Research. Pediatr Allergy Immunol Pulmonol. 2012 Jun;25(2):104-113.

Timm N, McAneney C, Alpern E, Macy M, Ruddy RM for the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN). Is Pediatric Emergency Department Utilization by Pregnant Adolescents on the Rise. Pediatric Emergency Care. 2012 Apr;28(4):307-309.

Benito J, Santiago M, Ruddy RM, Gonzalez del Rey J. Changing Clinical Practices and Education in Pediatric Emergency Medicine through Global Health Partnerships. Pediatr Emerg Med. 2012 Mar;13(1):37-43.

Mills AM, Huckins DS, Kwok H, Baumann BM, Ruddy RM, Rohman RE, Schrock JW, Lovecchio F, Krief WI, Hexdall A, Caspari R, Cohen B, Lewis RJ. Diagnostic Characteristics of S100A8/A9 in a Multicenter Study of Patients with Acute Right Lower Quadrant Abdominal Pain. Acad Emerg Med. 2012 Jan;19(1):48-55.

Schwartz HP, Haberman BE, Ruddy RM. Hyperbilirubinemia: current guidelines and emerging therapies. Pediatr Emerg Care. 2011;27(9):884-9.

Luria J, Buncher M, Ruddy RM. Workforce and its Impact on Quality. Clinical Pediatric Emergency Medicine. 2011; 12(2): 151-160.

Alessandrini E, Varadarajan K, Alpern ER, Gorelick MH, Shaw K, Ruddy RM, Chamberlain JM; Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network. Emergency department quality: an analysis of existing pediatric measures. Acad Emerg Med. 2011;18(5):519-26.

Stanley R, Lillis KA, Zuspan SJ, Lichenstein R, Ruddy RM, Gerardi MJ, Dean JM. Development and implementation of a performance measure tool in an academic pediatric research network. Contemp Clin Trials. 2010;31(5):429-437.

Charles J. Schubert, MD Director, Residency Global Child Health

is a clinical educator involved with the development of global health education for the residency program. He is involved in the development of curriculum, in addition to unique learning opportunities related to global health. He has also been trained in improvement science and maintains involvement in this field.

513-636-7966 chuck.schubert@cchmc.org

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Charles J. Schubert, MD

Director, Residency Global Child Health

Academic Affiliations

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Phone 513-636-7966

Fax 513-636-7967

Email chuck.schubert@cchmc.org

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Global child health; service of underserved; vaccination program; vulnerable populations

Biography

Dr. Schubert is a professor of clinical pediatrics in the Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center within the UC Department of Pediatrics. He has always had an interest in delivering quality medical care to patients living in poverty both in this country and in Africa. He was one of the founders of Crossroad Health Center, a faith-based community health center located in one of Cincinnati’s poorest communities. His time in Africa included a year long stint at a mission hospital in rural Zambia where he not only provided clinical care but worked with staff in the area of leadership development. As associate program director for the Pediatric Residency Program, he is developing the Global Health Track for pediatric residents.

MD: University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 1979.

Residency: Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, 1983-1987.

Certification: Pediatrics, 1987; Pediatric Emergency Medicine, 1996; Clinical Tropical Medicine, 2010.

Shapiro RA, Schubert CJ, Myers PA. Vaginal Discharge as an Indication of Gonorrhea and Chlamydia Infection. Pediatric Emergency Care. 1993 9(6):341-345.

Shapiro, R, Schubert, CJ, Siegel, R. Neisseria gonorrhea Infections in Girls Younger than 12 years of Age Evaluated for Vaginitis. Pediatrics. 1999 104(6):e72.

Bullock B, Schubert CJ, Brophy P, Johnson N, Reed M, Shapiro R. Etiology and Characteristics of Rib Fractures in Infants. Pediatrics. 2000 105(4) e48.

Schubert CJ, Chambers P. Building the Skill of Delivering Bad. Clinical Pediatric Emergency Medicine. 2005 6:165-172.

Yee EL, Staat MA, Azimi P, Bernstein DI, Ward RL, Schubert CJ, Matson DO, Turcios RM, Parashar U, Widdowson MA, Glass RI. The Burden of Rotavirus Disease among Children visiting Pediatric Emergency Departments in Cincinnati, Ohio and Oakland, California, 1999-2000. Pediatrics. 2008 Nov 122 (5) 971-77.

Schubert CJ, Valek B, Kiesler J, Klein MD. Teaching Advocacy to Physicians in Multicultural Settings. The Open Medical Journal. 2009 2:1-8.

Diers T, Montauk SL, Vaughn LM, Lehman C, Kiesler J, Schubert CJ, Smucker D, Valek B. Competencies for the Adaptable Physician: Training Residents to Care for Vulnerable Populations. The Open Medical Education Journal. 2009 2:26-35. 2009.

Gittelman MA, Pomerantz WJ, Schubert CJ. Implementing and evaluating an injury prevention curriculum within a pediatric residency program. J Trauma. 2010 69(4 Suppl):S239-44.

lyer S, Schubert C, Schoettker P, Reeves S. Use of Quality-improvement Methods to Improve Timeliness of Analgesic delivery. Pediatrics. 2011 Jan 127;1:e219-25.

Daniel J. Schumacher, MD, MEd Chair, Education Research Group

focuses his research on learner assessment. He believes that meaningful assessment is the foundation to achieving the intended outcomes of training and continuing professional development that prepare physicians to meet the needs of patient populations and also ensure to the public that physicians can be entrusted with unsupervised practice.

513-803-2639 daniel.schumacher@cchmc.org

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Daniel J. Schumacher, MD, MEd

Chair, Education Research Group

Academic Affiliations

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Phone 513-803-2639

Email daniel.schumacher@cchmc.org

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Learner assessment; medical education

Biography

Dr. Schumacher’s academic and research interests focus on the important intersection of learner outcomes and patient outcomes. He believes that meaningful learner assessment is foundational to this work, and much of his work to date has been in this area. He is a member of the Pediatrics Milestone Project Working Group, which has led him to publish and lecture widely on the Milestone Project and competency-based medical education, both within and outside the pediatric community.

Dr. Schumacher joined the faculty at Cincinnati Children’s from his role as an associate program director at the Boston Combined Residency Program, the training program of Boston Children’s Hospital and Boston Medical Center. In that role, he directed the program’s competency-based assessment system. This gives him practical knowledge that is informing his current research program focused on milestones-based assessment, the use of entrustable professional activities in outcomes-based assessment, and the structure and function of clinical competency committees that analyze assessment data to make summative assessment decisions. In this work, Dr. Schumacher is fortunate to be mentored by national and international experts in outcomes-based assessment.

Dr. Schumacher is a current visiting scholar of the American Board of Pediatrics (ABP) and a previous visiting scholar of the American Board of Medical Specialties. He has been part of national efforts of the ABP, Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, Association of American Medical Colleges, National Board of Medical Examiners, Federation of Pediatric Organizations, American Academy of Pediatrics, Association of Pediatric Program Directors, and Academic Pediatric Association. He is currently pursuing a PhD in medical education.

MD: University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, 2005.

Residency: Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics, Madison, WI, 2008.

Chief Residency: Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics, Madison, WI, 2009.

Fellowship: Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, 2012.

MEd: University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 2012.

Schumacher DJ, Frintner MP, Winn A, Cull W. Graduating Pediatrics Residents’ Reports on the Impact of Fatigue Over the Past Decade of Duty Hour Changes. Academic Pediatrics. 2015;15(4):362-366.

Schumacher DJ, Spector N, Calaman S, West DC, Cruz M, Frohna J, Gonzalez del Rey J, Gustafson KK, Poynter SE, Rosenbluth G, Southgate WM, Vinci RJ, Sectish TC. Putting the Pediatrics Milestones into Practice: A Consensus Roadmap and Resource Analysis. Pediatrics. 2014;133(5):898-906.

Schumacher DJ, Englander R, Hicks PJ, Carraccio C, Guralnick S. Domain of Competence: Patient Care. Academic Pediatrics. 2014;14(2S):S13-S35.

Schumacher DJ, Frintner MP, Jain A, Cull W. The 2011 ACGME Standards: Impact reported by graduating residents on the working and learning environment. Academic Pediatrics. 2014;14(2):149-154.

Schumacher DJ, Bria C, Frohna JG. The Quest Toward Unsupervised Practice: Promoting Autonomy, Not Independence. JAMA. 2013;310(24):2613-2614.

Schumacher DJ, Englander R, Carraccio C. Developing the Master Learner: Applying Learning Theory to the Learner, the Teacher, and the Learning Environment. Academic Medicine. 2013;88(11):1635-1645.

Schumacher DJ, Lewis KO, Burke AE, Smith ML, Schumacher JB, Pitman MA, Ludwig S, Hicks PJ, Guralnick S, Englander R, Benson B, Carraccio C. The Pediatrics Milestones: Initial Evidence for Their Use as Learning Roadmaps for Residents. Academic Pediatrics. 2013;13(1):40-47.

Schumacher DJ, Slovin SR, Riebschleger MP, Englander R, Hicks PJ, Carraccio C. Beyond Counting Hours: The Importance of Supervision, Professionalism, Transitions of Care, and Workload in Residency Training. Academic Medicine. 2012;87(7):883-888.

Hicks PJ, Englander R, Schumacher DJ, Burke A, Benson BJ, Guralnick S, Ludwig S, Carraccio C. Pediatrics Milestone Project: Next Steps Toward Meaningful Outcomes. Journal of Graduate Medical Education. 2010;2(4):577-584.

Hicks PJ, Schumacher DJ, Benson B, Burke A, Englander R, Guralnick S, Ludwig S, Carraccio C. The Pediatrics Milestones: Conceptual Framework, Guiding Principles, and Approach to Development. Journal of Graduate Medical Education. 2010;2(3):410-418.

Hamilton P. Schwartz, MD Medical Director, Burnet Campus, Division of Emergency Medicine

is primarily interested in the Cincinnati Children’s transport team and pediatric pre-hospital care. His current projects focus on the development of quality metrics and performance improvement in critical care transport. He is also studying how video-telemedicine influences patient care in the mobile transport environment. He is the site primary investigator for the national RAMPART pre-hospital seizure medication study.

513-636-7966 hamilton.schwartz@cchmc.org

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Hamilton P. Schwartz, MD

Medical Director, Burnet Campus, Division of Emergency Medicine

Medical Director, Statline

Medical Director, Pediatric Transport Program

Academic Affiliations

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Phone 513-636-7966

Fax 513-636-7967

Email hamilton.schwartz@cchmc.org

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Better handling the care of children in the local emergency medical services community

Biography

Hamilton Schwartz, MD, completed medical school at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. He then came to Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center where he completed three years of pediatric training in 2002, and a 4th year as chief resident in 2003. Following his pediatric residency he entered the pediatric emergency medicine fellowship program at Cincinnati Children's. Upon completion of his pediatric emergency medicine fellowship in 2006, Dr. Schwartz joined the Division of Emergency Medicine as a fulltime faculty member.

In addition to being a fulltime faculty physician in the Emergency Department, Dr. Schwartz is the medical director of Statline, a division of the Cincinnati Children's Emergency Department which serves as the hospital's interface with EMS providers. Additionally, Dr. Schwartz is the medical director of the Critical Care Transport Team at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.

Dr. Schwartz received an appointment from Ohio Governor Ted Strictland in 2007, to the Ohio Medical Transportation Board. He is also an elected member of the Executive Committee of the American Academy of Pediatrics, Section on Transport Medicine.

BA: Brown University, Providence, RI, 1995.

MD: Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, PA, 1999.

Residency: Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, 1999-2002.

Chief Resident: Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, 2002-2003.

Fellowship: Pediatric Emergency Medicine Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, 2003-2006.

Certifications: American Board of Pediatrics: Pediatrics, 2002; Pediatric Emergency Medicine, 2006.

Brad Sobolewski, MD, MEd Director, Resident Emergency Department Rotation

is a clinical educator in the Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine. He is interested in investigating the impact of technology in education, specifically the use of multimedia and web-based tools.

513-636-7966 brad.sobolewski@cchmc.org

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Brad Sobolewski, MD, MEd

Director, Resident Emergency Department Rotation

Attending Physician, Division of Emergency Medicine

Academic Affiliations

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Phone 513-636-7966

Email brad.sobolewski@cchmc.org

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Pediatric emergency medicine; technology in education; resident education

Biography

Brad Sobolewski, MD, MEd, is currently an assistant professor of clinical pediatrics at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center within the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. After graduating from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in 2004, he came to Cincinnati Children’s and subsequently completed a residency in pediatrics, a year as a chief resident, and a fellowship in pediatric emergency medicine.

In addition to his clinical work in the Emergency Department, Dr. Sobolewski serves as the rotation director for the 250+ residents rotating through the ED. It is in this role that he oversees a broad curriculum involving didactic and simulation based sessions, an asynchronous online platform consisting of a widely read Pediatric Emergency Medicine blog, PEMBlog.com, and ongoing research projects focused on the use of technology in resident education.

MD: University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, 2004.

Residency: Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, 2007.

Chief Resident: Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, OH, 2007-2008.

Fellowship: Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, OH, 2011.

Certification: Pediatrics, 2008; Pediatric Emergency Medicine, 2013.

Sobolewski B. Social media, technology create new frontier in medical education. AAP News. 2015;36:34.

Chang TP, Pham PK, Sobolewski B, Doughty CB, Jamal N, Kwan KY, Little K, Brenkert TE, Mathison DJ. Pediatric Emergency Medicine asynchronous e-learning: a multi-center randomized control Solomon-4-group study. Academic Emergency Medicine. 2014 Aug;21(8):912-9.

Sobolewski, B, MD, Richey, L, Kowatch RA, Grupp-Phelan, J. Mental Health Follow-Up Among Adolescents with Suicidal Behaviors after Emergency Department Discharge. Arch Suicide Res. 2013;17(4):323-34.

Delgado A, Sobolewski B, Murtagh Kurowski E. A tale of two Torsions: Ovarian Torsion in Infants and Toddlers. Pediatr Emerg Care. 2013 Mar;29(3):374-6.

Sobolewski BA, Mittiga MR, Reed JL. Atlantoaxial rotary subluxation following minor trauma. Pediatr Emerg Care. 2008 Dec;24(12):852-6.

Sobolewski B. Emergency Medicine Section: Med Study Pediatrics Core Curriculum, 7th Edition. The Med Study Corporation.

Sobolewski B, Mittiga M, Gonzalez del Rey J. Chapter 14: Pediatrics. The Atlas of Emergency Medicine, 4th Edition. McGraw Hill.

Sobolewski B, Grupp-Phelan J, Marino B. Chapter 20: The Critically Ill and Injured Child. Blueprints Pediatrics, 6th Edition. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. 2013.

Richard T. Strait, MD Attending Physician, Division of Emergency Medicine

is interested in the immunology surrounding anaphylaxis and asthma. In addition, he also has an interest in understanding the pathogenesis and immunology of transfusion related acute lung injury (TRALI).

513-636-4099 rick.strait@cchmc.org

Nathan L. Timm, MD Attending Physician, Division of Emergency Medicine

is a pediatric emergency medicine physician with a research focus concentrating on hospital disaster/emergency management at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. Efforts in this area include surge capacity planning, hazmat decontamination preparedness and Emergency Department utilization.

513-636-8805 nathan.timm@cchmc.org

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Nathan L. Timm, MD

Attending Physician, Division of Emergency Medicine

Director, Office of Emergency Management

Academic Affiliations

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Phone 513-636-8805

Email nathan.timm@cchmc.org

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Clinical

Emergency preparedness

Research

Hospital emergency management

MD: University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA, 1997.

Residency: Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, 2000.

Fellowship: Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, 2003.

Pediatric Emergency Medicine: 2004.

Certification: Pediatrics, 2000.

Dotson K, Timm N, Gittelman M. Is spontaneous pneumothorax really a pediatric problem? A national perspective. Pediat Emerg Care. 2012 Apr;28(4):340-4.

Timm N, McAneney C, Alpern E, Macy M, Ruddy R. Is pediatric emergency department utilization by pregnant adolescents on the rise? Pediat Emerg Care. 2012 Apr;28(4):307-9.

Rhine T, Gittelman M, Timm N. Prevalence and trends of the adult patient population in a pediatric emergency department. Pediat Emerg Care. 2012 Feb;28(2):141-2.

Kennebeck S, Timm N, Byczkowski T, Murtaugh-Kurowski E, Reeves S. The association of emergency department crowding and time to antibiotics in febrile neonates. Acad Emerg Med. 2011 Dec;18(12):1379-1384.

Showalter C, Kerrey B, Kennebeck S, Timm N. Gastrostomy tube replacement in a pediatric emergency department: frequency of complications and impact of confirmatory imaging. Am J Emerg Med. 2012 Oct30(8):1501-6.

Timm N, Gneuhs M. The pediatric hospital incident command system: an innovative approach to hospital emergency management. J Trauma. 2011 Nov;71(5 supplement 2):S503-554.

Alder M, Timm N. A “rare” case of melena in a 3 year old child. Pediatr Emerg Care. 2011 Nov;27(11):1084.

Kennebeck S, Timm N, Spooner A, Farrell M. Impact of electronic health record implementation on patient flow metrics in a pediatric emergency department. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2012 May-Jun;19(3):443-7.

Timm N, Bouvay K, Scheid B, Defoor W. Evaluation and management of STIs in adolescent males: is the chief complaint diagnostic? Pediat Emerg Care. 2011 Nov;27(11):1042-1044.

Murtaugh-Kurowski E, Byczkowski T, Timm N. Return visit characteristics among patients who leave without being seen from a pediatric emergency department. Am J Emerg Med. 2012 Sep;30(7):1019-24.

Lisa M. Vaughn, PhD

has specific training and experience in community-based participatory research, community engagement, qualitative research methodologies, and culturally relevant health care with a focus on understanding health disparities and promoting health equity specifically with minority and immigrant families and vulnerable youth.

513-636-9424 lisa.vaughn@cchmc.org

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Lisa M. Vaughn, PhD

Academic Affiliations

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Field Service Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Phone 513-636-9424

Fax 513-636-1695

Email lisa.vaughn@cchmc.org

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Cross-cultural psychology issues especially with Latinos, women and children; dyadic relationships (e.g., parent-child; teacher-learner, etc.); community / family education; international / global studies; social psychology related; teaching-learning processes

Biography

Lisa M. Vaughn, PhD, is a professor of pediatrics at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center within the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine with a joint appointment in educational studies at the University of Cincinnati College of Education, Criminal Justice, and Human Services. She is formally trained as a social psychologist, counselor, and medical educator.

Dr. Vaughn has specific training and experience in community-based participatory research, community engagement, qualitative research methodologies, and culturally relevant health care with a focus on understanding health disparities and promoting health equity specifically with minority and immigrant families and vulnerable youth.

BS: University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Chattanooga, TN, 1993.

MA: University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 1996.

PhD: University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 1997.

MEd: University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 2008.

International Honors Program in Psychology: University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel, 1992.

Fellowship: Medical Education Research, Association of American Medical Colleges, Group on Educational Affairs, 1999.

Licensure: Licensed Professional Counselor

Nabors L, Adams R, Vaughn L, Sharma M, Bolling C, Cotton M, Moore C. Factors influencing children's judgments of overweight peers. Int J Pediatr Obes. 2011 Jan 3.

Vaughn LM, Jacquez F, Zhao J, Lang M. Partnering with students to explore the health needs of an ethnically diverse, low-resource school: an innovative large group assessment approach. Fam Community Health. 2011 Jan-Mar;34(1):72-84.

Klein M, Vaughn LM. Teaching social determinants of child health in a pediatric advocacy rotation: small intervention, big impact. Med Teach. 2010;32(9):754-9.

Vaughn LM, Ireton C, Geraghty SR, Diers T, Niño V, Falciglia GA, Valenzuela J, Mosbaugh C. Sociocultural influences on the determinants of breast-feeding by Latina mothers in the Cincinnati area. Fam Community Health. 2010 Oct-Dec;33(4):318-28.

Vaughn LM, Holloway M. West African immigrant families from Mauritania and Senegal in Cincinnati: a cultural primer on children's health. J Community Health. 2010 Feb;35(1):27-35.

Vaughn LM. Families and cultural competency: where are we? Fam Community Health. 2009 Jul-Sep;32(3):247-56.

Vaughn LM, Rojas-Guyler L, Howell B. "Picturing" health: a PhotoVoice pilot of Latina girls' perceptions of health. Fam Community Health. 2008 Oct-Dec;31(4):305-16.

Vaughn LM, Baker RC. Do different pairings of teaching styles and learning styles make a difference? Preceptor and resident perceptions. Teach Learn Med. 2008 Jul-Sep;20(3):239-47.

Vaughn L, Baker R. Teaching in the medical setting: balancing teaching styles, learning styles and teaching methods. Med Teach. 2001 Oct;23(6):610-612.

Burklow KA, Vaughn LM, Valerius KS, Schultz JR. Parental expectations regarding discussions on psychosocial topics during pediatric office visits. Clin Pediatr (Phila). 2001 Oct;40(10):555-62.

Shan Yin, MD, MPH Medical Director, Drug and Poison Information Center

513-803-2639 shan.yin@cchmc.org

Shan Yin, MD, MPH

Medical Director, Drug and Poison Information Center

Academic Affiliations

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Phone 513-803-2639

Email shan.yin@cchmc.org

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Pediatric poisoning

Biography

Dr. Yin is the medical director of the Cincinnati Drug and Poison Information Center and an assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Cincinnati School of Medicine. He has been on the faculty since 2010. He has publications in the areas of pediatric emergency medicine and clinical toxicology. His research interest includes child abuse via medication administration.

MD: Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, 2001.

Residency: Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, 2004.

Certification: Pediatrics, 2004; Pediatric Emergency Medicine, 2008; Medical Toxicology, 2010.