Our faculty have wide interests and expertise including medical education, injury prevention, emergency medical services, disaster management, point of care ultrasound, child abuse advocacy and research. The division is a founding member and contributor to the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN), which conducts high-priority, multi-institutional research on the prevention and management of acute illnesses and injuries in children.
Our areas of research interest include:
- Febrile illness & viral discovery in conjunction with the Division of Infectious Disease
- Malnutrition & related diseases in Africa
- Procedural sedation & analgesia
- Head & cervical spine injury
- Pediatric trauma & gun violence
- Adolescent health
- Pediatric mental health
- Postpartum mood/anxiety disorders
- Sepsis
- Low-risk imaging modalities
- Innovations in quality & safety of emergency services
Our division has participated in more than 18 multi-institutional studies covering a variety of issues in pediatric emergency medicine.