Please note that group assignments are subject to change. Check with conference personnel to get the most up to date information.
Last updated 4/3/2022
Group 1: Franklin A
| Name | Institution | Project Title |
| Faculty | ||
| Brad Sobolewski, MD | Cincinnati Children’s | |
| Michelle Green, MD (fellow) | Nationwide Children’s | |
| Fellows | ||
| Abe, Keisuke | University of New Mexico | Single vs. double tourniquet for venous dimensions |
| Chowdhury, Nabila | Johns Hopkins | More than just words: language patterns indicative of unrecognized shock in children undergoing inter-hospital transfer |
| Drone, Emily | Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children | End tidal C02 as predictor of morbidity and mortality in pediatric trauma |
| Levkowitz, Eilan | Children’s Hospital of Georgia | Optimizing triage: Assessing age-adjusted shock index as an adjunct to improve emergency severity index mis-triage |
| Mouzon, Auriel | Orlando Health | The ese of viscous lidocaine with G-tube insertion in the pediatric ED |
| Howard, Lauren | Arkansas Children’s Hospital | Early zofran administration and length of stay in the Pediatric Emergency Department |
| Shieh, Andrew | University of Michigan | Risk factors for pediatric epistaxis requiring invasive management in the ED |
| Vrablik, Lauren | Hasbro Children’s Hospital | Evaluating Impacts of PPE on ED communication and strategies to mitigate them |
| Young, Ann | Boston Children’s Hospital | Predictors of delayed diagnosis of pediatric CNS tumors in the ED |
Group 2: Franklin B
| Name | Institution | Project Title |
| Faculty | ||
| Julia Lloyd, MD
Toni Gross, MD | Nationwide Children’s
New Orleans Children’s | |
| Fellows | ||
| Kokoska, Lindsay | Le Bonheur Children’s | A descriptive analysis: Infants presenting to the Pediatric ED with a brief resolved unexplained event (BRUE) |
| Kotler, Hannah | Children’s National Hospital | Provider variability in the workup of well appearing febrile infants 29-60 days |
| Lee, July | Children’s Hospital, Los Angeles | Impact of suctioning in the management of acute viral bronchiolitis |
| Masoom, Saamia | Texas Children’s Hospital | Comparing demographics and clinical outcomes for RSV cases diagnosed in the ED in children under 5 years old before and during the COVID-19 pandemic |
| Mervak, Colin | Dell Children’s Medical Center | Effect of home nebulized albuterol vs. supportive care on unscheduled revisits in infants with viral bronchiolitis |
| Miller, Christopher | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia | Non-invasive ventilation for bronchiolitis |
| Smith, Jaron | UT Southwestern Medical Center | Assessment of disease severity in acute bronchiolitis using lung ultrasound and clinical variables |
| Smith, Sarah Elizabeth | Virginia Commonwealth University | The Effect of Covid-19 on the severity of bronchiolitis |
| Zhang, Albert | Riley Hospital for Children | Caregivers’ experience of bronchiolitis explanations in the pediatric ED: A phenomenological interview study |
Group 3: Franklin C
| Name | Institution | Project Title |
| Faculty | ||
| Maya Iyer, MD
Ron Paul, MD | Nationwide Children’s
Louisville Children’s | |
| Fellows | ||
| Alayari, Amethyst | Children’s Hospital of Colorado | Investigating the operational impact of the ongoing behavioral health crisis on the pediatric ED during the COVID-19 pandemic |
| Appenteng, Roselyn | Johns Hopkins | Positive social needs screening as a predictor of ED return visits for low acuity illness |
| Assaf, Rammy | Harbor UCLA Medical Ctr | Best practices in addressing health-telated social needs in the pediatric ED: Patient and family preferences |
| Joshi, Priyanka | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia | Fresh Start: Improving food benefit utilization among WIC-eligible families |
| Lennon, Tyler | Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital | Safer together coalition: A prospective study investigating correlates of community violence |
| Mehta, Sagar | Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta | Geomapping local asthma outcomes disparities |
| Mehta, Sonia | UCSF Benioff’s Children’s Hospital | Assessing health barriers and health needs of the newcomer population in the Oakland unified school district |
| Monroy, Alexa | Children’s Hospital Los Angeles | Geospatial mapping of unintentional pediatric trauma and opportunity indices in Los Angeles county |
| Patel, Anik | Children’s Mercy Hospital | Patient attitudes, perceptions, knowledge and beliefs regarding immigration status in the healthcare setting |
| Reyes, Natalie | Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children | Does teaching about constipation in the ED environment help parents understand more about it and reduce bounce back? |
Group 4: Franklin D
| Name | Institution | Project Title |
| Faculty | ||
| Julie Leonard, MD
Elizabeth Sanseau, MD MS (fellow) | Nationwide Children’s
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia | |
| Fellows | ||
| Akhouri, Rohan | Children’s Mercy Hospital | Teach back in the ED setting for non-English speakers |
| Cheetham, Alexandra | Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center | Evaluating EMS to ED provider hand-off using video review and provider surveys |
| Cohen, Erika | Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital | The economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on pediatric preventable injury |
| Irizarry, Nicole | Kings County Hospital | Reducing routine pre-op blood Typing and coagulopathy screening in otherwise healthy surgical pediatric patients undergoing urgent/emergent surgery from the pediatric ED |
| Kerolle, Sarahjean | Texas Children’s Hospital | Racial and ethnic differences in ED analgesia among injured children transported via EMS |
| Landholm, Dain | St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children | Treatment of constipation and time to disposition |
| Mohamed, Masouma | Inova LJ Murphy Pediatric Hospital | EMS utilization by pediatric population in Fairfax county: needs assessment |
| Nebhrajani, Jasmine | Kings County/SUNY Downstate | Assessing the need for adjacent X-rays in ankle fractures in the pediatric ED |
| Squires, Ryan | Indiana University | Evaluating time to placement of c-collar in children pre and post standardized protocol in community EDs |
Group 5: Harding
| Name | Institution | Project Title |
| Faculty | ||
| Lalit Bajaj, MD
Delia Gold, MD | Denver Chlldren’s
Nationwide Children’s | |
| Fellows | ||
| Baba, Taketo | Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children | B-lines on point-of-care chest ultrasound are associated with clinical outcomes in pediatric submersion patients |
| Brennan, Alisa | University of Chicago | The diagnostic accuracy of pocket size ultrasound (PsUS) in the detection of pediatric elbow fractures |
| Brookman, Max | University of Oklahoma | TBD |
| Hasan, Ahmed | New York Presbyterian | Point of care Echo in HOCM study |
| Hoffmann, Robert | Boston Children’s Hospital | Lung ultrasound in the evaluation of asthma exacerbation in children and adolescents |
| Magloire, Victoria | University of Louisville | Handheld ultrasound use in the pediatric ED |
| Patel, Kaleena | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia | Does matching staffing to predicted workload result in improved efficiency and patient outcomes? |
| Ravi, Nithin | Children’s Hospital of Colorado | Using point-of-care ultrasound to assess correct G-tube placement |
| Wadih, Esper | University of Louisville | Using ultrasound to teach LPs to residents |
Group 6: Harrison
| Name | Institution | Project Title |
| Faculty | ||
| Leah Middelberg, MD
Javier Gonzalez del Rey, MD | Nationwide Children’s
Cincinnati Children’s | |
| Fellows | ||
| Fanny, Sanemba Aya | Texas Children’s Hospital | Anti-racist and anti-colonial content within US global health education curricula |
| Guernsey, David | Maimonides Medical Center | The effect of pretreatment with intravenous lidocaine for intravenous contrast: A double blinded, randomized-control trial |
| Hand, Gregory | Dell Children’s Medical Center | Writing a chapter for a pediatric trauma textbook |
| Hippolyte, Jessica | Children’s National Hospital | Building equity in graduate medical education (BEING): Faculty health equity curriculum assessment |
| Jarrett, Sonia | Boston Children’s Hospital | Piloting a pediatric emergency care capacity self-assessment tool for low and middle-income country settings: A mixed methods study |
| Prasad, Swathi | Medical College of Wisconsin | Advancing anti-racist efforts in pediatric emergency medicine |
| Rudloff, James | St. Louis Children’s Hospital | Design and implementation of an automated antibiotic stewardship program for skin and soft tissue infections |
| Seegers, Maya | Kings County Hospital | ED visits in mothers with breastfeeding difficulties |
| Wu, Amy | Johns Hopkins | Optimizing professional interpreter use in the pediatric ED by adding caregiver-initiated access to interpreter services |
Group 7: McKinley
| Name | Institution | Project Title |
| Faculty | ||
| Tim Dribin, MD
Rachel Stanley, MD | Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
Nationwide Children’s | |
| Fellows | ||
| Abid, Zaynah | New York Presbyterian/Columbia | Characteristics of patients with congenital heart disease presenting to pediatric EDs |
| Altaqi, Aiman | Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital | Situational awareness effect on ED throughout and safety |
| Bhargava, Aaki | University of Louisville | Ultrasound billing in the Pediatric ED |
| Foughty, Zachary | Texas Children’s Hospital | Understanding family preferences for ED interpretation |
| Junior, Jean | Boston Children’s Hospital | State-level tax policy and infant mortality in the United States, 1996-2019 |
| Kappy, Brandon | Children’s National Hospital | Leaving without being seen from the pediatric ED during the COVID-19 surge |
| Kemal, Samaa | Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital | Evaluating the motivation and means for firearm access, carrying and ownership among justice-involved youth |
| Stanton, Brielle | UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh | Work-life integration & women in PEM |
| Valderrama, Gisella | Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center | Improving the care of limited English proficiency patients in the ED |
Group 8: Madison
| Name | Institution | Project Title |
| Faculty | ||
| Gregory Stewart, MD
Christine Cho, MD | Nationwide Children’s
Children’s Hospital LA | |
| Fellows | ||
| Baker, Arianne | Boston Children’s Hospital | Leading debrief after clinical events training curriculum |
| Brissett, Andre | Jacobi Medical Center | The effect of incorporating an oropharyngeal GC/CT screen on the detection of GC/Chlamydia infection amongst sexually active pediatric ED patients |
| Camino, Patricia | Maimonides Medical Center | The Use of VR in SIM Education |
| Goli, Shubhi | Stanford University | Characterizing lactation practices amongst emergency medicine trainees |
| Gupta, Kriti | New York Presbyterian | Retrospective validation of new AAP febrile infant guidelines |
| Keenan, Kathryn | Upstate Medical University | Dextrose bolus size for ED management of hypoglycemia |
| Lalich, Missy | Medical University of South Carolina | Clinical outcomes using EpiPen Jr vs EpiPen in pediatric patients weighing 15kg to 30kg who present to a Pediatric ED |
| Nikita Natha | University of Oklahoma | TBD |
| Momin, Zobiya | Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta | The use of in situ simulation trauma curriculum to improve acquisition and retention of trauma knowledge |
Group 9: Fayette
| Name | Institution | Project Title |
| Faculty | ||
| Adjoa Andoh, MD
Joshua Nagler, MD | Nationwide Children’s
Boston Children’s | |
| Fellows | ||
| Anderson, Anne Marie | St. Louis Children’s Hospital | Procedural education for pediatric residents |
| Adrienne Kirby | Rainbow Babies and Children’s | Tracheostomy emergencies: A simulation based approach to improve confidence and performance |
| Cheng, Adrienne | SUNY Upstate University Hospital | The non-visualized appendix on ultrasound: Which other findings correlate with appendicitis? |
| Field, Madeline | Medical College of Wisconsin | Interactive survey based assessment as tool for formative assessment of the simulation curriculum “ One Pill Can Kill”- The Beta blocker ingestion: A simulation case for pediatric residents” |
| Gaw, Christopher | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia | Characteristics of fatal poisonings among infants and young children in the US |
| Greer, Elle | Medical University of South Carolina | ED boarding time effect on DKA resolution |
| Perera, Nuwan | UPMC/ Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh | Investigation of CXR utilization in asthma between APP and physicians in the pediatric ED |
| Strong, Theresa | Texas Children’s Hospital | Pediatric emergency care coordinators in ED and pre-hospital settings |
| Zharnest, Debra | St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children | Characterization of naloxone induced opioid positive comprehensive drug screening in pediatric patients presenting with altered mental status at an urban, tertiary care children’s hospital |
Group 10: Morrow
| Name | Institution | Project Title |
| Faculty | ||
| Todd Chang, MD
Michael Patrick, MD | Children’s Hospital LA
Nationwide Children’s | |
| Fellows | ||
| Carter, Cynthia | University of New Mexico | Improving pediatric resident leadership resuscitation skills through observation and repetition |
| Melissa White | Arkansas Children’s Hospital | ECLIPSE: Endocrine disrupting chemical longitudinal investigation of pediatric susceptibility and exposure |
| Hadad, Elit | Texas Children’s Hospital | Experiences of learners without prior PALS certification in a novel rapid cycle deliberate practice PALS course |
| Ichwan, Daniel | Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego | Teaching pediatric emergency medicine with automated simulation |
| Ismail, Arooma | Beaumont Hospital | Utility of point-of-care electrolyte testing in urban pediatric ED |
| Kern, Kristina | Helen DeVos Children’s | Using point of care ultrasound for diagnosis of fractures in children |
| Sanchez, Amani | Dell Children’s Medical Center | Broselow tape vs the pedi-stat App: A simulation-based comparison of accuracy and efficiency of medication administration in pediatric emergency resuscitation |
|
Wang, Caroline | Texas Children’s Hospital | Pediatric out-of-hospital cardiac arrest interventions and pre-hospital return of spontaneous circulation |
| Yasuda, Motoki | Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center | Smartphone applications for heart rate and respiratory rate measures in children: Comparison with measurements by caregivers and nurses in the pediatric ED |
Group 11: Marion
| Name | Institution | Project Title |
| Faculty | ||
| Bashar Shihabuddin, MD
Rebekah Mannix, MD | Nationwide Children’s
Boston Children’s Hospital | |
| Fellows | ||
| Alexander, Amanda | Beaumont Hospital | Horseback Riding: Head injuries and helmet use |
| Boes, Morgan | Children’s Minnesota | A non-inferiority study for a new pediatric defibrillator tested on a piglet model |
| Delacruz, Nicolas | NYU Langone | Assessing the impact of a helmet distribution program in the pediatric ED |
| Gorski, Jillian | Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital | Variability in ED imaging of acute stroke |
| Kushner, Igor | UT Southwestern Medical Center | Evaluating the associated injuries in pediatric motor vehicle vs. pedestrian collisions |
| Meyer, Joshua | Brown | Designed curriculum to teach Ultrasound guided IV placement to Brown Pediatric EM attendings |
| Ospina Jimenez, Camila | Children’s Hospital of Michigan | Utility of neuroimaging in children presenting to the ED with altered mental status |
| Romboy, Makayla | Eastern Virginia School of Medicine | Impact of electronic discharge instructions in the ED on knowledge and perception of concussion |
| Schillaci, Lori-Anne | Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist | Determining the comfort level of emergency medicine providers when treating patients with inborn errors of metabolism |
Group 12: Nationwide A
| Name | Institution | Project Title |
| Faculty | ||
| Mary Clyde Pierce, MD
Sandra Spencer, MD | Lurie Children’s
Denver Children’s | |
| Fellows | ||
| Athale, Abha | Nationwide Children’s | Healthcare utilization patterns of immigrant adolescents – mental health |
| Awad, Lilian | Children’s Hospital of Michigan | Prehospital providers’ knowledge, recognition and documentation of child abuse and neglect: a systematic review |
| McCorsum, Crystal | Arkansas Children’s Hospital | Evaluation of soft tissue injuries |
| Guess, Katherine | Texas Children’s Hospital | Life after the ED: Stress disorders and resiliency in pediatric trauma patients |
| Harhay, Rana | Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital | Is failure to thrive a predictor of future child abuse and neglect? |
| Lam, Daniel | Children’s Hospital of Colorado | Outcome differences within pediatric patient seen through intake |
| Toor, Gavely | University of Oklahoma | TBD |
| Shapiro, Joseph | Boston Medical Center | Evaluating for supervisory neglect following unintentional injury: equitability and effectiveness of current practices in a pediatric ED |
| Thrash, Julia | UT Southwestern Medical Center | Adolescent and caregiver attitudes regarding confidential reproductive healthcare in the pediatric ED |
Group 13: Nationwide B
| Name | Institution | Project Title |
| Faculty | ||
| Charles Macias, MD
Laura Rust, MD | University Hospitals/Rainbow Babies Nationwide Children’s | |
| Fellows | ||
| Chang, Cindy | Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center | Development of a pediatric emergency education needs assessment tool for community EDs |
| Chen, Christie | New York Presbyterian/Columbia | Use of patient health portals in the pediatric ED |
| Davis, Michelle | Maimonides Medical Center | Is your affiliated community ED pediatric ready? A quality improvement project |
| Lenehan, Carlee | St. Louis Children’s Hospital | Randomized control trial comparing intranasal Toradol and Intranasal Sumatriptan combination vs. IV Toradol use in pediatric ED for migraine headaches |
| Mackin, Charles | Children’s Hospital at Montefiore | Utility of troponin in evaluation of chest pain in a pediatric ED |
| Pintea, Michelle | St. Louis Children’s Hospital | Metrics scorecard usefulness survey: regional metrics pertinent for children and families in the disaster cycle |
| Rummings, Kelli | Children’s Hospital of Georgia | An assessment of physician responsiveness to the pediatric stoplight pain score |
| Tan, Y. Tina | Seattle Children’s Hospital | Evaluation of a new operational/clinical pathway in the pediatric ED and its impact on flow and outcomes |
| Ugwu, Chidiebere | Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta | Clinical practice guidelines in pediatric ED: Evaluation of development and implementation across institutions |
Group 14: Garfield
| Name | Institution | Project Title |
| Faculty | ||
| Sue Fuchs, MD Alex Kemper, MD MPH | Lurie Children’s Hospital Nationwide Children’s | |
| Fellows | ||
| Capito, Kristen | Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital | Pediatric readiness scores and potentially avoidable transfers: A single center experience |
| Haywood, Mary | Children’s Mercy Hospital | Outpatient emergency preparedness |
| Hunter, Zachary | Wakehealth/Breener Children’s Hospital | Non-visualization of the appendix on pediatric ultrasound: single-center review on contributing variables |
| Ligorski, Celia | Nationwide Children’s | Characterization of ED post-intubation sedation practices |
| Natesan, Sinthumathi | UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital | A qualitative analysis to understand the factors contributing to acute stress in the ED using critical incident interviewing technique |
| Oh, Andrew | Children’s Hospital Colorado | Pediatric damage control surgery from Iraq and Afghanistan: The most common OR interventions from 2007-2016 |
| Quidgley, Maria | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia | Investigating language-based disparities in children at risk for central line associated bloodstream infections |
| Rojas, Christina | Children’s National Hospital | Understanding the impact of limited English proficiency on pediatric resuscitation experiences and outcomes: a mixed methods study |
| Wright, Chris | Nationwide Children’s | Evaluation of disaster medicine training amongst PEM programs |
Group 15: Grant
| Name | Institution | Project Title |
| Faculty | ||
| Lise Nigrovic, MD MPH Henry Wang, MD MPH | Boston Children’s Hospital Ohio State University | |
| Fellows | ||
| Bunke, Carissa | University of Michigan | Assessing injury patterns in a national cohort of summer camps |
| Chen, Sarah | Nationwide Children’s | Validating the EDWIN score in free-standing community pediatric EDs |
| Emmanuel, Mickey | Children’s National Hospital | Perspectives of family and patients with asthma in the ED: A qualitative study focused on equity |
| Gonzalez, Frank | Children’s Hospital Los Angeles | Climatic effects on the presentation of patients with sickle cell disease to pediatric EDs for vaso-occlusive crisis |
| Hammett, Deborah | Nemours Children’s Hospital | Evaluation of EKG changes in pediatric Lyme arthritis |
| Regas, Nico | Indiana University School of Medicine | Diagnosis and management of neonatal herpes simplex infection in the ED |
| Rineer, Stephen | Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center | Incidence of and risk factors for bacteremia in children with sickle cell disease presenting to the ED with fever in a large national cohort |
| Wilson, Timothy | Dell Children’s Medical Center | Comparison of infant lumbar puncture success rates with conventional spinal needles in the pediatric ED |
| Kling, David | Nationwide Children’s | Pediatric emergency medicine fellows (PEM) training to become bedside teachers: A national survey of PEM fellows and program directors |