Dr. Sabreen Akhter (she/her) is a pediatric emergency physician and Associate Professor of Pediatrics. She has been active in leading efforts to center equity, justice, and anti-racism in her work through directing the pediatric residency’s Health Equity Track (HET), the UW School of Medicine’s Community-focused Urban Scholars program (CUSP) for medical students, as well as leading efforts focused on improving equity within the Division of Emergency Medicine. She is interested in narrative writing and using storytelling for advocacy and has been published in various national publications. She loves excellent words, art, nature, food, bad television, and spending time with her family and community.
Dr. Rebekah Burns serves as the Director of Pediatric Medical Student Programs for the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Washington School of Medicine. She is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and a board-certified Pediatric Emergency Medicine physician at Seattle Children’s Hospital. Dr. Burns earned her Bachelor of Arts in Biology at Reed College in Portland, OR. She received her medical degree from the University of California- San Francisco and completed her Pediatrics residency at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital- Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA. Following this, she pursued a Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship at the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. She is a leader in education, simulation, and curriculum development. In addition to overseeing clinical education for medical students, she serves as a core mentor and educator within the UWSOM teaching colleges. She has authored numerous peer-reviewed curricula and mentors others in curriculum development. She serves as an Associate Editor for MedEdPORTAL and has presented about curricular scholarship both nationally and internationally. She spearheaded the development of a comprehensive simulation-based curriculum developed through a national iterative peer review process. Her professional interests include medical student education, mentorship, and faculty development aiming to enhance teaching skills and foster a passion for education.
Dr. Derya Caglar serves as the Program Director for the Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship at the University of Washington School of Medicine. She is a Professor of Pediatrics and a board-certified Pediatric Emergency Medicine physician at Seattle Children’s Hospital. Dr. Caglar earned her Bachelor of Arts in Molecular and Cell Biology with an Emphasis in Immunology at the University of California at Berkeley. She received her medical degree from New York Medical College and completed her Pediatrics residency at Children’s Hospital Oakland. Following this, she spent time working as a hospitalist, in urgent care, and abroad with Global Healing in Honduras. She subsequently pursued a Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. She is a leader in education and curriculum development. In addition to overseeing clinical and scholarly education for fellows in pediatric emergency medicine, she supports trainees of all levels and disciplines at Seattle Children’s Hospital in their clinical learning. She serves on the editorial board for the AAP PREP-E-Med series and has presented her scholarship nationally.
Dr. Christine Cho is the Director of Faculty Development at Charles R. Drew University College of Medicine, one of only 4 HBCU medical schools and the only one west of the Mississippi. In addition, she is a pediatric emergency medicine physician at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Keck School of Medicine of USC. Her scholarship interests include mentorship, coaching, maintenance of professionalism during a career in medicine as well as growth mindset and self-reflection.
Dr. Wee Chua is a pediatric emergency medicine physician who is passionate about pediatric advocacy and medical education. He is an Assistant in Emergency Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and Instructor at Harvard University. He completed medical school at Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University and completed residency training at the Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital at Columbia University and fellowship at Seattle Children’s Hospital at the University of Washington. Prior to moving to Boston, MA, he was an Assistant Professor at Lurie Children’s Hospital at Northwestern University. Wee enjoys cycling, mangoes, and spending time with his wife and son.
Veena Devarajan, MD, serves as the Associate Fellowship Director for the Pediatric Emergency Medicine fellowship and is a clinical coach for the Pediatrics Residency. She is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and a board-certified Pediatric Emergency Medicine physician at Seattle Children’s Hospital. Dr. Devarajan earned her Bachelors of Business Administration in Marketing at the University of Texas in Austin. She received her medical degree from the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston and completed her Pediatrics residency in St Louis Children’s Hospital / Washington University. Following this, she pursued a Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital. Her main focus is medical education having won multiple teaching awards. Her professional interests include resident and fellow education, fellow wellness, DEI work, and adolescent health.
Dr. Tavis Dickerson-Young completed residency, chief residency, and fellowship at Seattle Children’s Hospital (SCH) before joining the faculty here at SCH on the Academic Clinician track. His professional interests include the arenas of GME and DEI, including the recruitment/retention of diverse trainee and faculty workforce. In his personal life, he enjoys spending time with his wife and two young daughters, travel, volleyball, and board games.
Douglas S. Diekema MD, MPH is a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Washington School of Medicine with adjunct appointments in the Departments of Bioethics & Humanities in the School of Medicine and the School of Public Health. Dr. Diekema practiced pediatric emergency medicine at Seattle Children’s for 31 years and has run a wilderness medicine elective for pediatric residents for the past 30 years. He founded the Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics at Seattle Children’s Research Institute at Seattle Children’s in 2004 and currently serves as its Director of Education. Dr. Diekema is the author of numerous scholarly publications in medical ethics and pediatric emergency medicine and an editor of Clinical Ethics in Pediatrics: A Case-based Textbook. He is an elected Fellow of the Hastings Center and was honored by the American Academy of Pediatrics as the 2014 recipient of the William G. Bartholome Award for Ethical Excellence.
Dr. Leslie Dingeldein joined the UH Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital faculty in 2014. She earned her medical degree from The Ohio State University College of Medicine and Public Health in Columbus, Ohio and completed her pediatric residency, a year as chief resident and her fellowship in pediatric emergency medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine’s Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago. Professionally, Dr. Dingeldein is an associate program director for the Pediatric Residency Program at Rainbow, and her interests include undergraduate and graduate medical education and injury prevention. She is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Association of Pediatric Program Directors. Personally, Dr. Dingeldein is married to a pediatric surgeon and has two daughters, a dog, a bearded dragon, two rats, and a bunch of fish. She loves reading, snow days, visiting the beach, and exploring new places.
Dr. Shannon Flood completed her pediatric residency training at University of Colorado, after which she completed a Chief Resident year where she became interested in simulation curriculum development with pediatric residents. She then completed a Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship at Children’s Hospital Colorado and continued her work with simulation based medical education. She developed a simulation curriculum for the pediatric residents including a PALS focused curriculum for interns, a leadership curriculum for senior residents and an introduction to Crisis Resource Management skills workshop. She focuses on Rapid Cycle Deliberate Practice simulation debriefing. She is now the Co-Director of Pediatric Resident Simulation Education and the Co-Director of PEM Fellows Simulation Education. Shannon is a founding member of the Novice Simulation Researcher Committee through the International Network of Simulation in Pediatric Innovation, Research and Education network, also known as INSPIRE and also holds positions on the Scholarly Research Committee. She is now one of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare Virtual Simulation Scholars and plans to continue her work developing a novel leadership simulation curriculum for pediatric residents.
Dr. Susan Fuchs, Co-Director of the Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellows Conference completed her pediatric residency at Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago, (now demolished), and her Pediatric Emergency Medicine fellowship under Dr David Jaffe at Children’s Memorial Hospital (also demolished). Her first attending position was at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, but she returned to Children’s Memorial Hospital (now Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago), where she is an attending in the Division of Emergency Medicine and EMS Medical Director. She is a member of the Illinois EMSC Advisory Board. She is an avid Cubs fan and volunteers at the Shedd Aquarium as a marine mammals and wild reef scuba diver.
Dr. Javier A. Gonzalez del Rey is currently Professor of Pediatrics, Chair Graduate Medical Education (GME), Designated Institutional Officer for ACGME (DIO), Associate Chair for Education and Director of the Cincinnati Children’s Pediatric Education Center at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. He is currently the Past – President at the Association of Pediatric Program Directors (APPD), and Past – Chair for the Executive Committee for the Section of Emergency Medicine at the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). He received his university and medical school education at the National University Pedro Henriquez Ureña (UNPHU) 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 completed a Master’s of Medical Education and advance training in Quality Improvement Methodology (I2S2). Dr. Gonzalez del Rey’s major areas of interests include resident and subspecialty medical education – PEM national and for Latin America, and improvement science methodology applied to medical education and training.
Dr. Elizabeth Jacobs completed her fellowship in Pediatric Emergency Medicine at Children’s National Medical Center where she served at fellowship director for 4 years. Longing the ocean and New England fall weather, she returned to Brown University/Rhode Island Hospital where she had completed her pediatric residency. She has served as fellowship director for the last 11 years. Her research interests are just in time learning and cardiac arrest readiness for schools. Her greatest source of pride is providing mentorship for both fellows & junior faculty as well as program directors across the country as chair of the AAP SOEM Program Directors Subcommittee. She is the proud mom of over 30 graduated fellows, 2 kids who sometimes listen to her and a golden retriever who loves her unconditionally.
Dr. Kaileen Jafari is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and a board-certified Pediatric Emergency Medicine physician at Seattle Children’s Hospital. Dr. Jafari earned her Bachelor of Science at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C and then received her medical degree from the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University. She completed her Pediatrics residency at Children’s Hospital of New York-Columbia University and subsequently completed her Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship at Seattle Children’s Hospital. Dr. Jafari is a health services researcher whose focus includes diagnostic error in the emergency department and improving community emergency department care for kids. She serves as the lead co-investigator of the STELAR (Seattle-Texas-Los Angeles) node of the Pediatric Emergency Care Research Network (PECARN). Outside of work, she enjoys spending time cooking and exploring the beautiful Pacific Northwest with her family.
Dr. Ron L. Kaplan is an emergency attending physician at Seattle Children’s Hospital and clinical associate professor at the University of Washington School of Medicine. He earned his MD with highest honors from the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. He completed his residency at the University of North Carolina Hospitals and a fellowship in pediatric emergency medicine at Children’s Hospital Boston. He is board certified in general pediatrics and pediatric emergency medicine by the American Board of Pediatrics, and is a Fellow of the Academy of Wilderness Medicine. His teaching responsibilities include education in the emergency department and monthly didactic sessions with Seattle Children’s housestaff. He is involved in the research project Clinical Decision Rule for Identifying Children with Cerebrospinal Fluid Pleocytosis at Very Low Risk for Bacterial Meningitis.
Dr. Ashley Keilman serves as the Assistant Clinical Director for the Division of Emergency and Co-Director of Pediatric Emergency Medicine Simulation. She is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and a board-certified Pediatric Emergency Medicine physician at Seattle Children’s Hospital.
Dr. Lauren Kinneman is the Ultrasound Co-Director of the Seattle Children’s Emergency Department. She is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and a board-certified Pediatric Emergency Medicine physician at Seattle Children’s Hospital. Dr. Kinneman earned her Bachelor of Science in Biology from the University of Nevada, Reno, where she also competed as a Division I soccer player. She went on to receive her medical degree from Touro University Nevada before completing her Pediatrics residency at Inova Children’s Hospital. She then pursued a Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship at Inova Children’s Hospital, followed by an additional one-year fellowship in ultrasound medicine at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Dr. Kinneman specializes in point-of-care ultrasound and simulation medicine. As the Ultrasound Co-Director of the Emergency Department, she has developed and optimized the Emergency Department’s ultrasound program, extending its impact beyond the ED to other hospital divisions. She has been instrumental in advancing interdisciplinary ultrasound education, training nurses, residents, fellows, and faculty in advanced point-of-care techniques. Through her leadership, she has expanded hands-on scanning workshops, clinical scanning shifts and electives, and implemented quality assurance initiatives to enhance both patient care and medical education in the Pediatric Emergency Department. As simulation faculty, she plays a key role in educating learners at all levels, with a primary focus on PEM Fellows and interprofessional simulations.
Dr. Eileen Klein received her MD from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and her MPH in epidemiology from the University of Washington School of Public Health. She completed her residency in pediatrics and fellowship in pediatric emergency medicine at Seattle Children’s and the University of Washington. She has been on faculty at UW since 1995. She is Professor and Associate Vice Chair for the Department of Pediatrics, Associate Chief for the Division of Emergency Medicine and Co-Director of ED Research.
Dr. Charles Macias, Co-Director of the PEM Fellows Conference is one of four lead Principal Investigators for the HRSA-funded Pediatric Pandemic Network. He is a graduate of Stanford University, Southwestern Medical School, and the University of Texas School of Public Health. He serves as both the Division Chief of Pediatric Emergency Medicine and the Chief Quality Officer for the Rainbow Babies and Children’s System of Care in Cleveland, Ohio. He is the Co-PI of both the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Recovery Region V for Kids Pediatric Disaster Center of Excellence as well as HRSA’s EMS for Children Innovation and Improvement Center. Dr Macias’ focus on studying and improving the safety and quality of care delivery has spanned disease-specific improvements to regional and national healthcare systems. He has led or co-led multiple quality improvement collaboratives including the Improving Pediatric Sepsis Outcomes QI Collaborative which decreased mortality in pediatric sepsis across the country and generated evidence on systems improvement for mortality reduction. Additionally, his work in minimizing unwanted variation in clinical practice has supported evidence-based guidelines work locally, regionally and nationally, including his recent role as the Chair for the Board Committee on Policy (Board of Directors subspecialty seat) for the American Academy of Pediatrics, overseeing the development of clinical practice guidelines, technical reports, clinical reports and policy statements for the AAP.
Dr. Joshua Nagler is a pediatric emergency medicine physician at Boston Children’s Hospital, and an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School. As a faculty member, his academic efforts have focused on medical education, with clinical interest and scholarship related to teaching pediatric resuscitation and airway management. He has held numerous positions at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, including his current roles as Associate Division Chief and Program Director for the Fellowship in Pediatric Emergency Medicine, a position he has held for 13 years. He was the former chair of the AAP Subcommittee for Fellowship Directors, and currently sits on the American Board of Pediatrics Sub-board on Pediatric Emergency Medicine. He co-directs a number of CME courses focused on medical education, leadership, and innovation through Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He has more than 100 academic publications and has edited multiple textbooks in Pediatric Emergency Medicine.
Lise E. Nigrovic MD MPH is a professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and an attending physician in the Division of Emergency Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital. Her research focus has been in the approach to diagnosis and management of children with infectious emergencies. Her current research is focused on the diagnosis and management of children with acute Lyme disease. She is the founding chair of the only pediatric Lyme disease clinical research network, Pedi Lyme Net with associated pediatric biorepository. She leads a NIAID funded 21-center comparative effectiveness study comparing doxycycline to ceftriaxone as treatment for children with Lyme meningitis. She also serves as the Boston Children’s Hospital PI for the NCATS supported Harvard Catalyst program. Most importantly, she is a mom to four amazing kids plus a very loving dog.
Dr. Lori Rutman is a quality improvement (QI) researcher and Associate Professor at Seattle Children’s and University of Washington School of Medicine. Lori graduated summa cum laude from Tufts University with a BA in Child Development and Community Health. She then moved to the west coast to attend medical school at Stanford University. While at Stanford, she received her Masters in Public Health from University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Rutman completed her residency in Pediatrics at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford and fellowship in Pediatric Emergency Medicine at the University of Washington and Seattle Children’s, where she joined the Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine as Faculty in 2014. Lori is a graduate of the Advanced Improvement Methods course at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital where she built foundational QI research skills. Dr. Rutman’s goal as a QI researcher is to utilize rigorous QI methodologies to assess outcomes of evidence-based standardized care for common pediatric problems in the emergency setting. She has published numerous peer-reviewed manuscripts related to QI interventions for asthma, community acquired pneumonia, acute gastroenteritis, mental health and sepsis. In addition, Lori participated in the development of the SQUIRE 2.0 guidelines and was a co-author on the associated Explanation and Elaboration manuscript published in BMJ Quality and Safety. She currently serves on the international advisory committee for development of SQUIRE 3.0.Dr. Rutman is Director of the University of Washington and Seattle Children’s Quality Improvement Scholars Program, a year-long advanced QI training program for junior and mid-level faculty across the entire UW Medicine system. She regularly lectures locally and nationally on QI topics including Statistical Process Control, Driver Diagrams, and Publishing QI/SQUIRE 2.0. She currently serves as Chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics Section of Emergency Medicine Committee on Quality Transformation. She also serves as the Quality Improvement Editor for Pediatric Emergency Care and on the Editorial Board for Pediatric Quality and Safety.
Dr. David Schnadower is a Pediatric Emergency Medicine physician and the director of the Division of Emergency Medicine at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. His career has been driven by three main principles: the fight against injustice, moving medicine forward through collaboration, and mentoring the next generation of physicians. Dr. Schnadower worked many years internationally with Doctors without Borders and the International Committee of the Red Cross. He also served as PEM fellowship director and research director at the Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis. His research interests include the diagnosis and management of children with infectious diseases presenting to the emergency department and anaphylaxis. He has received multiple national awards and competitive grants to further his work. He is currently serving as Chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Emergency Medicine.
Dr. Ashish Shah is an Associate Professor at the Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin and the Medical College of Wisconsin. He did his Residency at the University of Minnesota and Fellowship at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital where he received his Master’s in Education. He is passionate about medical education and teaching about the high-acuity, low-frequency events that occur in the resuscitation bay. He currently chairs the AAP PEM ResCue Special Interest Group, so if you’re interested in joining a national group that does resus work, let him know. His free time primarily consists of corralling his very talkative and energetic toddler with no survival instincts.
Dr. Brad Sobolewski is a Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Emergency Medicine and the Associate Director of the Pediatric Residency Training Program at Cincinnati Children’s. He earned his medical degree from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine before completing his residency, Chief Residency, and Pediatric Emergency Medicine fellowship at Cincinnati Children’s. He later obtained a Master’s in Medical Education from the University of Cincinnati. He is the creator and author of PEMBlog.com and PEM Currents: The Pediatric Emergency Medicine Podcast. He also is a video producer, website designer, and AI music composer. He is actively involved in curriculum development and education initiatives for several national organizations, including the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Emergency Medicine, the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN), the Association of Pediatric Program Directors, and the National Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellows Conference Planning Committee. His educator portfolio is available at BradSobolewski.com. Outside of medicine, he is a father to three sons, and his wife is a Newborn Hospitalist at Cincinnati Children’s. Also, Brad’s dog Lucy is a very good girl… yes she is.
Dr. Sakina Sojar is a pediatric emergency medicine (PEM) physician at Brown University, Hasbro Children’s Hospital. She currently serves as an Assistant Professor in Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics, and also serves as the director of the pediatric emergency medicine fellowship. She attended medical school at the University of Buffalo, completed her residency in pediatrics at Massachusetts General Hospital, and her fellowship in PEM at Hasbro Children’s Hospital. Her scholarly interests include medical education, biomedical engineering and technology. Outside of work, she loves to dance, and teaches dance classes at a local studio in Providence.
Dr. Rachel Stanley is the Division Chief for Emergency Medicine at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at The Ohio State University College of Medicine. Dr. Stanley was educated in her home country of Ireland, receiving her MD equivalent degree at the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin. After training in Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics in Ireland, she came to the US and did her Pediatrics residency at the University of Connecticut, and completed a Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship at Children’s Hospital in Boston. In 2000, she moved to the University of Michigan, where she served as a faculty member and earned a Masters in Health Services Administration. Dr Stanley has been continuously funded as the principal investigator of the Great Lakes Emergency Medical Services for Children Research Node of the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) since 2008. PECARN is a research network of 18 children’s hospitals. Nationwide Children’s Hospital is currently a member of the PECARN node that Dr. Stanley leads. She has also served as the Chair of the PECARN Steering Committee and currently serves as the Vice-Chair. She currently serves on the Ohio Emergency Medical Services for Children state advisory committee and the Central Ohio Trauma System (COTS) Emergency Medical Services (EMS) advisory committee. Dr. Stanley’s research interests include traumatic brain injury, and multi-center clinical trials in pediatric emergency medicine. She also has a strong interest in mentoring and developing the next generation of academic pediatric emergency physicians.
Dr. Anita A. Thomas is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and a board-certified Pediatric Emergency Medicine physician at the University of Pennsylvania/Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Dr. Thomas earned her Bachelor of Science in Biology at The George Washington University in Washington, DC, where she also received her medical degree. She completed her Pediatrics residency at Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital in New Haven, CT, followed by a Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship at the University of Washington/Seattle Children’s Hospital in Seattle, WA, during which she also received a Master’s of Public Health from the University of Washington. Following fellowship, Dr. Thomas became faculty at the University of Washington/Seattle Children’s Hospital, where she led the PEM fellow simulation program, led the PEM fellow sim track, served as Associate Program Director for the PEM fellowship, and core faculty for the Pediatrics residency. Dr. Thomas is a leader in education, simulation, and health equity. Dr. Thomas founded a consortium of PEM simulationists who create peer-reviewed PEM simulation curricula, allowing for mentorship in curriculum development. She has presented on her work in curricular scholarship nationally and internationally. During her time at the University of Washington, Dr. Thomas worked to improve holistic review in fellowship applications/matching and studied gender disparities among women identifying faculty. Dr. Thomas transitioned to the University of Pennsylvania/Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in late 2024, and her professional interests include medical education, simulation, trainee mentorship, improving patient and provider disparities, and continued process improvement.
Indi Trehan, MD, MPH, DTM&H is a Professor of Pediatrics and an Adjunct Professor of Global Health and Epidemiology at the University of Washington. He is certified in pediatrics, pediatric infectious diseases, pediatric emergency medicine, clinical tropical medicine, and travel medicine. He has spent nearly 20 years focusing his research on childhood malnutrition, especially the emergency condition known as severe wasting which carries up to a 50% mortality rate if left untreated. He has worked clinically in numerous settings around the world, including serving as the Clinical Lead for the Maforki Ebola Treatment Center in Port Loko, Sierra Leone, in 2015, an urgent care physician at the Rohingya refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, a pediatric critical care attending in Kijabe, Kenya, and as the Executive Director of Lao Friends Hospital for Children where he helped establish the country’s first childhood malnutrition treatment program. He continues to work closely with a cornucopia of acronym agencies — WHO, UNICEF, ACF, IPA, ALIMA, MSF — on generating scalable evidence and helping develop actionable guidance for frontline clinicians ranging from community health workers to pediatric subspecialists in central referral hospitals in Africa and Asia.
Dr. Neil Uspal is a Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Washington, and an attending physician in the Seattle Children’s Hospital Emergency Department (ED). Dr. Uspal earned his Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering at Penn State University. He received his medical degree from the University of Pittsburgh and completed his Pediatrics residency at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, DC. Following this, he completed a Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Dr. Uspal has a diverse array of academic interests. He engages in simulation-based education for learners at all levels and leads systems-based simulations at Seattle Children’s Hospital. He also co-leads Seattle Children’s Improving Pediatric Acute Care Through Simulation (ImPACTS) program, partnering with community EDs to improve pediatric readiness through simulation. He is the Hospital Emergency Department Affiliate (HEDA) Principal Investigator for Seattle Children’s Hospital in the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) and has been site PI for multiple studies within the network. Dr. Uspal’s academic interests are in ED mental health care, pain management, and simulation. He is also co-editor of the Pediatric Emergency Medicine Question Review Book. He is the proud father of 8- and 5-year-old daughters and a 15-year-old dog.
Dr. Katherine H. Wolpert graduated medical school from the Indiana University School of Medicine. She completed her pediatric residency in Salt Lake City, UT at the University of Utah School of Medicine, followed by a year as pediatric chief resident. She went on to complete her pediatric emergency medicine fellowship at the University of Utah School of Medicine at Primary Children’s Hospital. She is currently an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Emergency Medicine at The University of Washington School of Medicine, where she recently began a role as Assistant Program Director of the Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship.
Dr. Jason Woods is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and practices clinically in the pediatric emergency department at Children’s Hospital Colorado. He is the Associate Program Director of the pediatric emergency medicine fellowship at the University of Colorado. His passion is the delivery of medical education to front line providers of pediatric emergency and urgent care, with a concentration on trainees.