Pediatric Emergency Medicine Current Grants and Publications

Publications 

View recent publications by faculty members in the Division of Emergency Medicine in the Department of Pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

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Featured Grants

Mary Clyde Pierce, MD

• An Injury Plausibility Assessment Model for Differentiating Abusive from Accidental Fractures in Young Children
  National Institute of Child Health and Human Development/National Institutes of Health
• Development of a Probability Model to Predict Head Injury Risk in Pediatric Falls
  National Institute of Justice
  

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Todd Florin, MD, MSCE

• Procalcitonin to Reduce Antibiotic Use in Pediatric Pneumonia (P-RAPP)
  National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute/National Institutes of Health
• Predicting Severe Pneumonia in the Emergency Department: A Global Study of the Pediatric Emergency Research Network (PERN) Study - COVID-19 substudy
  Canadian Institutes of Health Research
• Urinary Proadrenomedullin to Improve Risk Stratification of Children with Community-Acquired Pneumonia
  National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
• Biomarkers and Risk Stratification in Pediatric Community-Acquired Pneumonia
  National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases/National Institutes of Health
• Derivation and Validation of the Pediatric Community-Acquired Pneumonia Severity (PedCAPS) Score National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute

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Michelle Macy, MD, MS

• A Multi-Sector Drowning Surveillance System to Inform Chicago's Water Safety Plan
  Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
• Q-METRIC Implementation and Quality Improvement
  Agency for Healthcare Research Quality
• Michigan Emergency Department Improvement Collaborative (MEDIC)
  Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan
• Longitudinal Survey Research Support and Analysis
  American Board of Pediatrics Foundation
• Tiny Cargo, Big Deal! An Adaptive ED-Based eHealth Intervention to Promote Correct and Consistent Size-Appropriate Child Passenger Safety Behaviors and Reduce Disparities
  National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
• Investigating Chicago and Northshore REscue Skills and Swim to Survive: Community Utilization and Experience (I CAN RES3CUE)
  Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant
  
• The ECHO Measurement Core: A Framework and Resource for Assessing Environmental Exposure and Child Health
  National Institutes of Heath

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Elizabeth Alpern, MD, MSCE

• Implementation of Evidence-based Care for the Acute Treatment of Sickle Cell Disease Pain
  National Institutes of Health
• The Effect of ED and After-ED Analgesic Treatment on Pediatric Long Bone Fracture Outcomes
  National Institutes of Health
• Building Research Capacity for Firearm Safety Among Children
  National Institutes of Health
• Detecting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Pediatric Emergency Department Care Using the PECARN Data Registry
  National Institutes of Health
• PED Screen: Pediatric Sepsis EHR Registry, Clinical Outcomes, and Predictive Model Research Strategy
  National Institutes of Health
• Role of individual and hospital factors in quality of care for children in EDs
  National Institutes of Health
• Sickle Cell Improvement: Enhancing Care in the Emergency Department (SCIENCE)
  National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
• Development and Application of a National Pediatric Sepsis Event Surveillance Definition
  Centers for Disease Control

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Erin Augustine, MD

• Improving the Detection of STIs in the Pediatric Emergency Department: A Pragmatic Trial
  National Institutes of Health

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Susan Fuchs, MD

• Hospital Preparedness- Pediatric Preparedness 2018
  Illinois Department of Public Health

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Mark Alder, MD

• The Impact of Personal Protective Equipment on the Ability to Perform Pediatric Acute Care Procedures
  National Institutes of Health

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Elizabeth Powell, MD, MPH

• RNA Biosignatures: A Paradigm Change for the Management of Young Febrile Infants
  National Institutes of Health
• Impact of Emergency Department Probiotic Treatment of Pediatric Gastroenteritis: Randomized Controlled Trial
  National Institutes of Health
• Teen Alcohol Screening in the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network
  National Institutes of Health
• Washington Boston Chicago Applied Research Network (WBCARN)
  Children’s Research Institute/Health Resources and Services Administration/Maternal and Child Health Bureau
• BEdside Exclusion of Pulmonary Embolism in children without Radiation (BEEPER)
  National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute

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Jennifer Trainor, MD

• Fluid Therapy and Cerebral Injury in Pediatric Diabetic Ketoacidosis (DKA)
  National Institutes of Health

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Jennifer Hoffmann, MD

• Quality Improvement to Improve Pediatric Acute Agitation Management in the Emergency Department
  Agency for Healthcare Research Quality
• Youth Suicide and Mental Health Professional Shortage Areas
  Academic Pediatric Association
  

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Sriram Ramgopal, MD

• Identifying Clinical Phenotypes of Pediatric Respiratory Disease using Unsupervised Classification
  Agency for Healthcare Research Quality
• Epidemiology, biomarkers and risk stratification of young infants presenting to the emergency department with hypothermia
  The Gerber Companies Foundation
• PPN Grant

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Steven Krug, MD

• Eastern Great Lakes Pediatric Consortium for Disaster Response
  Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response

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Karen Sheehan, MD, MPH

• Strengthening Chicago’s Youth Hospital Based Violence Intervention Program (SCY-HVIP)
  Department of Justice

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Kenneth Michelson, MD, MPH

• Delayed Diagnosis of Serious Pediatric Emergency Conditions
  Agency for Healthcare Research Quality
• Measuring and Mapping National Pediatric Acute Care Outcomes
  National Institute of Child Health and Human Development