It is an honor to serve as the Vice Chair of Pediatric Emergency Medicine for Brown Emergency Medicine.  I have had the pleasure of being a part of this division for many years now,  but I still remember viewing this group through the lens of a pediatric resident. Initially the busy and varied clinical practice of this Level I Pediatric Trauma Center drew me into the specialty, but it was the faculty and fellows who solidified my decision to pursue pediatric emergency medicine as a career. The group has grown since, but the core values remain. They are intelligent, hard-working, engaging educators, who are passionate about delivering the highest quality care to children. They are amazing role models and mentors for those working their way through the process of deciding on a career path. From innovative studies in biomedical engineering to quality improvement initiatives that impact pediatric resuscitation to pioneering new methods to distribute life-saving naloxone, our faculty and fellows are inventive, intellectually curious and supportive of research in all its forms. Through this website we are pleased to give you some insight into Brown Pediatric Emergency Medicine, a vibrant, active division with invested faculty and fellows who aim to continually improve the care delivered to all children.

The Pediatric Emergency Department (ED) at Hasbro Children’s Hospital is the only ED in the region dedicated to the emergent and urgent medical needs of children and adolescents, caring for children and adolescents from birth to adolescence . With more than 60,000 visits per year, the Hasbro ED provides a significant proportion of the emergency and pediatric referral care to families in Rhode Island and surrounding regions.

As the regional tertiary care children’s hospital and Level 1 Pediatric Trauma Center, the Hasbro Children's ED is staffed 24 hours a day by board-certified pediatric emergency medicine physicians and pediatric emergency nurses with access to pediatric surgeons and other pediatric medical and surgical subspecialists.

The Hasbro Children's Hospital ED comprises 18,700 square feet and is staffed by 29 pediatric emergency physicians, one pediatrician, eight pediatric advanced practice providers, and pediatric emergency certified nurses.

Faculty members and Fellows in the Section of Pediatric Emergency Medicine (PEM) are productive in a wide breadth of clinical and basic science research, from internal quality improvement to multicentered trials. Brown Emergency Medicine, the academic practice group of the Department of Emergency Medicine for The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, supports faculty with a research team including a full-time Clinical Research Coordinator, a Research Administrator, Research Assistants, and a Biostatistician. The Section has research space within the Hasbro Children’s Hospital Emergency Department, fully equipped basic science laboratories at Brown University, and co-directs the Brown University Health Medical Simulation Center.

Brown University/Hasbro Children’s Hospital has been an active contributor to the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) since 2011, currently leading the SPARC node (San Francisco-Oakland, Providence, Atlanta Research Collaborative). Faculty are also actively involved in collaborative research with the American Academy of Pediatrics Section of Emergency Medicine’s Pediatric Emergency Medicine Collaborative Research Committee (PEM-CRC), the IDeA States Pediatric Clinical Trials Network (ISPCTN), part of NIH’s ECHO Program), and the Hassenfeld Child Health Innovation Institute at Brown University.