Alan Leonard Nager, MD

Professor of Clinical Pediatrics

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Overview

Dr. Alan L. Nager is Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California. In addition, he has been Director of the Division of Emergency and Transport Medicine at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles since 1997. The Emergency Department treats 65,000 patients annually, and is the only Level I Pediatric Trauma Center in Southern California. Dr. Nager received his undergraduate degree in Public Health and Child Psychology from the University of Minnesota in 1982, and received his medical degree from the University of Minnesota Medical School in 1987. He completed his pediatric residency at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and completed his fellowship training in Pediatric Emergency Medicine at the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh in 1992. He received his Masters of Health Administration (MHA) from the University of Southern California in 2009. Dr. Nager has lectured extensively on a variety of Emergency Medicine topics nationally and internationally. He is a member of several pediatric emergency medicine organizations dealing with health and injury prevention and was a consultant for the Los Angeles Poison Control Center for four years. Dr. Nager has volunteered extensively with organizations that provide pediatric health and education experiences. He has appeared over 45 times in local, state, national print and broadcast media, as a featured expert on numerous medical and trauma topics. In addition, Dr. Nager has numerous publications, predominately in the areas of dehydration, mental health, disaster medicine, and trauma.

Publications

  • Barriers to Effective Teamwork Relating to Pediatric Resuscitations: Perceptions of Pediatric Emergency Medicine Staff. Pediatr Emerg Care. 2020 Mar; 36(3):e146-e150.. View in PubMed
  • Pediatric Online Disaster Preparedness Training for Medical and Non-Medical Personnel: A Multi-Level Modeling Analysis. Prehosp Disaster Med. 2018 Aug; 33(4):349-354.. View in PubMed
  • Novel Transfer of Care Sign-out Assessment Tool in a Pediatric Emergency Department. Acad Pediatr. 2018 Jan – Feb; 18(1):86-93.. View in PubMed
  • Caregiver Expectations and Satisfaction of Urgent Care in a Pediatric Emergency Department. J Ambul Care Manage. 2017 Jul.. View in PubMed
  • Mental Health Screening Among Adolescents and Young Adults in the Emergency Department. Pediatr Emerg Care. 2017 Jan; 33(1):5-9.. View in PubMed
  • Bacteremia in nonneutropenic pediatric oncology patients with central venous catheters in the ED. Am J Emerg Med. 2017 Jan; 35(1):20-24.. View in PubMed
  • March of the Living, a Holocaust Educational Tour: An Assessment of Anxiety and Depression. J Relig Health. 2016 Jun; 55(3):1000-1009.. View in PubMed
  • An Analysis of Intravenous Catheter Placement Among Patients in a Pediatric Emergency Department. Pediatr Emerg Care. 2016 Mar; 32(3):142-8.. View in PubMed
  • Effects of acupuncture on pain and inflammation in pediatric emergency department patients with acute appendicitis: a pilot study. J Altern Complement Med. 2015 May; 21(5):269-72.. View in PubMed
  • Reducing anxiety in the pediatric emergency department: a comparative trial. J Emerg Med. 2014 Dec; 47(6):623-31.. View in PubMed