Gabriel Devlin

Born in Chile and raised in the United States, Dr. Gabriel Devlin is a pediatric emergency medicine physician at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) and Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. He completed his pediatric residency at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and his fellowship in pediatric emergency medicine at CHLA. Before joining CHLA, he served as an attending physician at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital, the San Francisco General Hospital, and Santa Clara Valley Medical Center.

Dr. Devlin’s scholarly work centers on improving the identification and treatment of substance use among children and adolescents in emergency settings. As a fellow, he led the implementation of the CHLA emergency department’s opioid use disorder screening and treatment programs and naloxone distribution program. His work has been recognized nationally through presentations at the Pediatric Academic Societies meeting and various publications. Dr. Devlin has received multiple teaching honors, including the UCSF Academy of Medical Educators’ Excellence in Teaching Award and Stanford’s Honor Roll for Clinical Teaching. He teaches across the continuum of medical education, from the bedside to lectures, simulations, and procedural workshops at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. In his spare time, he enjoys spending time in nature and hiked 2200 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail in 2025.

• Society for Pediatric Research: SPR Fellows’ Clinical Research Award, 2024
• Stanford University: Honor Roll for Clinical Teaching, 2022
• Stanford University: Evaluation Superstars List, 2022
• University of California, San Francisco: Haile T. Debas Academy of Medical Educators Excellence in Teaching Award, 2021
• McGill University Faculty of Medicine: Osler Curator’s Medal, 2014
• McGill University Faculty of Medicine: Dr. Graham Sommer International Scholarship in Medicine, 2013
   – 2017

• McGill University, Montreal, Canada — MDCM — 05/2017 — Medicine
• University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco — Residency — 06/2020 — Pediatrics
• Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles — Fellowship — 07/2025 — Pediatric Emergency Medicine

• substance use
• opioid use disorder
• mental health
• overdose

• Pediatric Emergency Department Visits for Opioid Overdose in the United States. Hosp Pediatr. 2026 Feb 01; 16(2):143-150.. View in PubMed
• Trends in Fentanyl Poisoning and Management in Children’s Hospitals. Hosp Pediatr. 2025 Nov 01; 15(11):e546-e549.. View in PubMed
• Treatment and Referral of Youth With Opioid Addiction in the Pediatric Emergency Department: A Pilot Study. Acad Pediatr. 2026 Jan-Feb; 26(1):103143.. View in PubMed
• Implementation of a Suicide Risk Screening Clinical Pathway in a Children’s Hospital: A Feasibility Study. Pediatr Emerg Care. 2024 Sep 01; 40(9):e179-e185.. View in PubMed
• Toxic Exposures Among Young Children One Year into the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Retrospective Review of Three San Francisco Bay Area Emergency Departments. J Emerg Med. 2023 02; 64(2):263-268.. View in PubMed
• Predictability and stability testing to assess clinical decision instrument performance for children after blunt torso trauma. PLOS Digit Health. 2022 Aug; 1(8):e0000076.. View in PubMed
• Reevaluating Canada’s policy for blood donations from men who have sex with men (MSM). J Public Health Policy. 2016 Dec; 37(4):428-439.. View in PubMed

• Bluthenthal, Ricky
• Leventhal, Adam
• Chaudhari, Pradip
• Pacula, Rosalie
• Kelley-Quon, Lorraine
• Menchine, Michael