Pradip Chaudhari

Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics

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Overview

Director of Research and Scholarship, Division of Emergency & Transport Medicine, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA)

CHLA Site Lead Co-Investigator for Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN)

Co-Director, Trauma and Injury Prevention Research Program (TrIPs), CHLA

Awards

  • SC-CTSI: KL2 Mentored Career Development in Clinical and Translational Science (MCD-CTS) Award
  • University of Southern California: Dean’s Supplements for Early-Career Research Sustainability Award
  • National Institutes of Health: National Institutes of Health Loan Repayment Program Award
  • Children’s Hospital Los Angeles: Monthly Faculty Teaching Award
  • Society for Pediatric Research: Society for Pediatric Research
  • Children’s Hospital Los Angeles: Faculty Teaching Honor Roll
  • Boston Children’s Hospital: Faculty Teaching Honor Roll
  • Annals of Emergency Medicine: Senior Reviewer
  • Annals of Emergency Medicine: Top 50 Peer Reviewer
  • Pediatric Academic Societies: 2017 Pediatric Academic Societies Annual Meeting Travel Research Award
  • Boston Children’s Hospital: Farley Fellowship Excellence Award
  • Pediatric Academic Societies: 2016 Pediatric Academic Societies Annual Meeting Travel Research Award
  • Children’s Hospital Los Angeles: Victor E. Stork Pediatric Resident Excellence Award
  • Wake Forest University School of Medicine: Medical Student Excellence Award
  • Wake Forest University School of Medicine: Walter J. Bo, Ph.D. Academic Scholarship

Education and Training

  • Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC — B.A. — Psychology, Chemistry
  • Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC — M.D. — Medicine
  • Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA — Pediatrics Residency
  • Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA — Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship
  • Harvard University T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA — Clinical Effectiveness Research
  • University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA — M.S. — Clinical Translational Research

Research Keywords

  • Traumatic Brain Injury
  • Pediatric Trauma
  • Diagnostic Testing
  • Pediatric Emergency Medicine
  • Advanced Imaging

Publications

  • Epidemiology of pediatric trauma during the coronavirus disease-2019 pandemic. J Pediatr Surg. 2022 Feb; 57(2):284-290.. View in PubMed
  • Variation in radiation dosing among pediatric trauma patients undergoing head computed tomography scan. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2021 09 01; 91(3):566-570.. View in PubMed
  • Clinical Features and Preventability of Delayed Diagnosis of Pediatric Appendicitis. JAMA Netw Open. 2021 08 02; 4(8):e2122248.. View in PubMed
  • Neonatal Mastitis and Concurrent Serious Bacterial Infection. Pediatrics. 2021 07; 148(1).. View in PubMed
  • Association of Clinical Guidelines and Decision Support with Computed Tomography Use in Pediatric Mild Traumatic Brain Injury. J Pediatr. 2021 Aug; 235:178-183.e1.. View in PubMed
  • Epidemiology of Critical Interventions in Children With Traumatic Intracranial Hemorrhage. Pediatr Emerg Care. 2021 Apr 01; 37(4):e196-e202.. View in PubMed
  • Trends and variation in repeat neuroimaging for children with traumatic intracranial hemorrhage. J Am Coll Emerg Physicians Open. 2021 Apr; 2(2):e12400.. View in PubMed
  • Prospective cohort study of children with suspected SARS-CoV-2 infection presenting to paediatric emergency departments: a Paediatric Emergency Research Networks (PERN) Study Protocol. BMJ Open. 2021 01 15; 11(1):e042121.. View in PubMed
  • Use of Neuroimaging for Children With Seizure in General and Pediatric Emergency Departments. J Emerg Med. 2021 Apr; 60(4):478-484.. View in PubMed
  • Racial and Ethnic Differences in Emergency Department Diagnostic Imaging at US Children’s Hospitals, 2016-2019. JAMA Netw Open. 2021 01 04; 4(1):e2033710.. View in PubMed