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

Prehospital and Emergency Department Vital Sign Abnormalities Among Injured Children. Prehosp Emerg Care. 2025; 29(8):1064-1071.. View in PubMed
Home and injury location discordance patterns in paediatric trauma: trends by mechanism, age and childhood opportunity level. Inj Prev. 2025 Apr 04.. View in PubMed
Urine Dipstick for the Diagnosis of Urinary Tract Infection in Febrile Infants Aged 2 to 6 Months. Pediatrics. 2025 Apr 01; 155(4).. View in PubMed
Incidental Findings on Computed Tomography in Children With Blunt Abdominal Trauma. Ann Emerg Med. 2025 05; 85(5):405-410.. View in PubMed
Performance of individual criteria of the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) intraabdominal injury prediction rule. Acad Emerg Med. 2025 06; 32(6):643-649.. View in PubMed
Outpatient Follow-Up and Future Care-Seeking for Pediatric Ambulatory Care-Sensitive Conditions. Acad Pediatr. 2025 May-Jun; 25(4):102631.. View in PubMed
Trends in Respiratory Viral Testing in Pediatric Emergency Departments Following the COVID-19 Pandemic. Ann Emerg Med. 2025 02; 85(2):111-121.. View in PubMed
Trends and hospital practice variation for analgesia for children with sickle cell disease with vaso-occlusive pain episodes: An 11-year analysis. Am J Emerg Med. 2024 12; 86:129-134.. View in PubMed
Pediatric Trauma Mortality Differs by Neighborhood Opportunity Level. J Pediatr Surg. 2025 Jan; 60(1):161950.. View in PubMed
Radiolabeling and preclinical evaluation of technetium-99m labeled colistin. Appl Radiat Isot. 2024 12; 214:111524.. View in PubMed