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

Synthesis, Preclinical Toxicity, and Biodistribution of [18F]AVT-011 to Assess the P-Glycoprotein Function. Cancer Biother Radiopharm. 2025 Mar; 40(2):96-103.. View in PubMed
Establishing thresholds for shock index in children to identify major trauma. Injury. 2025 Jan; 56(1):111840.. View in PubMed
Collecting Sociodemographic Data in Pediatric Emergency Research: A Working Group Consensus. Pediatrics. 2024 Aug 01; 154(2).. View in PubMed
PECARN prediction rule for cervical spine imaging of children presenting to the emergency department with blunt trauma: a multicentre prospective observational study. Lancet Child Adolesc Health. 2024 07; 8(7):482-490.. View in PubMed
Implications of chronic moderate protein-deficiency malnutrition on doxorubicin pharmacokinetics and cardiotoxicity in early post-weaning stage. Life Sci. 2024 Aug 01; 350:122765.. View in PubMed
PECARN prediction rules for CT imaging of children presenting to the emergency department with blunt abdominal or minor head trauma: a multicentre prospective validation study. Lancet Child Adolesc Health. 2024 05; 8(5):339-347.. View in PubMed
Features Associated With Radiographic Pneumonia in Children with SARS-CoV-2. J Pediatric Infect Dis Soc. 2024 Apr 24; 13(4):257-259.. View in PubMed
Centiles for the shock index among injured children in the prehospital setting. Am J Emerg Med. 2024 06; 80:149-155.. View in PubMed
Childhood opportunity and appropriate use of child safety restraints in motor vehicle collisions. World J Pediatr Surg. 2024; 7(2):e000703.. View in PubMed
Acute care utilization for ambulatory care-sensitive conditions among publicly insured children. Acad Emerg Med. 2024 04; 31(4):346-353.. View in PubMed