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Department of Emergency Medicine

Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine

About the Division

The Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine within the Department of Emergency Medicine is focused on the emergency care of children. The division focuses on education, policy and research into potentially emergent medical conditions affecting primarily the pediatric population. Our faculty has a variety of backgrounds including dual residency in pediatrics and emergency medicine, emergency medicine training with pediatrics fellowship, and pediatrics training with emergency medicine fellowship. Clinical care is delivered in one of the five pods of the main emergency department with 14 bed spaces devoted to the care of patients 21 years of age or under. Our expert physicians see approximately 25,000 such patients per year, including pediatric trauma patients. There is a pediatric ward and PICU available for admission.

Division Chief

Ilene A. Claudius, MD
Division Chief of Pediatric Emergency Medicine

Research

The Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine has several active areas of research. Dr. Rose is conducting research on educational interventions, such as use of the “flipped classroom” to make in-person teaching sessions more meaningful. Dr. Kearl’s research has focused on projects with applications in quality improvement, primarily minimization of radiation. Dr. Nunez is involved in educational research using simulation. Drs. Claudius and Santillanes have participated in research on ALTE (apparent life-threatening events), the role of children in mass casualty incidents and currently study pediatric mental health emergencies.

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Training & Education

Emergency Medicine and Pediatric residents rotate through the Pediatric Emergency Department as part of their core educational requirements. Additionally, there is a Pediatric Emergency Medicine (PEM) elective rotation intended for Emergency Medicine residents. There is simulation training in PEM for residents each Tuesday.

Medical students on their core pediatric rotation and those on the emergency medicine rotation can expect to spend a few shifts in the PED. There is also a 2-week fourth year pediatric emergency medicine elective consisting of 7 PED and 1 adult ED shift. Please click here for details on application. All medical students have the opportunity to participate in the pediatric case discussions which are part of the medical student curriculum, as well as the variety of PEM modules and grand rounds lectures performed by PEM faculty. PEM faculty are involved in ICS teaching at the medical school, serve as RSP mentors, and sit on the medical school admissions committee.

The PEM faculty lectures nationally and internationally at a number of conferences, including ACEP, AAEM, and Essentials EM. Dr. Behar serves as an editor for the popular PEDs RAP podcast, and the faculty routinely contribute to EM:RAP. We currently do not have a pediatric emergency medicine fellowship.

Contact Us

Academic Office

1200 N State Street
Room 1011
Los Angeles, CA 90033

(323) 226-6667

Los Angeles General Medical Center

2051 Marengo Street
Inpatient Tower – Room C1A100
Los Angeles, CA 90033

(323) 409-1945