About Us
The Yale Section of Pediatric Emergency Medicine includes nationally renowned experts in pediatric emergency care. As a clinical and academic leader in pediatric emergency care, the Section matches exceptional clinical care with impactful research and wide-ranging education of medical trainees and community partners. Currently our faculty consists of 28 board-certified pediatric emergency medicine and general pediatric specialists and 7 fellowship trainees, with partnership from a robust advanced practice provider group.
Clinically our faculty provides emergency care for children at three Yale-New Haven Health System emergency departments. At our flagship, Yale-New Haven Children's Hospital, we provide comprehensive emergency services for over 40,000 infants, children and adolescents annually, 24 hours, 7 days per week. As the tertiary-care referral ED and Level 1 Trauma Center, our faculty work collaboratively with Yale pediatric medical and surgical specialists to bring the best emergency care to infants and children. The pediatric emergency department has a range of support staff that assist in providing child- and family-centered care, including child life specialists and pediatric social workers. This includes the Yale Pediatric Critical Care Transport Team, for which the Section serves as medical control for transfers across the region. Section members also provide community-based pediatric emergency care Yale-New Haven Health affiliates: Bridgeport Hospital, and located in the most populous city in Connecticut, and Greenwich Hospital, located in the New York Metro region.
In collaboration with Yale-New Haven Health System, our Section is highly active in child advocacy and community outreach locally, regionally, and nationally. Section members participate on advisory boards and initiatives related to pediatrics and emergency medicine in local and state government, and in national societies. Child advocacy efforts have included local and large-scale research in gun violence and injury prevention, and testimony at the Connecticut State Capitol and at the National Capitol in Washington DC.
Academically, the Yale Section of Emergency Medicine is a national leader in medical education. Foremost is our highly successful Yale PEM Fellowship. Active since 2002, our fellowship has produced numerous faculty with expertise in clinical medicine, education, and research. Direct bedside and didactic education also includes teaching for the Yale Pediatric and Medicine-Pediatric Residencies, Yale Emergency Medicine Residency, Middlesex Family Medicine Residency, Yale School of Medicine, and several paramedic and advanced practice provider training programs. Section faculty are frequent invited speakers to national scientific and educational conferences, including peer-institution grand rounds and the American Academy of Pediatrics. The Section is prolific in medical education research, often presenting work at high-impact conferences such as the ACGME and Association of Pediatric Program Directors.
Section faculty are active in clinical research in pediatric emergency medicine, including national collaboratives and multi-center investigation. Our faculty have had success in securing federal funding from agencies in the National Institutes of Health and from the Health Resources and Services Administration, in addition to foundation awards. Faculty regularly publish in peer-reviewed research journals, and present original research findings at national scientific meetings. Notably, Section faculty are internationally renowned experts in medical simulation, simultaneously conducting and research and education across the globe. Currently, our Section conducts research to advance our field in several areas such as:
- Child abuse and forensics
- Disaster medicine
- Infectious diseases
- Injury prevention
- International medicine and global health
- Medical informatics
- Medical education
- Medical simulation and resuscitation
- Point-of-care ultrasound
- Quality improvement
- Social determinants of health and health equity