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Antonio Riera, MD

Associate Professor of Pediatrics (Emergency Medicine)
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Director, Pediatric Emergency Ultrasound

Director, Pediatric Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship, Pediatric Emergency Medicine

Director, INSPIRAR Project

About

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Associate Professor of Pediatrics (Emergency Medicine)

Director, Pediatric Emergency Ultrasound; Director, Pediatric Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship, Pediatric Emergency Medicine; Director, INSPIRAR Project

Biography


Why POCUS?


Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) serves as a pivotal diagnostic tool, offering immediate visualization of pathology that empowers healthcare professionals to deliver smarter, faster, safer, and better care to our patients. POCUS also helps steer medicine towards a more patient-centered approach, harnessing technology not to distance clinicians from patients but to fortify that vital connection. Many of the parallel technologies of our era work to pull us away from the bedside. Think about electronic medical records and how much time clinicians spend in front of a computer screen. Think about artificial intelligence and its implications on the doctor-patient relationship. POCUS promotes the opposite behavior. It connects the clinician to the patient, encourages more time spent at the bedside, and honors the art in medicine. The clinical science of POCUS is the transformative technology of our lifetime that fulfills our desire to make better decisions and promotes a more precise approach to the nuanced care of complex and undifferentiated patients. This is why we POCUS.

Dr. Riera is s an Education Co-Chair for the P2 Network:


Antonio Riera completed pediatric residency at Weill Cornell-New York Presbyterian Hospital and a fellowship in pediatric emergency medicine at Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital. He is currently an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Yale University School of Medicine, and an Attending Physician at Yale-New Haven Children's Hospital. Dr. Riera’s clinical and research interests include the use of point-of-care ultrasonography to improve health care outcomes in children and the relationship between language, communication and health care wellbeing for Latino children and their caregivers.

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Education & Training

Fellow
Yale-New Haven Children's Hospital (2010)
Resident
New York Presbyterian Hospital - Weill Cornell (2007)
MD
Boston University School of Medicine (2004)
BA
Princeton University, Economics (2000)

Research

Overview

Dr. Riera has lead and mentored clinical research projects in pediatric point-of-care ultrasound. He has over 25 publications related to POCUS in pediatrics which include the following topics: focused assessment with sonography for trauma, focused cardiac ultrasound, intussusception, skull fractures, lumbar punctures, peripheral line placement, nerve blocks, constipation, and resuscitation.

For non-English Language preference Spanish speaking caregivers, Dr. Riera led the development of an evidence based online resource with novel pictorial asthma action plans and a 12 minute instructional video all available on the website - asmaplan.com. Our language concordant asthma action plans research posters that have been presented at national academic meetings can be found under the following link:

https://medicine.yale.edu/pediatrics/sections/pulmonology-allergy-immunology-sleep/programs/asthma-care/

Dr. Riera has also mentored projects centered around the emergency care of pediatric cancer patients during active treatment. The derivation of a novel clinical decision rule to obtain peripheral blood cultures in febrile oncology patients can be found here:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34939321/

Research at a Glance

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Frequent collaborators of Antonio Riera's published research.

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Academic Achievements & Community Involvement

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    American Academy of Pediatrics

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    P2 Network

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    Ultrasound G.E.L. Podcast

  • honor

    Honor Roll

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    Gallery of Excellence Abstract Award for "Latino caregiver experiences with asthma health communication"

Clinical Care

Overview

Antonia Riera, MD, is an attending physician at Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital specializing in emergency medicine. He says his daily motivation comes from promoting the “safety and well being of children every day.”

“Our doctors in Yale Medicine Pediatric Emergency are leaders in clinical, academic and research arenas,” Dr. Riera says. “We as a team have resuscitated patients who have been treated in the hospital with excellent outcomes. That is most rewarding—helping families, providing the best pediatric emergency care, and guiding children and caregivers through stressful situations.”

Dr. Riera’s clinical and research interests include the use of bedside ultrasonography to improve outcomes in children, and the relationship between language, communication and asthma care disparities for Latino children. He is an assistant professor of pediatrics (emergency medicine) and of emergency medicine at Yale School of Medicine.

Clinical Specialties

Pediatrics; Pediatric Emergency Medicine

Board Certifications

  • Pediatric Emergency Medicine

    Certification Organization
    AB of Pediatrics
    Latest Certification Date
    2011
    Original Certification Date
    2011
  • Pediatrics

    Certification Organization
    AB of Pediatrics
    Latest Certification Date
    2015
    Original Certification Date
    2007

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