2023 Department of Pediatrics Academic Annual Report

Alicia Webb, M.D., is a member of the National Injury Free Coalition for Kids (IFCK) and is a committee member for the Social Media group of the IFCK. Marjorie Lee White, M.D., is chair of the national AAP Section on Simulation and Innovative Learning, is a UAB representative of the Education work group for the PPN HRSA grant, and is a member of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Healthcare Systems and Value Research (HSVR) review panel.

INVITED TALKS

1. Children’s Injury Database: Development of an Injury Surveillance System in a Pediatric Emergency Department, Injury Free Coalition for Kids, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, December 2022. (Jennifer McCain, M.D.) 2. Safe at Home: Prevention of Pediatric Unintentional Injuries, Injury Free Coalition for Kids, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, December 2022. (Jennifer McCain, M.D.) 3. Evaluation of 2019–2020 Pediatric ATV Injuries in a Children’s Hospital. Injury Free Coalition for Kids, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, December 2022. (Jennifer McCain, M.D.) PEDIATRIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM The UAB Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship Program has been in existence for more than 30 years. We are the only Level 1 pediatric trauma center in the state and the fifth-busiest pediatric emergency department in the country. This exposes our fellows to a wide range of patient experiences and provides them with the necessary skills to become excellent emergency medicine physicians. Our fellows have an intensive didactic educational conference curriculum that includes research, quality improvement, journal club, evidence-based medicine, patient safety, radiology and interesting cases. We offer various electives and a significant amount of protected research time throughout the training program. Our research program includes online courses in epidemiology and biostatistics, lectures and mentorship with a scholarly project to be completed during fellowship.

Fellow projects with faculty mentors:

1. Assessing emergency medicine resident comfort and perceived competence in disclosing concerns of child abuse

2. Cannabinoid-related pediatric unintentional ingestions

3. Evaluating neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio in assessment of pediatric acute appendicitis

4. Impact of social media on patient presentations to a pediatric emergency department

5. Improving Spanish interpreter utilization in a pediatric emergency department

6. Intravenous fluid administration’s effect on pediatric lumbar puncture

7. Idiopathic intracranial hypertension

8. Pediatric Pandemic Network’s pediatric disaster medicine curriculum for pediatric residents, pediatric disaster medicine curriculum for pediatric emergency medicine fellows and a Pediatric Decontamination Tool Kit

9. Role of a VA ECMO utilization in severe refractory vasoplegic shock due to calcium channel blocker ingestion

2023–2024 Fellows

Third-Year Fellow Lauren Nelson, M.D. Residency: St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children Third-Year Fellow Alexis Ricci, M.D. Residency: University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Third-Year Fellow Austin Wheeler, M.D. Residency: University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)

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