Pediatric Emergency Medicine

1^st Year Fellows

Courtney Kelly, MD
Residency - Peyton Manning Children’s Hospital Ascension St. Vincent

Joshua Green, MD
Residency - Spectrum Health Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital and Michigan State University College of Human Medicine

Brook Martell, DO
Residency- The University of Connecticut School of Medicine

Jennifer Jamerino-Thrush, MD
Residency- Children’s Hospital Medical Center of Akron

2^nd Year Fellows

Kersten Bond, DO

Lea Dikranian, MD
Research - TikTok Challenges: Impact to Calls on Poison Control Centers

Joshua Kim, DO
Research - Disparities in Social Work Reporting with Suspected Accidental Toxicological Pediatric Ingestions

3^rd Year Fellows

Christina Arand, MD
Research- Point-of-Care Ultrasound Quality Assurance Data from Fellow-Performed Scans in a Pediatric Emergency Department: A Descriptive Study

Lilian Awad, MD
Research- Fractures in Patient’s with Sickle Cell Disease

Melissa Chiappetta, MD
Research- Intensive Asthma Therapy and Intravenous Magnesium in the Emergency Department Management of Pediatric Asthma Exacerbations: A Retrospective Chart Review

Camila Ospina Jimenez, MD
Research- Utility of Neuroimaging in Children Presenting to a Pediatric Emergency Department with Altered Mental Status

Education

Our education curriculum is divided into 13 blocks (each 4 weeks) per year. The entire curriculum is 19 blocks in duration, so each fellow will experience the curriculum twice. We have an educational theme for each block where all of the recommended content from the American Board of Pediatrics subsection on Pediatric Emergency Medicine is covered. The conferences are each Wednesday from 7 AM to 10:00 AM and cover a wide range of medical and surgical topics. We host additional sessions from 10:00 – 12:00 for workshops, resuscitation training as well as the discussion of other professional topics. Over the past 2 years, we have incorporated more flipped-classroom sessions as well.

In addition to core lectures each month, we also incorporate faculty-driven board review, journal club, a literature review and a mock code. We also include procedure-based videos that supplement the content from the related block, in addition to educational support from our academic faculty. Recently, we have introduced longitudinal curricula in administration, disaster management, global health and research design, and quality improvement.

Some conferences fellows participate in that are external to our curriculum include:

• Pediatric Emergency Medicine Quality Assurance Committee
• Pediatric Grand Rounds
• Emergency Medicine Grand Rounds
• Toxicology Grand Rounds
• Trauma Conference
• Radiology Conference
• Division Business Meeting

Teaching Opportunities

Pediatric emergency medicine fellows at the Children's Hospital of Michigan have vast opportunities to teach. Teaching is part of the Pediatric Emergency Medicine fellowship and the performance of each fellow is critiqued and feedback is given. Fellows regularly teach at:

• Wednesday Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellows Conference
• Noon Fellows Conference
• Regional presentations at various emergency medicine residency programs
• Grand Rounds at other programs (Dental, Emergency Medicine)

National Conferences

Pediatric emergency medicine fellows attend and participate in national conferences such as:

• The Annual National Pediatric Emergency Fellows Conference
• AAP Annual Meeting
• ACEP Annual Meeting
• PAS Annual Meeting
• SAEM Annual Meeting
• Advanced pediatric emergency medicine Assembly

Research

A structured research program for pediatric emergency medicine fellows begins the 1st month of fellowship. Each July, the program provided fellows with a list of potential research ideas and a list of abstracts that were published at the previous year’s national meetings. Direct mentorship to find a project and create appropriate methodology is typically provided by faculty within our Division. However, due to significant faculty collaboration both regionally and nationally, fellows are also encouraged to work with mentors from outside of our division or institution.

Research education is also integrated into the division's conferences as a longitudinal curriculum. However, Pediatric Emergency Medicine fellows are also exposed to external research education. Fellows from all of the divisions at the Children's Hospital of Michigan attend a weekly fellow's conference. The didactic portion of these conferences covers topics such as biostatistics, research design and locating funding sources. Fellows also present their research ideas at these conferences and feedback is given by faculty with a wealth of research experience. Their advice helps mold the research design of fellows' projects, guides fellows in the analysis phase of their project, and provide useful counseling regarding presentation skills.

The Emergency Department (ED) at the Children's Hospital of Michigan is an American College of Surgeons certified level-one pediatric trauma center. We are also a regional burn and poison control center. The department cares for approximately 100,000 patients annually, making it one of the busiest pediatric emergency departments in the country. When pediatric patients need emergency transport, Children's Hospital of Michigan's PANDA One offers a dedicated pediatric and neonatal ambulance service and team.

Our ED is divided into different pods, each with its own health care team. This structure is designed to provide safe, efficient, highest quality of care. The ED is staffed by fellowship trained pediatric emergency physicians, pediatricians and nurse practitioners. The pediatric emergency medicine fellowship program attracts exceptional candidates from all over the United States. Our patients also benefit from being cared for by nurses trained in pediatric emergencies. The ED also utilizes the latest and safest processes and techniques to provide optimal care to children.

There are many exciting changes that have recently impacted care in our ED. Care has been expanded with the opening of the Children's Hospital of Michigan-Troy in 2016. In 2017, the new critical care tower of the Children’s Hospital of Michigan opened. Our ED is on the ground level of this new state-of-the art building, which was designed based upon LEAN methodology. The processes we use to provide care are innovative and based on LEAN methods.

Application Instructions

The three-year fellowship seeks physicians who will have completed three years of training in an accredited residency program in Pediatrics or Emergency. The fellowship program participates in the ERAS universal application process. Please visit their Web site at www.aamc.org/eras for an application.

The following information should be uploaded into this program:

1. Completed on-line application
2. Current photograph (released only after interview is offered)
3. Personal statement
4. Three letters of recommendation
5. Medical school transcript
6. Parts 1, 2 and 3 of the USMLE
7. If a graduate of a medical school outside the United States, Canada or Puerto Rico, a valid ECFMG certificate is required
8. The fellowship program participates in the NRMP
9. We accept applicants with US citizenship or J1 visa status.

You may contact the NRMP at http://www.nrmp.org

Pediatric Emergency Medicine Recent Graduates: 2023

Jennifer Chalam, MD
Research- Adult Acute Care in a Pediatric Hospital: A Descriptive Study

Adam Hutnik, MD - Advocate Children’s Hospital Chicago
Research - Evaluating Racial and Geographic Disparities in Pediatric Patients wit Acute Appendicitis on a Local Level in Metropolitan Detroit

Karima Lelak, MD - University of Michigan
Research - Pediatric Melatonin Ingestions
Research - Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Epinephrine Use in Pediatric Traumatic Cardiac Arrest (published)

Audrey VanDeWall - UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
Research - Peri-Intubation Arrest in High Risk vs. Standard Risk Pediatric Trauma Patients Undergoing Endotracheal Intubation (American Journal of Emergency Medicine)

2022

Batool Hussain, MD - Chief Resident at Children’s Hospital of Michigan

David Geisinger, MD - ProMedica Toledo Children’s Hospital

Adam Singer, MD - Helen DeVos in Grand Rapids

Ryan Surujdeo, MD - E.W. Sparrow Hospital

2021

Roxanne Cheung, MD - Lehigh Valley in Pennsylvania

Karolina Maksimowski, MD - Children’s Hospital of Michigan

Jason Miller, MD - Children’s Medical Center, Plano

Carolina Vega, MD - Advanced Fellowship- Ultrasound Fellowship at the University of Massachusetts

The Emergency Department staff at the Children’s Hospital of Michigan provides care at our main facility in Detroit, as well as our satellite ED in Troy, MI. We enjoy brand new, state-of-the-art ED facilities at both locations, which were designed using LEAN methodology. In Detroit, our ED is part of a new critical care tower that houses new operative suites, imaging department and a new 2-floor PICU and NICU.

This ED provides care for approximately 100,000 sick and injured children each year. These patients are cared for in a 56-bed ED, with a 4-bed resuscitation bay and a separate 6-bed mental health unit. The ED is divided into pods, where care teams can efficiently provide safe, high-quality care.

Pediatric Emergency Medicine (PEM) fellows exclusively work in the area of our ED that cares for the highest acuity medical, surgical and trauma patients. They are always supervised by fellowship trained PEM physicians and have the opportunity to clinically collaborate with other PEM physicians, pediatricians and Advanced Practice Providers.