The Mount Sinai Department of Emergency Medicine
“Training Fellowships in PED ER” and
“R Baby Lectureship"
The R Baby Foundation Fellowship will support the challenging clinical and academic training of a talented individual as a pediatric emergency medicine specialist focused on infectious diseases. The fellow will conduct a research project on pediatric infectious disease emergencies, lecture and train over 100 physicians. She will also work with New York City EMS to develop a training program to aid in recognition of the diseases that necessitate emergency management. In addition, the grant will support an R Baby Lectureship, which allows for an infectious disease/pediatric emergency medicine expert to educate over 300 physicians on the optimal management of neonatal and pediatric patients who are critically ill due to infectious illness.
FIRST YEAR ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
The Mount Sinai R Baby Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship is focused on research and education in the field of life-threatening pediatric infectious diseases with a special focus on enteroviral infections in the first year of life. Surveys demonstrated knowledge deficits and led to the creation of an educational product on enteroviral infections that was compiled from all the latest global information with new conclusions. The manuscript was published widely reaching over 10,000 emergency physicians. One key educational point emphasized was that even the most mild symptoms in a baby need to be carefully considered since these could be a sign of serious infection, which could prove to be fatal.
