Professor of Pediatrics, Division Head Emergency Medicine, Associate Chair for Faculty Development
Northwestern University, Illinois, United States
Elizabeth Alpern is a Professor of Pediatrics, Division Head of Emergency Medicine, and Associate Chair for Faculty Development in the Department of Pediatrics of the Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. She is both a pediatric emergency physician and clinical epidemiologist with research expertise in the use of large databases within research networks to improve the quality of emergent care delivered to children through application of evidence-based work. Dr. Alpern was funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) as the Principal Investigator to design, develop, and leverage an electronic health record registry in the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) to establish quality benchmarks for urgent and emergent pediatric care. She is also funded by the National Institutes of Health (NICHD) as the Principal Investigator to build and utilize an electronic health record database, the PED Screen Registry, to study the risk of sepsis in pediatric emergency department patients. With the goal to improve health care provided to children in emergency departments, Dr. Alpern has explored how care varies from evidence-based evaluations and therapies utilizing databases from several collaboratives and networks. Dr. Alpern has been recognized with several awards for her mentorship. Currently Dr. Alpern serves as a standing member on the National Institutes of Health Study Section Clinical Informatics and Digital Health and also served as a standing member on the Biomedical Computing and Health Informatics study section. She has published over 150 peer-reviewed articles and has lectured nationally and internationally.
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