David M. Jaffe, M.D. [ contact information ]
Dana Brown/St. Louis Children's Hospital Professor of Pediatrics;
Director Division of Emergency Medicine
Dr. Jaffe is currently the Dana Brown/St. Louis Children's Hospital
Professor of Pediatrics and Director of the Division of Emergency
Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine. In addition,
he is Medical Director of Emergency Services at St. Louis Children's
Hospital. He received his medical degree from the University of
Chicago. At the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, he completed
his pediatric residency and then simultaneously became a Robert Wood
Johnson Fellow in General Academic Pediatrics and one of the first
American Fellows in Pediatric Emergency Medicine. His first
academic position was at Northwestern University in Chicago, after
which he spent three years as the Director of Pediatric Emergency
Medicine at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Ontario,
Canada. He has been at Washington University since 1991. Dr. Jaffe
received permanent board certification in Pediatrics in 1982. He is
also board certified in Emergency Medicine and subspecialty board
certified in Pediatric Emergency Medicine.
Dr. Jaffe's research interests are in medical decision making, with
a focus on the febrile child and occult bacteremia, but also with a
secondary focus on children with head and neck injuries. He is also
interested in research on the management of pain and anxiety in
children with emergencies. Dr. Jaffe has been on the editorial
board of Pediatric Emergency Care since 1984, Pediatric Emergency
& Critical Care since 1992, and Decision Editor for Annals of
Emergency Medicine since 1997. He is past chair of the Section on
Emergency Medicine of the American Academy of Pediatrics, a Member
of the American Board of Pediatrics, and chair-elect of the Subboard
of Pediatric Emergency Medicine.
Selected Publications
Seidel JS, Henderson D, Tittle S,
Jaffe DM, Spaite D,
Dean JM, Gausche M, Lewis RJ, Cooper A, Zaritsky
A, Espisito T, Maederis D:
Priorities for research in Emergency Medical Services for Children:
Results of a consensus conference.
Ann Emerg Med
1999;
33:206-210.
Luhmann JD, Kennedy RM,
Jaffe DM, McAllister JD:
Continuous flow delivery of nitrous oxide and oxygen:
A safe and cost effective technique for inhalation analgesia
and sedation of pediatric patients.
Pediatr Emerg Care
1999;
15:388-392.
Bennett JE, Sumner W II, Downs SM,
Jaffe DM:
Parents' utilities for outcomes of occult bacteremia.
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med
2000;
154:43-48.
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