Scholarly activity is highly valued in our division. Some of our attendings have received advanced degrees from the Clinical Research Training Program at Einstein, and all have a variety of research interests. Each fellow undertakes an original research project with mentors from our division as well as from across the Einstein community. All of our fellows have presented their research at a national meeting, and 90% have published their findings in a peer-reviewed journal soon after graduation. A fellow in the Jacobi/Einstein program has won the prestigious Ludwig-Seidel award from the Academic Pediatric Association for the best research presentation by a fellow in pediatric emergency medicine twice in the past 7 years. Below is a list of publications and presentations from our division over the last three years.

Original Manuscripts in Peer- Reviewed Journals

Teach SJ, Crain EF, Quint D, Hylan M, Joseph JG. Indoor environmental exposures among children with asthma seen in an urban emergency department. Pediatrics 2006;117:S152-S158.

Teach SJ, Guagliardo M, Crain EF, Quint D, Joseph JG. Spatial accessibility of primary care pediatric services in an urban environment: Association with asthma management and outcome. Pediatrics 2006;117:S78-S85.

Teach SJ, Crain EF, Quint DM, Hylan ML, Joseph JG. Improved asthma outcomes in a high-morbidity pediatric population. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 2006;160:535-541.

Kattan M, Crain EF, Steinbach S, Visness CM, Walter M, et al. A randomized clinical trial of clinician feedback to improve quality of care for inner-city children with asthma. Pediatrics 2006;117:e1095-e1103.

Schreiber K, Cunningham SJ, Kunkov S, Crain EF. The association of pre-procedural anxiety and the success of procedural sedation in children. American Journal of Emergency Medicine 2006;24:397-401.

Kristinsson G, Wall SP, Crain EF. The digital rectal examination in pediatric trauma: A pilot study. The Journal of Emergency Medicine 2007;32:59-62.

Landrigan P, Woolf AD, Gitterman B, Lanphear B, Forman J, Karr C, Moshier EL, Godbold J, Crain EF. The Ambulatory Pediatric Association fellowship in pediatric environmental Health: A five-year assessment. Environmental Health Perspectives, 115:1383-1387, 2007.

O'Connor G, Crain EF, et al. Acute respiratory health effects of air pollution on asthmatic children in U.S. inner-cities. Am J Resp Crit Care Med J. Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 121:1133-1139.e1, 2008

SJ Teach, EF Crain, DM Quint, ML Hylan, JG Improved Asthma Outcomes in a High-Morbidity Pediatric Population Results of an …Indoor environmental exposures among children with asthma seen in an urban emergency department. Pediatrics, 2006

Patel D, Blumberg S, Crain EF. The utility of bedside ultrasonography in identifying fractures and guiding fracture reduction in children. Pediatric Emergency Care. 25(4):221-225,2009

Blumberg S, Gorn M, Crain, EF. Intraosseous Infusion: A Review of Methods and Novel Devices. Pediatric Emergency Care. Jan;24(1):50-6; 2008.

Chao JH, Kunkov S, Reyes LB, Lichten S, Crain EF. Comparison of two approaches to observation therapy for acute otitis media in the emergency department. Pediatrics, 121:1352-6, 2008.

Scarfi, C, Cunningham SJ, Wiznia A, Serebrisky D, Crain EF. Association between skin testing in the pediatric emergency department and adherence to follow-up in children with asthma. Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol 2009; 102:35-40.

Kotzampaltiris PV, Chou KJ, Wall SP, Crain EF. The cranial rhythmic impulse and excessive crying of infancy. J Alternative and Complementary Med, 2009, 15(4): 341-345.

Hussain-Rizvi A, Kunkov S, Crain EF. Does parental involvement in pediatric emergency department asthma treatment affect home management? J. Asthma (in press)

Abstracts and Presentations at Scientific Meetings

Chao J, Kunkov S, Reyes LB, Lichten S, Crain EF. Comparison of two approaches to observation therapy for acute otitis media in the emergency department. Platform presentation at the Pediatric Academic Societies annual meeting, Toronto, Canada, May, 2007.

Hussain-Rizvi A, Kunkov S, Aponte A, Acosta R, Crain EF. Does parental involvement in pediatric emergency department asthma treatment affect home management? Poster presentation at the Pediatric Academic Societies annual meeting, Toronto, Canada, May, 2007.

Scarfi C, Cunningham SJ, Wiznia A, Crain EF. The association between skin testing in the pediatric emergency department and adherence to follow-up among children with asthma. Poster presentation at the Pediatric Academic societies annual meeting, Toronto, Canada, May, 2007.

Patel D, Blumberg S, Crain EF. The utility of bedside ultrasonography in identifying fractures and guiding fracture reduction in children. Poster presentation at the Pediatric Academic societies Annual meeting, Toronto, Canada, May, 2007. Winner of the 2007 Ludwig-Seidel award for the best abstract with a PEM fellow as 1st author.

Meltzer JA, Kunkov S , Crain EF. Identifying Children at Low Risk for Bacterial Conjunctivitis Presented at SAEM Annual Meeting, May 29, 2008, Washington, DC.

Gorn M, Kunkov S, Crain EF. Comparison of Ultrasound Assisted and Traditional (Palpation) Techniques for Lumbar Puncture in the Pediatric Emergency Department (PED) Presented at SAEM Annual Meeting, May 30, 2008, Washington, DC.

Birmingham M, Chou KJ, Crain EF: Screening for Postpartum Depression in the Pediatric Emergency Department. Poster presentation at the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., May, 2008.

Books, Chapters, and Other Publications

Acosta, R. Rhinosinusitis in Jill M. Baren (ed) Pediatric Emergency Medicine (1st Edition). Saunders: Philadelphia, 2008.

Kunkov S. Gestation & Birth; Issues Unique to Newborn & Prematurity; Prevention, Health Supervision, & Child Abuse in: Stead L.G., (ed) First Aid for the Pediatric Clerkship New York: McGraw-Hill, (2nd ed) 2004.

Cunningham SJ, Hafeez W. Procedural Sedation and Pain Management in Henretig FM, King C, (eds) Textbook of Pediatric Emergency Procedures (2nd ed) Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins, 2008.

Crain EF, Gershel JG (eds) Clinical Manual of Emergency Pediatrics 5th edition, Cambridge University Press (in press).