Description of Expertise
Dr. Shaw is an emergency physician and the Nicholas Crognale Endowed Chair of Pediatric Emergency Medicine at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. She is Professor and Associate Chair for Patient Safety and Quality Improvement in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine. Dr. Shaw is a national leader in the fields of pediatric emergency medicine and quality and patient safety. She is an Associate Editor for Annals of Emergency Medicine and a senior epidemiologist for the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network.
She earned her MD at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and then completed an internship and residency in Pediatrics at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. After residency training, Dr. Shaw completed a Fellowship in Pediatric Emergency Medicine at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and earned an MS in Clinical Epidemiology as an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow within the Clinical Epidemiology Unit at the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Shaw is a Fellow of the American Board of Pediatrics and the American College of Emergency Medicine and subspecialty boarded in Pediatric Emergency Medicine. She serves on the Editorial Boards for Pediatric Emergency Care and Academic Emergency Medicine. Dr. Shaw has devoted much of her career to the education and academic development of trainees and faculty in pediatric EM and improving the quality of care for children nationally in our emergency departments. She was named the 2015 ED Director of the Year by ACEP/EMF for her interdisciplinary work to improve operational and clinical standards for evidence based emergency care during her 19 years of Chief of the Division of Emergency Medicine at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. In 2017, she received the Jim Seidel Distinguished Service Award from the American Academy of Pediatrics’ Section on Emergency Medicine.
As the Department of Pediatrics’ Associate Chair for Quality and Patient Safety, she is a leader and mentor to many faculty and fellows across multiple specialties and areas of research. At the Universtiy of Pennsylvania, she is the Co-Director of the Center for Healthcare Improvement and Patient Safety, which offers a master’s degree and certificate training programs in this field. She co-directs a multidisciplinary course on Systems Thinking and Patient Safety with a joint appointment as a Professor n the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Nursing. Currently, Dr. Shaw is a Co-PI on an AHRQ grant to define and evaluate diagnostic error in Pediatric Emergency Medicine.
Dr. Shaw is involved nationally and internationally in educating practicing physicians and is a prolific writer and researcher. She is senior editor of The Textbook of Pediatric Emergency Medicine. Her areas of interest include the diagnosis and management of acute pediatric illness and injuries, most notably UTI and bronchiolitis, and in safety and QI initiatives in pediatrics.