Dr. Kuppermann is the EVP and CAO at Children's National and the Chair of Pediatrics at GWU School of Medicine and Health Sciences. He recently arrived from UC Davis where he was Distinguished Professor of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics, and the Bo Tomas Brofeldt Endowed Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at UC Davis, and the Associate Dean for Global Health at UC Davis Health. He is a pediatric emergency medicine (PEM) physician and clinical epidemiologist, and a leader in emergency medical services for children, particularly in multicenter research. His focus is on clinical trials and clinical prediction rules using large cohorts of acutely ill and injured children. Research foci for which he is a leading investigator include 1) infectious emergencies in children including the laboratory evaluation of young febrile infants, 2) the evaluation of children at risk of diabetic ketoacidosis-related cerebral injury, and 3) the laboratory and radiographic evaluation of the pediatric trauma patient. He has published works in all three focus areas in high-impact journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, BMJ, and the Lancet. Dr. Kuppermann has received more than $50 million in federal grants and contracts as a PI or Co-PI and has published more than 350 peer-reviewed publications (Hirsch Index 78). He has been a leader in multicenter research in PEM, starting by chairing the first U.S. research network in PEM (the Pediatric Emergency Medicine Collaborative Research Committee of the AAP) from 1996-2000. He then became the founding Chair of the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) since it’s inception in 2001 until late in 2008 and remains one of the 7 network PIs. He completed a 4-year term as Chair of the Executive Committee of the (global) Pediatric Emergency Research Network (PERN) and continues as a leader in PERN.