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06.27.03





Shape of virus may hold key to deadly disease

 

his month Chief of Emergency Medicine Michael Shannon, MD, MPH, announced several changes to the structure of the division, appointing associate chiefs to run the day-to-day operations of the Emergency Department, head the fellowship program and administer emergency care at Children’s satellite locations. “These changes will permit me to better manage the five programs within the division while focusing on meeting our patient care, teaching, research and community missions,” says Shannon.

 


Associate Chief Anne Stack, MD, is the clinical director of the ED. She will supervise daily operations of the busiest pediatric emergency department in the region and the only level-1 pediatric trauma center in New England.

 

 



Richard Bachur, MD, has been appointed associate division chief responsible for direction of the division’s Fellowship in Pediatric Emergency Medicine. The fellowship, which is the largest in the country, has produced many of the nation’s leaders in the field.




Karen Gruskin, MD, has been appointed chief of the division’s Community Hospitals Program. In her new role she will supervise pediatric emergency care at Beverly Hospital, Winchester Hospital, MetroWest Medical Center, Caritas Norwood Hospital and South Shore Hospital, which together care for approximately 50,000 children annually.





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