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Division of Emergency Medicine

Division Members:

Our board-certified pediatricians with second board certifications in pediatric emergency medicine staff CHKD’s Emergency Center 24 hours a day.

Clingenpeel, Joel MD,MPH
Guins, Theresa MD
Mason, Jon MD
Miller, Jill MD
Petronis, Kelli MD
Poirier, Michael MD
Qureshi, Faiqa MD
Ramirez, Dana MD
Schmidt, James MD,MSPH
White, Nicholas MD

Additional board-certified pediatricians are dedicated to urgent and emergency care work alongside our pediatric emergency medicine trained staff to provide care in CHKD’s Emergency Center.

Hornbuckle, Andrea MD
Miller, Stephen MD
Sanders, Brian MD
Sartori, Suzanne MD
Schobitz, Erik MD
Schock, Kim MD
Smith, Mike MD

Information about the division:

Clinical: Our pediatric emergency specialists provide care 24 hours a day, 365 days a year to acutely ill or injured children at CHKD’s Emergency Center. Our Emergency Center is the region’s only facility with this level of pediatric emergency expertise. We care for over 40,000 children each year.

Education: Our physicians provide a 3 year fellowship training program for pediatricians who seek certification in the pediatric emergency medicine specialty. This comprehensive program, one of 44 accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education nationally, prepares physicians for careers dedicated to the care of acutely ill children, as well as, research and medical education.

Our physicians (all faculty of the Eastern Virginia Medical School) participate in the training of residents, medical students, and other health professional through bedside teaching, lectures, mentorship, etc.

Research: Our physicians remain dedicated to research endeavors that will improve the lives of children. Ongoing areas of special research interest within the division include: asthma, injury prevention and disaster preparedness.

Office Location:

Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters
601 Children’s Lane, Norfolk, VA 23507