Selina SP Chen, MD, MPH Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Department of Internal Medicine, John A Burns
School of Medicine, University of Hawaii; Internal Medicine and Pediatric Hospitalist, Kapiolani Medical
Center for Women and Children; Internal Medicine Hospitalist, Straub Clinic and Hospital; Electronic Medical
Record Physician Liaison and Trainer
Selina SP Chen, MD, MPH is a member of the following medical societies: American Academy of
Pediatrics, American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine, Society of Hospital
Medicine
Coauthor(s)
Glenn Fennelly, MD, MPH Director, Division of Infectious Diseases, Lewis M Fraad Department of Pediatrics,
Jacobi Medical Center; Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Glenn Fennelly, MD, MPH is a member of the following medical societies: Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Society
Chief Editor
Russell W Steele, MD Clinical Professor, Tulane University School of Medicine; Staff Physician, Ochsner
Clinic Foundation
Acknowledgements
Joseph Domachowske, MD is a member of the following medical societies: Alpha Omega Alpha, American
Academy of Pediatrics, American Society for Microbiology, Infectious Diseases Society of America, Pediatric
Infectious Diseases Society, and Phi Beta Kappa
Pamela L Dyne, MD is a member of the following medical societies: American Academy of Emergency
Medicine, American College of Emergency Physicians, and Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
Dirk M Elston, MD is a member of the following medical societies: American Academy of Dermatology
Heather Kesler DeVore, MD Assistant Professor, Clinical Attending Physician, Department of Emergency
Medicine, Georgetown University Hospital and Washington Hospital Center
Heather Kesler DeVore, MD is a member of the following medical societies: Emergency Medicine Residents
Association and Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
Leonard R Krilov, MD Chief of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and International Adoption, Vice Chair,
Department of Pediatrics, Professor of Pediatrics, Winthrop University Hospital
Paul Krusinski, MD Director of Dermatology, Fletcher Allen Health Care; Professor, Department of Internal
Medicine, University of Vermont College of Medicine
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