Professor, Departments of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics, University of California Davis School of Medicine
Dr. Kuppermann is Professor of Pediatric Emergency Medicine (PEM) and the Endowed Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at UC Davis. He is a leader in multicenter research in PEM, in the areas of infectious emergencies, diabetic ketoacidosis-related cerebral injury, the pediatric trauma patient. He has published his research in the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, and the Lancet. Dr. Kuppermann chaired the PEM Collaborative Research Committee of the AAP from 1996-2000, and then became the founding Chair of the Steering Committee of the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) in 2001. He has published more than 120 peer-reviewed scientific manuscripts, been awarded more than $20 million in federal grants and contracts, and been recognized nationally for his research and mentorship. In 2010, he was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies of Science.