MD
Arkansas Children's Hospital, Arkansas, United States
Lauren R. Edwards, M.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Critical Care Medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) and practices as a pediatric intensivist at Arkansas Children's Hospital (ACH) in Little Rock, AR. Dr. Edwards joined the UAMS/ACH faculty in 2017, after completing her pediatric critical care medicine (PCCM) fellowship at UAMS. Prior to coming to UAMS, she completed medical school at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine’s six-year BA/MD program and her pediatric residency at the Medical College of Georgia/Augusta University. She is board-certified in pediatric critical care and general pediatrics.
Dr. Edwards’s academic interests include quality improvement, pediatric sedation research, and fellowship education. Dr. Edwards is an active investigator for the multicenter pediatric tracheal intubation quality improvement collaborative National Emergency Airway Registry for Children (NEAR4KIDS), a subgroup of the Pediatric Acute Lung Injury and Sepsis Investigators (PALISI) Network. Dr. Edwards works with NEAR4KIDS to design, implement, and reassess safe practices in airway management in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU), both locally as well as at the national and international levels. She serves on the Operational Definitions Committee of NEAR4KIDS to maintain objectiveness and consistency of data collection and reporting across the participating sites. Dr. Edwards was recently awarded the 2020 Society for Pediatric Sedation Scholarly Grant for her research in pediatric sedation. She is currently the Sedation Education Director for the emergency medicine residents and pediatric subspecialty fellows on the ACH pediatric sedation service. Prior to beginning her Master of Education in 2020, with an emphasis in medical education, through the University of Cincinnati and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, she served as the PCCM Fellowship Associate Program Director.
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Monday, April 18, 2022
7:00 AM – 8:00 AM US CST
Monday, April 18, 2022
7:00 AM – 8:00 AM US CST
Monday, April 18, 2022
7:00 AM – 8:00 AM US CST