Stephen Blumberg

Biography

Dr. Blumberg is the Assistant Director of the Pediatric Emergency Department at Jacobi Medical Center, and the Fellowship Director for the program in Pediatric Emergency Medicine. He is also the co-coordinator of the department’s Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) course and an elected board member of the Jacobi physician group, Physician Affiliate Group of New York (PAGNY). Dr. Blumberg serves as the Principal Investigator on numerous research studies, receiving grants for his work involving children who have sustained abdominal trauma, febrile infants, and pediatric emergency medicine patient safety issues. He is an active member of the Jacobi trauma and trauma peer review committees and he previously chaired the NYMA fringe benefit (HR) committee. He is also involved in the development of the Jacobi Injury and Violence Prevention Program and in obtaining a Criminal Justice grant for its funding. Dr. Blumberg is board-certified in Pediatric Emergency Medicine and he is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

Research Interest

Research Interests: Clinical Pediatrics, Site principal investigator for multiple PECARN studies (Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network), The radiographic anterior fat pad sign following elbow trauma, Trauma, Patient Safety.