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Guest Bio: Dr. Sage Myers, MD

Sage Myers, MD, MSCE, is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania and an attending physician in Pediatric Emergency Medicine at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. She has formal training in epidemiology and bio-statistics through Penn's Masters in Clinical Epidemiology program, and experience with large database studies. Dr. Myers has done work demonstrating disparities in outcomes for pediatric injury by hospital type, and differences in care location by rurality. 

In addition, she has begun training in implementation science and plans to further this knowledge and experience over the coming years. As a clinician, Dr. Myers cares for children in a tertiary-care pediatric ED, with strong trauma and medical resuscitation programs.  She serves as the Associate Trauma Director of Emergency Medicine, working with trauma colleagues on education and quality improvement. She also serves as the Chair of the Resuscitation Review Committee, identifying systems issues which support care delivery in medical resuscitation.