Emergency Department
When your child is facing a medical emergency, there's no substitute for a specialty children’s hospital. Young patients require distinct tests and equipment for their small bodies. Kids are at greater risk for serious breathing problems, less tolerant of blood loss, and more vulnerable to head injury than adults are – and the younger the child, the smaller the margin for error.
That's where UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals makes all the difference. The pediatric Emergency Departments at our San Francisco and Oakland locations are focused exclusively on kids, with a staff of doctors and nurses trained in pediatric emergency medicine who are available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Our patients also have access to a full-service suite of care with more than 150 top-ranked pediatric specialists. Critical medical and surgical divisions are on call at all times for the more intensive care.
Our Oakland ED is certified as a level 1 trauma center by the American College of Surgeons and is the only state-designated Pediatric Critical Care Center in Alameda and Contra Costa counties. This distinction marks us as a center of excellence in all areas of pediatric care, from emergency care and intensive care through rehabilitation services.
Our Oakland location also has a special five-bed asthma care unit for patients to receive asthma treatment and education. For all these reasons and more, we're the leading pediatric emergency service provider in Northern California.
NOTE: If you think your child may be experiencing a life-threatening or severe condition, immediately call 911 or go directly to the nearest emergency room.
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Our team
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Naomi Abe
MD
Pediatric emergency care physician -
Riham Alwan
MD, MPH
Pediatric emergency care physician -
Nisa Atigapramoj
MD
Pediatric emergency care physician -
Michael Bell
MD
Pediatric emergency care physician -
Steven Bin
MD, FACEP
Pediatric emergency care physician -
Lawrence Chang
MD
Pediatric emergency care physician -
Carol Chen
MD, MPH
Pediatric emergency care physician -
Rajesh Daftary
MD, MPH
Pediatric emergency care physician -
Maytal Firnberg
MD
Pediatric emergency care physician -
Ashley Foster
MD
Pediatric emergency care physician -
Emily Frank
MD
Pediatrician -
Nicolaus Glomb
MD, MPH
Pediatric emergency care physician -
Israel Green-Hopkins
MD
Pediatric emergency care physician -
Jacqueline Martha Grupp-Phelan
MD, MPH
Pediatric emergency care physician -
Lisa Sinclair Hart
MD
Pediatric emergency care physician -
Anneka Hooft
MD, MPH
Pediatric emergency care physician -
Noopur Jain
MD
Pediatric emergency care physician -
Alan Johnson
MD
Pediatric emergency care physician -
Shruti Kant
MBBS
Pediatric emergency care physician -
Aaron Kornblith
MD, FACEP
Pediatric emergency care physician -
Daniel Lam
MD
Pediatric emergency care physician -
Cornelia Latronica
MD
Pediatric emergency care physician -
Sara Leibovich
MD
Pediatric emergency care physician -
Margaret Lin-Martore
MD
Pediatric emergency care physician -
Mimi Lu
MD, MS
Pediatric emergency care physician -
Karim Mansour
MD
Pediatric emergency care physician -
Kevan McCarten-Gibbs
MD
Pediatric emergency care physician -
James Naprawa
MD
Pediatric emergency care physician -
Amlu Natesan
MD, MS
Pediatric emergency care physician -
Mahnoosh Nik-Ahd
MD, MPH
Pediatric emergency care physician -
Hilary Ong
MD, FAAP
Pediatric emergency care physician -
Sima Patel
MD
Pediatric emergency care physician -
Evelyn Porter
MD
Pediatric emergency care physician -
Emily Roben
MD, MS
Pediatric emergency care physician -
Efrat Rosenthal
MD
Pediatric emergency care physician -
Augusta Saulys
MD
Pediatric emergency care physician -
Ashkon Shaahinfar
MD, MPH, FAAP
Pediatric emergency care physician -
Daniel Shapiro
MD, MPH
Pediatric emergency care physician -
Sonny Tat
MD, MPH
Pediatric emergency care physician -
Dina Wallin
MD
Pediatric emergency care physician -
Kenshata Watkins
MD
Pediatric emergency care physician -
Heidi Werner
MD, MS
Pediatric emergency care physician -
Kevin Whitelaw
MD
Pediatric emergency care physician -
Cosette Audirac
PA-C, MSPAS, MPH
Physician assistant -
Janelle Johnson-Green
LCSW
Social worker -
Jason Rosenbury
LCSW, MSW
Social worker
Awards & recognition
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Ranked among the nation's best in 11 specialties
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Support services
Clinical trials
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