
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.
Our locations (2)
Our team
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Naomi Abe
MD
Pediatric Emergency Medicine -
Riham Alwan
MD, MPH
Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Emergency Medicine -
Nisa Atigapramoj
MD
Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Pediatrics -
Michael Bell
MD
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Steven Bin
MD
Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Pediatrics -
Lawrence Chang
MD
Pediatric Emergency Medicine -
Carol Chen
MD, MPH
Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Pediatrics -
Rajesh Daftary
MD, MPH
Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Pediatrics -
Maytal Firnberg
MD
Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Pediatrics -
Ashley Foster
MD
Pediatric Emergency Medicine -
Emily Frank
MD
Pediatrics -
Nicolaus Glomb
MD, MPH
Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Pediatrics -
Israel Green-Hopkins
MD
Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Pediatrics -
Jacqueline Martha Grupp-Phelan
MD, MPH
Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Emergency Medicine -
Lisa Sinclair Hart
MD
Pediatric Emergency Medicine -
Anneka Hooft
MD
Pediatric Emergency Medicine -
Noopur Jain
MD, MS
Pediatric Emergency Medicine -
Alan Johnson
MD
Pediatric Emergency Medicine -
Shruti Kant
MBBS
Pediatric Emergency Medicine -
Aaron Kornblith
MD
Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Emergency Medicine -
Daniel Lam
MD
Pediatric Emergency Medicine -
Cornelia Latronica
MD
Pediatric Emergency Medicine -
Sara Leibovich
MD
Pediatric Emergency Medicine -
Margaret Lin-Martore
MD
Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Emergency Medicine -
Mimi Lu
MD
Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Emergency Medicine -
Karim Mansour
MD
Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Pediatrics -
James Naprawa
MD
Pediatric Emergency Medicine -
Amlu Natesan
MD, MS
Pediatric Emergency Medicine -
Mahnoosh Nik-Ahd
MD, MPH
Pediatric Emergency Medicine -
Sima Patel
MD
Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Pediatrics -
Evelyn Porter
MD
Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Emergency Medicine -
Emily Roben
MD
Pediatric Emergency Medicine -
Augusta Saulys
MD, MA
Pediatric Emergency Medicine -
Ashkon Shaahinfar
MD, MPH
Pediatrics, Pediatric Emergency Medicine -
Daniel Shapiro
MD, MPH
Pediatric Emergency Medicine -
Y. Tina Tan
MD, MBA
Emergency Medicine -
Sonny Tat
MD, MPH
Emergency Medicine, Pediatric Emergency Medicine -
Dina Wallin
MD
Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Emergency Medicine -
Kenshata Watkins
MD
Pediatric Emergency Medicine -
Heidi Werner
MD, MS
Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Pediatrics -
Kevin Whitelaw
MD
Pediatric Emergency Medicine -
Ari Green
MD, MS
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Awards & recognition
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Ranked among the nation's best in 11 specialties

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