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Director, Emergency Department, UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland
Pediatric emergency care physician
Dr. Kevan McCarten-Gibbs is an emergency medicine specialist who cares for children needing emergency services at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland, where he serves as director of the emergency medicine department. With a special interest in disaster medicine, he looks at how the hospital can best respond to incidents such as earthquakes, fires, incidents involving terrorism and other events affecting the community on a large scale.
In research, McCarten-Gibbs focuses on how to predict serious head and abdominal injuries in children.
McCarten-Gibbs earned his medical degree at Eastern Virginia Medical School. He completed a residency in pediatrics at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and a fellowship in pediatric emergency medicine at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland.
Eastern Virginia Medical School, 1989
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Pediatrics, 1992
UCSF, Pediatric Emergency Medicine, 1996
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