- Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
- Attending Physician, Emergency Department, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
- Associate, Center for Injury Research and Prevention, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
- Associate, Penn Firearm Injury Center
Joel A. Fein, M.D., MPH is a Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine at The University of Pennsylvania and an Attending Physician in the Emergency Department at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). His areas of interest include violence prevention, mental health, and pain management in children and adolescents. Dr. Fein is the Director and Principal Investigator of the Philadelphia Collaborative Violence Prevention Center, which performs community-based participatory research to evaluate violence prevention efforts and the Co-director of the headquarters for the National Network of Hospital-based Violence Intervention Programs. Dr. Fein has authored review articles and original research papers on the topic of violence prevention, mental health in the ED, and the evaluation of post-traumatic stress disorder. He is a manuscript reviewer for Pediatrics, Academic Emergency Medicine, Annals of Emergency Medicine, Pediatric Emergency Care, and Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine. He is an associate of the Center for Injury Research and Prevention at CHOP, is an elected member of the American Pediatrics Society, and has recently completed a 6 year term on the Committee on Pediatric Emergency Medicine for the American Academy of Pediatrics. Dr. Fein is currently the Chairman of the Board of Directors for the Institute for Safe Families, a Philadelphia-based non-profit organization dedicated to education, research and training regarding the issue of Intimate Partner Violence. He is also on the Board of Directors of the Philadelphia Anti-drug Anti-violence Network. [http://www.paannetwork.org/]