Casey E. Pitts, MD, MBI
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Emergency Medicine)
Attending Physician, Division of Emergency Medicine, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Associate Medical Director of Business Continuity, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Clinical Informatics Champion for Advanced Clinical Decision Support, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Clinical Informatics Champion for Transport Center, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Department: Pediatrics
Contact information
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
3401 Civic Center Boulevard
Philadelphia, PA 19104
3401 Civic Center Boulevard
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Education:
BA (Psychology, Chemistry)
New York University, 2012.
MD (Medicine)
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 2017.
MA (Biomedical Informatics)
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 2024.
Permanent linkBA (Psychology, Chemistry)
New York University, 2012.
MD (Medicine)
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 2017.
MA (Biomedical Informatics)
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 2024.
Selected Publications
Preston Simmons, MD; Halley Ruppel,PhD, RN, Alexis Tomlinson, PhD, Amina Khan, MS, Kim Albanowski, MA, Melissa McLoone, BSN, RN, Meghan McNamara, MBA, CPN, CPHQ, RN, Eric Shelov, MD MBI, Casey E. Pitts, MD, MBI, Brooke Luo, MD: Balancing Efficiency and Safety: Perceptions of Clinicians on Secure Messaging within a Children’s Hospital. Poster Presentation, Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting, Boston, MA April 2026.Daria F. Ferro, Marc Tobias, Leah H. Carr, Pamela Wentz, Melissa Rodriguez, Casey E. Pitts, Emily Kane, and Eric Shelov.: Leveraging 10 Days of Alert Malfunction to Improve Mature Organizational Clinical Decision Support Processes. Applied Clinical Informatics 17(01): 046-051, Jan 2026.
Mackie, W. Buchhalter, L. DiTaranto, S, Gadde, N. Marrow, D. Mosca, D. Pitts, CE. Smith, N. Witowski, A. Tsarhouhas, N. : Private Vehicle Transport for Interfacility Transfers to the Emergency Department Improves Efficiency without Compromising Safety. Oral Presentation, AAP National Conference & Exhibition. Denver, CO September 2025.
Rebecca S. Green MD, Jerri Miller PA-C, Eleana Vasileiadi MD, Maheswari Ekambaram MD, Casey Pitts MD MBI, Kenneth P. Smith PhD, Sanjeev K. Swami MD, Brandon C. Ku MD: Decreasing Emergency Department Revisits for Febrile Infants with Positive Blood Cultures with Likely Contaminant Organisms. Platform Presentation, American Academy of Pediatrics National Conference. Denver, CO September 2025.
Simmons P, Reed B, Pitts C, Yu C, Mcnamara M, Luo B: Lost in Translation: Understanding the Role of Inter-professional Communication in Pediatric Safety Events. Poster Presentation, Pediatric Hospital Medicine Annual Meeting, Anaheim, California. July 2025.
Simmons P, Pitts C, Mcnamara M, Shelov E, Ruppel H, Albanowski K, Luo B: Left on Read: Balancing Benefits and Burdens of Clinical Communications. Poster Presentation, Pediatric Hospital Medicine Annual Meeting, Anaheim, California. July 2025.
Huang, J. X., Casper, T. C., Pitts, C., Myers, S. R., Lynch, R., Loomba, L., Ramesh, J., Kuppermann, N., Ku, E., Glaser, N.: Characterizing the relationship between social determinants of health and risk of albuminuria among children with type 1 diabetes. J Diabetes Complications 38(12): 108880, December 2024.
Casey E. Pitts and Mercedes M. Blackstone: Mumps. Fleisher & Ludwig’s 5-Minute Pediatric Emergency Medicine Consult, third edition. Wolters Kluwer, September 2024.
Huang, J. X., Copeland, T. P., Pitts, C. E., Myers, S. R., Kilberg, M. J., Ku, E., Glaser, N.: Transient albuminuria in the setting of short-term severe hyperglycemia in type 1 diabetes. J Diabetes Complications 38(6): 108762, June 2024.
Taylor, J. Fuchs, J. Muralidharan, B, Trone, K. Waimberg, R. Pitts CE, Lawrence, L., Jones, N. : Reducing Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Pain Reassessments for Patients with Extremity Injuries in the Emergency Department Poster Presentation, 13th Annual Quality and Safety Day, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Philadelphia, PA May 2024.