Sarah Fesnak, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Emergency Medicine)
Director of Trauma for Emergency Medicine , Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Department: Pediatrics
Contact information
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
3401 Civic Center Blvd
Philadelphia, PA 19104
3401 Civic Center Blvd
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Education:
BA
Oberlin College, 2002.
cert (Post-baccalaureate Premedical Requirements)
Bryn Mawr College, 2006.
MD
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 2011.
cert (Clinical Research Certificate Program)
Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania, 2017.
Permanent linkBA
Oberlin College, 2002.
cert (Post-baccalaureate Premedical Requirements)
Bryn Mawr College, 2006.
MD
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 2011.
cert (Clinical Research Certificate Program)
Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania, 2017.
Selected Publications
Dao, Duy and Fesnak, Sarah: "Thoracic Emergencies" Fleisher and Ludwig’s Textbook of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Ninth Edition Joshua Nagler, Jill Posner, Elizabeth Alpern, Paul Aronson, Andrea Cruz, Angela Ellison, Rebekah Mannix, David Schnadower, and Nadia Awad (eds.). 2025.Sarah Fesnak, Gary Nace: "ATLS for Pediatricians" CHOP Open upcoming 2024.
E. Szydlowski MD, S. Fesnak MD, F. Nadel MD, K. Tay MD, H. Fujii-Rios MD, M. Lavoie MD: Creating a Multimodal Curriculum for Procedural Education for Pediatric Emergency Medicine Physicians. CHOP Interprofessional Education Symposium 2022.
Fesnak S, Del Pizzo J, Blackstone MM: “Procedures” The Philadelphia Guide: Inpatient Pediatrics, 3e. Shah SS, Catallazzi M, Frank G, Ronan JM (eds.). 2021.
Toto RL, Fesnak S, Weiss AK: “I Really Didn’t Want To Come In”: The Unseen Effects of COVID-19 on Children" Journal of Clinical Outcomes Management September 2020.
Chaudhary S, Chang L, Fesnak S, Debrest C, Reich M, Fein JA, Weiss AK: How do Caregivers Feel About Being Offered Gun Safety Devices in the Pediatric ED? Platform presentation, Injury Free Coalition for Kids Conference, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 2019.
Vinograd A, Zorc J, Fesnak S, Chen A, Gaines S, Woolford A.: Longevity and Complications of Peripheral Intravenous Catheters Placed by Ultrasound Guidance Compared to Standard Approach in a Pediatric Emergency Department. Annals of Emergency Medicine 23(3): 149-154, 2019.
Chaudhary S, Chang L, Fesnak S, Debrest C, Reich M, Fein JA, Weiss AK: How do Caregivers Feel About Being Offered Gun Safety Devices in the Pediatric ED?, Poster presentation, Pediatric Academic Society, Toronto, Canada 2018.
Vinograd A, Fesnak S, Chen A, Gaines S, Woolford A. : Ultrasound Guidance to Improve First Attempt Success in Children with Predicted Difficult Intravenous Access in the Emergency Department: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Poster presentation at the Pediatric Academic Societies annual meeting, San Francisco, 2017.
Fesnak S, Abbadessa MK, Hayes K, Chilutti, M, Lavelle J, Zorc J, Balamuth F. : Sepsis in complex patients in the Emergency Department: Time to recognition and therapy in patients with high risk conditions. Poster presentation at the Pediatric Academic Societies annual meeting, San Francisco, CA 2017.