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Ruth Hwu

  • Department of Pediatrics
    Assistant Professor
  • ruth.hwu@emory.edu
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Academic Appointment

  • Adjunct Assistant Professor, Neil Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing at Emory University
  • Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine
  • Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine

Education

Degrees

  • MD from Mount Sinai School of Medicine
  • BS from Emory University School of Medicine

Research

Focus

  • Multicenter Resuscitation Collaborative

    I am participating in a multi-center collaborative (Lurie, Nationwide, and Children's Nationa) to create a database of children requiring critical care and/or interventions in the pediatric emergency departments to help better characterize this population in order to identify areas of need for improvement
  • Massive Transfusion Protocol in Pediatric Trauma

    The goal of this QI project is to develop a dosing algorithm for blood products within our MTP and also use computer-based-training in order to improve the knowledge and ratio of blood products given during acute hemorrhage in the pediatric patient.
  • Emergency Department Simulation Team Training

    Research has focused on the use of simulation in the improvement of multidisciplinary teamwork in the resusciation of critically ill children. The projects have focused on debriefing methods, needs assessment for latent safety threats, identifying areas that can addressed to improve outcomes in cardiac arrest.

Publications

  • Use of insitu simulation to improve team performance and utilization of a rapid sequence intubation checklist.
    AEM Educ Train Volume: 8 Page(s): e11039
    12/01/2024 Authors: Waters KM; Hwu R; Kulkarni M; Okonye J; Zamor R; Chaudhary S; Jergel A; Gillespie S; Lewis A; Krieger R
  • Debriefer cognitive load during Traditional Reflective Debriefing vs. Rapid Cycle Deliberate Practice interdisciplinary team training.
    Adv Simul (Lond) Volume: 9 Page(s): 23
    06/04/2024 Authors: Wiltrakis S; Hwu R; Holmes S; Iyer S; Goodwin N; Mathai C; Gillespie S; Hebbar KB; Colman N
  • A comparison of rapid cycle deliberate practice and traditional reflective debriefing on interprofessional team performance.
    BMC Med Educ Volume: 24 Page(s): 122
    02/07/2024 Authors: Colman N; Wiltrakis SM; Holmes S; Hwu R; Iyer S; Goodwin N; Mathai C; Gillespie S; Hebbar KB
  • Reprint of: Adolescent with leg rash.
    Dis Mon Volume: 68 Page(s): 101387
    09/01/2022 Authors: Okeson K; Hwu R; Gutierrez P
  • SAEM Clnical Image Series: Eye Injury

    11/02/2020 Authors: Jauch T; Hwu R
  • The effect of massive transfusion protocol implementation on pediatric trauma care.
    Transfusion Volume: 56 Page(s): 2712 - 2719
    11/01/2016 Authors: Hwu RS; Spinella PC; Keller MS; Baker D; Wallendorf M; Leonard JC
  • Temporal disintegration in depersonalization disorder.
    J Trauma Dissociation Volume: 8 Page(s): 11 - 24
    01/01/2007 Authors: Simeon D; Hwu R; Knutelska M
  • Entamoeba histolytica: FYVE-finger domains, phosphatidylinositol 3-phosphate biosensors, associate with phagosomes but not fluid filled endosomes.
    Exp Parasitol Volume: 112 Page(s): 221 - 231
    04/01/2006 Authors: Powell RR; Welter BH; Hwu R; Bowersox B; Attaway C; Temesvari LA
  • Combat Training and COVID-19

    Authors: Maier D
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