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Rebecca Burger

  • SOM: Peds: Emergency Medicine
    Associate Professor
  • beckyburger@emory.edu
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Academic Appointment

  • Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine
  • Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine

Education

Degrees

  • MD from Rush Medical College, Chicago
  • BA from Washington University in St. Louis, St Louis

Research

Publications

  • Comparison of Procedural Sedation Outcomes inChildren With and Without Autism SpectrumDisorder.
    Hosp Pediatr Volume: 15 Page(s): 398 - 406
    05/01/2025 Authors: Kannikeswaran N; Roback MG; Burger RK; Barrowman N; Sucha E; Bhatt M
  • Strategies for successful research recruitment and program implementation in pediatric emergency medicine.
    Acad Emerg Med
    04/11/2025 Authors: Calamaro JG; Hatabah D; Benedit L; Abdallah C; Akinsola B; Berkowtiz T; Bora N; Burger RK; Bryant JE; Cameron MN
  • Research priorities for pediatric pain management in emergency medicine.
    Acad Emerg Med
    04/03/2025 Authors: Tsze DS; Burger RK; Klein EJ; Chang TP; Uspal NG; Guiner-da Silva A; Browne LR; Coleman KD; Chumpitazi CE; Drendel AL
  • PECARN prediction rule for cervical spine imaging of children presenting to the emergency department with blunt trauma: a multicentre prospective observational study.
    Lancet Child Adolesc Health Volume: 8 Page(s): 482 - 490
    07/01/2024 Authors: Leonard JC; Harding M; Cook LJ; Leonard JR; Adelgais KM; Ahmad FA; Browne LR; Burger RK; Chaudhari PP; Corwin DJ
  • Regional Anesthesia as an Alternative to Procedural Sedation for Forearm Fracture Reductions in the Pediatric Emergency Department.
    Pediatr Emerg Care Volume: 40 Page(s): 83 - 87
    02/01/2024 Authors: Sulton CD; Fletcher N; Murphy J; Gillespie S; Burger RK
  • Sexually Transmitted Infection Diagnoses at Children's Hospitals During COVID-19.
    Hosp Pediatr Volume: 14 Page(s): e1 - e5
    01/01/2024 Authors: Masonbrink AR; Abella M; Hall M; Gooding HC; Burger RK; Goyal MK
  • Impact of a Faster Computed Tomography Scanner on Sedation for Pediatric Head Computed Tomography Scans in 2 Large Emergency Departments-A Retrospective Study.
    Pediatr Emerg Care Volume: 39 Page(s): e6 - e10
    01/01/2023 Authors: Burger RK; Figueroa J; Parikh AK; Riedesel EL
  • Substance Use Disorder Visits Among Adolescents at Children's Hospitals During COVID-19.
    J Adolesc Health Volume: 70 Page(s): 673 - 676
    04/01/2022 Authors: Masonbrink AR; Middlebrooks L; Gooding HC; Abella M; Hall M; Burger RK; Goyal MK
  • Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship Procedural Sedation Training: Consensus Educational Guidelines.
    Pediatr Emerg Care Volume: 38 Page(s): 162 - 166
    04/01/2022 Authors: Burger RK; Taylor TR; Chumpitazi CE; Robinson LC; Sims MJ; Tunc EM; Mulcrone AE; Caglar D; Sulton CD; Little-Wienert K
  • "Pain in the Neck": Acute-Onset Neck Pain in an Adolescent Girl.
    Pediatr Rev Volume: 42 Page(s): 702 - 705
    12/01/2021 Authors: Greenbaum R; Burger RK; Gadde JA
  • Sedatives used in children to obtain head CT in the emergency department.
    Am J Emerg Med Volume: 44 Page(s): 198 - 202
    06/01/2021 Authors: Burger RK; Figueroa J; McCracken C; Mallory MD; Kamat PP
  • Evaluation of pediatric procedural sedation education in pediatric emergency medicine fellowships.
    Medicine (Baltimore) Volume: 100 Page(s): e24690
    02/12/2021 Authors: Sulton CD; Burger RK; Figueroa J; Taylor TR
  • Psychiatric and Behavioral Causes of Altered Mental Status.
    Pediatr Ann Volume: 48 Page(s): e201 - e204
    05/01/2019 Authors: Allen CE; Burger RK
  • Neurologic complaints in young children in the ED: when is cranial computed tomography helpful?
    Am J Emerg Med Volume: 30 Page(s): 1507 - 1514
    10/01/2012 Authors: Lateef TM; Kriss R; Carpenter K; Nelson KB
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