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    Amy D. Thompson, MD

    ER Attending Pediatrician
    Provider Profile

    波色单双 Hospital, Delaware 1600 Rockland Road Wilmington, DE 19803

    Biography

    Amy D. Thompson, MD is a clinical researcher, associate fellowship director and physician of emergency medicine at 波色单双 Hospital. She is a Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Sydney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University. Dr. Thompson received her bachelor's degree in biology from The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, VA. She completed her medical degree at Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, VA. Dr. Thompson completed her internship and residency in pediatrics at Children's National Medical Center in Washington, DC, winning the Doctor Maynard I. Cohen Memorial Award. Her pediatric emergency medicine fellowship was completed at Boston Children's Hospital. Dr. Thompson has been an attending physician at 波色单双 Hospital since 2009. During her time at Nemours, she has won both the annual Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award and the Faculty Reseach Excellence Award. Dr. Thompson has served as both the site PI and steering member of the AAP SOEM research organization, the PEM CRC. She has also been involved in additional grant funded multicenter projects studying bronchiolitis, seizures and Lyme Disease. Currently she serves as the site PI for Pedi Lyme Net.

    Fellowship

    • Emergency Medicine - Children's Hospital Boston/Harvard University, 2009

    Residency

    • Pediatrics - Children's National Medical Center, 2006

    Education

    • M.D. - Eastern Virginia Medical School, 2003

    Board Certifications

    • American Board of Pediatrics/Emergency Medicine
    • American Board of Pediatrics/General Pediatrics

    • Lyme Disease
    • Medical Education
    • Pediatric Emergency Medicine

    • Validation of Septic Knee Monoarthritis Prediction Rule in a Lyme Disease Endemic Area.; Pediatric emergency care; (2022).

    • Omphalitis and Concurrent Serious Bacterial Infection. ; Pediatrics; (2022).

    • A Clinical Prediction Rule for Bacterial Musculoskeletal Infections in Children with Monoarthritis in Lyme Endemic Regions.; Annals of emergency medicine; (2022).

    • Empiric antibiotics for children with suspected Lyme disease.; Ticks and tick-borne diseases; (2022).

    • Racial differences in the diagnosis of Lyme disease in children.; Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America; (2022).

    • Outcomes of patients discharged from the pediatric emergency department with abnormal vital signs.; The American journal of emergency medicine; (2022).

    • Two-Tier Lyme Disease Serology in Children with Previous Lyme Disease.; Vector borne and zoonotic diseases (Larchmont, N.Y.); (2021).

    • Seasonality of Acute Lyme Disease in Children. ; Tropical medicine and infectious disease; (2021).

    • Neonatal Mastitis and Concurrent Serious Bacterial Infection. ; Pediatrics; (2021).

    • Electrocardiogram as a Lyme Disease Screening Test.; The Journal of pediatrics; (2021).

    • Treatment of suspected sepsis and septic shock in children with chronic disease seen in the pediatric emergency department.; The American journal of emergency medicine; (2021).

    • Research environment and resources to support pediatric emergency medicine fellow research.; AEM education and training; (2021).

    • Predictors of Invasive Herpes Simplex Virus Infection in Young Infants. ; Pediatrics; (2021).

    • Pediatric Lyme Disease Biobank, United States, 2015-2020.; Emerging infectious diseases; (2020).

    • Invasive Bacterial Infections in Afebrile Infants Diagnosed With Acute Otitis Media. ; Pediatrics; (2020).

    • Exhaled end-tidal carbon dioxide as a predictor of lactate and pediatric sepsis.; The American journal of emergency medicine; (2020).

    • Performance of the Modified Boston and Philadelphia Criteria for Invasive Bacterial Infections. ; Pediatrics; (2020).

    • The Champagne Tap: Time to Pop the Cork?; Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine; (2020).

    • Application of the Bacterial Meningitis Score for Infants Aged 0 to 60 Days.; Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society; (2019).

    • Potential selection bias when subjects were excluded because of missing values.; The American journal of emergency medicine; (2019).

    • Is lactic acidosis predictive of outcomes in pediatric diabetic ketoacidosis?; The American journal of emergency medicine; (2019).

    • A Call to Restore Your Calling: Self-care of the Emergency Physician in the Face of Life-Changing Stress-Part 1 of 6.; Pediatric emergency care; (2019).

    • A Call to Restore Your Calling: Self-Care of the Emergency Physician in the Face of Life-Changing Stress-Part 3 of 6: Physician Illness and Impairment.; Pediatric emergency care; (2019).

    • Utility of applying white blood cell cutoffs to non-diagnostic MRI and ultrasound studies for suspected pediatric appendicitis.; The American journal of emergency medicine; (2018).

    • Herpes Simplex Virus Infection in Infants Undergoing Meningitis Evaluation.; Pediatrics; (2018).

    • Correction of Cerebrospinal Fluid Protein in Infants With Traumatic Lumbar Punctures.; The Pediatric infectious disease journal; (2017).

    • Impact of Enteroviral Polymerase Chain Reaction Testing on Length of Stay for Infants 60 Days Old or Younger.; The Journal of pediatrics; (2017).

    • Nasal Airway Microbiota Profile and Severe Bronchiolitis in Infants: A Case-control Study.; The Pediatric infectious disease journal; (2017).

    • Multicenter Observational Study of the Use of Nebulized Hypertonic Saline to Treat Children Hospitalized for Bronchiolitis From 2008 to 2014. ; Hospital pediatrics; (2017).

    • The Fecal Microbiota Profile and Bronchiolitis in Infants. ; Pediatrics; (2016).

    • The Impact of High-Profile Sexual Abuse Cases in the Media on a Pediatric Emergency Department.; Journal of child sexual abuse; (2016).

    • Enteroviral testing and length of hospital stay for children evaluated for lyme meningitis.; The Journal of emergency medicine; (2013).

    • Electrocardiograph Abnormalities in Children With Lyme Meningitis.; Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society; (2012).

    • Treatment complications in children with lyme meningitis.; The Pediatric infectious disease journal; (2012).

    • Integrating spatial epidemiology into a decision model for evaluation of facial palsy in children.; Archives of pediatrics & adolescent medicine; (2011).

    • Validation of a clinical prediction rule to distinguish Lyme meningitis from aseptic meningitis.; Pediatrics; (2011).

    • Clinical predictors of Lyme disease among children with a peripheral facial palsy at an emergency department in a Lyme disease-endemic area.; Pediatrics; (2008).