Joshua S. Easter, MD, MSc

Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine
Program Director, Emergency Medicine Residency Program
Director, Pediatric Emergency Medicine Elective

P.O. Box 800699
Charlottesville, VA 22908-0699
Phone: (434) 924-8485
Fax: (434) 924-2877
E-mail: je9m@uvahealth.org

11/4/2022: Dr. Easter was appointed by Governor Glenn Youngkin to the State Child Fatality Review Team

Education

M.Sc, Clinical Sciences, Colorado Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute, University of Colorado School of Medicine (2013)
Pediatric Emergency Fellow, Division of Emergency Medicine, Children’s Hospital of Boston (2010)
Clinical Effectiveness, School of Public Health, Harvard University (2009)
Residency, Harvard Beth Israel Deaconess Emergency Medicine Residency (2008)
MD, School of Medicine, Duke University (2005)
Clinical Research Fellow, Clinical Research Training Program, National Institute of Health (2004)
BA, Economics and Biology, Williams College (2001)

Clinical and Research Interests

Teaching Clinical Reasoning
Patient Safety and Quality
Clinical Research
Brain Injury
Prediction Models
Decision-Making in the Emergency Department
Pediatric Trauma

Recent Publications

(Book Chapter) Easter Joshua, King Brent. Pediatric Resuscitation. In: Mattu A and Swadron S, ed. CorePendium. Burbank, CA: CorePendium, LLC. https://www.emrap.org/corependium/chapter/recpZbQQpMIbrCNB9/Pediatric-Resuscitation. Updated January 27, 2022.
Easter J, Petruzella F. Updates in pediatric emergency medicine for 2021, American Journal of Emergency Medicine (2021), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajem.2022.02.019
Easter J, Petruzella F. Updates in pediatric emergency medicine for 2021, American Journal of Emergency Medicine, in press.
Petruzella F, Easter J. Pediatric emergency medicine literature 2020, American Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2021 May; 43; 123-133.
King B, Easter J. (2020). Pediatric resuscitation. In Mattu A. et al. (Ed.), Corependium.