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UC Davis Health System

Nathan Kuppermann, M.D., M.P.H.

Nathan Kuppermann

Clinical/Research Interests

From neonatal resuscitation to sports injuries, Nathan Kuppermann's expertise covers the full spectrum of pediatric emergencies. He has lectured widely on emergency evaluation of febrile children and treatment of pediatric bacterial infections. As a research director for the Department of Emergency Medicine, his studies focus on epidemiology of meningococcal disease in children, laboratory evaluation of pediatric trauma patients, radiography of the cervical spine in pediatric trauma, and pediatric diabetic ketoacidosis and risk of cerebral edema. Kuppermann chairs the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Pediatric Emergency Medicine Collaborative Research Committee.

Title:

 Professor
Chair of Emergency Medicine

Specialty:

 Pediatric Emergency Medicine

Center/Program Affiliation:

 UC Davis Children's Hospital

Other Languages:

 Hebrew, Portuguese, Spanish

Education:

 UC San Francisco School of Medicine
San Francisco, California
M.D. 1985

Harvard University School of Public Health
Boston, Massachusetts
M.P.H. 1993

Stanford University
Palo Alto, California
B.S. 1981

Residency:

 Harbor-University of California, Los Angeles Medical Center
Torrance, California
1985-90
Pediatrics

Fellowships:

 Children's Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts
1990-93
Pediatric Emergency Medicine

Board Certifications:

 American Board of Pediatrics, Pediatric Emergency Medicine, 1994

Professional Memberships:

 Ambulatory Pediatric Association
American College of Emergency Physicians
American Pediatric Society
Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
Western Society for Pediatric Research

Select Recent Publications:

Miller SZ, Rincon H, Kuppermann N. Revisiting the EMS-C Research Agenda: A Review and Re-prioritization for the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN). Acad Emerg Med 2008;15:377-383.

Quiros J, Marcin J, Kuppermann N, Nazrollahzadeh F, Rewers A, DiCarlo J, Neely EK, Glaser N. Elevated Serum Amylase and Lipase in Pediatric Diabetic Ketoacidosis. Pediatr Crit Care 2008;9:418-22.

Kuppermann N, Park J, Glatter K, Marcin J, Glaser N. Prolonged QTc Interval During Diabetic Ketoacidosis in Children. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 2008;162(6):544-9.

Corneli H, Zorc J, Holubkov R, Kuppermann N. The Admission Decision in Bronchiolitis. Acad Emerg Med 2008;15:S151.

Kuppermann N, Holmes JF, Dayan P, Hoyle J, Atabaki S, Monroe D, Bachman M, Nadel F, Glass T, Mahajan P, Cooper A, Stanley R, Dong L, for the PECARN TBI Study Group. Does Isolated Loss of Consciousness Predict Traumatic Brain Injury in Children after Blunt Head Trauma? Acad Emerg Med 2008;15:S82.

Dayan P, Holmes JF, Atabaki S, Hoyle J, Tunik M, Lichenstein R, Holubkov R, Kuppermann N, for the PECARN TBI Study Group. Association of Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI) in Children after Blunt Head Trauma with Degree of Isolated Headache or Isolated Vomiting. Acad Emerg Med 2008;15:S175-6.

Nigrovic L., Kuppermann N, Macias C, et al for the Pediatric Emergency Medicine Collaborative Research Committee of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Multi-center Validation of a Clinical Prediction Rule for Identifying Children with CSF Pleocytosis at Very Low Risk of Bacterial Meningitis. JAMA 2007;297:52-60.

Edwards P, Fernandes J, Roberts I, Kuppermann N. Risk Factors for Loss to Follow up in Clinical Trials in Head Injury. J Clin Epidemiol 2007;60:417-424.

Wootton-Gorges S, Buonocore M, Kuppermann N, Marcin J, Barnes P, Neely EK, DiCarlo J, McCarthy T, Glaser N. Cerebral Proton Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy in Children with Diabetic Ketoacidosis, Am J Neuroradiol 2007;28:895-899.

Blackwell C, Gorelick M, Holmes J, Bandyopadhyay S, Kuppermann N. Pediatric Head Trauma: Changes in Evaluation and Management in Emergency Departments in the United States over Time. Ann Emerg Med 2007;49:320-324.