Dr. Lane received her medical degree in Los Angeles from the University of California. She completed her Pediatric residency at Golisano (Strong) Children´s Hospital, University of Rochester, New York, and her Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship at the University of Utah. She was a full-time pediatrician at Gallup Indian Medical Center in Gallup, New Mexico for four years before starting her fellowship. Dr. Lane is board-certified in Pediatrics and Pediatric Emergency Medicine (PEM).
She is currently an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Utah and is in the Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine at Primary Children’s Hospital. She is the medical director of the PCH Emergency Department Septic Shock program. Her specific clinical interests include improving the recognition and management of children with septic shock. As a co-lead of the Intermountain Pediatric Sepsis Program, she is involved with local, regional, and national efforts to improve timely recognition and management of children with suspected septic shock and has a longer term goal of disseminating the effort in emergency departments throughout Intermountain and potentially to other clinics and hospitals. She serves on several national collaboratives and committees focusing on pediatric sepsis. Her other academic interests include quality/healthcare improvement, procedural sedation and anaphylaxis management in the ED.
She has served as the Pediatric Emergency Medicine Quality and Safety medical director since 2017. In this role she leads the division's Quality Improvement, Patient Safety (QuIPS) conference (previously Morbidity and Mortality) and the QuIPS pre-screen meeting. She developed and organized a QI educational curriculum for the division's fellows and members. Since her time in Gallup, she has had a keen interest in developing clinical care guidelines to improve and standardize patient care and enhance efficiency. She has mentored several PEM fellows through a variety of QI projects over the past 15+ years.