Jennifer K. Workman,
MD
Languages Spoken: English, Spanish
Dr. Workman received her medical degree from the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. She completed both her Pediatric residency training and Pediatric Critical Care fellowship at the University of Utah/Primary Children’s Hospital. Dr. Workman is board certified in Pediatrics and Pediatric Critical Care. Dr. Workman is currently an attending physician in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at Primary Children’s Hospital where she cares for children with a wide variety of critical illnesses and injuries.
Clinical Locations
Primary Children's Hospital
Specialties
Board Certification and Academic Information
| Academic Departments | Pediatrics
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Assistant Professor |
| Academic Divisions | Pediatric Critical Care |
| Board Certification | American Board of Pediatrics (Pediatrics) American Board of Pediatrics (Sub: Pediatric Critical Care Medicine) |
Dr. Workman received her medical degree from the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. She completed both her Pediatric residency training and Pediatric Critical Care fellowship at the University of Utah/Primary Children’s Hospital. Dr. Workman is board certified in Pediatrics and Pediatric Critical Care. Dr. Workman is currently an attending physician in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at Primary Children’s Hospital where she cares for children with a wide variety of critical illnesses and injuries.
Academic Locations
Research Statement
Dr. Workman received her undergraduate degree from Middlebury College and her medical degree from the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. She completed both her Pediatric residency training and Pediatric Critical Care fellowship at the University of Utah and Primary Children’s Hospital. During her critical care training, Dr. Workman also pursued advanced research training and received an M.S. in Clinical Invesitgation from the University of Utah. She joined the faculty at the University of Utah in 2014 and is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics. Dr. Workman’s research interests are in health services research, focusing on the process of healthcare delivery as a means of determining optimal patient care that is efficient, cost-effective, and translates to improved healthcare value. Her current work focuses on improving recognition and treatment of pediatric septic shock throughout the continuum of care.
Board Certification and Academic Information
| Academic Departments | Pediatrics
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Assistant Professor |
| Academic Divisions | Pediatric Critical Care |
| Board Certification | American Board of Pediatrics (Pediatrics) American Board of Pediatrics (Sub: Pediatric Critical Care Medicine) |
Education History
| Graduate Training | University of Utah School of Medicine Clinical Investigation M.S., 2016 |
| Fellowship | University of Utah School of Medicine Pediatric Critical Care Fellow, 2014 |
| Internship/Residency | University of Utah School of Medicine Pediatrics Intern/Resident, 2011 |
| Professional Medical | Dartmouth Medical School Medicine M.D., 2008 |
| Undergraduate | Middlebury College Neuroscience B.A., 2002 |
Selected Publications - Journal Articles
Journal Article
- Sawicki JG, Tower D, Vukin E, Workman JK, Stoddard GJ, Burch M, Bracken DR, Hall B, Henricksen JW (2021). Association Between Rapid Response Algorithms and Clinical Outcomes of Hospitalized Children. Hosp Pediatr, 11(12), 1385-1394.
- Workman JK, Chambers A, Miller C, Larsen GY, Lane RD (2021). Best practices in pediatric sepsis: building and sustaining an evidence-based pediatric sepsis quality improvement program. Hosp Pract (1995), 49, 1-9.
- Paul R, Niedner M, Brilli R, Macias C, Riggs R, Balamuth F, Depinet H, Larsen G, Huskins C, Scott H, Lucasiewicz G, Schaffer M, DeSouza HG, Silver P, Richardson T, Hueschen L, Campbell D, Wathen B, Auletta JJ, IPSO COLLABORATIVE INVESTIGATORS (2021). Metric Development for the Multicenter Improving Pediatric Sepsis Outcomes (IPSO) Collaborative. Pediatrics.
- Harrison WN, Workman JK, Bonafide CP, Lockwood JM (2020). Surviving Sepsis Screening: The Unintended Consequences of Continuous Surveillance. Hosp Pediatr, 10(12), e14-e17.
- Scott HF, Brilli RJ, Paul R, Macias CG, Niedner M, Depinet H, Richardson T, Riggs R, Gruhler H, Larsen GY, Huskins WC, Balamuth F, Improving Pediatric Sepsis Outcomes IPSO Collaborative Investigators (2021). Evaluating Pediatric Sepsis Definitions Designed for Electronic Health Record Extraction and Multicenter Quality Improvement. Crit Care Med, 48(10), e916-e926.
- Lane RD, Olson J, Reeder R, Miller B, Workman JK, Thorell EA, Larsen GY (2020). Antibiotic Timing in Pediatric Septic Shock. Hosp Pediatr, 10(4), 311-317.
- Workman JK, Bailly DK, Reeder RW, Dalton HJ, Berg RA, Shanley TP, Newth CJL, Pollack MM, Wessel D, Carcillo J, Harrison R, Dean JM, Meert KL, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development NICHD Collaborative Pediatric Critical Care Research Network CPCCRN (2020). Risk Factors for Mortality in Refractory Pediatric Septic Shock Supported with Extracorporeal Life Support. ASAIO J.
- Aljabari S, Balch A, Larsen GY, Fluchel M, Workman JK (2018). Severe Sepsis-Associated Morbidity and Mortality among Critically Ill Children with Cancer. J Pediatr Intensive Care, 8(3), 122-129.
- Workman JK, Wilkes J, Presson AP, Xu Y, Heflin JA, Smith JT (2018). Variation in Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis Surgery: Implications for Improving Healthcare Value. J Pediatr, 195, 213-219.e3.
- Ames SG, Workman JK, Olson JA, Korgenski EK, Masotti S, Knackstedt ED, Bratton SL, Larsen GY (2015). Infectious Etiologies and Patient Outcomes in Pediatric Septic Shock. J Pediatric Infect Dis Soc, 6(1), 80-86.
- Workman JK, Ames SG, Reeder RW, Korgenski EK, Masotti SM, Bratton SL, Larsen GY (2016). Treatment of Pediatric Septic Shock With the Surviving Sepsis Campaign Guidelines and PICU Patient Outcomes. Pediatr Crit Care Med, 17(10), e451-e458.
- Workman JK, Myrick CW, Meyers RL, Bratton SL, Nakagawa TA (2013). Pediatric organ donation and transplantation. Pediatrics, 131(6), e1723-30.
- Parfitt DB, Levin JK, Saltstein KP, Klayman AS, Greer LM, Helmreich DL (2004). Differential early rearing environments can accentuate or attenuate the responses to stress in male C57BL/6 mice. Brain Res, 1016(1), 111-8.
Review
Book Chapter
- Susan L, Bratton, and Jennifer Workman (2017). Comorbidities among Pediatric Patients with Respiratory Failure on ECLS. In Thomas V. Brogan, Laurence Lequier, Roberto Lorusso, Graeme MacLaren, and Giles Peek (Eds.), Extracorporeal Life Support: The ELSO Red Book (5th Edition). Ann Arbor, Michigan: Extracorporeal Life Support Organization.
Commentary
- Workman J and Bratton S (2016). Review for: Mortality after burn injury in children: a 33-year population based study. 2015. Cabana, Michael (eds.).
- Workman JK (2013). IV Acetaminophen Decreases Narcotic Need in Infants After Surgery. 29(5), 50.
Editorial
- Workman JK, Larsen GY (2017). The Most Vulnerable SPROUTs: Severe Sepsis in the Pediatric Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation Population. Pediatr Crit Care Med, 18(12), 1179-1180.
- Workman JK, Bratton SL (2017). Pediatric tracheostomy: perhaps good things come to those who do not wait. Minerva Anestesiol, 83(8), 787-789.
- Workman JK, Larsen GY (2017). Searching for a Pediatric Severe Sepsis Phenotype: Are We There Yet? Pediatr Crit Care Med, 18(1), 82-83.
Abstract
- Workman JK, Balch AH, Korgenski K, Rubin MA, Keenan HT, Srivastava R (April, 2019). Pediatric septic shock treatment in the community hospital emergency department [Abstract]. E-PAS2019:112.
- Workman JK, Korgenski K, Chan EF, Lane RD, Larsen GY, Srivastava R, Rubin MA (2018). Accuracy of Diagnostic Codes in Identifying Pediatric Septic Shock Patients [Abstract]. E-PAS2018:725, E-PAS2018:725.
- Whitney Kopp, Jennifer Workman, Ron Reeder, Susan Bratton, Gitte Larsen (December 2015). Respiratory Support in Pediatric Patients Presenting with Septic Shock [Abstract]. Critical Care Medicine, 43(12(Supplement)), 1085.
- Stefanie G Ames, Jennifer K Workman, Jared A Olson, E Kent Korgenski, Elizabeth H Doby, Susan L, Bratton, Gitte Y Larsen (2014). Identification of Pediatric Septic Shock in the Emergency Department Requiring Intensive Care: Infectious Etiologies and Outcomes. [Abstract]. Pediatric Academic Societies Annual Meeting, Vancouver, Brittish Columbia. May 2014.
- Workman J, Ames S, Korgenski K, Masotti S, Bratton S, Larsen G (2014). Effect of early, aggressive pediatric septic shock treatment on PICU patient outcomes [Abstract]. Pediatric Academic Societies Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
- Levin J, Myrick C, Bratton S, Nakagawa T (2012). Trends in pediatric donation after circulatory determination of death; abstract accepted for poster presentation at the Society of Critical Care Medicine’s 42nd Critical Care Congress, San Juan, Puerto Rico, January 2013 [Abstract]. Critical Care Medicine, 40(12).
- Bruggers C, Afify Z, Levin J (2012). Impact of osteonecrosis on quality of life in survivors of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia [Abstract]. American Society of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology 25th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA.
- Levin J, Helmreich D, Parfitt D (2001). The effect of the early rearing environment on the behavioral and physiological response to stress in the C57BL/6 mouse [Abstract]. Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA.