Stephanie L. Spanos, M.D.

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Stephanie Spanos, MD, graduated from the University of Virginia, and received her medical degree from Eastern Virginia Medical School. She completed residency in Pediatrics at Kosair Children's Hospital, University of Louisville, Kentucky; and fellowship in Pediatric Emergency Medicine at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati, Ohio. She is board certified in Pediatrics and Pediatric Emergency Medicine.

She is currently an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and joined the faculty at the University of Utah School of Medicine and Primary Children's Hospital in July of 2010. Previously she was an attending physician at Denver Children's and Cincinnati Children's Hospitals.

Her clinical and research interests include pain management and patient safety, as well as simulation.

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Academic Bio

Stephanie Spanos, M.D., received her undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia; her medical degree from Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, Virginia; completed her Pediatric residency at Kosair Children´s Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky; and her Pediatric Emergency Medicine fellowship at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. She was on the faculty at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital and Denver Children’s Hospital prior to joining Primary Children’s Medical Center. Dr. Spanos is board-certified in Pediatrics and Pediatric Emergency Medicine.

She is currently an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Utah and is in the Division of Emergency Medicine at Primary Children´s Medical Center. Her specific clinical interests are in quality improvement, pain management, and simulation in healthcare. In addition to working as an attending in the Pediatric Emergency Room at Primary Children’s Hospital, Dr. Spanos is a staff member of the PCMC Simulation Center and participates in the education of fellow and resident physicians.

Her academic interests include using simulation for quality improvement, education, research, and outreach. She has previously performed research and published papers on cardiac dysrhythmia resuscitation by resident physicians in a simulation scenario, as well as utilizing the JtipR jet injector for local anesthesia prior to IV insertion.

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