Stefanie Ames,
MD, MS
Languages Spoken: English
Dr. Stefanie Ames received her medical degree from Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, completed her Pediatric residency at Primary Children´s Hospital, and her Critical Care Fellowship at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. She was a faculty member at the University of California-Los Angeles prior to joining the faculty at the University of Utah. Dr. Ames is board-certified in Pediatrics and Pediatric Critical Care. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Utah, where she cares for children with critical illness and injury in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit.
Her research interests focus on the organization and delivery of healthcare for children with critical illness and optimizing healthcare to improve patient outcomes. She is interested in understanding and improving care for children with complex critical illness and chronic disease.
Specialties
Board Certification and Academic Information
| Academic Departments | Pediatrics
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Assistant Professor (Clinical) |
| Academic Divisions | Pediatric Critical Care |
| Board Certification | American Board of Pediatrics (Pediatrics) American Board of Pediatrics (Sub: Pediatric Critical Care Medicine) |
Dr. Stefanie Ames received her medical degree from Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, completed her Pediatric residency at Primary Children´s Hospital, and her Critical Care Fellowship at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. She was a faculty member at the University of California-Los Angeles prior to joining the faculty at the University of Utah. Dr. Ames is board-certified in Pediatrics and Pediatric Critical Care. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Utah, where she cares for children with critical illness and injury in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit.
Her research interests focus on the organization and delivery of healthcare for children with critical illness and optimizing healthcare to improve patient outcomes. She is interested in understanding and improving care for children with complex critical illness and chronic disease.
Academic Locations
Williams Building
Board Certification and Academic Information
| Academic Departments | Pediatrics
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Assistant Professor (Clinical) |
| Academic Divisions | Pediatric Critical Care |
| Board Certification | American Board of Pediatrics (Pediatrics) American Board of Pediatrics (Sub: Pediatric Critical Care Medicine) |
Education History
| Fellowship | University of Pittsburgh Clinical Research Investigation and Systems Modeling of Acute Illness Research Fellow, 2018 |
| Fellowship | UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Fellow, 2018 |
| Graduate Training | University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Clinical Research; Health Services Research Track M.S., 2018 |
| Residency | University of Utah School of Medicine Pediatrics Resident, 2015 |
| Professional Medical | Southern Illinois University School of Medicine Medicine M.D., 2012 |
| Undergraduate | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Biochemistry B.S., 2008 |
Selected Publications - Journal Articles
Journal Article
- Ames SG, Davis BS, Marin JR, Fink EL, Olson LM, Gausche-Hill M, Kahn JM (2019). Emergency Department Pediatric Readiness and Mortality in Critically Ill Children. Pediatrics, 144(3).
- Ames SG, Davis BS, Angus DC, Carcillo JA, Kahn JM (2018). Hospital Variation in Risk-Adjusted Pediatric Sepsis Mortality. Pediatr Crit Care Med, 19(5), 390-396.
- 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.
Editorial
- Ames SG, Watson RS, Fink EL (2019). Return to Ambulation After Pediatric Liver Transplantation: A First "Step" in Assessing the Impact of Early Mobility. Pediatr Crit Care Med, 20(2), 209-211.
- Ames SG, Horvat CM, Zaritsky A, Carcillo JA (2018). The path to great pediatric septic shock outcomes. Crit Care, 22(1), 224.