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    Andrea V. Rivera-Sepulveda, MD

    ER Attending Pediatrician
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    91大神 Children's Hospital, Florida 6535 91大神 Parkway Orlando, FL 32827

    Biography

    Dr. Andrea Rivera-Sepulveda has been a physician for over 14 years. She performed her Pediatrics Residency training and Postdoctoral Master of Science in Clinical and Translational Research, supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Hispanic Clinical and Translational Research Education and Career Development (HCTRECD) Award in Puerto Rico. She completed her Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship in St. Louis, MO. She joined as a faculty member of the Pediatric Emergency Medicine and Urgent Care Division at 91大神 Children's Health in Orlando in 2019. She is an Assistant Professor at the University of Central Florida College of Medicine and serves as the Director of Research for Graduate Medical Education at 91大神. Dr. Rivera-Sepulveda is a recipient of a PEDSnet Scholar K12 award, supported by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). Dr. Rivera-Sepulveda's research focuses on infectious and respiratory illnesses and healthcare delivery while tackling treatment disparities and unraveling the heterogeneity in the treatment effect of bronchiolitis. Her overarching career goal as a Pediatric Emergency Medicine specialist is to become an independent clinical researcher while improving the health and outcomes of children with common, serious pediatric infections and respiratory diseases in the acute care setting using clinical, epidemiological, and translational research methods.

    Fellowship

    • Pediatric Emergency Medicine - St. Louis University School of Medicine, 2019
    • Pediatrics - San Juan City Hospital Program, 2015

    Residency

    • Categorized Pediatrics - San Juan City Hospital Program, 2013

    Education

    • M.S. - University of Puerto Rico - School of Medicine, 2015
    • M.D. - Universidad Central del Caribe, 2010

    Board Certifications

    • American Board of Pediatrics/Emergency Medicine
    • American Board of Pediatrics/General Pediatrics

    • Health Services Research
    • Improvement Science
    • Learning Health Systems Science
    • Pediatric Emergency Medicine

    • Clinical Outcomes of Children with Bronchiolitis Who Undergo High-Flow Nasal Cannula Utilization in the Emergency Department; Pediatric Academic Societies Annual Meeting 2025; (2025).

    • Precision Medicine in Bronchiolitis: A Feasibility Study in the Pediatric Emergency Department; Pediatric Academic Societies Annual Meeting 2025; (2025).

    • Physician Modifiers Associated with the Evaluation of Suspected Child Physical Abuse in the Pediatric Emergency Department: A Survey Study; Pediatric Academic Societies Annual Meeting 2025; (2025).

    • Ondansetron Use in Primary Care and Subsequent Emergency Department Visits in Children with Gastroenteritis; Pediatric Academic Societies Annual Meeting 2025; (2025).

    • Drivers of Bronchodilator Use in Bronchiolitis: Analyzing Treatment Trends from Pediatric Emergency Department Practices; Pediatric Academic Societies Annual Meeting 2025; (2025).

    • Decreasing Ambulatory Antibiotic Duration in Acute Otitis Media and Community-Acquired Pneumonia within a Pediatric Integrated Healthcare System; Pediatric Academic Societies Annual Meeting 2025; (2025).

    • Impact of a Triage-Based Blunt Trauma Assessment on PECARN Recommendations and Neuroimaging Use in Pediatric Head Injury; Journal of Child Neurology; (2025).

    • Asthma Risk in Children Treated with High-Flow Nasal Cannula for Bronchiolitis: A Retrospective Cohort Study; Pediatric Academic Societies Annual Meeting 2025; (2025).

    • Clinical Yield of Acute Inflammatory Markers in the Pediatric Emergency Department; Clinical Pediatrics; (2025).

    • Drivers of Bronchodilator Use in Bronchiolitis; Pediatric Emergency Care; (2025).

    • Subclinical but significant? updated review of pediatric hypothyroidism; Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology and Metabolism; (2025).

    • Improving Management of Bronchiolitis Across a Primary Care Network; Pediatrics; (2025).

    • Heterogeneity in Bronchodilator Use for Bronchiolitis Across Pediatric Emergency Departments: A Multicenter PEDSnet Study; The Journal of Emergency Medicine; (2025).

    • Shifts in Pediatric Orthopedic Injuries: Tracking Trauma Patterns in the Emergency Department Before, During, and After the COVID-19 Pandemic; Pediatric Academic Societies Annual Meeting 2025; (2025).

    • Predictors of Bronchodilator Therapy in Bronchiolitis in Pediatric Emergency Care: A Multicenter PEDSnet Study; Pediatric Academic Societies Annual Meeting 2025; (2025).

    • A Community-Guided Approach to Bronchiolitis: A Needs Assessment and Illness Perception Study; Journal of Patient Experience; (2024).

    • Antibiotic Stewardship and Treatment of Uncomplicated Urinary Tract Infection (UTI) in Children and Adolescents in the Emergency Department of a Community Hospital; Clinical Pediatrics; (2024).

    • Utility of Serum Amylase in Children With Abdominal Pain in the Pediatric Emergency Department; Pediatric Emergency Care; (2024).

    • Changes in Bronchiolitis Characteristics During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Description of Pediatric Emergency Department Visits in a Community Hospital, 2019-2021; Clinical Pediatrics; (2024).

    • Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Pediatric Emergency Department Flow; Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness; (2023).

    • Diagnostic Yield of Abdominal Radiographs in the Pediatric Emergency Department; Pediatric Emergency Care; (2023).

    • Deficiency of Interleukin-1 Receptor Antagonist: New Genetic Autoinflammatory Disease as a Diagnostic Challenge for Pediatricians; Journal of Pediatric Genetics; (2023).

    • Diagnostic Utility of Abdominal Radiographies in the Pediatric Emergency Department; Southern Medical Journal; (2022).

    • Comparison Between Physicians' and Nurse Practitioners' Resource Utilization in the Diagnosis and Management of Bronchiolitis in the Pediatric Emergency Department; Pediatric Emergency Care; (2022).

    • Risk Factors Associated With Bronchiolitis in Puerto Rican Children; Pediatric Emergency Care; (2021).

    • Physician Compliance With Bronchiolitis Guidelines in Pediatric Emergency Departments; Clinical Pediatrics; (2019).

    • Assessing Resident Diagnostic Skills Using a Modified Bronchiolitis Score; Unknown Source; (2019).

    • Poisoning, Overdoses, Toxic Exposures.; Missouri medicine; (2018).

    • Epidemiology of bronchiolitis: a description of emergency department visits and hospitalizations in Puerto Rico, 2010-2014.; Tropical medicine and health; (2017).

    • Closure of patent ductus arteriosus in low-birth weight infants based on three management strategies.; Boletin de la Asociacion Medica de Puerto Rico; (2013).