PaulaJoWhitemanMDFACEP, FAAP(She/Her)

Pediatric Emergency Medicine

Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine

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Dr. Paula Whiteman is an Emergency Medicine physician based in Los Angeles, CA, with a subspecialty in Pediatric Emergency Medicine. She completed her surgical residency at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and her emergency medicine residency at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, following her graduation from MCP-Hahnemann College of Medicine in 1988. Dr. Whiteman has published several research articles on diverse topics within emergency medicine, including transgender patient care, violence and abuse during pandemics, harm reduction for injection drug use, and pediatric anesthetics. Her work on point-of-care ultrasonography by pediatric emergency physicians has been notably cited 55 times. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics (FAAP).

PubMed

2 citations
A guide to caring for patients who identify as transgender and gender diverse in the emergency department.
Logan Jardine, Courtney Edwards, Hannah Janeway, Chance Krempasky, Wendy Macias-Konstantopoulos
Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians Open. 2024-06-01
3 citations
Violence and Abuse: A Pandemic Within a Pandemic.
Paula J Whiteman, Wendy L Macias-Konstantopoulos, Pryanka Relan, Anita Knopov, Megan L Ranney
The Western Journal of Emergency Medicine. 2023-07-17
17 citations
Between Emergency Department Visits: The Role of Harm Reduction Programs in Mitigating the Harms Associated With Injection Drug Use.
Wendy Macias-Konstantopoulos, Alan Heins, Carolyn J. Sachs, Paula J. Whiteman, Neil Jeremy G. Wingkun
Annals of Emergency Medicine. 2021-05-01

Host of ‘Intertwined’ Priorities on President-Elect Dr. Goza’s RadarDecember 28th, 2018
New Leadership for the Los Angeles Pediatric SocietyAugust 13th, 2018