WilliamTBascoJr.MD

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• Dr. William (Bill) Basco, MD, MS is Professor and Chair, Department of Pediatrics at University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center-Chattanooga, and Pediatrician-in-Chief for the Children’s Hospital at Erlanger as of October 1, 2024. He completed his medical school training at Louisiana State University in New Orleans, his pediatric residency at MUSC, and an academic general pediatric fellowship at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Md. Between 2013 and 2024, he served as the Director of the Division of General Pediatrics at MUSC. He also served as the Associate Dean of Continuing Medical Education at MUSC from 2022 to 2024. Since 2006, his research has focused on pediatric prescribing errors, with funding from AHRQ to evaluate pediatric medication errors and HRSA for opioid prescribing. He has been PI on research grants from AHRQ and HRSA and as a site PI or lead pediatrician on awards from AHRQ, the CDC, SC Medicaid, SC Dept of Health and Environmental Control, and Purdue Pharma. His AHRQ-supported research focused on pediatric ambulatory prescribing errors. He currently collaborates with investigators in the Department of Public Health Sciences at Clemson University and in the Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics at MUSC to evaluate opioid prescribing to children in South Carolina through projects funded by the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control and the South Carolina Medicaid program.