Ran D. Goldman MD

Ran D. Goldman, MD is the Chief of the Pediatric Emergency at the BC Children’s Hospital in Vancouver. He is a Pediatric Emergency Physician who was trained in Pediatrics and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto and was Staff physician at SickKids for 5 years until May 2007 when he moved to Vancouver. He is the Director of the Pediatric Research in Emergency Therapeutics (PRETx) research program and concentrates on education and research in the area of evidence-based therapeutics for children with acute illness. Dr. Goldman is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of British Columbia and a Senior Clinical Investigator at the BC Children’s Research Institute. Dr. Goldman had published over 100 peer-reviewed papers in the medical literature and his research includes several large epidemiological studies and trials in the areas of pain and sedation in children. He recently led the Pediatric Emergency Research of Canada network on a study of the determinants of fever in young infants.