Caleb Ward, MB BChir, MPH (he/him/his)

Associate Research Director, Division of Emergency Medicine

Children's National Hospital

EMSC-DC Program Director

Associate Professor of Pediatrics & Emergency Medicine

The George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences

Dr. Ward is a pediatric emergency medicine physician-scientist at Children's National Hospital and an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences. Dr. Ward's research focus is the pre-hospital care of sick and injured children by Emergency Medical Services (EMS). He aims to develop evidence-based alternative dispositions for children accessing the EMS system with non-emergent complaints. His preliminary grant-funded studies have used qualitative and quantitative methods to describe the national epidemiology of pediatric EMS use and explore stakeholder perspectives on alternative disposition models. He is working towards developing an evidence-based EMS triage tool to identify children who can be safely managed without ambulance transport to the hospital. Dr. Ward is a site principal investigator on several multi-site EMS studies through the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN).

Dr. Ward received his medical degree from the University of Cambridge before completing his pediatric residency at Johns Hopkins. He completed his clinical fellowship in pediatric emergency medicine at Children's National Hospital. Dr. Ward serves as the Principal Investigator for the HRSA-funded Emergency Medical Services for Children (EMSC) State Partnership Grant for Washington DC and Chair of the EMS Committee at the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). He regularly uses data generated from his research in health policy and advocacy efforts to improve the care of children receiving out-of-hospital care from EMS.