Esther H. Chen, MD
Professor
Emergency Medicine
School of Medicine

After receiving her undergraduate degree in biological sciences from Stanford University, Chen earned her medical degree from the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University. She completed her residency in emergency medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

• An Injury Mitigation Program Highlights the Importance of Adhering to Current Infection Control Policies.
  Joint Commission journal on quality and patient safety 2022 Chen EH, Addo N, Cohen G
• Helping the learner to deal with microaggressions in the workplace: Individual, programmatic, and institutional-level responses.
  AEM education and training 2021 Miller DT, Chen EH
• Can COVID-19 Cause You to Skip a Beat?
  Annals of emergency medicine 2021 Breyre A, Tabas J, Chen EH
• Caring for Transgender Patients: Complications of Gender-Affirming Genital Surgeries.
  Annals of emergency medicine 2021 Hanley K, Wittenberg H, Gurjala D, Safir MH, Chen EH
• Financial Incentives to Enhance Participation of Resident Physicians in Hospital-Based Quality Improvement Projects.
  Joint Commission journal on quality and patient safety 2021 Chen EH, Losak MJ, Hernandez A, Addo N, Huen W, Mercer MP
• Shared Decision Making for the Emergency Provider: Engaging Patients When Seconds Count.
  MedEdPORTAL : the journal of teaching and learning resources 2020 Kanzaria HK, Chen EH
• An Institutional Approach to Fostering Inclusion and Addressing Racial Bias: Implications for Diversity in Academic Medicine.
  Teaching and learning in medicine 2019 Diaz T, Navarro JR, Chen EH
• Embracing FOAM as an Academic Community.
  AEM education and training 2019 Munz N, Chen EH
• L&D in the ED: A Game-Based Approach to Learning High-Risk Obstetric Emergencies.
  MedEdPORTAL : the journal of teaching and learning resources 2019 Silverio LM, Chen EH
• Does the Flipped Classroom Improve Learning in Graduate Medical Education?
  Journal of graduate medical education 2017 Riddell J, Jhun P, Fung CC, Comes J, Sawtelle S, Tabatabai R, Joseph D, Shoenberger J, Chen E, Fee C, Swadron SP
• Dissemination and Implementation of Shared Decision Making Into Clinical Practice: A Research Agenda.
  Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine 2016 Kanzaria HK, Booker-Vaughns J, Itakura K, Yadav K, Kane BG, Gayer C, Lin G, LeBlanc A, Gibson R, Chen EH, Williams P, Carpenter CR
• The Role of Education in the Implementation of Shared Decision Making in Emergency Medicine: A Research Agenda.
  Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine 2016 Chen EH, Kanzaria HK, Itakura K, Booker-Vaughns J, Yadav K, Kane BG
• TF9 Video Self-Assessment: Describing Resident Experience.
  Annals of Emergency Medicine 2016 V. Madia, J. Mongelluzzo, E. Chen, C. Fee, P. O'Sullivan
• Low Back Pain in the Emergency Medicine Department: A Flipped Classroom Module.
  MedEdPORTAL : the journal of teaching and learning resources 2016 Riddell JC, Sawtelle S, Jhun P, Comes J, Tabatabai R, Joseph D, Shoenberger J, Chen E, Fee C, Swadron S
• Research Priorities in the Utilization and Interpretation of Diagnostic Imaging: Education, Assessment, and Competency.
  Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine 2015 Lewiss RE, Chan W, Sheng AY, Soto J, Castro A, Meltzer AC, Cherney A, Kumaravel M, Cody D, Chen EH
• Top 10 ideas to improve your bedside teaching in a busy emergency department.
  Emergency medicine journal : EMJ 2014 Green GM, Chen EH
• Appropriate Use of Telemetry Monitoring in Hospitalized Patients.
  Current Emergency and Hospital Medicine Reports 2014 Esther H. Chen
• Poor sensitivity of a modified Alvarado score in adults with suspected appendicitis.
  Annals of emergency medicine 2013 Meltzer AC, Baumann BM, Chen EH, Shofer FS, Mills AM
• Assessing systems-based practice.
  Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine 2012 Chen EH, O'Sullivan PS, Pfennig CL, Leone K, Kessler CS
• B2M.
  2012 Vikas P. Chaubey, Kevin B. Laupland, Christopher B. Colwell, Gina Soriya, Shelden Magder, Jonathan Ball, Jennifer M. DiCocco, Timothy C. Fabian, Gregory J. Moran, Raul Easton-Carr, Gregory J. Moran, …
• Bite Injuries.
  2012 Esther H. Chen
• Gag Reflex.
  2012 Denis D. Bensard, Kathryn M. Beauchamp, Ryan T. Hurt, Stephen A. McClave, Angela M. Mills, Esther H. Chen, J. P. J. Wester, John B. Conneely, Michael Sugrue, Edgardo S. Salcedo, C. William Schwab, …
• Gastrointestinal Bleeding.
  2012 Angela M. Mills, Esther H. Chen
• Abdominal pain in special populations.
  Emergency medicine clinics of North America 2011 Chen EH, Mills AM
• Patient perceptions of computed tomographic imaging and their understanding of radiation risk and exposure.
  Annals of emergency medicine 2010 Baumann BM, Chen EH, Mills AM, Glaspey L, Thompson NM, Jones MK, Farner MC
• Abdominal pain: a survey of clinically important outcomes for future research.
  CJEM 2010 Mills AM, Dean AJ, Hollander JE, Chen EH
• Complications of percutaneous procedures.
  The American journal of emergency medicine 2010 Chen EH, Nemeth A
• The impact of crowding on time until abdominal CT interpretation in emergency department patients with acute abdominal pain.
  Postgraduate medicine 2010 Mills AM, Baumann BM, Chen EH, Zhang KY, Glaspey LJ, Hollander JE, Pines JM
• The association between emergency department crowding and analgesia administration in acute abdominal pain patients.
  Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine 2009 Mills AM, Shofer FS, Chen EH, Hollander JE, Pines JM
• The association between physician risk tolerance and imaging use in abdominal pain.
  The American journal of emergency medicine 2009 Pines JM, Hollander JE, Isserman JA, Chen EH, Dean AJ, Shofer FS, Mills AM
• Inter-rater reliability of historical data collected by non-medical research assistants and physicians in patients with acute abdominal pain.
  The western journal of emergency medicine 2009 Mills AM, Dean AJ, Shofer FS, Hollander JE, McCusker CM, Keutmann MK, Chen EH
• Is subcutaneous administration of rapid-acting insulin as effective as intravenous insulin for treating diabetic ketoacidosis?
  Annals of emergency medicine 2009 Mazer M, Chen E
• Derivation of a clinical prediction rule for evaluating patients with abdominal pain and diarrhea.
  The American journal of emergency medicine 2008 Chen EH, Shofer FS, Dean AJ, Hollander JE, Robey JL, Sease KL, Mills AM
• Gender disparity in analgesic treatment of emergency department patients with acute abdominal pain.
  Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine 2008 Chen EH, Shofer FS, Dean AJ, Hollander JE, Baxt WG, Robey JL, Sease KL, Mills AM
• Does the Addition of Tamsulosin to Outpatient Analgesic Therapy Enhance Spontaneous Stone Passage in Patients With Uncomplicated Distal Ureteral Stones?.
  Annals of Emergency Medicine 2007 Greg Buehler, Angela M. Mills, Esther H. Chen
• Resident exposure to critical patients in a pediatric emergency department.
  Pediatric emergency care 2007 Chen EH, Cho CS, Shofer FS, Mills AM, Baren JM
• Emergency physicians do not use more resources to evaluate obese patients with acute abdominal pain.
  The American journal of emergency medicine 2007 Chen EH, Shofer FS, Hollander JE, Robey JL, Sease KL, Mills AM
• In reply.
  Annals of Emergency Medicine 2007 Esther H. Chen, Amit Sareen
• Is screening radiography necessary to detect retained foreign bodies in adequately explored superficial glass-caused wounds?
  Annals of emergency medicine 2007 Weinberger LN, Chen EH, Mills AM
• When do patients need admission to a telemetry bed?
  The Journal of emergency medicine 2007 Chen EH, Hollander JE
• Gender Bias in Opiate Administration for Acute Abdominal Pain.
  Academic Emergency Medicine 2007 A. Mills, J. Hollander, F. Shofer, J. Robey, W. Baxt, E. Chen
• Do children require ECG evaluation and inpatient telemetry after household electrical exposures?
  Annals of emergency medicine 2007 Chen EH, Sareen A
• The impact of a concurrent trauma alert evaluation on time to head computed tomography in patients with suspected stroke.
  Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine 2006 Chen EH, Mills AM, Lee BY, Robey JL, Zogby KE, Shofer FS, Reilly PM, Hollander JE
• Defining the outcomes of risk stratification studies of ED patients with chest pain: the marginal value of adding revascularization to the composite end point.
  The American journal of emergency medicine 2005 Chen EH, Sites F, Shofer FS, Hollander JE
• Is it necessary to admit low-risk patients with suspected acute coronary syndrome to inpatient telemetry beds?
  Annals of emergency medicine 2005 Chen EH, Mills AM
• Are blood cultures necessary in adults with cellulitis?
  Annals of emergency medicine 2005 Mills AM, Chen EH
• Arterial blood gas analysis: are its values needed for the management of diabetic ketoacidosis?
  Annals of emergency medicine 2005 Kreshak A, Chen EH
• Inadequate Exposure to Patients in the Pediatric Emergency Department - In Reply.
  Academic Emergency Medicine 2005 Esther H. Chen, Jill M. Baren
• Emergency medicine resident rotation in pediatric emergency medicine: what kind of experience are we providing?
  Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine 2004 Chen EH, Shofer FS, Baren JM