Jennifer R. Marin, MD, MSc

  • Professor of Pediatrics, Emergency Medicine, and Radiology
  • Medical Director, Point-of-Care Ultrasound, UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
  • Emergency Medical Imaging Director, Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine

Jennifer Marin is professor of pediatrics, emergency medicine, and radiology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and faculty member in the Division of Emergency Medicine. She serves as the medical director for Point-of-Care Ultrasound at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh and director of emergency ultrasound for the Division of Emergency Medicine.

Marin completed a pediatrics residency at Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital followed by a pediatric emergency medicine fellowship at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia during which time she also earned a Master of Science degree in Clinical Epidemiology. She subsequently spent an additional year learning point-of-care ultrasound in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.

One of the pioneers in pediatric point-of-care ultrasound, Marin has published extensively in the field and lectures and teaches internationally. Marin’s research focuses more widely on optimizing emergency diagnostic imaging, including utilization patterns and variations in care delivery. She has publications in several high impact journals and much of her work has garnered local and national media attention.

Professional and Scientific Society Memberships

  • American College of Emergency Physicians, Section on Emergency Ultrasound, 2007-Present
  • Society of Academic Emergency Medicine, Academy of Emergency Ultrasound, 2007-2017
  • American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine, 2009-2014
  • American Academy of Pediatrics, Section on Emergency Medicine, 2006-2010, 2013-Present
  • Academic Pediatric Association, 2015-2019 
  • Society for Pediatric Research, 2019-2022

Education & Training

  • BS, Biology and Music, magna cum laude, Emory University, 1997
  • MD, University of Miami School of Medicine, 2001
  • MSc, Clinical Epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, 2010
  • Residency in Pediatrics, Children’s Memorial Hospital (Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago), 2001-2004
  • Clinical Fellowship in Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, 2006-2008
  • Research Fellowship in Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, 2008-2010

Selected Publications

Li J, Ramgopal S, Marin JR. Racial and ethnic differences in low-value pediatric emergency care. Acad Emerg Med 2022;29(6):698-709.

Gold D, Levine M, Hsu D, Way DP, Shefrin AE, Lam SHF, Lewiss R, Marin JR. Design of a point-of-care ultrasound curriculum for pediatric emergency medicine fellow: A Delphi study. Acad Emerg Med Educ Train 2021;5:e10700.

Cramer N, Cantwell L, Ong H, Sivasankar SM, Graff D, Lawson S, Wilson P, Noorbakhsh K, Mickley M, Zukerbraun NS, Sobolewski B, Soung J, Azhdam DB, Neville DN, Hincapie MR, Marin JR. Pediatric emergency medicine fellowship POCUS training in 2020. Acad Emerg Med Educ Train 2021;5:e10643.

Marin JR, Hollander MAG, Ray KN, Donohue JM, Cole ES. Low-value diagnostic imaging in children with Medicaid. J Pediatr 2021;235:253-263.

Marin JR, Rodean J, Mannix RC, Hall M, Alpern ER, Aronson PL, Chaudhari PP, Cohen E, Freedman SB, Morse RB, Peltz A, Samuels-Kalow M, Shah SS, Simon HK, Neuman I. Association of clinical guidelines and decision support with CT use in pediatric mild traumatic brain injury. J Pediatr 2021;235:178-183.

Marin JR, Rodean JR, Hall M, Alpern ER, Aronson PL, Chaudhari PP, Cohen E, Freedman SB, Morse RB, Peltz A, Samuels-Kalow M, Shah SS, Simon HK, Neuman MI. Racial and ethnic differences in emergency department diagnostic imaging at U.S. children’s hospitals. JAMA Network Open 2021;4(1):e2033710.

Marin JR, Rodean JR, Hall M, Alpern ER, Aronson PL, Chaudhari PP, Cohen E, Freedman SB, Morse RB, Peltz A, Samuels-Kalow M, Shah SS, Simon HK, Neuman MI. Pediatric emergency department advanced imaging 2009-2018. JAMA Pediatr 2020;174(9):e202209.

Ramgopal S, Karim S, Subramanian S, Furtado A, Marin JR. Rapid brain MRI protocols reduce head CT use in the pediatric emergency department. BMC Pediatr 2020;20(1):14.

Strauss KJ, Somasundaram E, Sengupta D, Marin JR, Brady SL. Radiation Dose for Pediatric CT: Comparison of Pediatric Versus Adult Imaging Facilities. Radiology 2019;291:158-167.

Marin JR, Thomas KE, Mills AM, Broder JS, Boutis K. Practices and Attitudes Towards Radiation Risk Disclosure for Computed Tomography: Survey of Emergency Medicine Residency Program Directors. Emerg Radiol 2017;24:479-486.

My ORCID

Academic and Research Interests

  • Imaging
  • Point-of-care ultrasound