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Pegeen Wylie Eslami, MD, FAAP, FACEP

  • Associate Professor of Pediatrics

Administrative Assistant: Deborah Irwin

Pegeen Eslami has worked as a Pediatric Emergency Medicine physician since 1996. She has been at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh since 2016. Prior to that, after training and working in Boston, Chicago and Philadelphia, she was a physician at the University of Massachusetts for 12 years.  Her interests include global medicine, transport medicine, newborn resuscitation in under-resourced settings.  She has worked on projects in these areas in Kenya, Uganda, Haiti and India.  In the US, her areas of interest include improving the quality of pediatric acute care in community and rural areas.  She is fluent in Spanish and is an active participant in the amateur chamber music scenes in Pittsburgh, Massachusetts and DC. 

Professional and Scientific Society Memberships

  • Fellow, American Academy of Pediatrics, 1994-Present
    • Member, Section on Emergency Medicine, 1996-Present
    • Member, Section on International Child Health, 1994-1999, 2004-2016
  • Massachusetts Medical Society, 2002-2004, 2011-Present
  • American College of Emergency Physicians, 2004-Present
  • Member, Pediatric Emergency Section, 2011-Present
  • Member, International Health Section, 2011-Present
  • Worcester Medical Society, 2011-2016
  • Pennsylvania Medical Society, 2011-2016

Education & Training

  • BA, Music, Piano Performance, New England Conservatory of Music, 1984
  • MD, Harvard Medical School, 1991
  • PGY-1 Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 1991-1992
  • PGY-2 Pediatrics, Children's Memorial Hospital, Northwestern University School of Medicine, 1992-1993
  • PGY-3 Pediatrics, Boston City Hospital Dept of Pediatrics, Boston University School of Medicine, 1993-1994

Selected Publications

Neugut, A.I, Wylie, P., Brandt-Rauf, P. Occupational Cancers of the Gastrointestinal Tract, Part I: Pancreas, Liver, Biliary Tract. Occup Med 1987; 2 (1): 109-135 Review PMID 3306971

Robinson, E., Neugut, A.I., Wylie, P., Clinical Aspects of Post-Irradiation Sarcomas J Natl Cancer Inst 1988, 20(4): 233-40 Review PMID 3280809

Eslami, P. Methemoglobinemia. Clin Tox Rev 1995; 17(6) Review

5) Eslami, P. Foreign Bodies of the Nose. In “Pediastat” Pediatric Urgent Care and Emergency Medicine. Orenstein, J.B., Klein, B.L., Mayer, T.A., Editors.CMC Research, CD ROM textbook 1998

Eslami, P. Foreign Bodies of the Ear. In “Pediastat” Pediatric Urgent Care and Emergency Medicine. Orenstein, J.B., Klein, B.L., Mayer, T.A., Editors. CMC Research, CD ROM textbook 1998

Connors, G,F., Eslami, P. Foreign Bodies of the Esophagus. In “Pediastat” Pediatric Urgent Care and Emergency Medicine. Orenstein, J.B., Klein, B.L., Mayer, T.A., Editors. CMC Research, CD ROM textbook 1998

Zhu CK, Eslami, PW, Eslami MH. Medicare Facility Diagnosis Related Groups Have Outpaced Individual Physician Payment. Ann Vasc Surg 2016 Aug 20 pii: S890-5096(16)30673-2. doi: 10.1016/j.avsg.2016.05.133

Eslami MH, Saadeddin ZM, Rybin DV, Avgerinos ED, Eslami PW, Siracuse JJ, Farber A. Trends and Outcomes of Pediatric Vascular Injuries in the United States: An Analysis of the Mational Trauma Data Bank .Ann Vasc Surg. 2019 Apr;56:52-61. doi: 10.1016/j.avsg.2018.09.006. Epub 2018 Nov 24 PMID: 30476614

Eslami, P. Intraosseous Access. Review article, in Medscape Clinical Knowledge Base online text. Published Oct 2004, most recent update March 2020

Eslami, P. Sheth, R.D. Sandifer Syndrome. Review article in Medscape Clinical Knowledge Base online text. Published June 2006, most recent update April 2020

Research Grants

R Baby Foundation, Mobile Pediatric Simulation: ImPACTS "Train the Trainer", Principal Investigator Marc Auerbach MD, Yale University, Co-site Principal Investigator, Children’s Hospital Pittsburgh 33%, January 2018-Present, $150,000.

CV

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