baraffLarry J. Baraff, MD

Dr. Baraff is an Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Dr. Baraff received his AB from the University of Pennsylvania and his MD from the Georgetown University School of Medicine. He completed a Pediatric Residency at Georgetown University Hospital and an Infectious Diseases Fellowship at the University of Southern California. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Emergency Medicine in Emergency Medicine and Pediatric Emergency Medicine and the American Board of Pediatrics in Pediatrics and Pediatric Infectious Diseases. He is a Fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians. He is a past member of the Editorial Board of the Annals of Emergency Medicine, and his achievements have been recognized and honored by the American College of Emergency Physicians, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, the American Roentgen Ray Society, and the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services. He has served on the National Council and the Board of Directors of the American College of Emergency Physicians and as President of the California Chapter. He has also been a member of the Emergency Medical Services Commission of the County of Los Angeles, the National Faculty of the American Heart Association and the Executive Committee of the Southern California Injury Prevention Research Center. He played a key role in the creation of the Trauma Systems for the State of California and Los Angeles County.

Dr. Baraff's fields of research interest include Health Services Research, Medical Decision Making, Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Geriatrics and Behavioral Health. He has received over $22,000,000 in research grants and is the author of over 120 scientific publications. He has done sentinel work in defining reactions associated with DTP vaccine for the Food and Drug Association. Dr. Baraff developed practice guidelines for the Management of Children with Fever Without Source, for Falls in the Elderly and for the Emergency Department Management of Suicidal Adolescents. He founded the UCLA Emergency Medicine Research Fellowship and trained over 20 research fellows. The research of he and his fellows resulted in important changes in the practice of emergency medicine including the method of C-spine stabilization of trauma patients, the routine use of pulse oximetry as a fifth vital sign and the use of CT scanning in trauma patients.

Dr. Baraff's honors include membership in the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society, Certificates of Appreciation for his service from the Los Angeles Pediatric Society, California Chapter 2 of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Roentgen Ray Society, and the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services. He received the Walter T. Edwards Award for Distinguished Service from the California Chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians and Commendations for Special Contributions from both the American College of Emergency Physicians and the Annals of Emergency Medicine. In 2007 he received a Fulbright Fellowship to the University of Cape Town, South Africa.

Contact Information:

Larry J. Baraff, MD

Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine

UCLA Department of Emergency Medicine

1100 Glendon Ave., Suite 1200

Los Angeles, California 90024

310-794-0585

Email: lbaraff@ucla.edu 

Selected Peer Review Journal Original Research Publications:

1.      Cody CL, Baraff LJ, Cherry JD, Marcy SM, Manclark CR. Nature and rates of adverse reactions associated with DTP and DT immunizations in infants and children. Pediatrics 1981;68:650-660.

2.      Podolsky S, Baraff LJ, Simon RR, Hoffman JR, Larmon B, Ablon W. Efficacy of cervical spine immobilization methods. J Trauma 1983;23:461-465.

3.      Schriger DL, Baraff LJ. Defining normal capillary refill: variation with age, sex and temperature. J Ann Emerg Med 1988;17:932-935.

4.      Cameron JM, Baraff LJ, Sekhon R. Case-mix classification for emergency departments. Medical Care 1990;28:146-58.

5.      Baraff LJ, Bernstein E, Gearson LW, Franken C, Hannegan SR, Kober KS, Lee S, Wolfson AB, Bradley K. Perceptions of emergency care by the elderly: results of multi-center focus group interviews. Ann Emerg Med 1990 Jul;19(7):736-40.

6.      Baraff LJ, Bass JW, Fleisher GR, Klein JO, McCracken GH Jr, Powell KR, Schriger DL. Practice guideline for the management of infants and children with fever without source 0-36 months of age. Ann Emerg Med 1993:22:1198-1210.

7.      Bernstein E. Goldfrank LR, Kellerman AL, Hargarten SW, Jui J, Fish SS, et al. A public health approach to emergency medicine: preparing for the twenty-first century. Acad Emerg Med 1994;1:277-86.

8.      Mower WR, Sachs C, Nicklin E, Safa P, Baraff LJ. Effect of routine emergency department pulse oximetry screening on medical management.Chest, 1995;108:1297-1302.

9.      Mower WR, Sachs C, Nicklin EL, Baraff LJ. Pulse oximetry as a fifth pediatric vital sign. Pediatrics 1997;99:681-686.

10.  Baraff LJ, Della Penna R, Williams W, Sanders A. Practice guideline for the emergency department management of falls in community dwelling elderly patients >65 years of age. Ann Emerg Med 1997;30:480-489.

11.  Schriger DL, Baraff LJ, Rogers WH, Cretin S. Implementation of clinical guidelines using a computer charting system: Effect on the initial care of health care workers exposed to body fluids. JAMA 1997;278:1585-1590.

12.  Baraff LJ, Lee TJ, Kader S, Della Penna R. Effect of a practice guideline for emergency department care of falls in elder patients on subsequent falls and hospitalizations for injuries. Acad Emerg Med 1999 Dec;6(12):1224-31.

13.  Schriger DL, Baraff LB, Buller K, Ayatchit M, Nagda S, Lin E, Mikulich VJ, Cretin S. Implementation of Clinical Guidelines via a Computer Charting System: Effect on the Care of Febrile Children less than Three Years of Age. J Amer Med Inform Assoc 2000;7:186-95.

14.  Asarnow JR, Baraff LJ, Berk MS, Grob CS, Devich-Navarro M, Suddath R, Piacentini J, Tang L. Suicidal pediatric emergency department patients: a 2-site evaluation of suicide ideators, single attempters, and repeat attempters. J Am Acad Child Adol Psych 2008;47:958-66.

15.  Tillou A, Gupta M, Baraff LJ, Schriger DL, Hoffman JR, Hiatt JR, Cryer HM. Is the use of pan-CT for blunt trauma justified? A prospective evaluation. J Trauma 2009;67:779-787.

16.  Asarnow JR, Baraff LJ, Berk M, Grob G, Suddath R, Piacentini J, Rotheram-Borus MJ, Cohen D, Tang L, Effects of an emergency department mental health intervention for linking pediatric suicidal patients to follow-up mental health treatment: a randomized controlled trial. Psych Serv 2011;62:1303-9.

17.  Elder JW, Baraff SB, Baraff LJ: Pulse Oxygen Saturation Values in a Healthy School Age Population, Ped Emerg Care 2015 Sep;31(9):645-7..

 

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