Speakers: Jennifer Goldman, MD

Jennifer Goldman, MD

Professor of Pediatrics
University of Missouri – Kansas City

Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Clinical Pharmacology
Children’s Mercy

 

Dr. Jennifer Goldman, MD, MSCR is a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Missouri – Kansas City with appointments in the Divisions of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Clinical Pharmacology at Children’s Mercy Kansas City. Since COVID-19, Dr. Goldman has been involved locally and nationally with initiatives to better understanding respiratory infections in schools. With support from the NIH and CDC, Dr. Goldman has led programs with co-PIs Dr. Jennifer Schuster and Dr. Rangaraj Selvarangan to determine the epidemiology of respiratory viral infections in the school setting with the goal of identifying strategies to decrease respiratory viral transmission in schools. In addition, Dr. Goldman currently serves as the Pediatric Health Organization Representative on the Pediatric Advisory Committee for the Food and Drug Administration and as a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Drugs. She is a strong advocate for training the next generation of physician-researchers and serves as the co-lead on the NIH supported Frontiers research training program.

Real Time Respiratory Viral Surveillance And Environmental Data In Prekindergarten-12th Grade Schools

Knowledge of Infectious Diseases in Schools (School KIDS) is a project led by Children’s Mercy Kansas City in collaboration with a large Kansas City, Missouri School District and supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The overall goals are 1) to describe the burden of respiratory viruses in students and staff in prekindergarten-12th grade as it relates to indoor air quality and 2) to measure the effectiveness of ventilation and/or environmental interventions in reducing respiratory viral transmission and illness in schools. Our team systematically collects student/staff respiratory specimens, air quality indicators, and air viral samples during the school year. We developed a web-based dashboard displaying real time viral and environmental data that is shared with the study team, school district, and the CDC.