Executive Board Member

Dr. Burstein graduated from the McGill University combined M.D/Ph.D program (2010), followed by residency in General Pediatrics (2013) and fellowship in Pediatric Emergency Medicine (2015) at the Montreal Children’s Hospital, where he has been a PEM Attending and Trauma Team Leader ever since.  He obtained an MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health (2018) and was subsequently appointed as a Clinician-Scientist at the McGill University Health Centre Research Institute.  Dr. Burstein is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Pediatrics and Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and holds a Clinical Research Scholar career award from the Quebec Health Research Fund (FRQ-S).  He serves on the Research Committee of the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians (CAEP), and he is also a Decision Editor for the Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine.  He has authored over 50 peer-reviewed articles, commentaries and book chapters with over 4500 citations. The primary focus of his research program is the management of febrile young infants, and he is the principal author on national guidelines from the Canadian Paediatric Society and TREKK Bottom Line Recommendations.

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