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Kristin Crosby, MD joined the UVM Children’s Hospital as a Pediatric Critical Care Medicine attending in September, 2020.  Dr. Crosby completed her undergraduate degree in biology at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. From there she received her medical degree from Mercer University School of Medicine in Georgia. Dr. Crosby then moved north to New York City to complete her residency training in pediatrics at New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell Medicine, and stayed on to pursue her fellowship training in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine.  Dr. Crosby loves teaching and has interests in transport medicine and medical simulation.  She enjoys spending time with her two little boys, husband and black lab, exploring the beautiful green mountains. She loves to cook, is an avid sports fan and has a passion for traveling.

Danielle Burstein, MD MSCE is a pediatric cardiologist at the UVM Children’s Hospital and an assistant professor at the Larner College of Medicine.

Dr. Burstein treats and manages a variety of conditions, including pediatric cardiomyopathy, pediatric heart failure, congenital heart disease, and exercise-related symptoms, and has specialized expertise in pediatric cardiopulmonary exercise stress testing and exercise training for children. Her research interests include pediatric cardiomyopathy and pediatric heart failure in acquired and congenital heart disease, pediatric exercise physiology, exercise training and rehabilitation,. Her published research can be found here.

Dr. Burstein values the opportunity to care for children throughout childhood, from infancy to young adulthood, who are affected by cardiac symptoms or disease. She realizes that having a child see a cardiologist can be very stressful for patients and families, and hopes to provide reassurance and be a source of support throughout their cardiac evaluation and cardiac care.

Dr. Burstein feels passionately that regular physical activity is important for all children for both their physical and mental wellness, regardless of their underlying heart disease. She strives to partner with patients and their families to enable them to participate in physical activity, and encourages others in the pediatric cardiology field to safely support and empower all children to do so. This requires a partnership between the child and their pediatric cardiologist to regularly assess their heart disease and provide guidance to allow for safe exercise participation. This is an area of the cardiology field that she hopes to continue to build throughout her career.

Dr. Peter Matthias Bingham is a pediatric neurologist and divisionchief at The University of Vermont Medical Center and professor at the Larner College of Medicine. His focus is on optimizing the health andneurodevelopmental outcome in children and adolescents. He helps patientsacquire the skills and habits that promote self-management.

Dr. Bingham’s interest in neuro-rehabilitation began during hisfellowship in neuromuscular diseases with a Pearson Award from the Muscular DystrophyAssociation at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, where he saw the healthimpacts of restrictive lung disease in patients who were paralyzed. Itcontinued in his research in behavioral neonatal neurology in Philadelphia andlater in Vermont, where he developed techniques for the assessment andpromotion of feeding skills in premature infants.

His specialties include digital game-based pulmonary rehabilitation,quality improvement research (headache, stroke referral, neuroradiologyreferral), qualitative research on specialty referral, medical narrative, andglobal neurology.

Dr. Bingham’s ongoing research in neuro-rehabilitation, work that hasled to three patents in this field, has been supported by the NationalInstitutes of Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. He co-edits “ThePediatric Five Minute Consult”, is on the editorial board of “Games forHealth Journal,” and serves on the steering committee for the VermontOxford Network Neonatal Encephalopathy Registry.

In addition to directing the Pediatric Neurology Division in theDepartment of Neurosciences at UVM, Dr. Bingham chairs Departmental Committees:Credentials, Clinical Competency, Quality Assurance, and Ongoing ProfessionalPractice Evaluation. Ongoing cross-disciplinary quality improvement workincludes a project to improve the process of referral of infants forneuroradiological studies.

Dr. Jillian Sullivan, MD MSCS is a Professor of Pediatrics at the Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont and is board certified in pediatric gastroenterology.  Her primary interests within pediatric gastroenterology include nutrition, cystic fibrosis (CF), and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).  She is the Associate Pediatric Program Director of the Vermont Cystic Fibrosis Center and the UVM Children’s Hospital physician lead for ImproveCareNow, an international learning health network for pediatric patients with IBD. 

Stephanie Busch, BS, AEMT, CPST, has more than 10 years of experience in the EMS and Public Health fields and currently serves as the injury-prevention manager for the state of Vermont.  In her prior role as the EMS for Children manager she worked with a variety of providers and agencies working to improve pediatric emergency care including focusing recently on safe transport of all ambulance occupants. She is also currently an MPH student at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Stephanie Busch, BS, AEMT, CPST, has more than 10 years of experience in the EMS and Public Health fields and currently serves as the injury-prevention manager for the state of Vermont.  In her prior role as the EMS for Children manager she worked with a variety of providers and agencies working to improve pediatric emergency care including focusing recently on safe transport of all ambulance occupants. She is also currently an MPH student at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Steve Trala, MPH, MSN, RN, CFRN, NRP is a Critical Care Nurse with the UVM HealthNet Transport team. In addition to specializing in pediatrics, Steve is retired from a combined 20 years in the US Armed Forces of the USAF National Guard and US Army National Guard. He is an instructor in several pediatric disciplines including S.T.A.B.L.E. and Neonatal Resuscitation Provider through the American Academy of Pediatrics.

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