Joshua Nagler, MD, MHPEd

Joshua Nagler, MD, MHPEd, received his medical degree from Cornell University Medical College in 1998. He completed his residency and chief residency in pediatrics (1998-2002), followed by his fellowship in Pediatric Emergency Medicine (2002-2005) at Boston Children's Hospital. He has been on faculty at Children's Hospital since 2005, and currently holds an appointment as Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

He completed a Masters in Science in Health Professions Education at Massachusetts General Hospital Institute for Health Professions in 2013. As a medical educator, he has held numerous administrative roles at Harvard Medical School and more recently as the Director of the Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship (2008-persent), and the division Director of Medical Education at Boston Children's Hospital. He is a member of the Academy at Harvard Medical School, and serves as a Board Member for the Boston Children’s Hospital Academy for Teaching and Educational Innovation and Scholarship. He has published several manuscripts and led workshops at national meetings related to clinical training in pediatrics and pediatric emergency medicine. In addition, he has won more than 10 teaching awards from medical students, residents, and fellows.  

Dr. Nagler’s area of clinical expertise pertains to pediatric emergency airway management and physiologic monitoring. He has published numerous chapters, review articles, and original research papers on the topic. In addition, he serves as a faculty member for The Difficult Airway Course™, and has authored chapters related to pediatrics in the course textbook Manual of Emergency Airway Management and in UpToDate. Dr. Nagler has also served as the Pediatrics Section Editor for the textbook Essentials of Emergency Medicine, an Associate Editor for the Textbook of Pediatric Emergency Medicine (6th ed). He serves as a faculty member in the AAP PREP:EM course and is the author of an instructional video in clinical medicine for the New England Journal of Medicine.

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