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Wassam Mohammed Rahman

Wassam Mohammed Rahman, MD

Pediatric Emergency Medicine

Highlights

Languages

  • English

Gender

Male

Johns Hopkins Affiliations:

  • Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Faculty
  • All Children's Specialty Physicians

About Wassam Mohammed Rahman

Primary Academic Title

Instructor in Pediatrics

Background

Dr. Rahman’s clinical and quality improvement initiatives focus on all aspects of pediatric emergency medicine including clinical care, mentoring faculty and other learners, systems integration, developing the electronic documentation system, development of clinical pathways, research and emergency and disaster preparedness.  He joined the Pediatric Emergency Center at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in 1997 as assistant director and was named medical director of the emergency center and chair of the division of pediatric emergency medicine in 2003.

Dr. Rahman is a member of the clinical faculty at Johns Hopkins All Children’s and is very involved in teaching pediatric residents. He also co-chairs a pediatric emergency medicine course that provides continuing medical education to the community pediatricians, emergency medicine physicians, advanced practice providers and nurses.

After graduating from Ross University School of Medicine, Dr. Rahman completed his pediatric residency training at Buffalo Children’s Hospital, was in private practice for a year and then completed a fellowship in pediatric emergency medicine at Children’s Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, Missouri. He was medical director at Children’s Hospital of the King’s Daughters in Norfolk, Va., before joining Johns Hopkins All Children’s. 

Recent News Articles and Media Coverage

  • Golf cart-related injuries in young children on the rise, physicians say, WTVT - TV (August 2, 2023)
  • US gun deaths reach record total in 2021, WTVT - TV (5/8/2023)
  • Keep cool during this heat wave, WTVT - TV (June16, 2022)

Locations

  1. Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital
    • 501 6th Avenue South, Saint Petersburg, FL 33701

    Expertise

    Education

    Children's Mercy Hospital

    Fellowship, Pediatric Emergency Medicine, 1991

    University at Buffalo Niagara Medical Center

    Residency, Pediatrics, 1988

    Ross University School of Medicine

    Medical Education, MD, 1985

    Board Certifications

    Pediatric Emergency Medicine

    American Board of Pediatrics, 1992

    Pediatrics

    American Board of Pediatrics, 1990

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