David M. Jaffe MD, FAAP

Dr. David Jaffe serves as chief of the Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital.

Dr. Jaffe received his bachelor’s degree from Stanford University and his medical degree from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. He completed his pediatric residency training at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, where he also trained as the first PEM fellow in the nation and as a Robert Wood Johnson fellow in Academic Pediatrics.
,br/> Dr. Jaffe held academic positions at Northwestern University, Children’s Memorial Hospital, and was the pediatric emergency medicine (PEM) division head and emergency department director at the Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto. He subsequently served for 24 years as the director of PEM at Washington University in St. Louis.

He was a founding member of both multi-institutional research networks in PEM, the Pediatric Emergency Medicine Collaborative Research Consortium (PEMCRC) and the federally funded Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN). His research interests include diagnosis and management of the febrile child, children with head and neck injuries, and management of procedure-associated pain and anxiety.

Dr. Jaffe has held significant leadership roles on the American Board of Pediatrics, Pediatric Emergency Medicine Sub-board, Pediatric Residency Review Committee of the ACGME, and the planning committee of the annual PEM fellows conference. In 2006, he received the Jim Seidel Distinguished Service Award from the Section on Emergency Medicine of the AAP.
He is an associate editor of Annals of Emergency Medicine and a member of the editorial board of Pediatric Emergency Care. He is past chair of the Section on Emergency Medicine of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and past president of the Academic Pediatric Association.