Program AIMS

• To train critically thinking general pediatricians who, through comprehensive clinical training, leave our program feeling prepared to enter a variety of career fields with ownership of their life-long learning and the skills to lead at the institutional, community, and national level. 
• To provide residents with the skills to advocate for their patients at all levels: the individual patient, the hospital or clinic, the community, and the population.
• Create a culture with emphasis on patient safety, personal accountability, and the willingness to continuously and objectively evaluate our practices to improve our quality of care.
• To promote a scholarly approach to clinical, teaching, and research activities and provide role modeling, mentoring, and basic skills that prepare our residents for a future in medicine.
• To recruit, retain, and engage a diverse workforce that represents the population we serve and to foster a nurturing and supportive environment that values diverse perspectives.

Program Leadership

Sara Multerer, M.D.

Program Director
Professor of Pediatrics

After graduating cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Notre Dame, Dr. Multerer received her medical degree from Indiana University and then moved to Louisville for her pediatric residency training at University of Louisville. Upon completion of her residency, Sara was elected Richard S. Wolf Chief Resident and Lecturer for the program. At the end of her tenure as Chief Resident, Sara stayed on the faculty at the University of Louisville as a pediatric hospitalist with special interests in patient safety and quality improvement as well as resident education.

Dr. Multerer is beginning her eighth year as Program Director of the Pediatric residency after spending eight years in the role of Associate Program Director. She was also recently appointed Vice Chair for Medical Education for the Department of Pediatrics and promoted to Professor.

On a personal note, Sara is married to her high school sweetheart, Matt, and they are proud parents of twin girls.

Erin Owen, M.D.

Associate Program Director
Director of Pediatric Fellowships
Associate Professor of Pediatrics

Originally from Miamisburg, Ohio, Dr. Owen completed her undergraduate degree in Natural Sciences at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio.  Erin then went on to attend medical school at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio.  She completed her pediatric residency at the University of Louisville in 2007 served as the Pediatric Chief Resident for the 2008-2009 academic year and completed a Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Fellowship in 2011.  She is currently a member of the Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine.  Dr. Owen became an Associate Program Director in 2017 and the Director of Pediatric Fellowships in 2021.

Dr. Owen has been Director of the Resident Patient Safety and Quality Improvement curriculum since 2017.  In 2021, Erin became the Director of Pediatric Fellowships helping to develop and oversee Common Fellow Curriculum (Research, Teaching, Quality Improvement, Professional Development, etc.) and Fellow Wellness.

In addition to her ICU responsibilities, Erin’s clinical interests primarily focus of Patient Safety and Quality Improvement.  She helped to create a hospital-wide initiative called SHERLOCK (Systematic Harm Evaluation Review and Learning to Optimize Care for Kids).  Dr. Owen also participates in Quality Improvement efforts at a national level through the Pediatric Acute Lung Injury and Sepsis Investigators – specifically Near4Kids, an international collaborative tasked with improving intubation safety.

Erin is married to her husband, Christopher, and together they are raising their daughter and two English Mastiffs.

Adam Patterson, M.D., M.Sc.

Associate Program Director
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

Dr. Patterson was born and raised in Louisville.  He received his Bachelor of Science from Centre College in Danville, KY in 2006.  He then returned home for his medical training: Medical School, Pediatric Residency, and Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship.  Upon completion of Fellowship in 2017, he joined the faculty at the University of Louisville in the Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine and as Associate Program Director for the Pediatric Residency.

Dr. Patterson has a background in athletics as a varsity basketball player for Centre College and an assistant coach for DuPont Manual High School in Louisville, which greatly influences his passion for coaching and mentorship in medical education.  He enjoys creating innovative educational experiences for trainees and guiding residents to find their own passions by leading programs such as pediatric career exploration and the Medical Education Track. 

He enjoys spending time with his wife, Marilyn, and their three sons, James, Alex, and Quentin.

Becca Hart, M.D., M.Sc.

Associate Program Director
Director of Scholarly Activity
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

Dr. Hart is an Associate Program Director for the Pediatric Residency Program at the University of Louisville. Originally from New Albany, Indiana, Dr. Hart completed her undergraduate degree at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana before attending medical school at University of Louisville. She completed her pediatric residency at University of Louisville in 2015 and her Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship in 2018. She has been a member of the Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine as faculty since 2018 and also served as Director of Scholarly Activity for the Pediatric Residency since that time. Dr. Hart became an Associate Program Director in 2021. 

Dr. Hart serves as the chair of the Pediatric Resident and Faculty Wellness Committee and also directs the Pediatric Emergency Medicine resident and student rotation. As Scholarly Activity Director she also leads the resident distinction track in research. In addition to her ED clinical work, Becca is also interested in medical education initiatives, public health, advocacy, and vaccinology research. with special interest in vaccination in non-traditional health settings.

Becca enjoys spending time outdoors, running, traveling, reading, gymnastics, Hoosier basketball, and most of all spending time with her husband, Daniel, and their twins, Rowan and Maren. 

Kimberly Boland, M.D.

Professor and Chair of Pediatrics
Dr. Billy F. Andrews Endowed Chair of Pediatrics
Chief of Staff, Norton Children's Hospital

Dr. Boland was raised in Louisville. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Notre Dame and returned home to earn her medical degree from the University of Louisville. She then moved to St. Louis where she completed her residency and chief residency in Pediatrics at St. Louis Children’s Hospital at Washington University. After finishing her chief residency, she worked as a hospitalist for two years in a community hospital in St. Louis and then went on to complete a Pediatric Critical Care fellowship at Washington University. Dr. Boland again returned home to Louisville, where she spent five and a half years as a Pediatric Intensivist and filled the roles of Director of Resident Education for the Critical Care Division and Pediatric Critical Care Fellowship Director for one year at the University of Louisville. She left to pursue a career in general pediatrics for three years but was drawn back to the academic world to be part of the excitement and energy of the educational realm. She returned to the University of Louisville as Division Chief of General Inpatient Medicine and Director of the Pediatric Hospitalist Program at Norton Children’s Hospital and quickly became involved in resident education with subsequent appointment to an Associate Program Director role and then the Program Director role which she filled for nine years.

Dr. Boland currently serves as the Billy F. Andrews, M.D. Endowed Chair of Pediatrics.  She also serves the broader GME community as the Associate Dean for Resident Education.  She is the Past President for the Kentucky Chapter of the AAP and enjoys working in advocacy including with the the resident driven advocacy program PUSH (Pediatricians Urging Safety and Health). She is involved with many task forces and committees within the University and hospital.  Dr. Boland is focusing on growing our pediatric academic medical center to accomplish our four-pronged mission of excellence in clinical care, outstanding teaching, especially of the pediatric work force of tomorrow; research leading toward innovative and cutting-edge care; and community engagement, advocacy and promotion of equity, diversity, and inclusiveness.

Dr. Boland is married to an Irishman, and they have one red-headed daughter.

Program Curriculum and Requirements

Individualized Curriculum

Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion 

Benefits/Perks

Online Learning Opportunities

Anytime, anywhere learning comes to the residency program by way of an array of tools and websites for residents. All resident and departmental educational conferences are offered through virtual platforms. Further examples of online educational resources include streaming presentations developed in-house by the Pediatric Emergency Medicine Division, Cardiology talks created by current residents, Mount Sinai Keystones of Development curriculum modules, Quality Improvement modules from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, online nutrition seminars from Abbott, and the Johns Hopkins Pediatric Ambulatory Care Curriculum online. From entry into the program to graduation, residents are given resources to help prepare for each stage of their program. 

Blackboard

Our Learning Management System (LMS), Blackboard, is home to online lectures and quizzes; interactive patient care modules such as SoftChalk; and serves as a repository for important articles, documents, links, and presentations for resident education.  It can be accessed anywhere as long as you have an internet connection. We also stream our live noon conference didactics using Blackboard Collaborate for residents who are working remotely or rotating at off site locations.

Amion

Our chief residents manage the resident schedules online using the web-based tool, Amion. Residents can view the entire house staff schedule as well as create custom views of their own schedule for all rotations by day, month or year.

MedHub

Residents can logon anytime, anywhere to MedHub and enter their work hours and procedure logs, download needed forms and review up-to-date announcements. The management software is also home to rotation goals and objectives and resident evaluations. A one-stop shop!

Adobe Creative Suite

University trainees, faculty, and staff have subscription access to more than 20 Adobe programs, including desktop and mobile apps as well as hundreds of online tutorials. 

Board Review Support

Each resident receives a generous Board Review support package including:

• Text book stipend during intern year
• Free MedStudy during their first and second year
• Free PediaLink access to PREP The Curriculum® all three years
• Free copy of Laughing Your Way to Passing the Pediatric Boards, by Stu Silverstein, MD, as a third year
• Stipend for board review materials at the end of training
• Our noon conference curriculum is created directly from ACGME guidelines and ABP suggested materials

Pediatric Resident Survival Guide

All incoming residents are given access to a booklet titled “Pediatric Resident Survival Guide”, a handy reference guide includes charts, guidelines, contact lists and tips useful for everyday patient encounters. This resource was created by a former resident and is maintained through the Office of Medical Education.

Transition Checklist, Your Final Year of Residency Training

Created by our Office of Medical Education for our graduating residents, this resource will aid your transition to a clinical practice setting, academic position or fellowship training.

Medical Education Conference Curriculum

We have created a diverse, well-rounded learning environment to prepare our residents for superior patient care and impart the knowledge to manage their profession as pediatricians.

Core Conference
Daily noon conferences provide the residents with a rolling, 18-month comprehensive core curriculum of pediatric topics as determined by the chief residents and program director. These are chosen from the ABP, PREP and ACGME core medical knowledge themes. Lectures are given by UofL faculty in the Department of Pediatrics.

Business Side of Medicine
These monthly lectures cover topics such as contract negotiation, what to do if you’ve been subpoenaed, malpractice coverage, and creating your CV.

Child Advocacy (P.U.S.H.)
Each month, residents meet to discuss issues related to child advocacy within the framework of the resident-led child advocacy program, P.U.S.H. These meetings are a combination of project planning sessions as well as didactic sessions focusing on topics pertinent to child advocacy.

Communication
Delivering difficult news is never easy, but our communication curriculum gives residents the skills necessary to handle this challenging responsibility as well as more routine tasks such as phone consults and patient handoffs. On a monthly basis, residents meet to focus on communication as it relates to patients and their families as well as other healthcare professionals. With a goal of exceeding the ACGME's core competencies of Interpersonal and Communication Skills and Professionalism, the communication curriculum is delivered in a variety of formats through a combination of workshops, video sessions and standardized patient encounters over 18 months.

Grand Rounds
This is a weekly, one-hour conference that is available to all pediatric faculty and residents. A wide variety of topics pertinent to general pediatrics are covered. These sessions are given by a combination of invited speakers and faculty within the department.

Med Ed Business Meetings
During these monthly meetings, resident issues and ideas for program improvement are discussed openly among the residents, chief residents, program director, associate program directors and office staff.

Mentoring program
Each resident chooses a mentor during their intern year. Interns chose faculty who have similar interests both in and out of medicine. Once chosen, residents and mentors meet independently. Topics covered during these meetings include: clinical performance, program engagement and time management, personal wellness, lifelong learning, and planning for the future.

Morbidity and Mortality (M&M)
Each month, faculty, residents, and students participate in this resident-led, multidisciplinary conference aimed at improving patient safety and quality of care. Cases are chosen by the Pediatric M&M Committee, consisting of pediatric residents, chief residents, and faculty.

Morning Report
We kick off each morning with a board-style "question-of-the-day" which is answered in a team environment with learning points discussed by the chief residents. This is followed by morning report, a daily session that offers a format for residents to learn about latest clinical practice in the hospital and relevant pediatric topics, hosted by several speakers from multidisciplinary teams such as subspecialist fellows and attendings, chief residents, pharmacists, respiratory therapists, psychologists, and more.

PREP Party
Based on resident feedback, we implemented a new approach to board study where the residents work through board review questions related  to a "specialty of the month." The conference is led by a Chief Resident and guest faculty member from the selected specialty who helps facilitate discussion and expand on the questions/explanations. PREP Party occurs during noon conference once a month. 

Resident Grand Rounds
All pediatric faculty, residents and students are invited to attend this weekly conference where interesting case-based presentations are made by Pediatric and Med-Peds residents. 

Quality Improvement and Patient Safety
Our Quality Improvement (QI) and Patient Safety curriculum consists of monthly sessions with brief didactics on common QI methods/topics. These didactics are followed by working meetings in which residents participate in team-based QI and safety projects both in the hospital and in our clinics. Residents work with faculty and nursing mentors on process evaluation, root cause analysis, and designing and implementing Plan-Do-Study-Act(PDSA) cycles. Residents take turns acting as the "Champion" for their team, moving their projects forward between these noon meetings.

Wellness Curriculum
The wellness curriculum includes quarterly noon sessions focused on topics like nutrition, exercise, coping with grief and stress and other topics related to personal wellness; Fun Friday "free lunch hours" on the fifth Friday of the month; assistance from the OME regarding burnout, stress, depression or other concerns; formation of a spouse/significant other support group; and monthly community events. Additionally, “Resilience Rounds” gives residents the opportunity to debrief and process difficult events in either written or discussion format. These sessions are moderated by our clinical psychology staff who can also provide tips for coping with stress and building resilience. 

Additional Conferences & Workshops

Crisis Management Program with Simulation
Pediatric residents participate in 2-4 simulated crisis management scenarios per academic year as part of our Crisis Management Program. We created numerous emergent scenarios that require residents to demonstrate skills in airway management and intubation, cardiac arrest and CPR, arrhythmia management and defibrillation, shock management, seizure management, needle thoracostomy, and more. These sessions include an orientation, the session itself, and a debriefing period. Assessment of knowledge, patient care, systems based practice, communication and team dynamics are completed by the team about themselves and the experience. The faculty preceptors and nurses involved also complete evaluations that are available to the resident for review.

Residents as Teachers
Residents as Teachers (RATs), first offered in 2007, is a full day workshop for residents in all specialties to teach, discuss, and practice the principles of adult education that will help them in teaching medical students, patients, other residents, and of course faculty and staff. Offered four times during intern year, this interactive curriculum includes small group work supported by clinicians and medical educators as facilitators and standardized patients to help residents practice new instructional skills.

Medical Education Track

The Medical Education distinction track is an application only, opt-in, approximately 2-year curriculum, in addition to your chosen individualized curriculum track for residency.  This longitudinal experience will weave a medical education scholarly project, elective rotations, mentoring, and focused educational experiences together to explore the role of pediatricians as educators.  Residents who successfully complete the required elements will graduate with a certificate and letter of distinction from the track coordinator.  Residents must be in good academic standing on January 1 of intern year and must maintain good academic standing throughout track participation.

Goals:

• To create a robust experience in medical education across multiple disciplines and platforms.
• To educate future academic physicians in adult learning theory through innovative curricula, committee involvement, and strong mentorship.
• To compose and disseminate meaningful scholarly activity in the area of medical education.
• To advance the University of Louisville residency program’s culture of learning and growth by developing leaders in education.
• To provide opportunities to apply developing knowledge and skills in medical student and resident educational programs.

Track Components and Requirements:

1. Mentorship
Medical Education mentor(s) will be assigned/chosen based upon area of interest.

2. Scholarly Activity 
All residents will complete a scholarly activity project in medical education. Required components of this project will be:

a. Participation in regularly scheduled Scholarly Oversight Committee meetings and updates
b. Completion of a scholarly activity in medical education in a topic of resident's choosing
c. Submission (and expected) presentation of scholarly activity at a local, regional, or national platform in Spring of PGY-3.
d. Completion of a manuscript of the project.

3. Didactics, Conferences, Workshops, and Independent Learning
All residents are expected to complete 2-hours of medical education didactics per month, averaged over the academic year. For credit, hours must be documented and a brief self-reflection/learning point (as it pertains to medical education/professional identity formation) should be documented.

Educational Opportunities can include:

a. All Track Lecture Series
b. Med Ed Journal Club
c. Med Ed Track Didactic Sessions and Meetings
d. Scholarly Oversight Committee (SOC) Meetings
e. PIRATS Scholarly Activity Conferences
f. Faculty Development Conferences
g. Completion of Independent Reading (ex. chapter from a textbook)

4. Completion of the Medical Education Elective
As appropriate, scheduling to be discussed with Residency Program Individualized Curriculum Mentor

5. Leadership
Track participants are expected to:

a. Take a leadership role in a medical student or resident educational program/initiative. Examples could include

• Peer Assisted Learning Program
• Student Education Committee
• Intro to Clinical Cases (1st and 2nd year medical student course)
• Track Participant choice (with approval)

b. Create and complete a program or department-wide presentation on a medical education topic in the spring of PGY-3.

c, Participate in CAHRDs Medical Education Group meetings (led by Dr. Calhoun)

6. Medical Education Portfolio
In the Spring of PGY-3, each participant will give a presentation which includes a summary of the following:

a. Scholarly project(s)
b. Educational presentations
c. Leadership activities and productivity in educational programs/initiatives.
d. Experience and outcomes of the Med Ed Elective
e. SMART goals

Residents who successfully complete the required elements will graduate with a certificate and letter of distinction from the track coordinator.

Scholarly Activity

Throughout our program, our residents work with their faculty mentors on scholarly activity in a planned progression, building on ideas formulated during their intern year and culminating in a presentation for the entire Department of Pediatrics during their senior year. Prizes are awarded to the top projects in several categories. Winners are announced during the graduation ceremony among peers, faculty, family and friends.

The learning objectives of the scholarly project are to:

• improve understanding of a particular subject area related to child health;
• improve skills in critical review of the medical literature and understanding of research methods;
• develop personal experience in the advancement of medical knowledge; and
• develop improved foundations in one or more of the following:
  1) advocacy or public health policy for children;
  2) preparation for research requirements for subspecialty fellowships;
  3) patient care quality improvement, and/or;
  4) practice-based continuing medical education.

Throughout their training, residents develop these skills through various avenues, such as lectures, small-group sessions, and individual work with their mentors.  Additionally, residents receive assistance identifying a mentor and project via a series of three Research Oversight Committee (ROC) meetings.  At ROCs, residents initially give a brief overview of their career goals and potential scholarly interests, and peers and faculty are available to provide feedback, generate ideas, and build connections or network.  As residents progress, ROCs provide a chance to give updates, seek guidance, and troubleshoot projects in an informal, non-threatening environment.

Additionally, a Research Track is available for residents interested in research-focused careers or accelerated exposure to research and scholarship.

2023 Scholarly Activity Booklet

Our graduating residents and fellows presented scholarly activity projects to an esteemed panel of judges as well as University of Louisville and Norton Healthcare faculty, staff and trainees.

Scholarly Activity Award winners

Resident Poster Sessions: 

Category - Original Research

• 1^st Place: Ryan Conard, MD "Assessment of Family Planning Readiness in Transgender Youth in an Urban Multi-Disciplinary Gender Clinic."
• Honorable Mention: Laura Mims, DO "Establishment of Prognostic Immune Signature in Neuroblastoma."

Category - QI/Educational & Other:

• 1^st Place: Juan Gallegos, DO "Implementing an Inpatient Postpartum Depression Screening and Community Referral Program in Mothers of Infants with Prenatally Diagnosed Congenital Heart Defects and Prolonged Hospitalizations."
• 2^nd Place: Megan Lloyd, MD "The Impact of Reading on Pediatric Patients and Their Caregivers in the Intensive Care Unit: A Scoping Review."
• Honorable Mention: Amelia Balderston, DO "Dental Fluoride Application in Resident Continuity Clinics: A Quality Improvement Project."
• Honorable Mention: Kaquanta Barlow, MD "Difficult Conversations: Addressing Microaggressions."

Fellow Research Presentations:

Category - Original Research

• Tied for 1^st Place: Katie Weakley, MD "Clinical Features and Follow-up of Children Evaluated for Persistent Unwellness After COVID-19."
• Tied for 1^st Place: Johnna Sizemore, DO "Outcomes of Heart Transplantation in Children with Previously Palliated Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome: A Retrospective Review."
• 2^nd Place: Diane Buckley "Point-of-Care Ultrasound Confirmation of Endotracheal Tube Positioning: Accurate Enough to Have a Role in Neonates?"

P.U.S.H. (Pediatricians Urging Safety and Health)

Pediatricians Urging Safety and Health (PUSH) is a resident-led, resident-driven advocacy group that promotes child health at the local, state, and national level through legislative and community outreach. We collaborate with the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), State of Kentucky, local schools, and community partners. PUSH leaders host the program’s monthly advocacy conference and help curate the advocacy curriculum and facilitate discussion of relevant topics in children’s health alongside our faculty advisors. Residents with a particular interest in advocacy can join PUSH for more robust advocacy training and experience.

PUSH’s involvement spans from managing a garden for the local food bank to talking to our senators in Washington, DC about issues impacting the health of our children. Every year, we send a large group of residents to Children’s Day at the Capitol and 3-4 residents to the AAP Legislative Conference in Washington, DC. We also host a friendly resident competition called the “Tri-Resident Cup” each year. Our 2021 Tri-Resident Cup resulted in nearly 1700 canned goods donated to our resident clinic food pantries as well as Dare to Care, 4,400 books donated to our clinics, 200 emails/calls to our legislators, and $1050 for community safety equipment as an excellent turn out and participation from our residents! We were the proud recipients of the Leonard P. Rome CATCH Visiting Professorship Grant for 2019-2020 and had the pleasure of working with Dr. Ben Hoffman to strengthen our advocacy training, increase the sustainability of our projects, and enhance collaboration within our community.  

PUSH celebrated a year full of advocacy in 2022-2023!

• Smoketown Community Garden
• Lexi Memorial - 5K for Prevent Child Abuse Kentucky
• Tri-Resident Cup
• Mask for Kids Campaign (see photo)
• Family Scholar House Pack-A-Backpack
• Increasing awareness for online reading and book options to families in resident clinics.
• Children's Advocacy Day at the Capitol
• University of Louisville School of Medicine Gun Violence Prevention Week
• Norton Children's & Hospital Week: Building Healthy Superheroes

Though the Covid-19 Pandemic created barriers to being out in the community, we are hopeful to continue many of our other advocacy events this year, including:

• Southwest Kindergarten ReadyFest
• Norton's Splash 'n Dash
• Family Resource & Youth Service Centers Back to School Fest
• Smoketown Family Wellness Neighborhood Celebration
• Smoketown Trunk or Treat

We are looking forward to another great year of advocacy!

To see more PUSH activity, follow us on Instagram

Meet Our Team  

Child Advocacy Track

The University of Louisville Child Advocacy Distinction Track is a longitudinal experience that weaves an advocacy scholarly project, elective rotations, and focused workshop experiences together to explore the role of pediatricians as advocacy and child health leaders.

Goals

• To create a robust experience in advocating for children on multiple population levels (individual, hospital/clinic, local, state, and national). 
• To educate future leaders in child advocacy through innovative curricula, committee involvement and strong mentorship. 
• To foster and disseminate meaningful scholarly activity in child advocacy.
• To improve the health and well-being of children in our community through physician development and leadership.
• To provide an avenue to grow as a resident through advocacy, while still allowing broad focus on all aspects of resident education.

Distinction Track Components

1. Mentorship

a. Drafting an AAP-CATCH grant (Due January of PGY-2)
b. Completion of an advocacy/community health scholarly activity in a topic of the resident's choosing during training.
c. Presentation of scholarly activity at a local, regional, or national platform in the spring of PGY-3.

Advocacy mentor(s) will be assigned/chosen based upon area of interest.

2. Topic Focused Workshops

a. Fundamentals of Working with a Community (including needs assessment and asset mapping)
b. Literature Review
c. Grant writing
d. Leadership
e. Health Policy
f. Media and Writing
g. Advocacy Journal Club
h. Advocacy beyond residency - SMART goals

(participation in at least six is required)

3. Electives

a. Participants in child advocacy track can elect Poverty and Social Justice, Global Health, Forensics, or Advanced Advocacy as an elective rotation (dependent upon career goals). 
b. Can apply for national conferences including AAP legislative conference.

4. Leadership

a. Track participants are expected to have a leadership role in the resident-led advocacy program PUSH (Pediatricians Urging Safety and Health). This can include:

• President or other officer
• Committee member (community or legislative)
• Children's Day organizer
• Project leader or event organizer

b. Opportunity to create an advocacy learning module (podcast, blackboard module, etc.) on a topic of their choice.
c. Establish or continue a relationship with a community partner. This can be individualized to the resident's career goals and should demonstrate how a pediatrician (either general or subspecialty) can be a lifelong advocate. Examples include: a group home, school, Medicaid, AAP chapter, etc. This relationship can be part of the scholarly project but not have to be.

5. Advocacy Portfolio

In the spring of the resident's PGY-3, each participant will give a 20-minute presentation which includes a summary of the following:

a. Scholarly project
b. Advocacy writing/Advocacy policy background and strategy
c. Community partner report
d. SMART goal

Residents who successfully complete the required elements will graduate with a certificate and letter of distinction from the track coordinator.

Leadership Opportunities

Global Health Program

Pediatric Residents:

First Year Residents | Second Year Residents | Third Year Residents 

Internal Medicine Pediatric Residents

2023-2024 Doctor Richard. S. Wolf Chief Residents

Lucy Aldridge, DO (she/her/hers)
Hometown: Germantown, MD
Undergrad: University of Maryland | College Park, MD
Medical School: Touro University College of Osteopathic Medicine | Vallejo, CA
Personal Interests: I love anything outdoors, trying to foods, cooking, reading, and all Pixar movies!

Ryan Conard, MD (he/him/his)
Hometown: Taylorsville, KY
Undergrad: Eastern Kentucky University | Richmond, KY
Medical School: University of Louisville | Louisville, KY
Personal Interests: Strength training, video games (PC and switch), hiking, fixing up/decorating my home, spending time with family, eating out at restaurants with friends, trivia, and spending quality time with my cat. 

Graduate Job Placement

We’re proud of having 100% placement for our graduates – from prestigious fellowships to private practice, our residents graduate from our program with a successful start in their careers as pediatricians.

2023 Pediatric Residency Alumni

2022 Pediatric Residency Alumni

2021 Pediatric Residency Alumni

Louisville is a great place to live!

How to Apply

Visiting Student Rotation

We are seeking fourth year medical students from diverse backgrounds for a visiting student rotation opportunity at the University of Louisville, Department of Pediatrics. 

Mentorship/Meetings: Students will be paired with a resident mentor who will meet with them weekly. Additionally, students will be paired with a factor mentor who will meet with the student twice during their visiting rotation. Finally, students will have an introductory meeting with the Pediatric Residency Program Director during their rotation.

Rotation: The rotation will be four weeks in duration. Students can complete a rotation in the Norton Children's Medical Group Novak Center outpatient general pediatrics clinic, clinical service with the Just for Kids Pediatric Hospitalist group, or an available pediatric subspecialty.

Stipend: The two applicants chosen will each receive a $2500 stipend which can be spent as applicants deem appropriate to cover housing, travel, or other expenses related to the rotation. Students will be required to complete a 1099 form and submit their name, address, and social security number to receive their stipend.

Criteria for Eligible Applicants

• Must be pursuing a medical degree at an LCME or COCA-accredited medical school.
• Maintains good academic standing at their current medical school.
• Have successfully completed a core clerkship in pediatrics.
• Planning to apply for a residency program in Pediatrics, Child Neurology, or Internal Medicine-Pediatrics
• Live outside the Louisville metro area.

This visiting student rotation is open to all eligible students regardless of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, or age.

Application Process

Students may apply through the Visiting Student Learning Opportunity (VSLO).

Departments will begin reviewing applications on July 1, 2023.

For questions or more information, contact us.

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