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Kirsten Bechtel, MD, FAAP

Associate Professor
Medical Director, Pediatric Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) Program

Pediatric Specialty Emergency Medicine Email   kirsten.bechtel@yale.edu Phone   (203) 688-4936 Fax   (203) 688-4195 Office Address   Yale-New Haven Children's Hospital Pediatric Emergency Medicine 840 Howard Avenue, 1st Floor New Haven, CT 06504   Download CV

Clinical Interests: Pediatric Emergency Medicine; Forensic Medicine

Research Interests: Head Injury in Children; Forensic Medicine

Board Certification

• American Board of Pediatrics, 2002
• American Board of Pediatrics, sub-board of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, 2004

Education

• A.B., Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, 1982-86
• M.D., University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ, 1987-91

Training

Resident
Pediatrics, St. Christopher's Hospital for Children, Philadelphia, PA, 1991-94

Fellow
Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 1994-96

Prior Academic Positions

Assistant Professor
Emergency Medicine, Allegheny University of the Health Sciences, Philadelphia, PA, 1996-98

Attending Physician
Pediatric Emergency Department, St. Christopher's Hospital for Children, Philadelphia, PA, 1996-98