Photo of Paul Ishimine, M.D.

Specialty

Emergency Medicine/Urgent Care

Locations

San Diego County

3020 Children's Way
MC 5075
San Diego, CA 92123

Specialty

Emergency Medicine/Urgent Care

Organization

Rady Children's Specialists of San Diego

Medical Group / IPA

CPMG/RCHN/RCSSD

Medical School

University of California - Irvine

Residency

University of Pittsburgh Medical Center-South Side

Fellowship

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Board Certifications

Emergency Medicine/Urgent Care, Pediatric Emergency Medicine

Gender

M

Bio

Dr. Paul Ishimine is a member of the Emergency Medicine Division at Rady Children's Hosptial-San Diego and the Emergency Medicine Department at UC San Diego. He is the program director for the pediatric emergency medicine fellowship.

Paul Ishimine, MD, obtained his undergraduate degree at the University of California, Berkeley and his medical degree at the University of California, Irvine, where he was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society. He then completed an emergency medicine residency at the University of Pittsburgh and was an emergency physician at the University of Pennsylvania prior to completing a pediatric emergency medicine fellowship at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

He is board-certified in both emergency medicine and pediatric emergency medicine, and he is on staff of both the Division of Emergency Medicine at Rady Children's Hospital, San Diego and Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of California, San Diego. He is the program director for the pediatric emergency medicine fellowship.

Dr. Ishimine is the chair of the American Board of Pediatrics/American Board of Emergency Medicine pediatric emergency medicine sub board, and he is a member of the American College of Emergency Physicians Pediatric Emergency Medicine Committee. He serves as an editor for the Clinical Communications/Pediatrics section of the Journal of Emergency Medicine. His research interests include infectious diseases in the emergency department. He has been voted as a Top Doctor in San Diego Magazine in both Emergency Medicine and Pediatric Emergency Medicine and has been selected as an Outstanding Reviewer for the Journal of Emergency Medicine and Academic Emergency Medicine.

Publications

PECARN prediction rules for CT imaging of children presenting to the emergency department with blunt abdominal or minor head trauma: a multicentre prospective validation study.
Holmes JF, Yen K, Ugalde IT, Ishimine P, Chaudhari PP, Atigapramoj N, Badawy M, McCarten-Gibbs KA, Nielsen D, Sage AC, Tatro G, Upperman JS, Adelson PD, Tancredi DJ, Kuppermann N

Management of youth with suicidal ideation: Challenges and best practices for emergency departments.
Santillanes G, Foster AA, Ishimine P, Berg K, Cheng T, Deitrich A, Heniff M, Hooley G, Pulcini C, Ruttan T, Sorrentino A, Waseem M, Saidinejad M

Development and Validation of the Phoenix Criteria for Pediatric Sepsis and Septic Shock.
Sanchez-Pinto LN, Bennett TD, DeWitt PE, Russell S, Rebull MN, Martin B, Akech S, Albers DJ, Alpern ER, Balamuth F, Bembea M, Chisti MJ, Evans I, Horvat CM, Jaramillo-Bustamante JC, Kissoon N, Menon K, Scott HF, Weiss SL, Wiens MO, Zimmerman JJ, Argent AC, Sorce LR, Schlapbach LJ, Watson RS, Society of Critical Care Medicine Pediatric Sepsis Definition Task Force, Biban P, Carrol E, Chiotos K, Flauzino De Oliveira C, Hall MW, Inwald D, Ishimine P, Levin M, Lodha R, Nadel S, Nakagawa S, Peters MJ, Randolph AG, Ranjit S, Souza DC, Tissieres P, Wynn JL

International Consensus Criteria for Pediatric Sepsis and Septic Shock.
Schlapbach LJ, Watson RS, Sorce LR, Argent AC, Menon K, Hall MW, Akech S, Albers DJ, Alpern ER, Balamuth F, Bembea M, Biban P, Carrol ED, Chiotos K, Chisti MJ, DeWitt PE, Evans I, Flauzino de Oliveira C, Horvat CM, Inwald D, Ishimine P, Jaramillo-Bustamante JC, Levin M, Lodha R, Martin B, Nadel S, Nakagawa S, Peters MJ, Randolph AG, Ranjit S, Rebull MN, Russell S, Scott HF, de Souza DC, Tissieres P, Weiss SL, Wiens MO, Wynn JL, Kissoon N, Zimmerman JJ, Sanchez-Pinto LN, Bennett TD, Society of Critical Care Medicine Pediatric Sepsis Definition Task Force

The Management of Children and Youth With Pediatric Mental and Behavioral Health Emergencies.
Saidinejad M, Duffy S, Wallin D, Hoffmann JA, Joseph M, Schieferle Uhlenbrock J, Brown K, Waseem M, Snow SK, Andrew M, Kuo AA, Sulton C, Chun T, Lee LK, AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS, Committee on Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Conners GP, Callahan J, Gross T, Joseph M, Lee L, Mack E, Marin J, Mazor S, Paul R, Timm N, AMERICAN COLLEGE OF EMERGENCY PHYSICIANS, Pediatric Emergency Medicine Committee, Dietrich AM, Alade KH, Amato CS, Atanelov Z, Auerbach M, Barata IA, Benjamin LS, Berg KT, Brown K, Chang C, Chow J, Chumpitazi CE, Claudius IA, Easter J, Foster A, Fox SM, Gausche-Hill M, Gerardi MJ, Goodloe JM, Heniff M, Homme JJL, Ishimine PT, John SD, Joseph MM, Lam SH, Lawson SL, Lee MO, Li J, Lin SD, Martini DI, Mellick LB, Mendez D, Petrack EM, Rice L, Rose EA, Ruttan T, Saidinejad M, Santillanes G, Simpson JN, Sivasankar SM, Slubowski D, Sorrentino A, Stoner MJ, Sulton CD, Valente JH, Vora S, Wall JJ, Wallin D, Walls TA, Waseem M, Woolridge DP, EMERGENCY NURSES ASSOCIATION, Pediatric Committee, Brandt C, Kult KM, Milici JJ, Nelson NA, Redlo MA, Curtis Cooper MR, Redlo M, Kult K, Logee K, Bryant DE, Cooper MC, Cline K, POLICY STATEMENT, Organizational Principles to Guide and Define the Child Health Care System and/or Improve the Health of All Children, This article is being jointly published in Pediatrics, Annals of Emergency Medicine, and Journal of Emergency Nursing.

Operationalizing Appropriate Sepsis Definitions in Children Worldwide: Considerations for the Pediatric Sepsis Definition Taskforce.
Carrol ED, Ranjit S, Menon K, Bennett TD, Sanchez-Pinto LN, Zimmerman JJ, Souza DC, Sorce LR, Randolph AG, Ishimine P, Flauzino de Oliveira C, Lodha R, Harmon L, Watson RS, Schlapbach LJ, Kissoon N, Argent AC, Society of Critical Care Medicine’s Pediatric Sepsis Definition Taskforce

Validation of Prediction Rules for Computed Tomography Use in Children With Blunt Abdominal or Blunt Head Trauma: Protocol for a Prospective Multicenter Observational Cohort Study.
Ugalde IT, Chaudhari PP, Badawy M, Ishimine P, McCarten-Gibbs KA, Yen K, Atigapramoj NS, Sage A, Nielsen D, Adelson PD, Upperman J, Tancredi D, Kuppermann N, Holmes JF

Does attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder increase the risk of minor blunt head trauma in children?
Pakyurek M, Badawy M, Ugalde IT, Ishimine P, Chaudhari PP, McCarten-Gibbs K, Nobari O, Kuppermann N, Holmes JF

Criteria for Pediatric Sepsis-A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by the Pediatric Sepsis Definition Taskforce.
Menon K, Schlapbach LJ, Akech S, Argent A, Biban P, Carrol ED, Chiotos K, Jobayer Chisti M, Evans IVR, Inwald DP, Ishimine P, Kissoon N, Lodha R, Nadel S, Oliveira CF, Peters M, Sadeghirad B, Scott HF, de Souza DC, Tissieres P, Watson RS, Wiens MO, Wynn JL, Zimmerman JJ, Sorce LR, Pediatric Sepsis Definition Taskforce of the Society of Critical Care Medicine

Predictors of Invasive Herpes Simplex Virus Infection in Young Infants.
Cruz AT, Nigrovic LE, Xie J, Mahajan P, Thomson JE, Okada PJ, Uspal NG, Mistry RD, Garro A, Schnadower D, Kulik DM, Curtis SJ, Miller AS, Fleming AH, Lyons TW, Balamuth F, Arms JL, Louie J, Aronson PL, Thompson AD, Ishimine PT, Schmidt SM, Pruitt CM, Shah SS, Grether-Jones KL, Bradin SA, Freedman SB

Test Characteristics of Cerebrospinal Fluid Gram Stain to Identify Bacterial Meningitis in Infants Younger Than 60 Days.
Balamuth F, Cruz AT, Freedman SB, Ishimine PT, Garro A, Curtis S, Grether-Jones KL, Miller AS, Uspal NG, Schmidt SM, Shah SS, Nigrovic LE, Pediatric Emergency Medicine Collaborative Research Committee (PEMCRC) HSV Study Group

COVID-19 educational innovation: Hybrid in-person and virtual simulation for emergency medicine trainees.
Austin A, Rudolf F, Fernandez J, Ishimine P, Murray M, Suresh P, McDaniel M, Shishlov K, Oyama L

Sharing Is Caring: Can an App Help?
Ishimine P

Optimizing the workforce: a proposal to improve regionalization of care and emergency preparedness by broader integration of pediatric emergency physicians certified by the American Board of Pediatrics.
Woolridge D, Homme JJ, Amato CS, Pauze D, Rose E, Valente J, Ishimine P, Friesen P, Baldwin S, Joseph M, Saidinejad M, Perina D, Goodloe JM

Incentives and barriers to pursuing pediatric emergency medicine fellowship: A cross-sectional survey of emergency residents.
Wall JJ, MacNeill E, Fox SM, Kou M, Ishimine P

Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C) in an Adolescent that Developed Coronary Aneurysms: A Case Report and Review of the Literature.
Nelson C, Ishimine P, Hayden SR, Correia M, Wardi G

Pediatric Sepsis Definition-A Systematic Review Protocol by the Pediatric Sepsis Definition Taskforce.
Menon K, Schlapbach LJ, Akech S, Argent A, Chiotos K, Chisti MJ, Hamid J, Ishimine P, Kissoon N, Lodha R, Oliveira CF, Peters M, Tissieres P, Watson RS, Wiens MO, Wynn JL, Sorce LR

Surviving Sepsis Campaign International Guidelines for the Management of Septic Shock and Sepsis-Associated Organ Dysfunction in Children.
Weiss SL, Peters MJ, Alhazzani W, Agus MSD, Flori HR, Inwald DP, Nadel S, Schlapbach LJ, Tasker RC, Argent AC, Brierley J, Carcillo J, Carrol ED, Carroll CL, Cheifetz IM, Choong K, Cies JJ, Cruz AT, De Luca D, Deep A, Faust SN, De Oliveira CF, Hall MW, Ishimine P, Javouhey E, Joosten KFM, Joshi P, Karam O, Kneyber MCJ, Lemson J, MacLaren G, Mehta NM, Møller MH, Newth CJL, Nguyen TC, Nishisaki A, Nunnally ME, Parker MM, Paul RM, Randolph AG, Ranjit S, Romer LH, Scott HF, Tume LN, Verger JT, Williams EA, Wolf J, Wong HR, Zimmerman JJ, Kissoon N, Tissieres P

Executive Summary: Surviving Sepsis Campaign International Guidelines for the Management of Septic Shock and Sepsis-Associated Organ Dysfunction in Children.
Weiss SL, Peters MJ, Alhazzani W, Agus MSD, Flori HR, Inwald DP, Nadel S, Schlapbach LJ, Tasker RC, Argent AC, Brierley J, Carcillo J, Carrol ED, Carroll CL, Cheifetz IM, Choong K, Cies JJ, Cruz AT, De Luca D, Deep A, Faust SN, De Oliveira CF, Hall MW, Ishimine P, Javouhey E, Joosten KFM, Joshi P, Karam O, Kneyber MCJ, Lemson J, MacLaren G, Mehta NM, Møller MH, Newth CJL, Nguyen TC, Nishisaki A, Nunnally ME, Parker MM, Paul RM, Randolph AG, Ranjit S, Romer LH, Scott HF, Tume LN, Verger JT, Williams EA, Wolf J, Wong HR, Zimmerman JJ, Kissoon N, Tissieres P

Surviving sepsis campaign international guidelines for the management of septic shock and sepsis-associated organ dysfunction in children.
Weiss SL, Peters MJ, Alhazzani W, Agus MSD, Flori HR, Inwald DP, Nadel S, Schlapbach LJ, Tasker RC, Argent AC, Brierley J, Carcillo J, Carrol ED, Carroll CL, Cheifetz IM, Choong K, Cies JJ, Cruz AT, De Luca D, Deep A, Faust SN, De Oliveira CF, Hall MW, Ishimine P, Javouhey E, Joosten KFM, Joshi P, Karam O, Kneyber MCJ, Lemson J, MacLaren G, Mehta NM, Møller MH, Newth CJL, Nguyen TC, Nishisaki A, Nunnally ME, Parker MM, Paul RM, Randolph AG, Ranjit S, Romer LH, Scott HF, Tume LN, Verger JT, Williams EA, Wolf J, Wong HR, Zimmerman JJ, Kissoon N, Tissieres P

Executive summary: surviving sepsis campaign international guidelines for the management of septic shock and sepsis-associated organ dysfunction in children.
Weiss SL, Peters MJ, Alhazzani W, Agus MSD, Flori HR, Inwald DP, Nadel S, Schlapbach LJ, Tasker RC, Argent AC, Brierley J, Carcillo J, Carrol ED, Carroll CL, Cheifetz IM, Choong K, Cies JJ, Cruz AT, De Luca D, Deep A, Faust SN, De Oliveira CF, Hall MW, Ishimine P, Javouhey E, Joosten KFM, Joshi P, Karam O, Kneyber MCJ, Lemson J, MacLaren G, Mehta NM, Møller MH, Newth CJL, Nguyen TC, Nishisaki A, Nunnally ME, Parker MM, Paul RM, Randolph AG, Ranjit S, Romer LH, Scott HF, Tume LN, Verger JT, Williams EA, Wolf J, Wong HR, Zimmerman JJ, Kissoon N, Tissieres P

Application of the Bacterial Meningitis Score for Infants Aged 0 to 60 Days.
Rees CA, Cruz AT, Freedman SB, Mahajan P, Uspal NG, Okada P, Aronson PL, Thompson AD, Ishimine PT, Schmidt SM, Kuppermann N, Nigrovic LE, HSV Study Group of the Pediatric Emergency Medicine Collaborative Research Committee

Characterizing pediatric high frequency users of California emergency departments.
Supat B, Brennan JJ, Vilke GM, Ishimine P, Hsia RY, Castillo EM

2018 Academic Emergency Medicine Consensus Conference: A Workforce Development Research Agenda for Pediatric Care in the Emergency Department.
Merritt C, Dietrich AM, Bogie AL, Wu F, Khanna K, Ballasiotes MK, Gerardi M, Ishimine PT, Denninghoff KR, Saidinejad M

Executive Summary: The 2018 Academic Emergency Medicine Consensus Conference: Aligning the Pediatric Emergency Medicine Research Agenda to Reduce Health Outcome Gaps.
Ishimine P, Adelgais K, Barata I, Klig J, Kou M, Mahajan P, Merritt C, Stoner MJ, Cloutier R, Mistry R, Denninghoff KR

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