Rachel M. Stanley, MD

Rachel Stanley, MD, MHSA, is the division chief for Emergency Medicine at Nationwide Children's Hospital and professor of Pediatrics with tenure at The Ohio State University College of Medicine.

Dr. Stanley has extensive accomplishments in clinical research and education. She developed the Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship Program at the University of Michigan in 2004. She also has been continuously funded as a principal investigator of the Great Lakes Area Children’s Emergency Research node (GLACiER) of the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) since 2008. Nationwide Children's Hospital is currently a member of the PECARN node that Dr. Stanley currently co-leads. The GLACiER node has a proven track record in collaborative research development, securing extramural funding, enrollment, and implementation of science in both pre-hospital and ED settings. She previously served as the Chair of the overall PECARN Steering Committee. In 2012, Dr. Stanley founded the PECARN Future Investigator meeting and continues to lead this successful annual program. This is a formal mentorship meeting to prepare the next generation of EMSC researchers to foster the success of PECARN and advance the evidence base within pediatric emergency care.

In 2019, she started a disaster science core at Nationwide Children's in the department of Emergency Medicine. This core is supported by federal grants and includes three disaster medicine focused faculty and two project managers. She is also the research director of the federally funded Pediatric Pandemic Network, in this role she developed a research training program to train future pediatric disaster scientists nationally.