Meta Carroll, MD

Dr. Carroll is a pediatric emergency physician providing clinical service in the emergency departments of Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago and Northwestern Medicine/Central DuPage Hospital, and bedside and didactic teaching for emergency medicine, family medicine, and pediatric residents, and pediatric emergency medicine fellows. An invited speaker at local, regional, and national meetings, she has lectured on challenging case management of ill and injured pediatric patients, cognitive bias in medical decision making, pediatric ethical issues in the ED, and caring for vulnerable populations. She completed a two-year program in clinical bioethics through Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine and developed an ethics curriculum for PEM fellows in training. She served as the ABEM representative to the pediatric emergency medicine subboard, tasked with the creation of certifying and recertifying board exams, and as a part of a Practice Analysis Panel that revised the content outline for pediatric emergency medicine. She was the guest editor for the Clinical Pediatric Emergency Medicine issue (March 2019) that focused on the care of the adolescent in the ED. She currently serves on the American Academy of Pediatrics' PREP E-Med editorial board, creating and editing content for high-stakes exam preparation and continuing education. She presented at the 2023 FemInPEM conference on grief-informed care of families in the emergency department.