Rachel Elkin, MD

Rachel Elkin is a pediatric emergency physician and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (in Emergency Medicine) at Columbia (New York Presbyterian-Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital), where she also serves as simulation division faculty within the Department of Emergency Medicine. After medical school – where she also obtained a master’s degree in clinical research – she went on to complete her pediatric residency and pediatric emergency medicine fellowship at Columbia, followed by a simulation fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital. Her academic interests center around measures of cognitive load and workload, as well as how novel technologies and instructional designs, particularly within simulation, impact educational, psychometric, and clinical outcomes.