Brett Burstein

Dr. Burstein is an Associate Professor at McGill University in the Department Pediatrics and the Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics. He received his M.D/Ph.D degrees from McGill University (2010) and MPH from Harvard (2018). He trained in General Pediatrics (2013) then Pediatric Emergency Medicine (2015) at the Montreal Children’s Hospital, and was subsequently appointed as Clinician-Scientist at the McGill University Health Centre Research Institute. He is a Decision Editor for the Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine, and has served on the Executive Committee of the Pediatric Emergency Research Canada (PERC) consortium, the Board of Directors for the Translating Emergency Knowledge for Kids (TREKK) network, the Research Committee of the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians (CAEP), and is . He holds a Clinical Research Scholar career award (FRQ-S), and has authored over 100 peer-reviewed articles, commentaries and book chapters with nearly 6000 career citations. His primary research interest is the emergency management of fever among infants in the first months of life, and he is the principal author of national guidelines from the Canadian Paediatric Society.