ExitCare, LLC Builds Collaborative Foundation of Pediatric Specialists with Editors-in-Chief to Support an Enterprise-Wide Patient Education Solution

LAKE ELMO, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ExitCare, LLC, the most trusted, enterprise-wide solution for patient education, recently appointed Shireen Atabaki, MD, MPH, FAAP, as the new Editor-in-Chief to direct peer-reviewed, evidence-based content for the pediatric ExitCareED™ (Emergency Department) library of documents and to advance ExitCare’s commitment to excellence in pediatric content.

“Collectively, the three Editors-in-Chief represent the highest level of expertise and collaboration to support development of superior pediatric-focused content”

Shireen Atabaki, MD, is an attending physician at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, DC, where she also serves as Director of Medical Student Education and Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine. Board certified in pediatrics and pediatric emergency medicine, Dr. Atabaki brings to ExitCare an in-depth knowledge of pediatric emergency medicine and years of experience with a healthcare institution that is consistently ranked among the best pediatric hospitals in America.

Dr. Atabaki will be joining two other pediatric Editors-in-Chief as an integral part of ExitCare’s editorial organization. Francis Chan, MD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Internal Medicine at Loma Linda University Children’s Hospital in Loma Linda, CA, is currently serving as ExitCare’s pediatric inpatient (ExitCareIP™) Editor-in-Chief. Peter Winkelstein, MD, MBA, Chief of the Division of Pediatrics and Chief Medical Informatics Officer at the Women and Children’s Hospital of Buffalo in Buffalo, NY, is actively serving as ExitCare’s pediatric ambulatory care (ExitCareAC™) Editor-in-Chief.

“Collectively, the three Editors-in-Chief represent the highest level of expertise and collaboration to support development of superior pediatric-focused content,” states Roger Jacobi, President of ExitCare, “they are setting the standard for consistent pediatric patient education content across all care settings.”

ExitCare’s editorial organization is not solely composed of pediatric specialists, but also includes an extensive team of physicians and clinical specialists dedicated to serving the patient education needs of all patients within the emergency department, inpatient and ambulatory care settings.

About ExitCare

Founded in 1996, ExitCare, LLC is the most trusted, integrated, enterprise-wide solution for patient education and currently serves more than 1,500 healthcare facilities across the United States. With development of over 4,000 healthcare topics organized by relevant diagnosis and sourced with medication information, this system is intuitively designed and authored for all care settings, multiple languages and various health literacy levels to maximize workflow efficiency and increase patient comprehension. For more information, visit http://www.ExitCare.com.