Hector Vazquez, MD, MSc

Hector Vazquez is an attending Pediatric Emergency Medicine Physician at Maimonides Medical Center. He graduated from Mount Sinai School of Medicine and trained in pediatrics in the North Shore-LIJ health system. This was followed by a pediatric emergency medicine fellowship at Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of New York Presbyterian where he also received a Master of Science in Biostatistics from Columbia University. He is the Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship Director at Maimonides Medical Center and enjoys helping learners of all levels practice evidence-based medicine and begin their first research projects.

Selected Scholarly Activity:

Guernsey III, D., Kostin, S., Silver, M., Vazquez, H., & Zerzan, J. (2023). The evolving relationship between COVID‐19 and serious bacterial infection evaluation in febrile neonates. Acta Paediatrica, 112(7), 1398-1403.

Guernsey III, D., Pfeffer, M., Kimpo, J., Vazquez, H., & Zerzan, J. (2022). COVID-19 and serious bacterial infection in febrile infants less than 60 days old. Western Journal of Emergency Medicine, 23(5), 754.

Arroyo, A. C., Zerzan, J., Vazquez, H., Dickman, E., Likourezos, A., Hossain, R., & Bonadio, W. (2021). Diagnostic accuracy of point-of-care ultrasound for intussusception performed by pediatric emergency medicine physicians. The Journal of Emergency Medicine, 60(5), 626-632.

Gaba, M., Vazquez, H., Homel, P., Likourezos, A., See, F., Thompson, J., & Rizkalla, C. (2021). Language barriers and timely analgesia for long bone fractures in a pediatric emergency department. Western Journal of Emergency Medicine, 22(2), 225.

Tam, D., Vazquez, H., & Tainter, C. (2019). Calculated Decisions: PECARN Rule for Low-Risk Febrile Infants. Pediatric Emergency Medicine Practice, 16(7), CD6-CD7.

Tam, D., & Vazquez, H. (2019). Calculated decisions: Pediatric appendicitis risk calculator (pARC). Pediatric Emergency Medicine Practice, 16(9), CD5-CD6.

Chernick, L., Pusic, M., Liu, H., Vazquez, H., & Kwok, M. (2010). A pediatrics-based instrument for assessing resident education in evidence-based practice. Academic Pediatrics, 10(4), 260-265.

Schnadower, D., Vazquez, H., Lee, J., Dayan, P., & Roskind, C. G. (2007). Controversies in the evaluation and management of minor blunt head trauma in children. Current opinion in pediatrics, 19(3), 258-264.

Morris, M. C., Besner, D., Vazquez, H., Nelson, R. M., & Fischbach, R. L. (2007). Parental opinions about clinical research. The Journal of pediatrics, 151(5), 532-537.