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Julie Phillips, MD

Medical Director, Pediatric Emergency Department

Julie Phillips, MD, is the inaugural medical director of the Pediatric Emergency Department at WVU Medicine Children’s. Dr. Phillips also serves as the division director for Pediatric Emergency Medicine within the WVU Department of Emergency Medicine.

Phillips is a native West Virginian born in Kopperston (Wyoming County), and she grew up in Cool Ridge (Raleigh County). She earned her Doctorate in Medicine from West Virginia University in 2007, and she comes from a line of Mountaineers, with both her parents and her older sister graduating from WVU. Phillips completed a pediatric residency at the University of Connecticut and a fellowship in pediatric emergency medicine at Vanderbilt University.

Previously, Phillips served as an attending physician in the Pediatric Emergency Department at Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane, Washington, and attending physician and associate medical director of the Children’s Hospital Emergency Room at Lehigh Valley Medical Center in Allentown, Pennsylvania.

Leadership

Albert L. Wright, Jr.

President and CEO, West Virginia University Health System; Chairman, Board of Directors, Peak Health

Michael A. Grace, EdD, MBA, FACHE

President, WVU Hospitals

Amy L. Bush, BSN, MBA, RN, CNOR

Chief Administrative Officer

P. David Adelson, MD

Steve A. Antoline Endowed Chair for Children’s Neuroscience, Vice Chair, WVU Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute Executive Director, WVU Medicine Children's Neuroscience Center Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, WVU School of Medicine

Patrick C. Bonasso II, MD, MBA

Pediatric Trauma Director

Rafka Chaiban , MD, MHCM, FAAP

Associate Chief Quality Officer, Medial Director of Pediatric Ambulatory Clinics, Vice Chair of Pediatric Ambulatory Operations

Brian Casey, MD, ABOG-MFM

Chair, WVU Medicine Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences 

Christopher Deskins, MD

Director of Pediatric Anesthesiology Operations

Michaela Dolde, MHA

Assistant Vice President of Operations

Pavithra Ellison, MD, MMM, FASA

Associate Chief Quality Officer, Vice Chair of Anesthesiology

Lawrence Glad, MD

Co-Director, Labor and Delivery

Jeffrey Lancaster, MD

Associate Chief Medical Officer

Christopher Mascio, MD

Executive Chair, WVU Children’s Institute; Professor and Chief, Division of Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery; Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery; Executive Director, WVU Medicine Children’s Heart Center