
Catherine (Cassie) Ferguson, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics; Director, Quality Improvement & Patient Safety Scholarly Pathway; Director of the Student Pillar, Kern Institute for the Transformation of Medical Education
Locations
- Children's Wisconsin, Emergency/Trauma
- 9000 W. Wisconsin Ave., Milwaukee, WI 53226
Education
Residency, Pediatrics, University of Colorado, 2007
Fellowship, Pediatric Emergency Medicine, University of Colorado at Denver, 2010
Research Interests
Dr. Ferguson completed her undergraduate degree in Psychology at UCLA, followed by medical school at the Medical College of Wisconsin. She spent the next six years completing her Pediatric and Pediatric Emergency Medicine training at the University of Colorado in Denver, CO before returning to MCW as a faculty member in the Department of Pediatrics in 2010.
Dr. Ferguson has served as the Course Director for the Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Pathway at MCW since 2012, and in 2018 began as Director of the Student Pillar for the Robert D. and Patricia E. Kern Foundation for the Transformation of Medical Education. She has a special research interest in improving the well-being of medical students, trainees, and practicing physicians by fostering an open dialogue about dealing with difficult emotions, building community, and destigmatizing mental health seeking among these groups.
Her work in quality improvement is focused on improving the effectiveness of pediatric emergency care by decreasing unnecessary laboratory and imaging studies in the ED, as well as improving the timeliness and effectiveness of emergency care of pediatric patients with chronic illnesses.
Publications
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Perspective Differences Between Attending Physician and Medical Student.
(Nguyen P, Ferguson CC.) Acad Emerg Med. 2021 Feb;28(2):272-273 PMID: 32416619 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85085615435 05/18/2020
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Improving Emergency Department Management of Diabetic Ketoacidosis in Children.
(Baumer-Mouradian SH, Gray MP, Wolfgram PM, Kopetsky M, Chang F, Brousseau DC, Frenkel MM, Ferguson CC.) Pediatrics. 2019 Oct;144(4) PMID: 31515299 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85072848463 09/14/2019
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Patient experience surveys: reflections on rating a sacred trust.
(Ferguson CC.) BMJ Qual Saf. 2019 Oct;28(10):843-845 PMID: 31175263 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85067125550 06/09/2019
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The Emotional Fallout From the Culture of Blame and Shame.
(Ferguson CC.) JAMA Pediatr. 2017 Dec 01;171(12):1141 PMID: 29052702 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85039871395 10/21/2017
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Reducing Unnecessary Imaging for Patients With Constipation in the Pediatric Emergency Department.
(Ferguson CC, Gray MP, Diaz M, Boyd KP.) Pediatrics. 2017 Jul;140(1) PMID: 28615355 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85021750626 06/16/2017
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A Scholarly Pathway in Quality Improvement and Patient Safety.
(Ferguson CC, Lamb G.) Acad Med. 2015 Oct;90(10):1358-62 PMID: 26039137 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-84957540373 06/04/2015
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Practice patterns of pediatric emergency medicine physicians caring for young febrile infants.
(Ferguson CC, Roosevelt G, Bajaj L.) Clin Pediatr (Phila). 2010 Apr;49(4):350-4 PMID: 19564450 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-77952984195 07/01/2009
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A Quantitative Study of the Accuracy of College Students' HIV Risk Estimates
(Steven D. Pinkerton, rnLynne I. Wagner-Raphael1, rnCatherine A. Craun, rnPaul R. Abramsonrn.) Journal of Applied Biobehavioral Research. Volume 5, Issue 1, pages 1–25, January 2000 06/04/2007