Danielle Grace Hirsch, MD, MPH, MBA, FAAP

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Danielle Hirsch, MD, MPH, MBA, is a pediatric emergency medicine physician. She is a graduate of St. George's University, Grenada, West Indies, where she obtained both her MPH (2006) and MD (2010) degrees. She completed her pediatric residency at what was initially known as Michigan State University Kalamazoo Center for Medical Studies, which during her residency had a name change to Western Michigan University School of Medicine Clinics, and graduated in 2013. She then went on to fellowship training in pediatric emergency medicine at the University at Buffalo, training at the Women and Children's Hospital of Buffalo, now known as Golisano's Children's Hospital, graduating in 2016. After completing the fellowship, she took a position at Cooper University School of Medicine as an attending physician, staffing residents, medical students, and dental students. In 2017, she was recruited to Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital in St. Petersburg, Florida, where she continues to practice medicine. During her time at Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital, she has become involved in the medical informatics world and is the department champion for the EHR, which is Epic. She also serves on the Epic steering committee and is one of 12 representatives nationwide helping improve the Epic EHR from a pediatric emergency medicine perspective. She is also actively involved in creating clinical pathways and sits on the clinical pathways committee. She is a tri-chair of the pediatric emergency medicine clinical pathways committee for All Children's Hospital. She actively collaborates with her colleagues at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center in Baltimore, MD, regarding order set creation and review for the pediatric emergency department. In 2021, she was appointed chair of the pharmacy and therapeutics committee, a 10-year commitment at All Children's Hospital, and is also a voting member of the medical executive committee at Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital. She has many recent publications on sepsis using AI biomarkers. Every year, she returns to her residency program to give a Grand Rounds presentation related to pediatric emergency medicine or medical informatics and stays to also teach the residents the same day, with case presentations and additional lectures related to her field of practice. In May 2026, she graduated from the Physician Executive MBA program at Auburn University. During her MBA, she networked with Taiwan Medical University Hospital and is working to collaborate on a new AI tool for the emergency department to identify patients at high risk for admission or with an increased likelihood of return within 72 hours. She is actively involved in the coaching program at Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital with the residents.