Dr. Lauren Chernick is a pediatric emergency medicine physician board certified in Pediatrics and Pediatrics Emergency Medicine with a Masters of Biostatistics (MSc) from the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. She has dedicated her career to both the clinical care of children and the study of how to improve the health of adolescents who present for care to the emergency department (ED).

Dr. Chernick has been the PI, Co-Investigator, and site PI on multiple grants and was funded through a K23 Career Mentored Development Grant from the National Institute of Child and Health Development (NICHD). She is also the Chair of the PECARN (Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network; funded by HRSA) Adolescent Sexual Health Working Group. Her specific research focus is improving adolescent health through designing, testing, and implementing innovative and engaging digital health platforms that fit into ED workflow. As an investigator, she has extensive experience with qualitative and quantitative data analysis, user-centered design, digital health, and ED-based trials.