Margaret Nguyen, MD

Dr. Margaret Nguyen is the Associate Division Chief of Research at Rady Children’s Hospital San Diego and an Associate Clinical Professor at the University of California San Diego. A graduate of the Pediatric Community Track at Children’s National Medical Center and Howard University, Dr. Nguyen has been passionate about understanding and addressing community health.  Recognizing the potential for geographical information systems (GIS) to delineate community health disparities, she pursued GIS training at Carnegie Mellon University during her Pediatric Emergency Medicine (PEM) fellowship at the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. Today, Dr. Nguyen stands out as one of the few PEM researchers who applies innovative uses of GIS and spatial analysis to emergency pediatrics. Her research uniquely focuses on health equity, health services utilization in vulnerable populations, and the critical impacts of climate on local pediatric health.  Beyond her pioneering spatial analysis approaches, Dr. Nguyen also integrates qualitative research into pediatric emergency medicine and champions team-based research. She supports junior faculty in developing a qualitative research network and actively contributes to multi-center collaborations such as the Pediatric Emergency Medicine Kawasaki Disease Research Group (PEMKDRG) and serves as site-PI for the National Emergency Airway Registry (NEAR4PEM).