Mary E. Aitken, MD, MPH

Associate Professor of Pediatrics

Center for Applied Research and Evaluation, Section Chief

Section of General Pediatrics

Adjunct Associate Professor, Maternal and Child Health, Health Policy and Management, Health Behavior and Health Education, College of Public Health

Contact Information

Arkansas Children's Hospital

800 Marshall Street

Little Rock, AR  72202

Phone: (501) 364-3300

Fax: (501) 364-1552

AitkenMaryE@uams.edu

Education

MD - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1988

MPH - University of Washington, 1996

Training

Internship:  Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1988

Residency:  Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1991

Fellowship:  Visiting Research Fellow, University of Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff, Wales, UK, 1994; Pediatrics, University of Washington, 1994-1996

Board Certification

Pediatrics

Hospital Appointments

Arkansas Children's Hospital

Clinical Interests

General pediatrics

Research Interests

Dr. Aitken is a general pediatrician with research interests in primary prevention of injury, assessment of health status and outcomes following injury, and improvement of rehabilitation care for injured and special needs children. She has received funding for her projects from the Emergency Medical Services for Children Program of MCHB and other agencies and is the recipient of a Robert Wood Johnson Generalist Physician Scholar award to pursue her research program evaluating measures of health related quality of life for injured children. A large research project evaluating the impact of a family support and education program for hospitalized trauma patients is currently under way. Community-based child passenger safety initiatives are also a major activity for Dr. Aitken, both as principal investigator of the Injury Free Coalition for Kids at Arkansas Children’s Hospital and medical director of a statewide Child Passenger Safety Education program.