Brian K. Alverson, MD

Professional Titles

• Fellowship Director, Pediatric Hospital Medicine Division

Primary Academic Title

Professor (PAR) of Pediatrics

Background

CV

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/-/media/Johns%20Hopkins%20Childrens%20Center/documents/CVs/brian-alverson-cv.pdf

Research Interests

Pediatric Urinary Tract Infections, Pediatric Bronchiolitis, Pediatric Pneumonia, Medical Education

Research Summary

Dr. Alverson’s research program focuses on improving the quality, safety, and value of pediatric hospital care through rigorous evaluation of diagnostic, therapeutic, and systems-level practices. His scholarly work spans national clinical practice guidelines, multicenter observational studies, and pragmatic clinical trials, with particular emphasis on reducing low-value care, clarifying physiologic mechanisms underlying common inpatient therapies, and promoting equity-informed outcomes. He has led or contributed to influential national guidelines (including bronchiolitis, pneumonia, and urinary tract infection), conducted large database analyses using PHIS and related datasets to examine variation, severity prediction, and social determinants of health, and advanced evidence-based approaches to respiratory support, imaging, and antibiotic stewardship. Collectively, his work has shaped national standards of care, informed frontline clinical decision-making, and aligned hospital medicine practice with patient-centered, high-value principles.

Google Scholar - Publications

https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=RCKwkp4AAAAJ

PubMed - Publications

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Alverson+B[Author

Selected Publications

• Bradley JS, Byington CL, Shah SS, Alverson B, Carter ER, Harrison C, Kaplan SL, Mace SE, McCracken, GH Jr, Moore MR, St Peter SD, Stockwell JA, Swanson JT. The Management of Community-Acquired Pneumonia in Infants and Children Older Than 3 Months of Age: Clinical Practice Guidelines by the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society and the Infectious Diseases Society of America, Clin Infect Dis. 2011:Oct;53(7):e25-76.
• Ralston SL, Lieberthal AS, Meissner HC, Alverson BK, Baley JE, Gadomski AM, Johnson DW, Light MJ, Maraqa NF, Mendonca EA, Phelan KJ, Zorc JJ, Stanko-Lopp D, Brown MA, Nathanson I, Rosenblum E, Sayles S 3rd, Hernandez-Cancio S. Clinical practice guideline: the diagnosis, management, and prevention of bronchiolitis. Pediatrics. 2014 Nov;134(5):e1474-502.
• McCulloh R, Koster M, Ralston S, Johnson M, Hill V, Koehn K, Weddle G, Alverson B. Use of intermittent vs continuous pulse oximetry for nonhypoxemic infants and young children hospitalized for bronchiolitis (a randomized clinical trial). JAMA Pediatr. 2015;169(10)898-904
• McCulloh RJ, Smitherman S, Koehn K, Alverson B. Assessing the Impact of National Guidelines on the Management of Children Hospitalized for Bronchiolitis. Pediatr Pulmonol. 2014 Jul;49(7):688-94
• Alverson BK, Kilcoyne A, Friedmann AM, Sohani AR. “Case 34-2019: A 16-Year-Old Boy with Jaundice.” N Engl J Med, October 31, 2019, 381(18), 1763-72

Patents

Alverson B, D’Cruz RS, Nelsen DJ. 2023. Infant Stabilizer. US Patent 11,628,113, filed October 14, 2020, and issued April 18, 2023

Honors

• Penn Pearls Teaching Award, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 5/1/2002
• Senior Resident Teaching Award, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, 5/1/2002
• Dean’s Teaching Excellence Award, Brown University School of Medicine, 5/1/2006
• Teaching Award in Pediatrics, Rhode Island Hospital, 5/1/2006
• Marshal for MD Class of 2007 Commencement Ceremony, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, 5/1/2007
• Dean’s Teaching Excellence Award, Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University, 5/1/2007
• Teaching Award in Pediatrics, Rhode Island Hospital, 5/1/2007
• Faculty Alpha Omega Alpha Award, Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University, 5/1/2008
• Marshal for MD Class of 2008 Commencement Ceremony, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, 5/1/2008
• Commencement Speaker, 2008 Commencement Ceremony, Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University, 5/1/2008
• Dean’s Teaching Excellence Award, Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University, 5/1/2008
• Outstanding Faculty Award, Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University, 5/1/2008
• Teaching Award in Pediatrics, Rhode Island Hospital, 5/1/2008
• Special Achievement Award, American Academy of Pediatrics, For Distinguished Service and Dedication to the Mission and Goals of the Academy, for his advocacy in creating and successfully guiding the passage of appropriate legislation related to HIV screening., 5/1/2008
• Marshal and Hooder for MD Class of 2009 Commencement Ceremony, Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University, 5/1/2009
• Dean’s Excellence in Teaching Award, Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University, 5/1/2009
• Teaching Award in Pediatrics, Rhode Island Hospital, 5/1/2009
• Resident Teaching Award for Best Division in Pediatrics (Director, Division of Pediatric Hospital Medicine), 5/1/2009
• Hooder for MD Class of 2010 Commencement Ceremony, Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University, 5/1/2010
• Triple Board Teaching Award, Triple Board Residency Program, Rhode Island Hospital, 5/1/2010
• Outstanding Faculty Award, Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University, 5/1/2011
• Milton Hamolsky Award: Peer-Elected Award for the Outstanding Physician of the Year in the Rhode Island Hospital Health System, 5/1/2012
• Awarded Master of Arts, ad eundem, Brown University, 5/1/2012
• Resident Teaching Award for Best Division in Pediatrics (Director, Division of Pediatric Hospital Medicine), 5/1/2012
• Outstanding Faculty Award, Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University, 5/1/2013
• Awarded Top Doctor for Hospitalists in May Issue of Rhode Island Monthly Survey of Rhode Island Doctors, 5/1/2013
• Resident Teaching Award for Best Division in Pediatrics (Director, Division of Pediatric Hospital Medicine), 5/1/2013
• Finalist, Society of Hospital Medicine’s Award for Excellence in Teaching (national award; 3 finalists from 15,000 members), 5/1/2014
• Outstanding Faculty Award, Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University, 5/1/2014
• Resident Teaching Award for Best Division in Pediatrics (Director, Division of Pediatric Hospital Medicine), 5/1/2014
• Awarded Top Doctor in May Issue of Rhode Island Monthly Survey of Rhode Island Doctors, 5/1/2015
• Outstanding Faculty Award, Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University, 5/1/2015
• Profile in Competence Award: Ability III: Using Basic Science in the Practice of Medicine, Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University, 5/1/2015
• Resident Teaching Award for Best Division in Pediatrics (Director, Division of Pediatric Hospital Medicine), 5/1/2015
• American Academy of Pediatrics Section Award for Communication and Collaboration (Brian Alverson, Chair), 5/1/2016
• Top Doctor for Hospitalists in May Issue of Rhode Island Monthly Survey of Rhode Island Doctors, 5/1/2016
• Resident Teaching Award for Best Division in Pediatrics (Director, Division of Pediatric Hospital Medicine), 5/1/2016
• Dean’s Excellence in Teaching Award, Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University, 5/1/2016
• Resident Teaching Award for Best Division in Pediatrics (Director, Division of Pediatric Hospital Medicine), 5/1/2017
• Positive Champion of the Learning Environment, Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University, 5/1/2018
• Top Doctor for Pediatricians in May Issue of Rhode Island Monthly Survey of Rhode Island Doctors, 5/1/2018
• Top Doctor for Hospitalists in May Issue of Rhode Island Monthly Survey of Rhode Island Doctors, 5/1/2018
• Top Doctor for Hospitalists in May Issue of Rhode Island Monthly Survey of Rhode Island Doctors, 5/1/2019
• Marshal for MD Class of 2019 Commencement Ceremony, Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University, 5/1/2019
• Semifinalist, Make Your Medical Device Pitch for Kids! competition presented by the National Capital Consortium for Pediatric Medical Devices (NCC-PDI), organized by nonprofit accelerator MedTech Innovator, 1/1/2020
• Awarded Top Doctor for Hospitalists in May Issue of Rhode Island Monthly Survey of Rhode Island Doctors, 5/1/2020
• Silver Medal, Venture Pitch Night, Cherrystone Angel Group, Providence, RI, 2/1/2021
• Awarded Top Doctor for Hospitalists in May Issue of Rhode Island Monthly Survey of Rhode Island Doctors, 5/1/2021
• Resident Teaching Award for Best Division in Pediatrics (Director, Division of Pediatric Hospital Medicine), 5/1/2021
• Awarded Top Doctor for Hospitalists in May Issue of Rhode Island Monthly Survey of Rhode Island Doctors, 5/1/2022
• Sidney Kimmel Medical Center, Educational Honor Roll, 5/1/2023
• Sidney Kimmel Medical Center, Educational Honor Roll, 5/1/2024

Lectures & Presentations

• Adult Medical Education: Strategies for Lifelong Learning,  Society for Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics Annual Meeting, Providence, RI, 10/1/2007
• Pediatric HIV: A Case Study of Pediatric Advocacy for the Pediatrician,  Pediatric Grand Rounds at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, 11/12/2008
• The National Emergence of the Pediatric Hospitalist,  Pediatric Grand Rounds at the University of Vermont/Fletcher Allen Hospital, Burlington, VT, 2/25/2009
• Top Articles from 2009 for the Pediatric Hospitalist,  (Plenary Talk) National Meeting, Pediatric Hospital Medicine 2010, Minneapolis, MN, 7/24/2010
• Pediatric Update: Top Articles in Pediatric Hospital Medicine 2011,  (Plenary Talk) National Meeting, Society of Hospital Medicine, Dallas, TX, 5/12/2011
• Management Update of Childhood Pneumonia: Best Evidence,  National Meeting, Society of Hospital Medicine, Dallas, TX, 5/12/2011
• Hot Topics Smackdown: Current Clinical Controversies,  Pediatric Hospital Medicine 2011, Kansas City, MO, 7/29/2011
• Abbott Laboratories Visiting Professor, DuPont Children’s Hospital. Included An Update on Childhood Pnuemonia,  Pediatric Grand Rounds, A.I. Dupont Children’s Hospital, Wilmington DE, 10/26/2011
• Top Articles for the General Pediatrician,  Pediatric Grand Rounds at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, 2/22/2012
• Controversies in the Management of Pediatric Urinary Tract Infections, AAP National Conference and Exhibition 2012, New Orleans, LA, 10/21/2012
• ALTE: A Path Through the Quagmire,  Pediatric Grand Rounds at the Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, 9/24/2013
• ALTE: A Path Through the Quagmire,  Pediatric Grand Rounds at St. Barnabas Hospital, Bronx, NY, 11/8/2013
• Guidelines: How they’re made, and what this means for bronchiolitis in 2014,  Pediatric Grand Rounds at New York University, New York, NY, 5/13/2014
• ALTE: A Path Through the Quagmire, Pediatric Grand Rounds at Bridgeport Hospital, Bridgeport, CT, 5/13/2015
• The (In)fallibility of Guidelines: How to Use Them, and How They Might Lead You Astray, Pediatric Hospital Medicine 2015, San Antonio, TX, 7/25/2015
• Treatment of Outpatient Pneumonia,  26th Annual Symposium, Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital, Hollywood, FL, 11/14/2015
• ALTE: Sneak Preview of New Guidelines,  26th Annual Symposium, Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital, Hollywood, FL, 11/14/2015
• Bronchiolitis: Implementing New AAP Guidelines,  26th Annual Symposium, Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital, Hollywood, FL, 11/15/2015
• Antiobitics for Dummies,  26th Annual Symposium, Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital, Hollywood, FL, 11/15/2015
• Evidence and Controversy Behind the AAP UTI Guidelines, Pediatric Grand Rounds, Children’s Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, MO, 12/3/2015
• The (In)fallibilty of Guidelines: How to use them, and how they might lead you astray,  Pediatric Grand Rounds at Bay State Children’s Hospital, Springfield, MA, 2/2/16  
• Brief, Unexplained, Resolved Events, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. Cincinnati, OH, 8/22/2016
• Update on the Section on Hospital Medicine and Subspecialty Status of Pediatric Hospital Medicine,  Section on Hospital Medicine H-Program. American Academy of Pediatrics National Conference and Exhibition. San Francisco, CA, 10/23/2016
• Approach to the Wheezing Child, 2017 Clinical Pediatric Hospital Medicine, Tempe AZ, 1/20/2017
• Evidence-Based Management of Community Acquired Pneumonia and Complicated Pneumonias,  2017 Clinical Pediatric Hospital Medicine, Tempe AZ, 1/21/2017
• Diagnosing and Treating UTIs. Examining the 2011 guidelines and newer studies - and still asking questions,  Pediatric Academic Society Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 5/9/17  
• Job Search and the Elevator Speech, Section on Hospital Medicine (SOHM) Pediatric Hospital Medicine (PHM) Fellows Conference. Park City, UT, 8/27/2017
• Leadership: Practical Application of Fundamentals, Section on Hospital Medicine (SOHM) Pediatric Hospital Medicine (PHM) Fellows Conference. Park City, UT., 8/27/2017
• The (In)fallibility of Guidelines: How to Use Them, and How They Might Lead You Astray,  Eastern Maine Medical Center Grand Rounds in Pediatrics, Bangor, ME, 10/5/2017
• The (In)fallibility of Guidelines: How to Use Them, and How They Might Lead You Astray,  Grand Rounds, Johns Hopkins Department of Pediatrics, Baltimore, MD, 12/6/2017
• Bronchiolitis Management,  AAP LISTSERV Live Webinar, 4/30/2018
• Bronchiolitis Update, Pediatric Hospital Medicine 2018, Atlanta, GA, 7/21/2018
• Bronchiolitis Update, Pediatric Hospital Medicine 2018, Atlanta, GA (repeated due to popular demand), 7/22/2018
• The (In)fallibility of Guidelines: How to Use Them, and How They Might Lead You Astray,  Grand Rounds, Floating Children’s Hospital/Tufts, Boston, MA, 11/14/2018
• The (In)fallibility of Guidelines: How to Use Them, and How They Might Lead You Astray,  Grand Rounds, Dell’s Children’s Hospital, Austin, TX, 1/11/2019
• The (In)fallibility of Guidelines: How to Use Them, and How They Might Lead You Astray,  Grand Rounds, Omaha Children’s Hospital, Omaha, NE, 4/5/2019
• UTI: Making clinical decisions using the evidence, 1st New England Pediatric Hospital Medicine Conference, Boston, MA, 6/3/2019
• Clinicopathological Conference, 1st New England Pediatric Hospital Medicine Conference, Boston, MA, 6/3/2019
• Patient Satisfaction: Why it is important, why it is hard to measure, and how it might harm our patients,  Pediatric Hospital Medicine 2019, Seattle, WA, 7/27/2019
• Beethoven and COVID-19: How his timeless quartet about illness and recovery can support us now,  Brian Alverson, MD, and the Brooklyn Rider. Aired live April 20, 2020, to a national audience of 450, and since over 1,000 views as of 11/14/2021 (access here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rw_6ptYZIyQ, last accessed 11/14/21), 4/20/2021
• Approach to the Wheezing Virus-Infected Child,  Grand Rounds, University of Maryland Children’s Hospital, Baltimore, MD, 11/4/2021
• Variation in Care: The Sheep in Wolf’s Clothing, The Cornfeld Lecture in General Pediatrics, Grand Rounds, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, 12/1/2021
• Antibiotics, Noon Conference, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, 12/1/2021
• Applying for a Job, Hospitalist Fellowship Conference, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, 12/1/2021
• Finding Your Niche, Faculty Development Seminar, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, 12/1/2021
• It’s Not All Nihilism in EBM, Pediatric Hospital Medicine 2023, Philadelphia, PA, 8/4/2373. “Controversies in UTI – Moving towards a new guideline”, Grand Rounds, Baystate Children’s Hospital Department of Pediatrics, 11/21/2023
• Bronchiolitis: Albuterol, Steroids, HFNC (and is it really a thing?), Hot Topics in Pediatrics, Orlando FL, 7/20/2024
• UTI Controversies and Future Directions, Hot Topics in Pediatrics, Orlando FL, 7/20/2024
• Evidence Based Medicine: Things Pediatricians Should be Doing That They Don’t, Hot Topics in Pediatrics, Orlando FL, 7/20/2024
• Evidence Based Medicine: Things you don’t do that you could, and things you do that you shouldn’t, East Tennessee Children’s Hospital Grand Rounds, Knoxville, TN, 3/1/25  
• Controversies in UTI: Navigating the Grey Zones,  Pediatric Hospital Medicine, Pediatric Hospital Medicine 2025, Anaheim, CA, 7/26/2025
• Pediatric Bronchiolitis: Why Doing Less is Doing More,  Grand Rounds, Angkor Children’s Hospital, Siem Reap, Cambodia, 1/7/2015
• The Pediatric Physical Exam, Satellite Clinic Noon Conference, Angkor Children’s Hospital, Siem Reap, Cambodia, 1/8/2015
• Lifelong Learning, Grand Rounds, Angkor Children’s Hospital, Siem Reap, Cambodia, 11/10/2017
• Urinary Tract Infections in Children, Grand Rounds, Angkor Children’s Hospital, Siem Reap, Cambodia, 11/17/2017
• An overview of EBM in the US, at Klinik für Kinderchirurgie und Kinderurologie, Krefeld, Germany, 4/25/2024
• Cornfeld Invited Lectureship and Pediatric Hospital Medicine Lectures and Workshops, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia PA, 12/1/2021
• Medical Education and Pediatric Hospital Medicine Lectures, Workshops, and Consulting, Baystate Children’s Hospital, Springfield MA, 11/21/2023  

Graduate Program Affiliations

Fellowship Director, Pediatric Hospital Medicine, Johns Hopkins University

Professional Activities

• Chair, Section on Hospital Medicine Executive Committee Subcommittee on Legislation and Advocacy, 07/2013-06/2014
• Chair, Section on Hospital Medicine Executive Committee Subcommittee on Sponsorship, 07/2013-06/2016
• Treasurer and Chair-Elect, Section on Hospital Medicine Executive Committee, 07/2013-06/2015
• Member, Joint Committee for Pediatric Hospital Medicine, 07/2014-06/2016
• Member, Society of Pediatric Research, 07/2014-07/2025
• Founding Chair and Member, Consortium on Pediatric Hospital Medicine, 07/2016-06/2017
• Member, Ad-hoc Committee for Pediatric Hospital Medicine, Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, 05/2017
• Chair, Section on Hospital Medicine Executive Committee, 07/2015-06/2017
• Member, American Pediatric Society, 07/2020-07/2025
• Chair, Pediatric Hospital Medicine 2016 National Conference Planning Committee, 07/2015-07/2016
• Chair, American Academy of Pediatrics PREP PHM National Course 2019 Planning Committee, 07/2017-07/2019
• Chair, American Academy of Pediatrics PREP PHM National Course 2022 Planning Committee, 07/2019-07/2022
• Chair, American Academy of Pediatrics Council on Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, Urinary Tract Infection Sub-Committee, 06/2022 - Present