Jill Rothschild, MD

MD, University of Pennsylvania

Dr. Rothschild received a Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1992. She completed a pediatrics residency at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia in 1995, and remained with CHOP as a pediatric hospitalist through 2017, providing inpatient bedside management of a wide range of pediatric illnesses, emergency room care, and care to newborns in the delivery room, newborn nursery and NICU. She is board certified in Pediatrics.

Dr. Rothschild joined the National Institutes of Health in 2017 as an inaugural member of a Pediatric Hospitalist team providing 24/7 clinical care to complex pediatric patients requiring monitoring on the inpatient Pediatric unit of the NIH Clinical Center. Dr. Rothschild provided both acute and ongoing care of pediatric patients from 15 Institutes, and co-managed children with a variety of complicated health conditions, often receiving first in human novel therapies, and including patients receiving CAR-T cell therapy, stem cell transplantation, as well as patients being evaluated for immune deficiencies, undiagnosed diseases, endocrine disorders, and neuromuscular diseases.

Dr. Rothschild became the Chief of the Pediatric Consult Service at NIH in October 2021, overseeing the inpatient and outpatient pediatric consult services, as well as Pediatric Advanced Life support training.

In May 2022, Dr. Rothschild became Chief of the Pediatric Hospitalist Section in the newly formed Department of Pediatrics, integrating the Pediatric Hospitalist team with the Pediatric Consult service and implementing a new model of inpatient care that ensures age appropriate 24/7 pediatric coverage for all children at the Clinical Center.

• NIH Clinical Center CEO Award in the category of Patient Safety: Establishment of Pediatric Reference ranges team. In recognition of exceptional effort in the implementation of reporting Pediatric reference ranges for laboratory values in CRIS, 2022.
• NIH Clinical Center CEO Award in the category of Patient Care: Individual award. For extraordinary efforts in the reorganization and improvement of the Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) training program, 2022.