How to Avoid Common Summer Injuries: Top Tips from Muma Children’s Hospital at TGH
From swim safety to beach hazards and travel reminders, Muma Children’s Hospital at TGH has a few reminders to keep kids safe this summer.
Author: Jasmine Patterson, M.D.
Dr. Jasmine Patterson was born in Virginia and attended medical school at the Medical College of Virginia, graduating in 2009. She completed an Emergency Medicine residency at Wake Forest University in 2012. Dr. Patterson was an attending physician for two years in Adult Emergency Medicine at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.After realizing how much she missed caring for children while working in the adult
emergency department, she went back to Wake Forest University and completed a Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship in 2016. Since 2016, Dr. Patterson has been practicing both adult and pediatric emergency medicine at Tampa General Hospital (TGH). She is the medical director of the Pediatric Emergency Department at Muma Children’s Hospital at TGH. She is also a core faculty member in the Emergency Medicine residency program at the University of South Florida. Dr. Patterson is active in hospital committees that help ensure the highest level of care is available to sick or injured children in the Tampa Bay Area and her passion is teaching and mentoring the next generation of emergency medicine physicians.