Dina Wallin, MD

Dina is an assistant professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine, working clinical shifts in the pediatric emergency departments at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital and Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, as well as the adult emergency department at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. Her areas of interest include medical ethics and medical education. She loves running, going to concerts, musical theater, and trying to travel as often as she can.
Education
2018 - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training, University of California
06/2016 - , UT Austin Dell Children's Medical Center Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship
06/2014 - , UCSF-SFGH Emergency Medicine Residency
MD, 06/2010 - , UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine
BA, 06/2006 - Human Biology (Area of Concentration: Spirituality, Healing, and the Body), Stanford University

  1. Saidinejad M, Foster AA, Santillanes G, Li J, Wallin D, Barata IA, Joseph M, Rose E, Cheng T, Waseem M, Berg K, Hooley G, Ruttan T, Shahid S, Lam SHF, Amanullah S, Lin S, Heniff MS, Brown K, Gausche-Hill M, ACEP Pediatric Emergency Medicine Committee. Strategies for optimal management of pediatric acute agitation in emergency settings. Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians open 2024. PMID: 39183940


  2. Asiaban JN, Patel S, Ormseth CH, Donohue KC, Wallin D, Wang RC, Raven MC. Advance Care Planning Among Patients With Advanced Illness Presenting to the Emergency Department. The Journal of emergency medicine 2023. PMID: 36990851


  3. Wallin D, Vezzetti R, Young A, Wilkinson M. Do Parents of Discharged Pediatric Emergency Department Patients Read Discharge Instructions? Pediatric emergency care 2021. PMID: 30346364


  4. Barata I, Auerbach M, Badaki-Makun O, Benjamin L, Joseph MM, Lee MO, Mears K, Petrack E, Wallin D, Ishimine P, Denninghoff KR. A Research Agenda to Advance Pediatric Emergency Care Through Enhanced Collaboration Across Emergency Departments. Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine 2018. PMID: 30353946


  5. Wallin D, Kienstra AJ. Not by the Red on My Chinny Chin Chin: A Case of Mandibular Osteomyelitis in a 5-Year-Old Girl. The Journal of emergency medicine 2016. PMID: 26899509


  6. Wallin D, Privette AR, Campbell AR, Tang JF. A Case of Unrecognized Intrathoracic Placement of a Subclavian Central Venous Catheter in a Patient with Large Traumatic Hemothorax. Case reports in emergency medicine 2015. PMID: 26347830


  7. Wallin D, Yaghoubian A, Rosing D, Walot I, Chauvapun J, de Virgilio C. Computed tomographic angiography as the primary diagnostic modality in penetrating lower extremity vascular injuries: a level I trauma experience. Annals of vascular surgery 2011. PMID: 21724101


  8. Yaghoubian A, Aboulian A, Chan T, Ishaque B, Wallin D, Putnam B, Stabile BE, De Virgilio C. Use of clinical triage criteria decreases monitored care bed utilization in gallstone pancreatitis. The American surgeon 2010. PMID: 21105631