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Joel Clingenpeel, MD

Clingenpeel

Specialty:

Education

Medical School: Eastern Virginia Medical School

Residency: University of Virginia Hospitals

Fellowship: Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Certification

American Board of Pediatrics

Personal Statement

Having grown up in Franklin, the opportunity to return home to work at CHKD was appealing to me and I now enjoy being on faculty at EVMS where I was once a medical student.

Bio

Dr. Clingenpeel returned to CHKD in 2005 after completing his pediatric emergency medicine fellowship. He is very involved with graduate medical education at CHKD and serves as the fellowship director of pediatric emergency medicine for the three-year ACGME accredited fellowship program.

Additionally, Dr. Clingenpeel is the director for two other training programs at CHKD/EVMS: medical simulation in education and international pediatric emergency medicine.  

He is a member of the EVMS graduate medical education committee.

Additional Information

Clinical Interest

  • Pediatric airway emergencies
  • Medical simulation

Research

  • Medical education
  • Injury prevention

Honors & Awards

  • Virginia Business Magazine "Top Doc" 2024, 2025
  • Coastal Virginia Magazine "Top Doc Allstar" 2014-2025
  • Hampton Roads Magazine "Top Doc" 2012, 2013
  • Outstanding Clinical Instructor Award, Department of Emergency Medicine, Eastern Virginia Medical School 2011-2012
  • Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society, Faculty Alumni Inductee (Nominated by EVMS Students), 2010 
  • Outstanding Clinical Instructor Award, Department of Emergency Medicine, Eastern Virginia Medical School 2008-2009
  • Outstanding Clinical Instructor Award, Department of Emergency Medicine, Eastern Virginia Medical School 2007-2008
  • Honorary Member, Dominican Society of Pediatrics, 2006
  • James W. Hayes Faculty Teaching Award, Department of Pediatrics, Eastern Virginia Medical School, 2006

Community Involvement

  • Children's educator, St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Chesapeake

Publications

  • Mounts J, Clingenpeel JM. Apparent desaturation on pulse oximetry due to hemoglobinopathy. Pediatric Emergency Care. 2010 Oct; 26(10):748-9.
  • Mounts J, Clingenpeel JM, McGuire E, Byers E, Kireeva Y. Most commonly missed fractures in a pediatric emergency department. Clinical Pediatrics (Phila). 2011 Mar;50(3):183-6. Epub 2010 Dec 2.
  • Hartwig HD, Clingenpeel JM, Perkins AM, Rose W, Abdullah-Anyiwo J. Parental knowledge of radiation exposure in medical imaging used in the pediatric emergency department. Pediatric Emergency Care, 2013 Jun;29(6):705-9.
  • Burhop J, Clingenpeel JM, Poirier MP. Emergency department diagnosis of Dietl’s crisis in a 7 year-old with abdominal pain. J Invest Med. Vol. 61:2;February 2013: 378.

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