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CURRICULUM VITAE

DeMarco A. Bowen MD, MPH
Assistant Professor
Department of Pediatrics
Division of Hospitalist

OFFICE ADDRESS:
Children’s Wisconsin - Milwaukee Hospital
8915 W Connell Court
Milwaukee, WI 53226

EDUCATION:
05/2012 BS - Biology and Philosophy, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI
05/2018 Certificate in Global Health, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI
05/2018 MD, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI
05/2018 MPH, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI
05/2018 Path of Distinction in Public Health, UW Madison, Madison, WI
05/2018 TRIUMPH Fellow (Training in Urban Medicine and Public Health), UW Madison, Madison, WI

POSTGRADUATE TRAINING AND FELLOWSHIP APPOINTMENTS:
06/2018 - 06/2021 Global Child Health Residency, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030
07/2021 - 07/2023 Pediatric Hospital Medicine Fellowship, Pediatrics, Hospital Medicine, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA 92123

FACULTY APPOINTMENTS:
2019 - 2021 Moonlighting Resident Physician, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX
2021 - 2023 Non-neonatal Emergency Transport Coordinator, Hospital Medicine, Rady Children's Hospoital, San Diego, CA
08/14/2023 - Present Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, Hospital Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53226

HOSPITAL STAFF PRIVILEGES:
Pediatrics, Hospital Medicine, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, 9000 W. Wisconsin Avenue, Milwaukee, WI 53226

SPECIALTY BOARDS AND CERTIFICATION:
Board Certified
Issue DateExpiration
General Pediatrics
10/2021
10/2031
   
Certificates
Issued By Issue DateExpiration
Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS)
2018
None
Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP)
2019
None
Diplomate of American Board of Pediatrics
2021
None
UCSD CITI Training
2021
None
MCW CITI Training
2023
None
    

Licensure
Number Issue DateExpiration
State of Texas Medical Board
S3636
2019
11/30/2022
Medical Board of California
A173828
2021
07/31/2023
Drug Enforcement Agency
FB3158296
2021
07/31/2024
Wisconsin Medical Examining Board
82161-20
2023
10/31/2025
    

AWARDS AND HONORS:
2013 Shapiro Research Scholar
2016 WMAA Sam Perlson MD-MPH Dual Degree Scholarship
2017 Delta Omega Honor Society, Gamma Xi Chapter
2018 Excellence in Public Health Award, US Public Health Service
2018 Dr. Jeffrey P. Davis Scholarship
2023 APA Ray E. Helfer Innovation in Medical Education Trainee Award

MEMBERSHIPS IN HONORARY AND PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:
2018 - Present American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)
2019 - Present AAP Section on Global Health (SOGH)
2021 - Present AAP Section of Hospital Medicine (SOHM)
2021 - Present Society of Pediatric Sedation (SPS)

LOCAL/REGIONAL APPOINTED LEADERSHIP AND COMMITTEE POSITIONS:
2012 - 2013 Reviewed and modified budget proposals for funding of UHS, University of Wisconsin - Madison’s student health clinic. Madison, WI, Healthcare Advisory Committee Member, University Health Services
2012 Community Health Internship Program, working on public health initiatives at a Native American reserve’s health clinic. •Created and implemented educational and physical activity programming for tribal employees, and assisted in writing grant applications. Red Cliff, WI, Wisconsin Area Health Education Center
2016 - 2018 •Worked with a community organization on behalf of medically fragile children enrolled in the Special Care Nursery (SCN). •Developed a policy brief and distributed to state legislators advocating for improved funding for children enrolled in the SCN and receiving other Early Intervention services. Milwaukee, WI, TRIUMPH Fellow – Penfield Children’s Center
2016 - 2017 “Public Health Superhero.” Served as an advocate for the recruitment of minorities into public health professions by attending conferences and contributing to media outreach campaigns (oursuperheroeswi.org). Milwaukee, WI, Diversity Matters, Wisconsin Public Health Association
2017 - 2018 Community Advisory Team member. Provide oversight for programming for an intervention designed to strengthen communication between adolescents and their healthcare providers. Madison, WI, Providers and Teens Communicating for Health (PATCH)
2019 - 2021 Developed a policy brief on effective gun safety measures for legislators in the 2021 Texas State legislative session. Houston, TX, Scholarly Activity in Advocacy
2020 - 2021 Program Delegate, AAP Section on Pediatric Trainees, Baylor College of Medicine/Texas Children's Hospital Houston, TX
2021 - Present Bimonthly reviews of transport cases., Reviewing member, Emergency Transport M&M, San Diego, CA Rady Children's Hospital
09/2023 Committee Member, Pediatric Hospital Medicine Night Subcommittee, Department of Pediatrics, Medical College of Wisconsin
09/2023 Committee member, Pediatric Hospital Medicine Education Subcommittee, Department of Pediatrics, Medical College of Wisconsin
10/2023 Committee member, Intern Selection Committee Member, Department of Pediatrics/Medical College of Wisconsin

NATIONAL ELECTED/APPOINTED LEADERSHIP AND COMMITTEE POSITIONS:
2020 - Present Local History of US Region and Anti-Racism Module Tea, Development of case scenarios and workshop didactics on racism and its negative impacts on health outcomes in pediatric patients Facilitator Orientation Module development Created and directed simulated case scenarios teaching skills for facilitating difficult group conversations about racism. G-HEARD: Global health Education for Equity, Antiracism, and decolonization, G-HEARD: Global Health Education for Equity, Anti-Racism, and Decolonization
2022 - 2023 Local Site Member, completing data collection and leading PDSA cycle to improve timeliness of hospital discharge of well, febrile infants., Reducing Excessive Variability in Infant Sepsis Evaluation - REVISE II
2022 - 2023 • Content expert consulting and co-developing a virtual reality training module teaching equity and anti-racism in Global Health, AAP Virtual Reality Task Force

PEER REVIEWED WORKSHOPS/PRESENTATIONS:
National
Alex-Adeomi M, Rule A, Groothuis E, Haq H, Wheatley R, Bowen D, Fanny A, Murray B, Howard C, Opara I, Hudspeth J, Lam K, Ratner L, Tam R, Cameron W, Hodge B, Barnes A., Shifting to a Decolonized Lens through a Novel Anti-Racism and Decolonization Curriculum for Global Health. - Workshop Presentatioin, Consortium of Universities for Global Health Conference, 03/2022
Bowen D, Rule A, Haq H, Groothuis E, Ndlovu T, Ladzekpo D, Howard C, Murray B, Musiime V, Kamath-Rayne B., Tough Topics in Global Health: Shifting to a decolonized Academic Lens Through Critical Conversations. - Workshop Presentation, Pediatric Academic Societies’ Annual Meeting, 04/2022
Haq H, Rule A, Bowen D, Fanny A, Tam R, Cameron W, Barnes A, Howard C., So You Want to Decolonize Global Health? Facilitator Training for the Global Health Education for Equity, Anti-Racism, and Decolonization (GHEARD) Curriculum - Workshop Presentation, American Academy of Pediatrics National Conference & Exhibition, Anaheim, CA, 10/2022
Bowen D, Rhee K, Fisher ES, MacAulay R, Ekpenyong A, Patel A., Beyond Terminology: Training Residents to Respond to Racist Microaggressions Through Simulation, Society of Hospital Medicine Converge Meeting, Austin, TX, 03/2023
Bowen D, Rhee K, Fisher ES, MacAulay R, Ekpenyong A, Patel A., Training Residents to Respond to Racist Microaggressions Through Simulation. Poster Presentation., APPD Annual Spring Meeting, Atlanta, GA, 04/2023
Bowen D, Rhee K, Fisher ES, MacAulay R, Ekpenyong A, Patel A., Training Residents to Respond to Racist Microaggressions Through Simulation. Poster Presentation, PHM Club at Pediatric Academic Societies’ Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, 04/2023
Bowen D, Rhee K, Fisher ES, MacAulay R, Ekpenyong A, Polich M, Patel A., Training Residents to Respond to Racist Microaggressions Through Simulation (Presidential Plenary), Pediatric Academic Societies’ Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, 04/2023
 
Regional
Bowen D, Seymour Y, Hagen S., Low-Fidelity Simulation Training for Central Venous Catheter Maintenance at a Public Hospital in the Bahamas - Poster Presentation, 14th Annual Global Health Symposium, UW School of Medicine & Public Health, 04/2018
Bowen D, Rhee K, Fisher ES, MacAulay R, Ekpenyong A, Patel A., Simulation as a Method of Measuring the Application of Microresistance Communication Skills Among Pediatric Residents - Works in Progress Oral Presentation (Virtual), Academic Pediatric Association Region 9 & 10, 01/2022
Bowen D, Rhee K, Fisher ES, MacAulay R, Ekpenyong A, Patel A., Beyond Terminology: Training Pediatric Residents to Respond to Racist Microaggressions Through Simulation. - Poster Presentation (Virtual), Symposium for Innovation in Medical Education, San Diego, CA, 09/2022
Bowen D, Rhee K, Fisher ES, MacAulay R, Ekpenyong A, Polich M, Patel A., Training Residents to Respond to Racist Microaggressions Through Simulation. - Poster Presentation, 12th Annual Pediatric Faculty Research Symposium, San Diego, CA, 04/2023
 
Local
Bowen D, Tenna A, Debela A, Tefera G, Westergaard R., Estimation of HIV/HBC/HCV Seroprevalence in Ethiopia Using Rapid, Multiplex Antibody Detection. - Poster Presentation, 12th Annual Student Research Forum, UW School of Medicine & Public Health,, 11/2013
Bowen D., Estimation of HIV/HBC/HCV Seroprevalence in Ethiopia Using Rapid, Multiplex Antibody Detection - Oral Presentation, 10th Annual Global Health Symposium, UW School of Medicine & Public Health, 04/2014
Lemke M, Haq C, Buelow M, Bowen D, Brill, J., . Training in Urban Medicine and Public Health (TRIUMPH) - Poster Presentation, TRIUMPH Graduation, Milwaukee, WI, 05/2016
Bowen D, Vonasek B, Pollnow L, Hendrickson M, Lemke M., Assessing Physician Understanding of Special Care Nursery Services at Penfield Children’s Center - Poster Presentation, TRIUMPH Graduation, Milwaukee, WI, 05/2016
Lemke M, Haq C, Buelow M, Bowen D, Fullin K, Training in Urban Medicine and Public Health (TRIUMPH): Integrating Medicine and Public Health to Promote Health Equity - Poster Presentation, Teaching and Learning Symposium, UW-Madison, 05/2017
 

MCW TEACHING ACTIVITIES:
Continuing Medical Education
12/2023 "GHEARD 101 - Introduction to Global Health Decolonization" Global and Community Health Track, Pediatrics Residency
2023 - Present "Operation Conversation" Communication Workshop Instructor
 

EXTRAMURAL TEACHING:
Continuing Medical Education
2017 University of Wisconsin - Madison, “Introduction to Public Health: Local to Global Perspectives” Population Health Sciences undergraduate course, Section Leader. Topics: Resistance to immunization, the “double-burden” of infectious and chronic disease in developing countries.
08/2020 Texas Children's Hospital, “Morning Report: Prader Willi Syndrome.” Pediatric Residency Conference
11/2020 Texas Children's Hospital, Pediatric Residency Noon Conference “Morbidity and Mortality Conference.” Co-presenters: Meena Darden, Ethan Edmonson, Michael Petrus-Jones, and Christina Wood
11/2020 Texas Children's Hospital, Pediatric Residency Journal Club “Lost Earnings and Non-Medical Expenses of Pediatric Hospitalizations.” Co-presenters: Meena Darden, Ethan Edmonson, Michael Petrus-Jones, and Christina Wood
03/2021 Baylor College of Medicine, Medical Student Lectures Safety and Teaching as Resident Supervisor Topics: Newborn Anticipatory Guidance, BRUE, Vasculitides, Dermatology.
05/2021 Baylor College of Medicine, Advance Physician Experience (APEX) Chalk Talk Instructor Course on developing efficient and effective five-minute chalk-talks for graduating fourth year medical students.
2021 - Present Rady Children's Hospital - San Diego, CA, Hospital Medicine Team Education Lectures and bedside teaching to pediatric residents and medical students while on service.
2021 - Present Rady Children's Hospital - San Diego, CA, UCSD Pediatric Intern Boot Camp Series 2022: Coordinator and activity leader for “Resisting Racism: Recognizing and Interrupting Microaggressions” lecture and discussion. 2021: Small group facilitator for Respiratory Station, discussing Asthma, bronchiolitis, croup, and pneumonia.
01/2022 UCSD/Rady Children's Pediatric Hospital, Residency Noon Conference (Co-Presenter: Cris Ebby) “Abnormal Uterine Bleeding in the Adolescent”
02/2022 UCSD/Rady Children's Pediatric Hospital, Medicine Journal Club “Variations in Sedated Echocardiography and Association with Repeat Echocardiography in Nonrefractory Kawasaki Disease.”
07/2022 UCSD/Rady Children's, Combined PHM/PEM/CCM Journal Club “Inequities in Pain Assessment and Care of Hospitalized Children with Limited English Proficiency”
 

OTHER EDUCATION AND TRAINING:
07/2021 Point-of-Care Ultrasound Training •Six-hour training session by PEM faculty with overview of ultrasound physics, device operation, knobology, and practice of technique for lung, bladder, and soft tissue on live models. Rady Children’s Hospital – San Diego
07/2021 Behavioral Health Training Program •16-hour training session from Northcentral University with review of abuse & neglect, substance abuse, internalizing & externalizing disorders, trauma informed care, and the ENACT model for action. Rady Children’s Hospital – San Diego
2021 IHI Open School Improvement Capability Curriculum •Seven-module course on Quality Improvement models, including PDSA, the model for improvement, Lean/Six Sigma, measurement tools, and data Interpretation.
2021 IHI Open School Patient Safety Curriculum •Eight-module course on types of error, human factors, communication, Root cause analyses, responses to adverse events, and Just Culture.
2021 Health Services Research Academy – Tier 1 •Children’s Hospital Association course teaching process of health services research, including fundamentals of study design, data exploration & analysis, manuscript & presentation writing, and response to peer review critique.


BIBLIOGRAPHY
Non-Peer Reviewed Educational Products
1. Bowen, DeMarco. “How Will We Pay What We Owe?” American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Global Health Newsletter, Vol. 1, No. 3, Fall 2020, p. 26.