Department of Pediatrics

Education

• BA, cum laude, Pomona College, 2009
• MD, University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, 2013

Training

• Resident, Pediatrics, Duke University Hospital, 2013 - 2016
• Fellow, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Duke University Hospital, 2016 - 2019

Licensure and Board Certification

• 2016 - 2019NC, Medical License
• 2016American Board of Pediatrics, General Pediatrics
• 2019MO, Medical License
• 2020Board Certified, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Honors and Awards

• F. Sessions Cole, M.D. Master Clinician Award in Clinical Excellence, 2022
• Kids Care Children’s Miracle Network Grant, Duke University Medical Center, 2018

Recent Publications view all (7)

1. Kerri L LaRovere 1, Tina Y Poussaint 2, Cameron C Young 3, Margaret M Newhams 3, Suden Kucukak 3, Katherine Irby 4, Michele Kong 5, Stephanie P Schwartz 6, Tracie C Walker 6, Melania M Bembea 7, Kari Wellnitz 8, Kevin M Havlin 9, Natalie Z Cvijanovich 10, Mark W Hall 11, Julie C Fitzgerald 12, Jennifer E Schuster 13, Charlotte V Hobbs 14, Natasha B Halasa 15, Aalok R Singh 16, Elizabeth H Mack 17, Tamara T Bradford 18, Shira J Gertz 19, Adam J Schwarz 20, Katri V Typpo 21, Laura L Loftis 22, John S Giuliano Jr 23, Steven M Horwitz 24, Katherine V Biagas 25, Katharine N Clouser 26, Courtney M Rowan 27, Aline B Maddux 28, Vijaya L Soma 29, Christopher J Babbitt 30, Cassyanne L Aguiar 31, Amanda R Kolmar 32, Sabrina M Heidemann 33, Helen Harvey 34, Laura D Zambrano 35, Angela P Campbell 35, Adrienne G Randolph 3 36, Overcoming COVID-19 Investigators. Changes in Distribution of Severe Neurologic Involvement in US Pediatric Inpatients With COVID-19 or Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children in 2021 vs 2020 JAMA Neurol. 2022. doi:10.1001/jamaneurol.2022.3881  PMCID:PMC9641594  PMID:36342679 
2. Amanda Kolmar, MD, Arif H. Kamal, MD, MBA, MHS, and Karen E. Steinhauser, PhD. ‘Between wings of hope and fear’: Muslim parents’ experiences with the American health care system Journal of Palliative Medicine. 2022. doi:10.1089/jpm.2022.0154  PMID:35861545 
3. Amanda Kolmar, Arif H Kamal, Karen E Steinhauser. Clinician end-of-life experiences with pediatric Muslim patients at a US quaternary care center J Pain Symptom Manage . 2022. PMID:35032621 
4. Kolmar A, Hueckel RM, Kamal A, Dickerman M. Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Caring for Children in Neonatal and Pediatric Intensive Care Units. J Palliat Med. 2019;22(9):1149-1153. PMID:31498731 
5. Kolmar A, Kamal AH. Developing a Path to Improve Cultural Competency in Islam Among Palliative Care Professionals. J Pain Symptom Manage. 2018;55(3):e1-e3. PMID:29154889 
6. Amy A. Gelfand, MD, Amanda C. Reider, MD, and Peter J. Goadsby, MD PhD. Outcomes of Greater Occipital Nerve Injections in Pediatric Patients with Chronic Primary Headache Disorders Pediatr Neurol. 2013;50(2):135-9. doi:10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2013.09.008  PMCID:PMC3903978  PMID:24268688 
7. Gelfand AA, Reider AC, Goadsby PJ. Cranial autonomic symptoms in pediatric migraine are the rule, not the exception. Neurology. 2013;81(5):431-6. PMCID:PMC3776532  PMID:23897870