Professional History

Board Certification

• Cardiac Sonography - American Registry for Diagnostic Medical Sonography
  
• Emergency Medicine, Pediatric - American Board of Pediatrics
  
• Pediatrics - American Board of Pediatrics
  

Medical Education

• MD - Wayne State University School of Medicine
  Detroit, MI
  2008
  

Residency/Fellowship

• Residency - University Hospitals Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital
  Cleveland, OH
  
• Fellowship - Children's Hospital of Michigan
  Detroit, MI
  

Contact Information

Primary Location:

Childrens Minnesota Emergency Medicine
2525 Chicago AVE S STE 32-1488
Minneapolis, MN 55404
(612) 813-6843

Personal Biography

Valerie Whitcomb, MD, RDMS, is a Pediatric Emergency Medicine Specialist at Children's of Minnesota. She attended medical school at Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit, Michigan. She completed her pediatrics residency at Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio and then returned to Michigan to do a fellowship in pediatric emergency medicine at Children's Hospital of Michigan. Dr. Whitcomb completed additional training in point of care ultrasound and now has her Registered Diagnostic Medical Sonographer (RDMS) certification. She joined Children's of Minnesota in 2014. She has a special interest in the use of bedside ultrasound in the Emergency Department setting as well as medical education for students, residents, and fellows.