Dr. Ruest attended medical school at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and subsequently completed a Pediatrics Residency and Chief Resident year at Massachusetts General Hospital. She then trained as Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellow at Brown University/Hasbro Children's Hospital, during which time she also completed a Master of Public Health Degree at Brown University. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics at Hasbro Children's Hospital in Providence, RI. Her academic roles include acting as the Pediatric Emergency Medicine Trauma Liaison, a Rhode Island Hospital Injury Prevention Center faculty member, and PEM Fellowship Core Faculty member, leading the Injury Prevention Research Track. Dr. Ruest is also the Rhode Island Injury Prevention Research Fellowship Director as of Fall 2025.
Her federal and foundation-funded research focuses on childhood injuries including child abuse/neglect and unintentional injuries as well as social determinants of health. Dr. Ruest has led or participated in many single and multicenter collaborative studies and has numerous peer-reviewed publications focused on abusive fractures, pediatric injury epidemiology, gun violence, adolescent substance use and trauma, and food insecurity, and other injury-related topics.
In addition, she is adjunct faculty in the Brown Emergency Medicine Division of Social Emergency Medicine, a member of the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) Child Abuse and Neglect Research Interest Group as well as the Injury Prevention Research Interest Group, and a member of the Massachusetts Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Child Abuse and Neglect.
Dr. Ruest was has recieved multiple institutional awards, including:
2019- The Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine Director’s Clinical Excellence Award
2022 - The Department of Emergency Medicine PEM Rising Star Faculty Award
2023 - The Department of Emergency Medicine Outstanding Young Investigator Research Award
2025 - The Department of Emergency Medicine Clinical Director's Award and the Outstanding Contribution to Medical Simulation Award
She provides research mentorship to numerous past and current PEM and Child Abuse Pediatrics Fellows at Hasbro Children's Hospital, as well as Brown University medical, undergraduate, and graduate students.
Find a full list of publications here:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/stephanie.ruest.2/bibliography/public/
