Theresa Frey, M.D., is an assistant professor in the Department of Pediatrics and a pediatric emergency medicine physician with Norton Children’s Emergency Medicine. She has a passion for quality improvement and has led and participated in multiple process improvement initiatives in the emergency setting.  She provides quality improvement education for pediatric emergency medicine trainees. She serves as a member of the Pediatric Excellence in QI (PEQI) Council. She also has a strong interest in medical education through medical simulation and bedside teaching in the pediatric emergency department. As a member of SPARC (Simulation for Pediatric Assessment, Resuscitation and Communication) she facilitates medical and trauma resuscitation simulations and oversees procedural skills training/credentialing for trainees, faculty and staff.

Dr. Frey is originally from Toledo, Ohio. She received a B.S. in Natural Sciences from Xavier University in 2004. She received her M.D. from the University of Toledo College of Medicine in 2008. She completed a residency program in Pediatrics at St. Louis Children’s Hospital/Washington University in 2011. She served as a pediatric hospitalist at St. Louis Children’s Hospital until 2014. She then completed a fellowship in Pediatric Emergency Medicine (PEM) at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and received her Certificate in Clinical and Translational Research from the University of Cincinnati in 2017. She completed additional quality improvement training through the Intermediate Improvement Science Series (I2S2) at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital in 2019. She served as a faculty member at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and an attending physician in the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Emergency Department until 2023. She joined the Norton Children’s Hospital Emergency Medicine team and became a faculty member at the University of Louisville School of Medicine in 2024.