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Dr. Yigit Guner earned his Doctor of Medicine degree from the Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science at the Chicago Medical School. He completed his internship and residency in general surgery at UC Davis Medical Center, where he served as chief resident. Dr. Guner’s training continued with a fellowship in pediatric surgery at the University of Texas, Houston. In addition, he finished a post-doctoral research fellowship at the USC-CHLA Department of Pediatric Surgery. Dr. Guner con...

L. Nelson Sanchez-Pinto, MD, is a Pediatric intensivist at Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, where he is also an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Dr. Sanchez-Pinto co-led an international group of researchers in the Society of Critical Care Medicine Pediatric Sepsis Definition Task Force for the Development and Validation of the new Phoenix Criteria for Pediatric Sepsis and Septic Shock that was featured at the 2024 SCCM conference. ...

L. Nelson Sanchez-Pinto, MD, is a Pediatric intensivist at Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, where he is also an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Dr. Sanchez-Pinto co-led an international group of researchers in the Society of Critical Care Medicine Pediatric Sepsis Definition Task Force for the Development and Validation of the new Phoenix Criteria for Pediatric Sepsis and Septic Shock that was featured at the 2024 SCCM conference. ...

Ethan Sanford, MD is an Assistant Professor of Anesthesia and Pediatrics at the University of Texas Southwestern in Dallas. He completed his MD at Harvard University followed by Anesthesiology residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and pediatric anesthesia fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital. He then completed a pediatric critical care fellowship at UTSW. He is board certified in both pediatric anesthesia and pediatric critical care medicine. He works both as a pediatric anesthesiologist...

Elizabeth Killien, MD MPH is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Washington and an attending physician in the Pediatric ICU at Seattle Children’s. She earned her MD from Dartmouth Medical School in 2011. She completed her residency in General Pediatrics and fellowship in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine at the University of Washington. She underwent additional training in pediatric trauma research at the Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center in the Pediatric Inju...

Elizabeth Killien, MD MPH is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Washington and an attending physician in the Pediatric ICU at Seattle Children’s. She earned her MD from Dartmouth Medical School in 2011. She completed her residency in General Pediatrics and fellowship in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine at the University of Washington. She underwent additional training in pediatric trauma research at the Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center in the Pediatric Inju...

Alexis Topjian, MD, MSCE is a Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care at the University of Pennsylvania. She is an intensivist at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia where she also serves as the Fellowship Director of Neurocritical Care, Director of the Pediatric Neurocritical Care Program, and the Director of Faculty Development. She also was the first author on the 2019 Pediatric Post–Cardiac Arrest Care Scientific Statement from the American Heart Association. Learning Objectives: ...

Alexis Topjian, MD, MSCE is a Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care at the University of Pennsylvania. She is an intensivist at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia where she also serves as the Fellowship Director of Neurocritical Care, Director of the Pediatric Neurocritical Care Program, and the Director of Faculty Development. She also was the first author on the 2019 Pediatric Post–Cardiac Arrest Care Scientific Statement from the American Heart Association. Learning Objectives: ...

About our guest: Jenna Miller, MD is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine. She completed her medical school and residency in Kansas City before moving to Texas Children’s for critical care fellowship. She is the director of the pediatric ECMO program and the pediatric critical care medicine fellowship at Children’s Mercy Kansas City. Her professional and research interests include trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole ARDS, ECMO and medical e...

Dr. Tarif Choudhury is a pediatric cardiac intensivist at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. After finishing his residency in pediatrics at Cohen Children’s Medical Center, he completed his cardiology fellowship at Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago followed by a pediatric critical care fellowship at Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital at Columbia University School of Medicine. His areas of interest are the impact of clinical simulation to improve team performance, clinical...

Dr. Tarif Choudhury is a pediatric cardiac intensivist at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. After finishing his residency in pediatrics at Cohen Children’s Medical Center, he completed his cardiology fellowship at Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago followed by a pediatric critical care fellowship at Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital at Columbia University School of Medicine. His areas of interest are the impact of clinical simulation to improve team performance, clinical...

James D. Fortenberry MD, MCCM, FAAP is a Professor Pediatrics in the Division of Pediatric Critical Care at Emory University School of Medicine. He is the Chief Medical Officer of Children's Healthcare of Atlanta & the interim Chief of Critical Care Medicine. He is a past Chair of Critical Care sub-board of the American Board of Pediatrics and on SCCM and AAP critical care committees He is also a past president of Extracorporeal Life Support Organization (ELSO). Objective: By the end of this po...

Dr. Nada Mallick is a pediatric intensivist at Children's National Hospital in Washington, DC. She has a master’s in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health, after which she did her medical residency and chief resident year at Virginia Commonwealth University and her critical care fellowship at Children's National Hospital. Nada now serves as the physician chair for both the Pediatric Early Recognition and Resuscitation Committee and the Late ...

Dr. Nada Mallick is a pediatric intensivist at Children's National Hospital in Washington, DC. She has a master’s in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health, after which she did her medical residency and chief resident year at Virginia Commonwealth University and her critical care fellowship at Children's National Hospital. Nada now serves as the physician chair for both the Pediatric Early Recognition and Resuscitation Committee and the Late ...

Priya Bhaskar, M.D. is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at UT Southwestern and an attending in the Cardiac ICU at Children’s Medical Center Dallas. She completed her pediatric residency at Inova Children’s Hospital in Virginia and critical care fellowship at UTSW prior to completing a 1 year CICU fellowship at Laurie Children’s in Chicago. Prior to her current position here at UTSW she was a cardiac intensivist at Arkansas Children’s Hospital. Her professional interests include extracorporea...

Dr. Michelle Kittleson is the Director of Postgraduate Education in Heart Failure and Transplantation, Director of Heart Failure Research, and Professor of Medicine at the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai. She received her MD at Yale University School of Medicine followed by a residency in Internal Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and a fellowship in Cardiology at John Hopkins, where she also received a PhD in clinical investigation from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public...

Proshad Efune, MD is an Assistant Professor at UT Southwestern. She completed both her pediatric critical care and pediatric anesthesia fellowships here at UT, and she now practices in both the operating room and the pediatric ICU here at Children’s Medical Center in Dallas. She is interested in pre-operative management of critically ill children. Learning Objectives After listening to this episode, learners should be able to: Identify clinical scenarios at high risk for cardiovascular collaps...

Dr. Eric Silver is an Associate Professor of pediatrics at Columbia University Medical Center. He completed his cardiology fellowship at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and his electrophysiology fellowship at Stanford’s Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital. He is a certified specialist in pediatric electrophysiology and his research has focused on invasive management of AV nodal reentrant tachycardia in children, the response of the transplanted heart to adenosine therapy, a...

Bradley Fuhrman, MD completed his training in pediatrics followed by fellowships in cardiology and neonatology at the University of Minnesota where he went on to found the first PICU and serve as the Chief of critical care at that institution. He has also served as the associate director of the PICU at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, Division Chief of Critical Care at Children’s Hospital Buffalo and Physician-in-Chief at El Paso Children’s Hospital. His career in pediatric critical care excee...

Bradley Fuhrman, MD completed his training in pediatrics followed by fellowships in cardiology and neonatology at the University of Minnesota where he went on to found the first PICU and serve as the Chief of critical care at that institution. He has also served as the associate director of the PICU at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, Division Chief of Critical Care at Children’s Hospital Buffalo and Physician-in-Chief at El Paso Children’s Hospital. His career in pediatric critical care excee...

Jerry Zimmerman, M.D, PhD, FCCM is a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Washington and the former Chief of the Division of Critical Care Medicine and the Director of the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at Seattle Children’s Hospital. He is a past president of the Society of Critical Care Medicine. Dr. Zimmerman is the co-editor of the textbook Pediatric Critical Care and is an accomplished researcher. He was a charter principal investigator in the Pediatric Acute Lung Injury and Sepsis I...

Jerry Zimmerman, M.D, PhD, FCCM is a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Washington and the former Chief of the Division of Critical Care Medicine and the Director of the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at Seattle Children’s Hospital. He is a past president of the Society of Critical Care Medicine. Dr. Zimmerman is the co-editor of the textbook Pediatric Critical Care and is an accomplished researcher. He was a charter principal investigator in the Pediatric Acute Lung Injury and Sepsis I...

About our Guests: Dr. Warren Zuckerman is an associate professor of pediatrics as well as the associate director of the pediatric cardiology division at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York. He completed both his pediatric residency and his cardiology fellowship at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He is now a practicing pediatric cardiologist at Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital. His research interests include pediatric cardiomyopathies,...

About our Guests: Dr. Warren Zuckerman is an associate professor of pediatrics as well as the associate director of the pediatric cardiology division at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York. He completed both his pediatric residency and his cardiology fellowship at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He is now a practicing pediatric cardiologist at Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital. His research interests include pediatric cardiomyopathies,...