Ranjit Chima, MD, FAAP
- Medical Director, Destination Excellence International Patient Program
- Medical Director, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Admission and Transfer Center
- Attending Physician, Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU)
- Hospital Physician Liaison, Network For Hope
- Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
- ranjit.chima@cchmc.org
- Board Certified
About
Biography
As a pediatric critical care specialist, I care for children in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center.
I believe in listening to families and patients. I treat patients for who they are, no matter their diagnosis or disease.
My interest in taking care of the sickest children inspired me to work in critical care and the ICU. I am a board-certified pediatrician and pediatric intensivist with more than 10 years of experience working in the Cincinnati Children’s PICU.
I focus my work on patient care, clinical research, quality improvement and administration.
I have special interests in caring for patients with:
- Acute kidney injury (AKI)
- Critical illness after a stem cell transplant
- Extracorporeal life support (ECLS)
- Pediatric acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS)
- Traumatic brain injury (TBI)
I am active in clinical research. I serve as the site principal investigator/co-investigator for multiple National Institutes of Health (NIH)-sponsored clinical studies. My quality improvement efforts focus on leading Cincinnati Children’s work in mitigating hospital-acquired venous thromboembolism (blood clots).
At Cincinnati Children’s, I hold multiple leadership roles. I am the medical director of the Destination Excellence International Patient Program which coordinates referrals and care for international patients. I'm the associate medical director of the PICU, and co-director of the Center for Acute Care Nephrology and the extracorporeal life support (ECLS) program.
I also serve as an associate professor in the Division of Critical Care Medicine in the Department of Pediatrics at Cincinnati Children’s and the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine.
In my free time I love to cook and golf.
MBBS: Grant Medical College, Mumbai, India, 1996
MD: Pediatrics, University of Mumbai, Mumbai, India, 1999
Residency: Pediatrics, University of Mumbai, Mumbai, India, 1999
Residency: Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Michigan, Detroit, MI, 2004
Fellowship: Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, 2007
Certifications: Pediatrics, 2004, 2014; Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, 2008
Interests
Critical Illness following stem cell transplantation; extracorporeal life support; venous thromboembolism; critical Illness hyperglycemia
Services and Specialties
Interests
Research Areas
Additional Languages
Hindi, PunjabiPublications
State and Regional Variation in Access to Pediatric Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation. Journal of Pediatrics. 2026; 294:115083.
1249: GEOGRAPHIC ACCESSIBILITY OF PEDIATRIC ECMO SERVICES. Critical Care Medicine. 2026; 54(3S).
Geographic access to pediatric ECMO and ECPR: a geospatial study of transport networks and disparities. Resuscitation Plus. 2026; 28:101221.
Stress Hydrocortisone in Pediatric Septic Shock: Protocol for a Pragmatic, Multicenter, International, Randomized, Double-Blinded, Placebo-Controlled Interventional Trial. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. 2026; 27(1):102-113.
Characterization of Potentially Avoidable Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Transfers. Hospital pediatrics. 2025; 15(8):660-666.
Plasma Soluble Intercellular Adhesion Molecule-1 Has a Central Role in Biomarker Network Analysis and Is Associated With Poor Outcomes in Two Distinct Pediatric Cohorts of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome and Acute Respiratory Failure. Critical Care Medicine. 2025; 53(7):e1457-e1469.
Social Environment and Neurobehavioral Outcomes 1 Year After Severe Pediatric TBI in the Intensive Care Unit. Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation. 2025; 40(3):147-156.
1262: IMPROVING DELIRIUM SCREENING IN THE PEDIATRIC ICU. Critical Care Medicine. 2025; 53(1).
MRI and Clinical Variables for Prediction of Outcomes After Pediatric Severe Traumatic Brain Injury. JAMA Network Open. 2024; 7(8):e2425765.
Immunocompromised-Associated Pediatric Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome: Experience From the 2016/2017 Pediatric Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Incidence and Epidemiology Prospective Cohort Study. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. 2024; 25(4):288-300.
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