Fellowship Alumni
Upon graduation, our critical care fellows have gone on to work at the top pediatric institutions in the country and around the world.
2025
- Sam Biniazan
- Location after Fellowship: Phoenix Children's Hospital
- Research Interests: Ultrasound, quality improvement, medical education
- Monique Quinn
- Location after Fellowship: Children's National Hospital
- Research Interests: Community-based participatory research and improving equitable health and outcomes for children
- Mary Gaugler
- Location after Fellowship: IU Health Riley Hospital for Children, Indiana University School of Medicine
- Research Interests: Quality improvement, hospital operations
- Erin Molloy
- Location after Fellowship: University of Kentucky/Kentucky Children's Hospital
- Research Interests: Clinical communication gaps and educational strategies to address them, particularly surrounding simulation
2024
- Kalee Grassia
- Location after Fellowship: Critical Care Medicine Academic Research Fellowship
- Research interests: Improving care delivery and outcomes for oncology critical care patients.
- Simon-Noel Ndely
- Location after Fellowship: M Health Fairview Masonic Children`s Hospital
- Research interests: Social determinants of health / advocacy
- Shafee Salloum
- Location after Fellowship: Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
- Research Interest: My research interests encompass two key areas: the use of point-of-care ultrasonography (POCUS) in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) and advancements in pediatric transport medicine. I aim to explore how POCUS can enhance diagnostic accuracy and patient care in the PICU, as well as improve protocols and outcomes in the transportation of critically ill pediatric patients.
- Anna Sibilia
- Location after Fellowship: Cincinnati Children`s Hospital Medical Center, Emergency Department
- Research interests: Hospital operations patient safety, quality improvement
2023
- Conor Merritt
- Location after Fellowship: Children's Hospital Colorado Advanced CICU Fellowship
- Research interests: Simulation and education
- Daniel Loeb
- Location after Fellowship: Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
- Research Interest: Medical education, simulation, resuscitation.
- Kelli Paice
- Location after Fellowship: Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, T32 in Pediatric Clinical Pharmacology
- Research interests: Clinical research focused on the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of antibiotics in children with severe sepsis.
- Kathryn Pavia
- Location after Fellowship: TBD (Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, T32 research year)
- Research interests: Pharmacokinetics and antibiotic dosing in organ dysfunction and extracorporeal therapies.
2022
- James Odum
- Location after Fellowship: Children's Of Alabama / University of Alabama Birmingham
- Research interests: Interrogating mechanisms of sepsis-associated acute kidney injury
- Danielle Maholtz
- Location after Fellowship: Akron Children's Hospital
- Research interests: Health equity
- Lauren Bodilly
- Location after Fellowship: University of Iowa Stead Family Children's Hospital
- Research Interest: The impact of obesity on the immune response during sepsis and bacterial pneumonia.
- Charley Spear
- Location after Fellowship: Memorial Health University Medical Center
- Research Interest: Quality improvement, simulation, and medical education.
- Denise Hasson
- Location after Fellowship: Clinical Assistant Professor at New York University Langone Health/NYU Grossman School of Medicine
- Research Interest: Translational research focused on improving outcomes in pediatric acute kidney injury.
- Maria Frazier
- Location after Fellowship: Riley Hospital for Children
- Research Interest: Clinical Research focused on cardiac arrest prevention and improving outcomes.
- James "Garrett" Williams
- Location after Fellowship: Arkansas Children's Hospital
- Research Interest: Clinical Research focused on understanding the underlying mechanisms that lead to the development of SA-PARDS using a scRNA seq approach in both human subjects and a mouse model of sepsis.
2021
- Denise Hasson
- Location after Fellowship: Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
- Research Interest: Translational research focused on cellular metabolic derangements in pediatric sepsis associated acute kidney injury
- Katherine Innis
- Location after Fellowship: Bustamante Hospital for Children, Jamaica
- Research Interest: Quality improvement in management of severe traumatic brain injury
- Billy Sveen
- Location after Fellowship: University of Minnesota Health Fairview
- Research Interest: Clinical ethics and bioethics, medical decision-making, and patient communication
- Andrea Maxwell
- Location after Fellowship: Children’s Wisconsin
- Research interest: Impact of social determinants of health on care delivery
2020
- Mihir Atreya
- Location after Fellowship: Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
- Research Interest: Lipid metabolism in pediatric sepsis
- Andrew Maxwell
- Location after Fellowship: Critical Care Medicine Academic Research Fellowship
- Research interest: Impact of social determinants of health on care delivery
- Natalja Stanski
- Location after Fellowship: Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
- Research Interest: Acute care nephrology, with a specific focus on early and novel ways to detect acute kidney injury (AKI) in critically ill children
- Rhea Vidrine
- Location after Fellowship: University of Kentucky HealthCare
- Research Interest: QI methodology to improve sepsis recognition and management in the PICU
2019
- Erica Andrist
- Location after Fellowship: University of Michigan
- Research Interest: Pathophysiology, acute management of traumatic coagulopathy; structural racism in health care systems
- Steve Pfeiffer
- Location after Fellowship: Children’s Mercy Kansas City
- Research Interest: CPR code team training and interdisciplinary team dynamics
- Julie Stark
- Location after Fellowship: Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center Cardiac Intensive Care Fellowship, CICU Faculty at Monroe Carell Jr Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt
- Research Interest: The role of Olfctomedin-4 (OLFM4) in pediatric sepsis
- Catherine Urban
- Location after Fellowship: Stony Brook Medicine
- Research Interest: The role of the endothelial glycocalyx in sepsis
- Matthew Zackoff
- Location after Fellowship: Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
- Research Interest: Medical education and simulation training to improve clinical outcomes; Virtual/Augmented Reality
2018
- Susan Conway
- Location after Fellowship: Children's National
- Research Interest: Heterogeneity of immune responses among septic patients, the molecular mechanisms that underlie this variation
- Lauren Jacobs
- Location after Fellowship: Texas Children's Hospital
- Research Interest: Biomarkers of bacterial infection in immunocompromised pediatric patients
- Sara Rhodes
- Location after Fellowship: Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center Palliative Care Fellowship, Faculty at Geisinger Health System
- Research Interest: Communication and decision-making surrounding end-of-life care
- Erin Stenson
- Location after Fellowship: Children's Hospital of Colorado
- Research Interest: Optimizing the amount and type of fluid patients receive in resuscitation
2017
- Itay Ayalon
- Location after Fellowship: Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center
- Research Interest:The alteration of the white adipose tissue during sepsis, the implication of obesity during sepsis
- Zachary Berrens
- Location after Fellowship: Riley Hospital for Children
- Research Interest: The prevalence of myocardial dysfunction and associated biomarkers among children with sepsis in a low resource setting, Malawi
- Dzmitry Matsiukevich
- Location after Fellowship: Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital Cardiology Fellowship, CICU Faculty at St Louis Children’s
- Research Interest: Role of AMP activated protein kinase in myocardial depression during hemorrhagic shock
2016
- Saul Flores
- Location after Fellowship: Texas Children's Hospital
- Research Interest: Glucocorticoid receptor expression in children undergoing cardiac surgery
- Hammad Ganatra
- Location after Fellowship: Children's Hospital of Illinois
- Research Interest: The protective role of zinc in a pediatric mouse model of septic shock
- Yu Inata
- Location after Fellowship: Osaka Medical Center & Research Institute for Maternal & Child Health
- Research Interest: The role of AMPK, a regulator of energy homeostasis and mitochondrial biogenesis in the myocardial dysfunction seen in septic shock
- Laura Kitzmiller
- Location after Fellowship: Children's Hospital of Michigan
- Research Interest: The therapeutic effects of pharmacological activation of AMP activated protein kinase in sepsis-induced acute lung injury
- Mary Sandquist
- Location after Fellowship: Norton Children's Hospital
- Research Interest: Exploring any evidence of neurologic compromise in children who have survived septic shock
- Claire Stewart
- Location after Fellowship: Nationwide Children's Hospital
- Research Interest: Improving code team training; the outcomes of immunocompromised children with respiratory failure
2015
- Matthew Alder
- Location after Fellowship: Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
- Research Interest: The Role of Olfactomedin 4 in Sepsis
- Theodore DeMartini
- Location after Fellowship: Pennsylvania State Hershey Children's Hospital
- Research Interest: The impact of obesity on the cardiomyopathy seen in sepsis
- William Hanna
- Location after Fellowship: Cleveland Clinic
- Research Interest: Serum IL-27 and procalcitonin levels as markers of bacterial infection in critically ill children
- Travis Langner
- Location after Fellowship: Children's Mercy Kansas City
- Research Interest: The role of IL-27 in a mouse model of septic shock
