Critical Care

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.

Denise Hasson
- Location after Fellowship: Cincinnati Children's Hospital
- 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

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
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

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
- 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; Virtual/Augmented Reality

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: 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

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
- Research Interest: Role of AMP activated protein kinase in myocardial depression during hemorrhagic shock

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

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

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

Location after Fellowship: Norton Children's Hospital
Research Interest: Exploring any evidence of neurologic compromise in children who have survived septic shock

Location after Fellowship: Nationwide Children's Hospital
Research Interest: Improving code team training; the outcomes of immunocompromised children with respiratory failure

Location after Fellowship: Cleveland Clinic
Research Interest: Serum IL-27 and procalcitonin levels as markers of bacterial infection in critically ill children

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