Upon graduation, our critical care fellows have gone on to work at the top pediatric institutions in the country and around the world.

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: Cincinnati Children's Hospital
    • Research Interest: Clinical Research focused on cardiac arrest prevention and improving outcomes.
  • James "Garrett" Williams
    • Location after Fellowship: Cincinnati 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
      • 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 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 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
      • 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