Critical Care Medicine Research

Faculty Labs

The Kaplan Lab focuses on pediatric critical illness, with a main focus on how inflammatory and metabolic mechanisms.

The Lautz Laboratory is focused on elucidating the biologic basis of myocardial dysfunction in pediatric septic shock and critical illness, using a translational bedside-to-bench approach.

The Zingarelli Lab is focused on the investigation of the pathophysiologic mechanisms of sepsis, trauma and hemorrhagic shock, which are leading causes of morbidity and mortality in intensive care units.