Faculty

Peter Luckett, MD
Professor, Interim Division Director
Interests: Human nutrition and metabolism under conditions of health and disease

Cindy Darnell Bowens, MD
Assistant Professor
Interests: Pain control, sedation, effects of low dose ketamine infusion, and safety of Lorazepam use in critically ill children

Deborah Carlson, PhD
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics and Surgery
Interests: Surgery, cardiac function following burn injury and sepsis, and matrix metalloproteinases in cardiac dysfunction

Leticia Castillo, MD
Thomas Fariss Marsh, Jr. Chair in Pediatrics
Interests: Human nutrition and metabolism under conditions of health and disease

Carole M. R. Deally, MD
Assistant Professor
Interests: Analgesia and sedation in critical illness, neuro-developmental outcomes in congenital heart disease

Archana Dhar, MD
Assistant Professor
Interests: Use of online, noninvasive, intravascular monitoring in continuous renal replacement therapies, and effects of CVVH and ICP monitoring on outcomes following acute liver failure

Leslie Garner, MD
Assistant Professor
Interests: Macrophage function

Michael Green, MD
Assistant Professor
Interests: Pediatric acute lung injury and simulation

Joshua D. Koch, MD
Assistant Professor
Interests: Neurocritical care, neurocognitive outcomes in children after congenital heart surgery, and investigation and improvement of intensive care neurologic monitoring

George Lister, MD
Professor
Robert L. Moore Chair in Pediatrics
Interests: Cardiopulmonary interaction, cardiovascular and hematologic development, and SIDS

Peter Luckett, MD
Professor
Interests: Acute lung injury, mechanical ventilation, pulmonary outcomes in neuromuscular disease, and clinical trials in pediatric critical care

Darryl Miles, MD
Assistant Professor
Interests: Traumatic brain injury, neural protection strategies, MRI imaging biomarkers of neuronal injury, and neural stem cells

Vinai Modini Modem, MBBS
Assistant Professor
Interests: Critical care nephrology, continuous renal replacement therapies, early identification of and factors affecting outcomes in critically ill children requiring CRRT, and effects and optimal management of fluid overload in critically ill children 

Susan Morris, MD
Assistant Professor
Interests: Transport, sedation, and medical simulation

Raymond Nkwantabisa, MD
Assistant Professor
Interests: Pediatric critical care

Julio Perez-Fontan, MD
Professor, Interim Chair
Joel B. Steinberg, M.D. Chair in Pediatrics
Interests: Pediatric critical and cardiac critical care, airway smooth muscle, autonomic nervous system, and neurogenic inflammation

Lakshmi Raman, MD
Assistant Professor
Interests: Chronic hypoxia and hippocampal injury, and hypothermia in traumatic brain injury

Margaret Schwarz, MD
Associate Professor
Interests: Pulmonary morphogenesis and vascularization, endothelial-monocyte activating polypeptide II, 5 1 integrin / FN / VEGFR interactions, and pancreatic tumor growth

Maeve Sheehan, MD
Associate Professor
Interests: Multi-system organ failure, pediatric stabilization, triage, and transport

Paul Sheeran, MD
Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology & Pain Management and Pediatrics
Interests: Anesthesiology and pain management, and methods for prevention of withdrawal from sedatives and analgesia in the Pediatric ICU

James Thomas, MD
Associate Professor, Pediatrics and Molecular Biology
Interests: Immunology and innate immune response to infection

Marita Thompson, MD
Associate Professor
Interests: Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, pediatric trauma, and quality improvement

Joshua Wolovits, MD
Assistant Professor
Interests: Quality-care initiatives in the ICU, cerebral hemodynamics and neuro-protection in congenital heart disease, sedation strategies in the cardiac patient, and strategies to prevent shunt thrombosis in the single ventricle patient

Maria Teresa Zuluaga, MD
Assistant Professor
Interests: Congenital heart disease, brain injury, and global health