Dr. Yurasek is a graduate of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He completed his pediatric residency at Children’s Hospital of Boston followed by a pediatric cardiology fellowship also at Boston Children’s and a PICU fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is now a CICU attending and the director of critical care simulation at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, DC. Objectives for this series: 1. Understand the physiologic considerations that influence p...
Jun 12, 2023•28 min
Dr. Yurasek is a graduate of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He completed his pediatric residency at Children’s Hospital of Boston followed by a pediatric cardiology fellowship also at Boston Children’s and a PICU fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is now a CICU attending and the director of critical care simulation at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, DC. Objectives for this series: 1. Understand the physiologic considerations that influence p...
May 29, 2023•25 min
Dr. Yurasek is a graduate of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He completed his pediatric residency at Children’s Hospital of Boston followed by a pediatric cardiology fellowship also at Boston Children’s and a PICU fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is now a CICU attending and the director of critical care simulation at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, DC. Objectives for this series: 1. Understand the physiologic considerations that influence p...
May 29, 2023•32 min
Jenna Miller, MD is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine. She completed her medical school and residency in Kansas City before moving to Texas Children’s for critical care fellowship. She is the director of the pediatric ECMO program and the pediatric critical care medicine fellowship at Children’s Mercy Kansas City. Her professional and research interests include trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole ARDS, ECMO and medical education. Dr John ...
May 15, 2023•30 min
Jenna Miller, MD is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine. She completed her medical school and residency in Kansas City before moving to Texas Children’s for critical care fellowship. She is the director of the pediatric ECMO program and the pediatric critical care medicine fellowship at Children’s Mercy Kansas City. Her professional and research interests include trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole ARDS, ECMO and medical education. Dr John ...
May 08, 2023•28 min
Jenna Miller, MD is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine. She completed her medical school and residency in Kansas City before moving to Texas Children’s for critical care fellowship. She is the director of the pediatric ECMO program and the pediatric critical care medicine fellowship at Children’s Mercy Kansas City. Her professional and research interests include trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole ARDS, ECMO and medical education. Dr John ...
May 01, 2023•32 min
Jenna Miller, MD is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine. She completed her medical school and residency in Kansas City before moving to Texas Children’s for critical care fellowship. She is the director of the pediatric ECMO program and the pediatric critical care medicine fellowship at Children’s Mercy Kansas City. Her professional and research interests include trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole ARDS, ECMO and medical education. Dr John ...
Apr 24, 2023•29 min
Scott Weiss, MD is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Pathology at Thomas Jefferson University. He serves as the Chair of the Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine at Nemours Children’s Hospital in Wilmington, Delaware. Dr. Weiss’ research focuses on epidemiology of pediatric sepsis and mitochondrial dysfunction in sepsis-associated organ injury. He recently served as the Co-Vice Chair for the international Pediatric Surviving Sepsis Campaign and was first author on the 2020 pediatr...
Apr 10, 2023•34 min
Scott Weiss, MD is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Pathology at Thomas Jefferson University. He serves as the Chair of the Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine at Nemours Children’s Hospital in Wilmington, Delaware. Dr. Weiss’ research focuses on epidemiology of pediatric sepsis and mitochondrial dysfunction in sepsis-associated organ injury. He recently served as the Co-Vice Chair for the international Pediatric Surviving Sepsis Campaign and was first author on the 2020 pediatr...
Apr 03, 2023•36 min
Samuel Davila, M.D. is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics here at UT Southwestern. He completed both his pediatric infectious disease and critical care fellowships at Washington University at St. Louis Children’s Hospital. He now is a practicing pediatric infectious disease specialist and intensivist at the UTSW/ Children’s Medical Center in Dallas, Texas. His professional and research interests include cardiovascular infections, cardiac ECMO, and post heart transplant infections. I spend time...
Mar 20, 2023•39 min
Karen Fauman, MD is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Chicago and dual boarded pediatric intensivist and palliative care physician at Comer Children’s. She received her medical degree, pediatric and pediatric critical care training at the University of Michigan. Now at the University of Chicago she serves as the critical care medicine fellowship program director and the ECMO medical director. She is very active in ECMO-related research with an added focus on the psychosoc...
Mar 08, 2023•37 min
About our guest: Karen Fauman, MD is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Chicago and dual boarded pediatric intensivist and palliative care physician at Comer Children’s. She received her medical degree, pediatric and pediatric critical care training at the University of Michigan. Now at the University of Chicago she serves as the critical care medicine fellowship program director and the ECMO medical director. She is very active in ECMO-related research with an added focus...
Mar 01, 2023•44 min
Dr. Whyte-Nesfield is a Critical Care attending at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, DC. She completed her medical degree in her home country of Grenada at St. George’s University, and her fellowship in Pediatric Critical Care at Penn State Health Children’s Hospital, PA. Mekela’s research interest is the role of parent and child traumatic stress management in improving long term outcomes of children in the PICU; she ran a multi-center prevalence study during her fellowship. She is als...
Feb 20, 2023•24 min
Dr. Whyte-Nesfield is a Critical Care attending at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, DC. She completed her medical degree in her home country of Grenada at St. George’s University, and her fellowship in Pediatric Critical Care at Penn State Health Children’s Hospital, PA. Mekela’s research interest is the role of parent and child traumatic stress management in improving long term outcomes of children in the PICU; she ran a multi-center prevalence study during her fellowship. She is als...
Feb 06, 2023•32 min
Dr. Yehya is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and the University of California at Los Angeles School of Medicine. After completing pediatrics training at Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, he completed his pediatric critical care fellowship at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), and joined the faculty after graduation in 2011. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care and Pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the Universi...
Jan 23, 2023•36 min
Dr. Yehya is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and the University of California at Los Angeles School of Medicine. After completing pediatrics training at Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, he completed his pediatric critical care fellowship at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), and joined the faculty after graduation in 2011. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care and Pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the Universi...
Jan 16, 2023•20 min
Dr. Yehya is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and the University of California at Los Angeles School of Medicine. After completing pediatrics training at Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, he completed his pediatric critical care fellowship at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), and joined the faculty after graduation in 2011. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care and Pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the Universi...
Jan 09, 2023•40 min
Dr. Yehya is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and the University of California at Los Angeles School of Medicine. After completing pediatrics training at Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, he completed his pediatric critical care fellowship at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), and joined the faculty after graduation in 2011. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care and Pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the Universi...
Jan 02, 2023•33 min
Melinda Cory, M.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at UT Southwestern Medical Center. She earned her medical degree at UT Southwestern, where she also completed her residency in pediatrics. She gained advanced training through fellowships in pediatric cardiology and pediatric critical care medicine at Emory University School of Medicine. Board certified in pediatrics, pediatric cardiology, and pediatric critical care, she attends in the cardiovascular intensive care un...
Dec 19, 2022•33 min
Dr. Parisa Kaviany is a former Children’s National Resident, she completed her pediatric pulmonology fellowship at Johns Hopkins and we were lucky enough to get her back as a pulmonologist. Dr. Kaviany’s research interest is health disparities among children with asthma. Dr. Maria Arroyo did her pulmonology fellowship at Children’s National in DC and stayed as an attending, she also works at The HSC Pediatric Center, a subacute care facility in Washington, DC. Dr. Arroyo is THE person you want y...
Dec 05, 2022•19 min
Dr. Parisa Kaviany is a former Children’s National Resident, she completed her pediatric pulmonology fellowship at Johns Hopkins and we were lucky enough to get her back as a pulmonologist. Dr. Kaviany’s research interest is health disparities among children with asthma. Dr. Maria Arroyo did her pulmonology fellowship at Children’s National in DC and stayed as an attending, she also works at The HSC Pediatric Center, a subacute care facility in Washington, DC. Dr. Arroyo is THE person you want y...
Nov 28, 2022•26 min
Dr. Laura Ortmann is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Nebraska College of Medicine. She serves as the Medical Director of the Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit at Children’s Hospital and Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska. She a CPR researcher and a great medical educator. She is a host on the Healing Hearts Podcast featuring her ongoing cardiac lesions series and produces MedEd videos on YouTube at DrOrtmannCICU . After listening to this episode on Tet...
Nov 14, 2022•39 min
Dr. Lakshmi Raman is a Professor of Pediatrics at UT Southwestern and a pediatric intensivist at Children’s Medical Center Dallas. She serves as the Medical Director of the Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) program at CMC. She is active in ELSO and serves as the Chair of Publications. She also co-authored the 2021 ELSO Pediatric ECPR guidelines. Objectives: By the end of listening to this episode, learners should be able to: Define ECPR. Understand the rationale for ECPR in cardiopulmon...
Oct 31, 2022•32 min
Dr. Ali McMichael who was previously with us here in Dallas is now an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Arizona and a pediatric intensivist at Phoenix Children’s Hospital. Her interests include medical education and ECMO anticoagulation. She is the first author of the 2021 ELSO Adult and Pediatric anticoagulation guidelines. Dr. Lisa Settle is a pediatric critical care fellow at UT Southwestern and Children’s Medical Center in Dallas. Her research interests include anticoagu...
Oct 17, 2022•25 min
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Oct 15, 2022•3 min
Dr. Ali McMichael who was previously with us here in Dallas is now an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Arizona and a pediatric intensivist at Phoenix Children’s Hospital. Her interests include medical education and ECMO anticoagulation. She is the first author of the 2021 ELSO Adult and Pediatric anticoagulation guidelines. Dr. Lisa Settle is a pediatric critical care fellow at UT Southwestern and Children’s Medical Center in Dallas. Her research interests include anticoagu...
Oct 03, 2022•21 min
Stockton Beveridge, M.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics in the Division of Developmental / Behavioral Pediatrics, serving as the director of Pediatric Palliative Care. Dr. Beveridge’s research interests have focused on the challenges faced by caregivers of children with medical complexity, particularly in the Latino population. He is additionally interested in the intersection of religion and medicine, particularly in medical crisis. He sits on the hospital’s Ethics C...
Sep 19, 2022•25 min
Listener Feedback Survey By the end of this two-part series, listeners will be able to: Verbalize a more progressive definition of palliative care, and distinguish it from "end-of-life" care or hospice care. Define appropriate patient populations for referral to palliative care. Sensitively and clearly introduce palliative care referral with patients and families. Recognize the value of communication training, and verbalize a simple framework for difficult conversations. Define the challenges of...
Sep 05, 2022•21 min
Dr. Yurasek is a graduate of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He completed his pediatric residency at Children’s Hospital of Boston followed by a pediatric cardiology fellowship also at Boston Children’s and a PICU fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is now a CICU attending and the director of critical care simulation at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, DC. Objectives for this series: 1. Understand the preoperative anatomy that influences surgic...
Aug 22, 2022•37 min
Dr. Yurasek is a graduate of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He completed his pediatric residency at Children’s Hospital of Boston followed by a pediatric cardiology fellowship also at Boston Children’s and a PICU fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is now a CICU attending and the director of critical care simulation at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, DC. How to support PedsCrit: Please rate and review on Spotify or Apple Podcasts! Donations a...
Aug 08, 2022•40 min
