PedsCrit

Jeff Steiner, DO, MBA, is a pediatric anesthesiologist and medical educator who retired early from clinical medicine after a career at University of Texas Southwestern. During his time at UTSW, he served as an associate professor, program director of the Pediatric Anesthesiology Fellowship, and director of clinical operations for the Division of Anesthesia at UTSW. He is now the founder and financ...

Dr. Benson Hsu is a pediatric intensivist at Avera Children’s Hospital in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine. His academic work spans pediatric critical care, organ donation and transplantation, health services research, and national pediatric practice guidelines. In this episode, Dr. Hsu joins PedsCrit to discuss p...

This episode is produced in collaboration with WFPICCS (the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies) showcasing the talks you can look forward to at WFPICCS 2026 in Melbourne, September 27–30.  Dr. Sarah Seaton is an Associate Professor in Perinatal and Paediatric Research at the University of Leicester in the UK. She earned her undergraduate degree in Mathematics from...

Ryan Coleman, MD is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine with dual appointments in Critical Care Medicine and Pulmonary Medicine at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston. He earned his medical degree from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio School of Medicine, completed pediatric residency and pediatric critical care fellowship training at Bayl...

Charles Berde, MD, PhD, is the Sara Page Mayo Chair in Pediatric Pain Medicine and a Professor of Anaesthesia at Harvard Medical School. As a co-founder of the Pain Treatment Center at Boston Children's Hospital, he has spent decades at the forefront of pediatric analgesic pharmacology and the development of novel local anesthetics. His extensive translational research focuses on local anesth...

About our Guests:  Fran Balamuth, MD, PhD, MSCE , is division chief of Pediatric Emergency Medicine at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Dr. Balamuth’s research interests focus on pediatric sepsis recognition using epidemiologic and translational approaches, for which she has received NIH and foundation funding. She is the co-PI of the PROMPT BOLUS trial, a multinational pragmatic trial com...

Learn more about the ACTION learning network at this link . About our Guest:   Tanya Perry, DO, is the director of the VAD Program at Cohen Children’s Medical Center. She earned her medical degree from Nova Southeastern University and completed her pediatric critical care fellowship training at Cohen Children’s Medical Center, followed by pediatric cardiology fellowship at Cincinnati Children’s Ho...

About our Guest:   Tanya Perry, DO, is the director of the VAD Program at Cohen Children’s Medical Center. She earned her medical degree from Nova Southeastern University and completed her pediatric critical care fellowship training at Cohen Children’s Medical Center, followed by pediatric cardiology fellowship at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, where she subsequently practiced for 3 years as a ca...

Robert Pass is Professor of Pediatrics and Chief of the Division of Pediatric Cardiology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Mount Sinai Kravis Children’s Hospital. He is Co-Director of the Mount Sinai Kravis Children’s Heart Center and Director of Pediatric Electrophysiology at the Mount Sinai Health System. In addition to his exceptional clinical work as an electrophysiologist, he...

About our Guests:   Catherine Ross, MD, is a pediatric critical care physician in the Division of Medical Critical Care at Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH) and Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School. She serves on the joint American Heart Association (AHA) and American Academy of Pediatrics national writing group for Pediatric Advanced Life Support 2025 guidelines as well as the AHA Emergen...

Dr. Merritt Tuttle is both a Pediatric Intensivist and Medical Toxicologist at Brenner Children's Hospital in North Carolina associated with Atrium Health and Wake Forest Baptist Health. She completed her Pediatric Critical Care and Medical Toxicology training at the Medical College of Wisconsin. Learning Objective: By the end of this podcast, listeners should be able to discuss an evidence b...

Ayesha Zia, MD, is a Professor of Pediatrics at UT Southwestern Medical Center and a nationally recognized expert in pediatric thrombosis, with particular emphasis on the diagnosis, management, and long-term outcomes of pulmonary embolism in children and adolescents. She serves as Director of the Pediatric Hemostasis and Thrombosis Program at Children’s Health Dallas. She has led the development o...

Jaime Jump, DO, is a dual-trained physician specializing in pediatric critical care and palliative care. She currently serves as the Program Director of Palliative Care and is an Associate Professor in the Sections of Critical Care Medicine and Pediatric Palliative Care at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital.  Learning Objective: By the end of this podcast, listeners should be...

Learning Objectives: By the end of this two-part series, listeners should be able to discuss an evidence-based and expert-guided approach to RBC transfusion in critically ill children. About our Guests:   Kailey Remien is a Pediatric Critical Care fellow at Nationwide Children’s Hospital whose research uses data science and geospatial methods to study bronchiolitis and health equity. She leads the...

Learning Objectives: By the end of this two-part series, listeners should be able to discuss an evidence-based and expert-guided approach to RBC transfusion in critically ill children. About our Guests:   Kailey Remien is a Pediatric Critical Care fellow at Nationwide Children’s Hospital whose research uses data science and geospatial methods to study bronchiolitis and health equity. She leads the...

Tobias Straube, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Critical Care Medicine at Duke University School of Medicine, where he has served since joining the faculty in July 2021. He completed his pediatric residency and critical care fellowship at Duke University Hospital following earning his medical degree from McGovern Medical School at UTHealth.  COI disclosure: Dr. Strau...

About our Guests:   Dr. Alexis Bragg is a Clinical Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Pediatrics at Keck School of Medicine of USC in Los Angeles. Dr. Chinyere Egbuta is a Senior Associate in Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital and Assistant Professor of Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Sapna Kudchadkar is the Anesthesiologist-in-Chief of the Joh...

About our Guests:   Dr. Alexis Bragg is a Clinical Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Pediatrics at Keck School of Medicine of USC in Los Angeles. Dr. Chinyere Egbuta is a Senior Associate in Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital and Assistant Professor of Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Sapna Kudchadkar is the Anesthesiologist-in-Chief of the Joh...

Dr. Nicole Glaser is the Chief of Pediatric Endocrinology and a professor of Pediatrics at UC Davis Children's Hospital. She is recognized as an international expert in pediatric diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA), an important complication of diabetes in children. She has led many of the key multi-center studies that guide DKA management. She has also been involved in the development of several nat...

Enid Martinez, MD is a Senior Associate in Critical Care at Boston Children’s Hospital, and an Assistant Professor of Anaesthesia at Harvard Medical School. She is the Director of the Pediatric Critical Care Nutrition Program in the Division of Critical Care Medicine and Principal Investigator for a clinical-translational research program on gastrointestinal function and nutrition in pediatric cri...

Enid Martinez, MD is a Senior Associate in Critical Care at Boston Children’s Hospital, and an Assistant Professor of Anaesthesia at Harvard Medical School. She is the Director of the Pediatric Critical Care Nutrition Program in the Division of Critical Care Medicine and Principal Investigator for a clinical-translational research program on gastrointestinal function and nutrition in pediatric cri...

Learning Objectives: By the end of this podcast, listeners should be able to: Describe the pathophysiology associated with anticholinergic toxidrome List the initial workup and management that every TCA ingestion patient should receive  Discuss best practices for initial resuscitation in TCA ingestions  About our Guest:   Dr. Joshua Nogar is an emergency medicine physician and toxicologist at Nort...

Dr. Nicole Glaser is the Chief of Pediatric Endocrinology and a professor of Pediatrics at UC Davis Children's Hospital. She is recognized as an international expert in pediatric diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA), an important complication of diabetes in children. She has led many of the key multi-center studies that guide DKA management. She has also been involved in the development of several nat...

Steven Shein, MD, FCCM, is the Chief of Pediatric Critical Care at University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio, and holds the Linsalata Family Distinguished Chair in Pediatric Critical Care and Emergency Medicine. He is also the Co-Director of the PICU Clinical, Basic & Translational Research Program and an Associate Director of the Pediatric Critical Care...

Learning Objectives: By the end of this two-part series, listeners should be able to discuss: The physiologic rationale supporting the use of high-frequency percussive ventilation (Volumetric Diffusive Respiration, or HFPV). Patient populations most likely to benefit from HFPV. Key published evidence that informs our use of HFPV in pediatric critical care. An expert approach to managing a patient...