Fellowship Alumni

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

2024

• Kalee Grassia
• Location after Fellowship: Critical Care Medicine Academic Research Fellowship
• Research interests: Improving care delivery and outcomes for oncology critical care patients.
• Simon-Noel Ndely
• Location after Fellowship: M Health Fairview Masonic Children`s Hospital
• Research interests: Social determinants of health / advocacy
• Shafee Salloum
• Location after Fellowship: Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
• Research Interest: My research interests encompass two key areas: the use of point-of-care ultrasonography (POCUS) in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) and advancements in pediatric transport medicine. I aim to explore how POCUS can enhance diagnostic accuracy and patient care in the PICU, as well as improve protocols and outcomes in the transportation of critically ill pediatric patients.
• Anna Sibilia
• Location after Fellowship: Cincinnati Children`s Hospital Medical Center, Emergency Department
• Research interests: Hospital operations patient safety, quality improvement

2023

• Conor Merritt
• Location after Fellowship: Children's Hospital Colorado Advanced CICU Fellowship
• Research interests: Simulation and education
• Daniel Loeb
• Location after Fellowship: Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
• Research Interest: Medical education, simulation, resuscitation.
• Kelli Paice
• Location after Fellowship: Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, T32 in Pediatric Clinical Pharmacology
• Research interests: Clinical research focused on the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of antibiotics in children with severe sepsis.
• Kathryn Pavia
• Location after Fellowship: TBD (Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, T32 research year)
• Research interests: Pharmacokinetics and antibiotic dosing in organ dysfunction and extracorporeal therapies.

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: Riley Hospital for Children
• Research Interest: Clinical Research focused on cardiac arrest prevention and improving outcomes.
• James "Garrett" Williams
• Location after Fellowship: Arkansas 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 Medical Center
• 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 Medical Center 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 Medical Center 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 Medical Center
• 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