The MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago is the oldest and largest fellowship program in clinical ethics. Caleb Kitcho, MD, clinical instructor, Division of Critical Care, recently graduated from its Siegler …
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Keeping patients safe: Nina Menda and Michael Wilhelm lead quality and safety efforts within UW Health Kids
Every standard solution or medication delivered through a line, every alarm sounding in the night, every hand that touches a patient — in a pediatric hospital, the margin for error is vanishingly small. Two Department …
Pediatrics faculty, staff present at Society for Critical Care Medicine’s 2026 Annual Congress
Above in the photo from left to right: Members of the Division of Critical Care. Yigit Erkus, MD, honorary fellow; Awni Al-Subu, MD, associate professor; Talal Al Hendawi, MD, PGY-5 fellow; Diana Montes Ramirez, MD, …
Drug shifts a key hormone after newborn brain injury — but only in females
A blood test alone cannot tell the full story of what’s happening inside a newborn’s brain after a brain injury. New research from the Waisman Center at the University of Wisconsin–Madison suggests that the hippocampus — a brain region critical for learning and memory — maintains its own powerful, locally regulated steroid environment during early development and after brain injury.
Pelin Cengiz receives Meriter Foundation grant
Pelin Cengiz, MD, professor, Division of Critical Care, was awarded $99,999 from the Meriter Foundation. Her project, “A New Nonhuman Primate Preclinical Model to Test a Promising Therapy for Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy: Bridging the Gap from …
Use of point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) evolves in Department of Pediatrics divisions
Pediatrics is “playing catch-up” in POCUS use, according to Adam Bauer, MD, associate professor in the Division of Neonatology and Newborn Nursery. He is working to make that effort both rapid and effective.
Pediatric Sedation Clinic smooths the way for anxious young patients
Established in 1991, the Pediatric Sedation Clinic is one of the longest-operating procedural pediatric sedation units in the country. Now located in the American Family Children’s Hospital (AFCH) in the Diagnostic and Therapy Center, the clinic has grown from small beginnings of one clinician and two nurse practitioners (NPs) to a staff of six physicians and two NPs offering a range of sedation and related services.
Furkan Camci wins PNCRG Outstanding Poster Award
Ferrazzano Research Group researcher and honorary fellow Furkan Camci (center), Division of Critical Care, received the Pediatric Neurocritical Care Research Group (PNCRG) Outstanding Poster Award for his abstract, “MRI Injury Patterns Following Severe Traumatic Brain Injury in Children,” …
After a prodigious and productive career in research and critical care, Marlowe Eldridge will retire
Marlowe Eldridge, MD, entered medical school with BE in bioengineering and MS in mechanical engineering. Directly after earning his MD at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, he completed a post-doctoral year studying …