The Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine is made up of highly motivated faculty members with a wide range of academic and clinical interests, including simulation education, transport medicine, sedation, resuscitation, extracorporeal support, cardiac- and neuro-critical care, quality improvement, telemedicine, non-invasive monitoring, machine learning models, and translational research in acquired brain injury and cardiopulmonary physiology. Division members are nationally recognized experts for research and program development, and hold numerous local and national leadership roles associated with these programs. Division faculty provide clinical services in the AFCH Pediatric ICU and Sedation Clinic, and train the next generation of critical care physicians in the Pediatric Critical Care Fellowship program.
Pediatric Critical Care Medicine News
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, …
May 12, 2026
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.
April 24, 2026
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 …
April 20, 2026
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.
September 8, 2025
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.
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