Society for Critical Care Medicine Critical Care Congress
John Sampson, MD presented a global health initiative during the opening ceremony of the Society for Critical Care Medicine Critical Care Congress in San Francisco CA in January.
Hal Shaffner, MD was inducted as a Fellow of the American College of Critical Care Medicine at the Society for Critical Care Medicine Critical Care Congress in San Francisco CA in January.
Todd Dorman, MD was awarded a Masters of Critical Care Medicine at the Society for Critical Care Medicine Critical Care Congress in San Francisco CA in January.
Jim Fackler, MD was inducted as a Fellow of the American College of Critical Care Medicine at the Society for Critical Care Medicine Critical Care Congress in San Francisco CA in January.
Accomplishments and Honors
Elizabeth Brigham, MD presented the poster “Pediatric Trauma Bootcamp: Utilizing Interdisciplinary Education to Improve Pediatric Trauma Care” at the Society for Critical Care Medicine Critical Care Congress in San Francisco CA in January. Co-authors: , Isam Nasr, Erica Hodgman, Amanda Levin.
Brian Cho, MD presented “Perioperative Viscoelastic Testing – A TEG Talk” at Grand Rounds at Hartford Hospital Department of Anesthesiology in January.
Brian Cho, MD gave a lecture titled “Setting up a Pre-Operative Anemia Clinic” as part of a panel titled “Controversies in Perioperative Blood Management” at the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Annual Meeting 2023 in San Diego CA.
Steve Frank, MD gave the Thorndike Quality and Safety Grand Rounds lecture at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. His lecture was titled “Blood Saves Lives When You Need it, But Increases Risk and Cost When You Don’t.”
Anjali Garg, MD presented and received a STAR Research Award for “Childhood Opportunity Index Among Critically Ill Children: A Multicenter, Retrospective Cohort Study” at the Society for Critical Care Medicine Critical Care Congress in San Francisco CA in January. Co-authors: Anthony Sochet, David Stockwell.
Anjali Garg, MD presented the poster “Social Determinants of Health and Pediatric Rehabilitation: A Systematic Review” at the Society for Critical Care Medicine Critical Care Congress in San Francisco CA in January. Co-authors: Katie Lobner, Ariel Egbunine, Janey Song, Riley Mitchell, Sapna Kudchadkar.
Anna Grindy, MD presented the poster “Fellow-Led Procedure Curriculum for Pediatric Residents in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit” at the Society for Critical Care Medicine Critical Care Congress in San Francisco CA in January. Co-authors: Julie McCaw, Elizabeth Brigham, Sarah Gardner Yelton, Anisha Nadkarni, Hilary Schreiber, Amanda Levin.
Emily Kemper, MD has won the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Critical Care Advocacy Award which will support her attendance at the upcoming AAP Advocacy Conference in DC. (Mentor: Katherine Hoops, MD, MPH)
Jessica LaRosa, MD presented the poster “Simulation Curriculum to Improve Nursing-Led Early Mobility of Critically Ill Children” at the Society for Critical Care Medicine Critical Care Congress in San Francisco CA in January. Co-authors: Hallie Lenker, Kristen Brown, Nicole Shilkofski, Sapna Kudchadkar.
Katie MacMillan, MD MPH presented the poster “Population-Based Study of Factors Associated with Hospitalization of Pediatric Drowning in Maryland at the Society for Critical Care Medicine Critical Care Congress in San Francisco CA in January. Co-authors: Katherine Hoops, Sapna Kudchadkar, Andrea Gielen, Eileen McDonald, Laura Prichett, Isam Nasr, Leticia Ryan.
Mel Pavelack, DO presented the poster “Climate and Weather as Risk Factors for Pediatric Asthma Exacerbations: A Scoping Review” at the Society for Critical Care Medicine Critical Care Congress in San Francisco CA in January. Co-authors: Joyce Cheng, Meredith McCormack, Lori Rosman.
Kate Rosenblatt, MD, MHS was an invited Grand Rounds speaker and visiting professor for the Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, presenting “Autoregulation-based hemodynamic goals” and “Neuroanesthesia practice: the good, the bad, and the smelly.”
Kate Rosenblatt, MD, MHS presented Grand Rounds for the University of Tennessee Health Science Center Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine on “Cerebral autoregulation-guided blood pressure targets in perioperative care and critical illness.”
Robert Stevens, MD was an invited faculty speaker at the Society for Critical Care Medicine Critical Care Congress in San Francisco CA in January, presenting “Harmonization of Intensive Care Data: Beyond the HER” and “Subphenotypes in Traumatic Brain Injury.”
Robert Stevens, MD was featured in a JHU press release dedicated to his recent article on using machine learning to predict delirium in the ICU.
M-Irfan Suleman, MBBS was an invited Grand Rounds speaker presenting “Beyond Opioids, Chronic Pain Management in Children and Adolescents,” at UTHealth Houston, McGovern Medical School in Houston TX in January.
M-Irfan Suleman, MBBS was an invited virtual speaker presenting “Multidisciplinary Pediatric Chronic Pain Management” at KIDS Dor 2023, Pediatric Pain Course, Brazil in January.
M-Irfan Suleman, MBBS was an invited speaker presenting “Beyond Opioids, Chronic Pain Management in Children and Adolescent at PeriAnesthesia Nurse Awareness Week conference in Baltimore MD in February.
Philip Sun, MD, MS presented a poster presentation at the 2023 International Stroke Conference in Dallas TX in February, titled “Can the Extended Glasgow Outcome Scale (eGOS) Augment the Interpretation of Results from Clinical Trials of Minimally Invasive Surgery of Spontaneous Intracerebral Hemorrhage Using the Modified Rankin Scale (mRS): a Secondary Analysis of the CLEAR-III and MISTIE-III Trials.” Authors: Sun P, Thompson R, Akindahunsi T, Avadhani R, Nyquist P, Awad I, Hanley D, Ziai W.
Rob Thomsen, MD was appointed by the ASA President to serve as the Vice Chair of the ASA Committee on Governance Effectiveness and Efficiencies. Dr. Thomsen was also recently elected as a Trustee of MedChi, the Maryland State Medical Society.
Tricia Vecchione, MD was featured on the OpenAnesthesia-SPA “Ask the Expert” podcast on the February 2023 episode “Update on Pediatric Regional Anesthesia.”
Link: https://www.openanesthesia.org/update-on-pediatric-regional-anesthesia/
Jed Wolpaw, MD, MEd presented a lecture to the ICU Fellowship students at St. Paul Hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia entitled “Common Perioperative Acidoses.”
Grants Received
Robert S. Greenberg, MD and Wayne I. Sternberger, PhD on behalf of BLOCKsynop, Inc. received a National Science Foundation Small Business Innovation Research Phase I award entitled “Neural Blockade Monitor Technology for Precision Pain Management” to continue development of their invention which passively and non-invasively measures and reports the location and density of nerve block in real time.
Nefize Turan, MD received a Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Physician Scientist Training Program Experiment Fund for the project in “Cognitive Dysfunction After Subarachnoid Hemorrhage.”
Articles Published
Basic and Translational Research
El Demerdash N, Pan T, Choi O, Saraswati M, Koehler R, Robertson CL, Savonenko AV. Importance of control groups for evaluating long-term behavioral and cognitive outcomes after controlled cortical impact in immature rats. J Neurotrauma. 2022 Nov 23.
Clinical Research & Informatics
Bartels K, Howard-Quijano K, Prin M, Shaefi S, Steppan J, Sun EC, Williams B, Fox AA, Namuyonga J, Shaw AD, Vavilala MS, Sessler DI. Meeting Report: First Cardiovascular Outcomes Research in Perioperative Medicine Conference. Anesth Analg. 2023 Feb 1;136(2):418-420.
Dodds E, Kudchadkar SR, Choong K, Manning JC. A realist review of the effective implementation of the ICU Liberation Bundle in the paediatric intensive care unit setting. Aust Crit Care. 2022 Dec 27:S1036-7314(22)00239-9.
Emeriaud G, López-Fernández YM, Iyer NP, Bembea MM, Agulnik A, Barbaro RP, Baudin F, Bhalla A, Brunow de Carvalho W, Carroll CL, Cheifetz IM, Chisti MJ, Cruces P, Curley MAQ, Dahmer MK, Dalton HJ, Erickson SJ, Essouri S, Fernández A, Flori HR, Grunwell JR, Jouvet P, Killien EY, Kneyber MCJ, Kudchadkar SR, Korang SK, Lee JH, Macrae DJ, Maddux A, Modesto I Alapont V, Morrow BM, Nadkarni VM, Napolitano N, Newth CJL, Pons-Odena M, Quasney MW, Rajapreyar P, Rambaud J, Randolph AG, Rimensberger P, Rowan CM, Sanchez-Pinto LN, Sapru A, Sauthier M, Shein SL, Smith LS, Steffen K, Takeuchi M, Thomas NJ, Tse SM, Valentine S, Ward S, Watson RS, Yehya N, Zimmerman JJ, Khemani RG; Second Pediatric Acute Lung Injury Consensus Conference (PALICC-2) Group on behalf of the Pediatric Acute Lung Injury and Sepsis Investigators (PALISI) Network. Executive Summary of the Second International Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Pediatric Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (PALICC-2). Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2023 Feb 1;24(2):143-168.
Felling RJ, Kamerkar A, Friedman ML, Said AS, LaRovere KL, Bell MJ, Bembea MM. Neuromonitoring during ECMO support in children. Neurocrit Care. 2023 Jan 31. Online ahead of print.
Gaies M, Olive MK, Owens GE, Charpie JR, Zhang W, Pasquali SK, Klugman D, Costello JM, Schwartz SM, Banerjee M. Methods to enhance causal inference for assessing impact of clinical informatics platform implementation. Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes. 2023 Feb;16(2):e009277.
Gong KD, Lu R, Bergamaschi TS, Sanyal A, Guo J, Kim HB, Nguyen HT, Greenstein JL, Winslow RL, Stevens RD. Predicting intensive care delirium with machine learning: model development and external validation. Anesthesiology. 2023 Mar 1;138(3):299-311.
Hensley NB, Colao JA, Zorrilla-Vaca A, Nanavati J, Lawton JS, Raphael J, Mazzeffi MA, Wierschke C, Kostibas MP, Cho BC, Frank SM, Grant MC. Ultrafiltration in cardiac surgery: Results of a systematic review and meta-analysis. Perfusion. 2023 Feb 16. Online ahead of print.
Iyer N, Khemani R, Emeriaud G, López-Fernández YM, Korang SK, Steffen KM, Barbaro RP, Bembea MM; Second Pediatric Acute Lung Injury Consensus Conference (PALICC-2) Group on behalf and the Pediatric Acute Lung Injury and Sepsis Investigators (PALISI) Network. Methodology of the Second Pediatric Acute Lung Injury Consensus Conference. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2023 Feb 1;24(12 Suppl 2):S76-S86.
Lo BD, Qayum O, Penberthy KK, Gyi R, Lester LC, Hensley NB, Sciubba DM, Frank SM, Cho BC. Dose-dependent effects of red blood cell transfusions and case mix index on venous thromboembolic events in spine surgery. Vox Sang. 2023 Jan;118(1):76-83.
McLaughlin KH, Friedman M, Hoyer EH, Kudchadkar S, Flanagan E, Klein L, Daley K, Lavezza A, Schechter N, Young D; JH-AMP Group. The Johns Hopkins Activity and Mobility Promotion Program: a framework to increase activity and mobility among hospitalized patients. J Nurs Care Qual. 2023 Apr-Jun 01;38(2):164-170.
Pittman E, Bernier M, Fackler J. Data, anomalies; a call to cease and desist. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2023 Jan 1;24(1):72-74.
Shipman KJ, Mercer AH, Raisanen JC, Jabre NA, Vo HH, Miles A, Shepard J, Henderson CM, Boss RD, Wilfond BS. “What would give her the best life?”: Understanding why families decline pediatric home ventilation. J Palliat Med. 2023 Jan 20. Online ahead of print.
Toy S, Ozsoy S, Shafiei S, Antonenko P, Schwengel D. Using electroencephalography to explore neurocognitive correlates of procedural proficiency: A pilot study to compare experts and novices during simulated endotracheal intubation. Brain Cogn. 2023 Feb;165:105938.
Valentine K, Cisco MJ, Lasa JJ, Achuff BJ, Kudchadkar SR, Staveski SL. A survey of current practices in sedation, analgesia, withdrawal, and delirium management in paediatric cardiac ICUs. Cardiol Young. 2023 Jan 10:1-6.
Valentine SL, Kudchadkar SR, Ward S, Morrow BM, Nadkarni VM, Curley MAQ; Second Pediatric Acute Lung Injury Consensus Conference (PALICC-2) of the Pediatric Acute Lung Injury and Sepsis Investigators (PALISI) Network. Nonpulmonary Treatments for Pediatric Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome: From the Second Pediatric Acute Lung Injury Consensus Conference. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2023 Feb 1;24(12 Suppl 2):S45-S60.
Health Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, & Wellness
Irvin R, Venkataramani M, Galiatsatos P, Hitchcock JD, Hemphill N, Dearey M, Bigelow BF, Cooper LA, Molello NE, O’Conor KJ, Page KR, Golden SH. A path forward: COVID-19 vaccine equity community education and outreach initiative. Health Secur. 2023 Feb 15. Online ahead of print.
LaCharite J, Tucker EW, Rosenberg J, Young J, Gupta N, Hoops K. Understanding the healthcare needs of migrant children currently and previously in government custody: a narrative. Laws 2023;12(1):18.
Segna K, Sundararaman L. Caring for the transgender patient: it is more than using the right pronouns! ASA Monitor 2023 Feb;87(2):19-20.
Siddiqui S, Warner MA, Kelly L, Monteith E, Douin DJ, Mladinov D, Shaefi S, Stevens RD, Tung A, Sladen RN. Determinants of professional fulfillment and burnout among intensivists: a national survey by the Society of Critical Care Anesthesiologists in 2022. Anesth Analg. 2023 Feb 15. Online ahead of print.
Smith BM, Kuryla CL, Shilkofski NA, Hughes HK, Wheeler NJ, Tschudy MM, Solomon BS, Kim JM. Resident perceptions of continuity clinic patient metrics differ from ehr data: pilot use of population health dashboards. Qual Manag Health Care. 2022 Dec 8.
Book Chapters
Rosenblatt K. Reducing Risk of Perioperative Stroke. In Fleisher L (ed). Evidence-Based Practice of Anesthesiology, 4th ed. Elsevier 2023; pp.30-48.
