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Clinical Services:
Critical Care Medicine
The Division of Critical Care Medicine is committed to excellence in clinical care, education and research in the field of pediatric critical care.
Clinical Care
The Medical-Surgical Intensive Care Unit provides all critical care services for the programs in:
  • Medicine
  • General Surgery
  • Transplantation
  • Neurosurgery
  • Trauma
  • Orthopedics
  • Otolaryngology
  • Craniofacial Reconstruction
The Division of Critical Care Medicine houses one of the highest volume pediatric intensive care units in the United States. The Division of Critical Care Medicine has a new, state-of-the-art 30-bed pediatric Medical-Surgical Intensive Care Unit. Furthermore, there are consistent excellent outcomes with more than 2,000 admissions annually and a survival rate of 98 percent, made achievable through a "closed-unit" intensivist-attending model and in-house attending coverage.
Education
The Division of Critical Care Medicine considers education to be a major component of its mission. Each month we host several international observers, four residents, and on average one medical student to the Division. Our faculty and fellows educate these trainees through various methods ranging from bedside teaching to didactic teaching. During the 2008-2009 academic year, the Division hosted 28 international observers from 9 different countries, 52 junior residents, and 6 medical students.
Academically Productive Faculty
Currently, the Division of Critical Care Medicine's faculty includes 2 professors, 5 associate professors, 5 assistant professors, and 8 instructors.

In previous years, faculty have received:

  • The Department of Medicine's Janeway Award
  • The Anesthesia Department's Teacher of the Year Award
  • The Department of Medicine's Fellow Teaching Award
  • The Boston Combined Residency Program's Housestaff Award for best Medical-Surgical Intensive Care Unit
Fellowship
Our commitment to training attracts physicians from all over the world to our pediatric critical care medicine fellowship program for advanced training.
  • Designed to expose the fellow to the full range of critically ill patients while providing extensive research experience.
  • Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) accredited
  • Meets all requirements of the American Board of Pediatrics
  • More than 1 in 5 fellows went on to work at Children's Hospital Boston
  • 98.5 percent of graduated fellows are now board certified
Research
Research in the field of critical care medicine is one of our major priorities. Currently, five faculty are funded by the National Institutes of Health, as well as several other faculty funded with foundation grant support. For further information, please visit our research page.
M.D. NIH Funded Grants
Robert Truog Robert Truog, MD

This project will develop tools to evaluate the quality of end-of-life care in the pediatric ICU. These tools will then be used to investigate both qualitative and quantitative aspects of fifty consecutive deaths occurring in each of eight geographically dispersed pediatric ICUs, from the perspectives of parents, patients, and clinicians.

Daniel Kohane Daniel S. Kohane, MD, PhD

The goal of this project is the development of reversible local anesthetic formulations lasting days to weeks. The emphasis is on the controlled release of site 1 sodium channel blockers (e.g. tetrodotoxin) from polymeric microspheres or other appropriate delivery devices.

Gregory Priebe Gregory P. Priebe, MD

This project examines the mechanisms behind vaccine-induced protection from pneumonia. In particular, it focuses on the contribution of T cells that produce the neutrophil-attracting cytokine IL-17 (called Th17 cells) to protection from acute Pseudomonas aeruginosa pneumonia following immunization with live-attenuated Pseudomonas aeruginosa vaccine strains

Sally Vitali Sally Huntoon Vitali, MD

The aim of this grant is to evaluate the role of the protective enzyme Heme Oxygenase-1 and its enzymatic products in protection from chronic hypoxia-induced heart and pulmonary vascular pathology.

Contact Information
Phone 617-355-7327
Address 300 Longwood Avenue, Bader 634
Boston, MA 02115
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Leadership
Monica Kleinman, MD, is a member of the American Heart Association's Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) national faculty.
Robert Truog, MD, is the chair of the Embryonic Stem Cell Research Oversight Committee (ESCRO).
Nilesh Mehta, MD, is a leader in pediatric critical care nutrition. He has written 2 chapters on critical care nutrition in leading intensive care unit and nutrition textbooks.
Jeffrey Burns, MD, is the chair of the Society of Critical Care Medicine's Fellowship Director's Committee and vice chair of IPOKRaTES international.
Gerhard Wolf, MD, is the pediatric medical director of Boston's Med Flight.
Peter Weinstock, MD, is the director of Children's Hospital Boston's Simulation Program which is the first hospital based simulator suite in a Boston teaching hospital.
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