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At Boston Children’s Hospital, we consider you and your child integral parts of the care team and not simply recipients of care. We specialize in family-centered care, which means that during your hospital stay, you’ll work with a team of professionals who are committed to supporting all of your family’s needs.

Our award-winning nurses

Our Cardiac Intensive Care Unit has received the American Association of Critical Care Nurses (AACN) Beacon Award for Critical Care Excellence, which recognizes individual critical care units that have met rigid criteria for excellence in patient outcomes, care quality, patient safety, interdisciplinary practice, innovation and family-centered care.

Our Cardiac ICU is only the second pediatric Cardiac ICU in the country to receive this honor. Receiving the Beacon Award is a testament to the extraordinary Cardiac ICU staff that provides exceptional care to our critically ill patients and their families every day.

Directors

Eduardo M. da Cruz, MD, FACC

Chief, Division of Cardiovascular Critical Care; Peter Lang Chair in Cardiology

Faculty Member, Harvard Medical School

Catherine Allan, MD

Medical Director, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CICU); Director, Human Factors & Systems Design

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

Faculty

Peta-Maree Alexander, MBBS

Attending, Department of Cardiology

Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

Douglas B. Atkinson, MD

Associate in Cardiac Anesthesia, Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine

Instructor of Anaesthesia, Harvard Medical School

Henry Cheng, MD

Attending, Department of Cardiology

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

James A. DiNardo, MD

Senior Associate in Cardiac Anesthesia, Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine

Professor of Anesthesia, Harvard Medical School

Diana Geisser, MD

Staff Physician, Department of Cardiology

Instructor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

Muhammad Bakr Ghbeis, MD

Attending, Department of Cardiology

Instructor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

Sarah Goldberg, MD

Assistant, Department of Cardiology

Instructor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

Daniel Hames, MD

Attending, Department of Cardiology

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

John Kheir, MD

Attending, Department of Cardiology

Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

Joan LaRovere, MD

Attending, Cardiovascular Critical Care

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

Kimberly Mills, MD

Assistant in Cardiology, Department of Cardiology

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

Kshitij Mistry, MD, MMSc

Attending Physician, Cardiovascular Critical Care; Director, Quality and Outcomes Program, Department of Cardiology

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

Katie Moynihan, MD

Attending, Department of Cardiology

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

Elizabeth Pace, MD

Attending Physician, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CICU)

Instructor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

Vickren Pillay, MD

Attending Physician, Department of Cardiology

Instructor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

Cailyn Rood, MD

Attending, Department of Cardiology

Instructor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

Joshua Salvin, MD, MPH

Attending, Department of Cardiology

Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

Jun Sasaki, MD

Attending Physician. Department of Cardiology

Bryan Siegel, MD

Attending, Department of Cardiology

Instructor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

Ravi Thiagarajan, MD, MPH

Chief Emeritus, Division of Cardiovascular Critical Care; Callaghan Family Chair in Cardiac Intensive Care

Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

Eleonore Valencia, MD

Attending Physician, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CICU)

Instructor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

Niranjan Vijayakumar, MBBS

Attending Physician, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CICU)

Instructor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

Physician Assistant

Erica Comstock, MS, PA

Physician Assistant, Department of Cardiac Surgery

Nursing Leadership

Jason Thornton, RN, MSN

Director of Nursing Patient Services, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CICU)

Mary O'Brien, RN, BSN, CCRN

Registered Nurse, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CICU)

Clinical Nurse Specialists

Dorothy Beke, MS, RN, CPNP-PC/AC

Pediatric Nurse Practitioner, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CICU)

Patricia Lincoln, MSN, RN, BC-CNS, CCRN

Registered Nurse, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CICU)

Clinical Educators

Lauren Danforth, BSN, RN

Registered Nurse, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CICU)

Annette Imprescia, RN, CCRN

Staff Nurse, Department of Cardiology

Advanced Nurse Practitioners

Valerie Bailey, RN, MS, NP-C, CCRN

Nurse Practitioner, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CICU)

Nancy Braudis, MS, RN, CPNP, CCRN

Pediatric Nurse Practitioner, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CICU)

Erin Eggers, MSN

Pediatric Nurse Practitioner, Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit

Lisa Klosterboer, CPNP AC/PC

Pediatric Nurse Practitioner, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CICU)

Caroline Morin, RN, CPNP, CCRN

Pediatric Nurse Practitioner, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CICU)

Whitney McCormick Parks, MSN, RN, CPNP-AC, CCRN

Nurse Practitioner, Department of Cardiology

Hanna Roberts, AC-PNP, DNP

Nurse Practitioner, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CICU)

Elizabeth Swanson, RN, MSN, CPN, CCRN, FNP-BC

Nurse Practitioner, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CICU)

Kathy Whelan, MSN, RN, NP-C, CCRN

Nurse Practitioner, Department of Cardiology

Allied Health Professionals

Katharine (Kate) Antommaria, MS

Child Life Specialist, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CICU)

Michelle Kerns, MS, CCLS

Child Life Specialist, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CICU)