I am the Director of the Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine and Vice-Chairman for Medical Affairs of the Department of Pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medical College. In these capacities, I direct the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center's Pediatric Critical Care Center, a 20-bed intensive care unit providing state-of-the art care for the most seriously ill and injured infants, children and adolescents. The unit specializes in the care of children (up to 21 years of age) with challenging forms of respiratory failure due to severe pneumonia, asthma or viral illness, as well as circulatory shock due to overwhelming infection or cardiac failure.
The Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine sponsors an active research program investigating the mechanisms of critical illness and organ failure as well as the body's immunologic response to severe illness. Scientists in the Division are conducting cutting-edge research in the area of day/night (diurnal) physiologic and immunologic changes that the body experiences in the face of critical illness.
In addition to my clinical teaching and research activities at Weill Cornell, I have been involved with the national development of critical care medicine as a vital pediatric sub-speciality. I was one of the founding members of the New York Society of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine and I served the Society as President from 1993 to 1995. I am currently on the Executive Committee of the Society of Critical Care Medicine, Section on Pediatrics.
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