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Our Leadership Team
Current Chairs
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Caroline Ozment, MD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Critical Care,
Duke University
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Ryan Barbaro, MD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Critical Care,
University of Michigan
Past Chairs
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Matthew Paden,
MD
Associate Professor, Pediatrics Division of Critical Care,
Emory University
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Melania Bembea, MD MPH PhD
Associate Professor,
School of Medicine
Johns Hopkins University
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Peta Alexander, MBBS FRACP FCICM
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Harvard Medical School
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Todd Kilbaugh,
MD
The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Steering Committee
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Matthew Freidman,
MD MSCR
Social Media and Publication Chair
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Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics,
IU School of Medicine and Riley Hospital for Children
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Elise Zivick,
MD FAAP
Education Chair
Assistant Professor,
Medical University of
South Carolina
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Heidi Dalton,
MD
Membership and
Diversity Co-Chair
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Medical Director
ECLS Inova Fairfax Hospital,
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Aparna Hoskote, MBBS DCH MD MRCP
Membership and
Diversity Co-Chair
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Cardiac Intensive Care Consultant
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children
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Michele Domico
​Children's Hospital of Orange County
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Lakshmi Raman,
MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
University of Texas Medical Center
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John Priest,
BSRT, RRT-NPS
ECMO Specialist II
Boston Children's Hospital
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Natalie Rintoul,
MD
Professor of Clinical Pediatrics,
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
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Oliver Karam, MD PhD
SOC Chair
Professor of Pediatrics
Yale School of Medicine
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Jamie Furlong-Dillard,
DP
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Norton Children’s Hospital