Akira Nishisaki, MD, MSCE
Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Attending Physician, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Co-Medical Director, Center for Simulation, Advanced Education and Innovation, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Department: Anesthesiology and Critical Care
Contact information
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care
Division of Critical Care
3401 Civic Center Boulevard
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care
Division of Critical Care
3401 Civic Center Boulevard
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: 215-590-5505
Fax: 215-590-4327
Fax: 215-590-4327
Email:
nishisaki@email.chop.edu
nishisaki@email.chop.edu
Education:
MD (Medicine)
Nagoya University School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan, 1995.
MSCE (Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics)
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, 2011.
Permanent linkMD (Medicine)
Nagoya University School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan, 1995.
MSCE (Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics)
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, 2011.
Selected Publications
Alcamo AM, Lindell RB, Sheetz SA, Ham SD, Strayer A, Weiss SL, Nishisaki A, Pinto NP, Topjian AA, Fitzgerald JC: New sepsis-associated morbidity and mortality in pediatric oncology patients. Frontiers in Oncology August 2025.Nishisaki A: Eliminating Preventable Harms During Pediatric Intubation. AHRQ August 2025 Notes: Grantee Profile.
Greenwald E, Miller K, Wing R, Prieto M, Nagler J, Napolitano N, Polikoff L, Goldman M, Sterrett E, Jackson J, Melchionne Miseo C, Dean P, Nti B, Losito E, Caperell K, Kennedy C, Patel D, Deanehan JK, Bharath A, Killion J, Judge P, Joseph D, Ikeyama T, Nishisaki A, Kerrey BT: Site-Level Variation in Tracheal Intubation in the Pediatric Emergency Department A Report From the National Emergency Airway Registry for Pediatric Emergency Medicine (NEAR4PEM). Pediatr Emerg Care August 2025.
O'Halloran A, Sannino J, Dominick C, Bailey C, Boyle L, Shepard LN, Nadkarni V, Wolfe H, Morgan RW, Nishisaki A, Lane-Fall M, Sutton R: Development of a Novel Cardiac Arrest Ventilation Rate Metronome: A Human Factors and Implementation Science Mixed-Methods Approach. Pediatr Crit Care Med Epub ahead of print, August 2025.
Shepard LN, Shults J, Nishisaki A: Sodium Bicarbonate in Cardiac Arrest: A True Harm or a Bystander of Prolonged Resuscitation? Pediatric Critical Care Medicine 26(6): e835-e838, June 2025.
Stein ML, Nagle JH, Templeton TW, Staffa SJ, Flynn SG, Bordini M, Nykiel- Bailey S, Garcia-Marcinkiewicz AG, Padiyath F, Matuszczak M, Lee AC, Peyton JM, Park RS, von Ungern-Sternberg BS, Olomu PN, Hunyady AI, Matava C, Fiadjoe JE : Comparing Videolaryngoscopy and flexible bronchoscopy to rescue failed direct laryngoscopy in children: a propensity score matched analysis of the Pediatric Difficult Intubation Registry Anesthesia 80(6): 625-635, June 2025.
Kubo T, Kishida M, Nishida K, Ohta K, Nishisaki A: Mental effort was significantly associated with medical student’s resuscitation knowledge and skill acquisition in transpacific telesimulation. IPSSW2025 May 2025 Notes: Abstract presented at IPSSW2025 at Munich in May 2025.
Wing R, Smith DG, Cramer ER, Rosen R, Albanese A, Frank H, Prieto MM, Greenwald E, Nagler J, Goldman M, Miller KA, Nti B, Napolitano N, Nishisaki A: Barriers and Facilitators to Implementation of the National Emergency Airway Registry for Pediatric Emergency Medicine (NEAR4PEM) Pre-Intubation Checklist. Pediatric Academic Societies May 2025 Notes: Poster presented at PAS 2025 in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Farris RWD, Shah SS, Bennett TD, Brown SR, Cornell TT, Dziorny AC, Flynn A, Grunwell J, Heneghan JA, Kennedy CE, Kretsu A, Mendonca E, Nishisaki A, Rogerson C, Tawfik DS, Wetzel RC, Sanchez-Pinto LN; PICU Data Collaborative: The PICU Data Collaborative: A Novel, Multi-Institutional, Pediatric Critical Care Dataset. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine April 2025.
Padiyath F, Padiyath A, Berg RA, Nadkarni VM, Garcia-Marcinkiewicz A, Shults J, Nishisaki A, for the National Emergency Airway Registry for Children (NEAR4KIDS) Investigators: Preventing Arrest: Comparative Analysis of Cardiac Arrest and Non-Arrest Cases in the NEAR4KIDS Registry. SPA/AAP Pediatric Anesthesiology 2025 March 2025 Notes: Poster Presentation at SPA/AAP Pediatric Anesthesiology 2025 Meeting, March 29th, 2025, Orlando, Florida.