Vinay M. Nadkarni, M.D., M.S.

Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Found Director, CHOP Center for Simulation, Advanced Education, and Innovation
Hospital Claims Committee Member, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Endowed Chair, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Founding Director, CHOP Academy for Resuscitation of Children of the CHOP Resuscitation Science Center
Department: Anesthesiology and Critical Care
Contact information
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine
Suite 8566, Office 8572, 8th Floor Main
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine
Suite 8566, Office 8572, 8th Floor Main
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: 215-590-7430
Fax: 215-590-4327
Fax: 215-590-4327
Email:
nadkarni@email.chop.edu
nadkarni@email.chop.edu
Education:
B.A. (Zoology)
Duke University, 1979.
M.S. (Physiology)
Georgetown University, 1980.
M.D.
University of Maryland School of Medicine, 1984.
Permanent linkB.A. (Zoology)
Duke University, 1979.
M.S. (Physiology)
Georgetown University, 1980.
M.D.
University of Maryland School of Medicine, 1984.
Description of Research Expertise
Vinay Nadkarni MD is an Associate Professor of Anesthesia and Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and the director of the pediatric critical care medicine fellowship training program at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. He works in a 45-bed tertiary PICU that admits approximately 2700 patients per year. He shares responsibility for patient care and teaching with 15 board certified pediatric intensive care physicians and 15 pediatric critical care fellows. Dr. Nadkarni completed a Masters degree in Physiology at Georgetown University, and his M.D. at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore. He completed his pediatric residency, chief residency and critical care fellowship at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, DC.Dr Nadkarni has a local, regional, national and international interest in CPR, pediatric resuscitation, and resuscitation education. He has lectured nationally and internationally on resuscitation issues and training. He has been an invited visiting professor and lecturer at numerous academic centers including Adelaide, Beijing, Boston, Budapest, Buffalo, Christchurch, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Dallas, Melbourne, Philadelphia, Sao Paolo, Stavanger, Tokyo, Toronto, Venice and Washington DC. He has served as chairman of the American Heart Association (AHA) National Committee on Pediatric Resuscitation, and the AHA Emergency Cardiovascular Care Committee, a national editor for the Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) training materials, and is currently a member of the AHA Science Advisory and Coordinating Committee. He serves as a member of the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR) that has recently developed and published advisory statements on resuscitation guidelines for newborns, infants and children in Europe, North America, South America, Southern Africa, Australia, and New Zealand. He is a founding member of the Science Advisory Board of the AHA National Registry of CPR. He has co-chaired international consensus conferences to review and develop a strategy for international registries of CPR events. He was the Co-chair of the 2005 International Consensus Conference on Emergency Cardiovascular Care and Resuscitation Science, and helped to organize the AHA Resuscitation Science Symposia 2003-2006. He serves as President, Board of Directors, AHA Pennsylvania-Delaware Affiliate, and the national Chairman of the AHA’s International Committee. He is a board member of the Citizen CPR Foundation and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies. He is a Fellow of the American College of Critical Care Medicine, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the AHA. He also serves on the AHA National Spokesperson Panel.
Dr. Nadkarni balances his clinical and administrative time with investigations of CPR and critical care medicine in the laboratory and clinical outcomes settings. He is an investigator on three NIH research grants. He is a leader in simulation education development on the University of Pennsylvania campus, and has served as an educational consultant to develop infant and child high fidelity simulators. As a member of the Society for Critical Care Medicine for more than 10 years, he has delivered more than 50 presentations at the annual SCCM Education and Scientific Symposia, and received three major SCCM research awards: the 1990 National In-Training Award, the 1999 National Neuroscience Specialty Award, and the 2003 National Pediatric Specialty Award. He is the course director for the 2006 National SCCM Pediatric Critical Care Concepts Course. He has authored more than 60 peer-reviewed manuscripts and 25 book chapters related to the practice of pediatric critical care medicine.
Dr. Nadkarni believes that a healthy academic career must be balanced by a healthy home and family life, a spirit of volunteerism, and good citizenship. He is married to Ellen Deutsch MD, a pediatric Otolaryngologist practicing in Delaware and specializing in laryngotracheal reconstruction, and has 3 children: Lauren 18, Lindsay 15 and Andrew 11. His local and regional service has included the State Abuse Intervention committee, Emergency Medical Services Committee, Child Death Review Committee, and Wilmington Homeless clinic. In addition, he is a board member for the Delaware Chapter of Operation Smile, a national non-profit, non-sectarian medical organization. Over the past 15 years, Dr. Nadkarni has volunteered time to provide pediatric critical care support services on 10 international missions with Operation Smile, including Kenya, Morocco, Philippines, Russia, China, and Colombia and Ecuador.
Selected Publications
Morgan RW, Reeder RW, Ahmed T, Bell MJ, Berger JT, Bishop R, Bochkoris M, Burns C, Carcillo JA, Carpenter TC, Dean JM, Diddle JW, Federman M, Fernandez R, Fink EL, Franzon D, Frazier AH, Friess SH, Graham K, Hall M, Hehir DA, Himebauch AS, Horvat CM, Huard LL, Maa T, Manga A, McQuillen PS, Meert KL, Mourani PM, Nadkarni VM, Naim MY, Notterman D, Page K, Pollack MM, Sapru A, Schneiter C, Sharron MP, Srivastava N, Tabbutt S, Tilford B, Viteri S, Wessel D, Wolfe HA, Yates AR, Zuppa AF, Berg RA, Sutton RM: Outcomes and characteristics of cardiac arrest in children with pulmonary hypertension: A secondary analysis of the ICU-RESUS clinical trial. Resuscitation 190: 109897, September 2023.Gray JM, Raymond TT, Atkins DL, Tegtmeyer K, Niles DE, Nadkarni VM, Pandit SV, Dewan M; pediRES-Q Investigators: Inappropriate Shock Delivery Is Common During Pediatric In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine 24(8): e390-396, August 2023.
Cashen K, Sutton RM, Reeder RW, Ahmed T, Bell MJ, Berg RA, Bishop R, Bochkoris M, Burns C, Carcillo JA, Carpenter TC, Wesley Diddle J, Federman M, Fink EL, Franzon D, Frazier AH, Friess SH, Graham K, Hall M, Hehir DA, Horvat CM, Huard LL, Maa T, Manga A, McQuillen PS, Morgan RW, Mourani PM, Nadkarni VM, Naim MY, Notterman D, Palmer CA, Pollack MM, Sapru A, Schneiter C, Sharron MP, Srivastava N, Viteri S, Wolfe HA, Yates AR, Zuppa AF, Meert KL: Association of CPR Simulation Program Characteristics with Simulated and Actual Performance during Paediatric In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest. Resuscitation August 2023 Notes: Online ahead of print.
Ong GY, Chen ZJ, Niles DE, Srinivasan V, Sen AI, Skellett S, Ikeyama T, Del Castillo J, Berg RA, Nadkarni VM: Poor Concordance of One-Third Anterior-Posterior Chest Diameter Measurements With Absolute Age-Specific Chest Compression Depth Targets in Pediatric Cardiac Arrest Patients. Journal of American Heart Association Page: e028418, July 2023.
Sankar J, Muralidharan J, Lalitha AV, Rameshkumar R, Pathak M, Das RR, Nadkarni VM, Ismail J, Subramanian M, Nallasamy K, Dev N, Kumar UV, Kumar K, Sharma T, Jaravta K, Thakur N, Aggarwal P, Jat KR, Kabra SK, Lodha R: Multiple Electrolytes Solution Versus Saline as Bolus Fluid for Resuscitation in Pediatric Septic Shock: A Multicenter Randomized Clinical Trial. Critical Care Medicine Page: Online Ahead of Print, June 2023.
Loi MV, Lee JH, Huh JW, Mallory P, Napolitano N, Shults J, Krawiec C, Shenoi A, Polikoff L, Al-Subu A, Sanders R Jr, Toal M, Branca A, Glater-Welt L, Ducharme-Crevier L, Breuer R, Parsons S, Harwayne-Gidansky I, Kelly S, Motomura M, Gladen K, Pinto M, Giuliano J Jr, Bysani G, Berkenbosch J, Biagas K, Rehder K, Kasagi M, Lee A, Jung P, Shetty R, Nadkarni V, Nishisaki A; National Emergency Airway Registry for Children (NEAR4KIDS) Investigators, Pediatric Acute Lung Injury, Sepsis Investigators (PALISI) Network. Ketamine Use in the Intubation of Critically Ill Children with Neurological Indications: A Multicenter Retrospective Analysis: Ketamine Use in the Intubation of Critically Ill Children with Neurological Indications: A Multicenter Retrospective Analysis. Neurocritical Care May 2023.
Gray JM, Raymond TT, Atkins DL, Tegtmeyer K, Niles DE, Nadkarni VM, Pandit SV, Dewan M; pediRES-Q Investigators: Inappropriate Shock Delivery Is Common During Pediatric In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Page: Online Ahead of Print, April 2023.
Boyle TP, Dugas JN, Liu J, Stapleton SN, Medzon R, Walsh BM, Corey P, Shubitowski L, Horne JR 3rd, O'Connell R, Williams G, Nelson KP, Nadkarni VM, Camargo CA Jr, Feldman JA: Adaptation of a Simulation Model and Checklist to Assess Pediatric Emergency Care Performance by Prehospital Teams. Simulation in Healthcare 18(2): 82-89, April 2023.
Zinter MS, Markovic D, Asaro LA, Nadkarni VM, McQuillen PS, Sinha P, Matthay MA, Jeschke MG, Agus MSD, Sapru A; CAF-PINT Investigators of the PALISI Network: Tight Glycemic Control, Inflammation, and the ICU: Evidence for Heterogeneous Treatment Effects in Two Randomized Controlled Trials. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine 207(7): 945-949, April 2023.
Kienzle MF, Morgan RW, Alvey JS, Reeder R, Berg RA, Nadkarni V, Topjian AA, Lasa JJ, Raymond TT, Sutton RM; American Heart Association's Get With The Guidelines®-Resuscitation Investigators: Clinician-Reported Physiologic Monitoring of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Quality During Pediatric In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: A Propensity-Weighted Cohort Study. Resuscitation Page: Epub ahead of Print, April 2023.