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

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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
9NWCritical Care Suite/Room 9W110, 9th Floor Main
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: 215-590-7430
Fax: 215-590-4327
Education:
B.A. (Zoology)
Duke University, 1979.
M.S. (Physiology)
Georgetown University, 1980.
M.D.
University of Maryland School of Medicine, 1984.
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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

Ikeyama T, Niles D, Nadkarni VM, : Chest compression depth targets in critically ill infants and children measured with a laser distance meter: single-center retrospective study from Japan, 2019-2022. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Accepted, March 2024.

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. Neurocritical Care 40(1): 205-214, February 2024 Notes: E-published May 9th, 2023.

Ducharme-Crevier L, Furlong-Dillard J, Jung P, Chiusolo F, Malone MP, Ambati S, Parsons SJ, Krawiec C, Al-Subu A, Polikoff LA, Napolitano N, Tarquinio KM, Shenoi A, Talukdar A, Mallory PP, Giuliano JS Jr, Breuer RK, Kierys K, Kelly SP, Motomura M, Sanders RC Jr, Freeman A, Nagai Y, Glater-Welt LB, Wilson J, Loi M, Adu-Darko M, Shults J, Nadkarni V, Emeriaud G, Nishisaki A; National Emergency Airway Registry for Children (NEAR4KIDS), Pediatric Acute Lung Injury, Sepsis Investigators (PALISI) Network: Safety of primary nasotracheal intubation in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU). Intensive Care Med Paediatr Neonatal 2(1): 7, February 2024.

Johnson MD, Tingay DG, Perkins EJ, Sett A, Devsam B, Douglas E, Charlton JK, Wildenhain P, Rumpel J, Wagner M, Nadkarni V, Johnston L, Herrick HM, Hartman T, Glass K, Jung P, DeMeo SD, Shay R, Kim JH, Unrau J, Moussa A, Nishisaki A, Foglia EE; National Emergency Airway Registry for Neonates (NEAR4NEOS) investigators: Factors that impact second attempt success for neonatal intubation following first attempt failure: a report from the National Emergency Airway Registry for Neonates. Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed Online ahead of print, February 2024.

Berg KM, Bray JE, Ng KC, Liley HG, Greif R, Carlson JN, Morley PT, Drennan IR, Smyth M, Scholefield BR, Weiner GM, Cheng A, Djärv T, Abelairas-Gómez C, Acworth J, Andersen LW, Atkins DL, Berry DC, Bhanji F, Bierens J, Bittencourt Couto T, Borra V, Böttiger BW, Bradley RN, Breckwoldt J, Cassan P, Chang WT, Charlton NP, Chung SP, Considine J, Costa-Nobre DT, Couper K, Dainty KN, Dassanayake V, Davis PG, Dawson JA, Fernanda de Almeida M, De Caen AR, Deakin CD, Dicker B, Douma MJ, Eastwood K, El-Naggar W, Fabres JG, Fawke J, Fijacko N, Finn JC, Flores GE, Foglia EE, Folke F, Gilfoyle E, Goolsby CA, Granfeldt A, Guerguerian AM, Guinsburg R, Hatanaka T, Hirsch KG, Holmberg MJ, Hosono S, Hsieh MJ, Hsu CH, Ikeyama T, Isayama T, Johnson NJ, Kapadia VS, Daripa Kawakami M, Kim HS, Kleinman ME, Kloeck DA, Kudenchuk P, Kule A, Kurosawa H, Lagina AT, Lauridsen KG, Lavonas EJ, Lee HC, Lin Y, Lockey AS, Macneil F, Maconochie IK, John Madar R, Malta Hansen C, Masterson S, Matsuyama T, McKinlay CJD, Meyran D, Monnelly V, Nadkarni V, Nakwa FL, Nation KJ, Nehme Z, Nemeth M, Neumar RW, Nicholson T, Nikolaou N, Nishiyama C, Norii T, Nuthall GA, Ohshimo S, Olasveengen TM, Gene Ong YK, Orkin AM, Parr MJ, Patocka C, Perkins GD, Perlman JM, Rabi Y, Raitt J, Ramachandran S, Ramaswamy VV, Raymond TT, Reis AG, Reynolds JC, Ristagno G, Rodriguez-Nunez A, Roehr CC, Rüdiger M, Sakamoto T, Sandroni C, Sawyer TL, Schexnayder SM, Schmölzer GM, Schnaubelt S, Semeraro F, Singletary EM, Skrifvars MB, Smith CM, Soar J, Stassen W, Sugiura T, Tijssen JA, Topjian AA, Trevisanuto D, Vaillancourt C, Wyckoff MH, Wyllie JP, Yang CW, Yeung J, Zelop CM, Zideman DA, Nolan JP; ; and Collaborators: 2023 International Consensus on Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care Science With Treatment Recommendations: Summary From the Basic Life Support; Advanced Life Support; Pediatric Life Support; Neonatal Life Support; Education, Implementation, and Teams; and First Aid Task Forces. Resuscitation 195: 109992, February 2024.

Federman M, Sutton RM, Reeder RW, Ahmed T, Bell MJ, Berg RA, Bishop R, Bochkoris M, Burns C, Carcillo JA, Carpenter TC, Dean JM, Diddle JW, Fernandez R, Fink EL, Franzon D, Frazier AH, Friess SH, Graham K, Hall M, Hehir DA, Horvat CM, Huard LL, Kirkpatrick T, Maa T, Maitoza LA, Manga A, McQuillen PS, Meert KL, Morgan RW, Mourani PM, Nadkarni VM, Notterman D, Palmer CA, Pollack MM, Sapru A, Schneiter C, Sharron MP, Srivastava N, Tilford B, Viteri S, Wessel D, Wolfe HA, Yates AR, Zuppa AF, Naim MY: Survival With Favorable Neurologic Outcome and Quality of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Following In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest in Children With Cardiac Disease Compared With Noncardiac Disease. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine 25(1): 4-14, January 2024 Notes: Epublished September, 2023.

Raymond TT, Esangbedo ID, Rajapreyar P, Je S, Zhang X, Griffis HM, Wakeham MK, Petersen TL, Kirschen MP, Topjian AA, Lasa JJ, Francoeur CI, Nadkarni VM; pediatric Resuscitation Quality (pediRES-Q) Collaborative Investigators: Cerebral Oximetry During Pediatric In-hospital Cardiac Arrest: A Multicenter Study of Survival and Neurologic Outcome. Critical Care Medicine Online ahead of print, January 2024.

Albrecht M, de Jonge RCJ, Dulfer K, Van Gils-Frijters APJM, de Hoog M, Hunfeld M, Kammeraad JAE, Moors XRJ, Nadkarni VM, Buysse CMP: Trends in community response and long-term outcomes from pediatric cardiac arrest: A retrospective observational study. Resuscitation 194: 110045, January 2024 Notes: Epub Nov 11, 2023.

Lauridsen Kasper, Morgan R, Berg R, Niles D, Kleinman M, Zhang X, Griffis H, Del Castillo J, Skellet S, Lasa J, Raymond T, Sutton R, Nadkarni V: Association between Chest Compression Pause Duration and Survival following Pediatric In-hospital Cardiac Arrest. Circulation Accepted, 2024.

Yates AR, Naim MY, Reeder RW, Ahmed T, Banks RK, Bell MJ, Berg RA, 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, Horvat CM, Huard LL, Maa T, Manga A, McQuillen PS, Morgan RW, Mourani PM, Nadkarni VM, Notterman D, Pollack MM, Sapru A, Schneiter C, Sharron MP, Srivastava N, Tilford B, Viteri S, Wessel D, Wolfe HA, Yeh J, Zuppa AF, Sutton RM, Meert KL: Early Cardiac Arrest Hemodynamics, End-Tidal Co2, and Outcome in Pediatric Extracorporeal Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation: Secondary Analysis of the ICU-RESUScitation Project Dataset (2016-2021) Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Online ahead of print, December 2023.

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