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

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The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
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
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

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.

Hickson MR, Winters M, Thomas NH, Gardner MM, Kirschen MP, Nadkarni V, Berg R, Slomine BS, Pinto NP, Topjian A: Long-term function, quality of life and healthcare utilization among survivors of pediatric out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Resuscitation March 2023.

Morgan RW, Berg RA, Reeder RW, Carpenter TC, Fanzon D, Frazier AH, Graham K, Meert KL, Nadkarni VM, Naim MY, Tilford B, Wolfe HA, Yates AR, Sutton RM & the ICU-RESUS and Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Collaborative Pediatric Critical Care Research Network Investigator Groups: The Physiologic Response to Epinephrine and Pediatric Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Outcomes. Critical Care 27(105), March 2023.

Slovis JC, Volk L, Mavroudis C, Hefti M, Landis WP, Roberts AL, Delso N, Hallowell T, Graham K, Starr J, Lin Y, Melchior R, Nadkarni V, Sutton RM, Berg RA, Piel S, Morgan RW, Kilbaugh TJ: Pediatric Extracorporeal Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation: Development of a Porcine Model and the Influence of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Duration on Brain Injury. J Am Heart Assoc 12(4), February 2023.

Rowan CM, Randolph AG, Iyer NP, Korang SK, Kneyber MCJ; Second Pediatric Acute Lung Injury Consensus Conference (PALICC-2) of the Pediatric Acute Lung Injury and Sepsis Investigators (PALISI) Network: Pulmonary Specific Ancillary Treatment for Pediatric Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome: From the Second Pediatric Acute Lung Injury Consensus Conference. Pediatr Crit Care Med 24(Supplement 1 2S): S99-S111, February 2023.

Rambaud J, Barbaro RP, Macrae DJ, Dalton HJ; Second Pediatric Acute Lung Injury Consensus Conference (PALICC-2) of the Pediatric Acute Lung Injury and Sepsis Investigators (PALISI) Network: Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation in Pediatric Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome: From the Second Pediatric Acute Lung Injury Consensus Conference. Pediatr Crit Care Med 1(2S), February 2023.

Iyer N, Khemani R, Emeriaud G, López-Fernández YM, Korang SK, Steffen KM, Barbaro RP, Bembea MM; Second Pediatric Acute Lung Injury Consensus Conference (PALICC-2) Group on behalf and the Pediatric Acute Lung Injury and Sepsis Investigators (PALISI) Network: Methodology of the Second Pediatric Acute Lung Injury Consensus Conference. Pediatr Crit Care 24(Supplement 1 2S): s76-s86, February 2023.

Grunwell JR, Dahmer MK, Sapru A, Quasney MW, Flori H; Second Pediatric Acute Lung Injury Consensus Conference (PALICC-2) for the Pediatric Acute Lung Injury and Sepsis Investigators (PALISI) Network: Pathobiology, Severity, and Risk Stratification of Pediatric Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome: From the Second Pediatric Acute Lung Injury Consensus Conference. Pediatr Crit Care Med 24(Supplement 1 2S), February 2023.

Killien EY, Maddux AB, Tse SM, Watson RS; Second Pediatric Acute Lung Injury Consensus Conference (PALICC-2) of the Pediatric Acute Lung Injury and Sepsis Investigators (PALISI) Network: Outcomes of Children Surviving Pediatric Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome: From the Second Pediatric Acute Lung Injury Consensus Conference. Pediatr Crit Care Med February 2023.

Morrow BM, Agulnik A, Brunow de Carvalho W, Chisti MJ, Lee JH; Second Pediatric Acute Lung Injury Consensus Conference (PALICC-2) Group of the Pediatric Acute Lung Injury and Sepsis Investigators (PALISI) Network: Diagnostic, Management, and Research Considerations for Pediatric Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome in Resource-Limited Settings: From the Second Pediatric Acute Lung Injury Consensus Conference. Pediatr Crit Care Med 1(2): s148-s159, February 2023.

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