Kathleen Chiotos, MD, MSCE
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Medical Director, Antimicrobial Stewardship Program, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Rotation Director, Antimicrobial Stewardship Program Elective , Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Associate Program Director for Research and Scholarship, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Fellowship Program, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Department: Anesthesiology and Critical Care
Contact information
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine
3401 Civic Center Boulevard
Philadelphia, PA 19104-4399
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine
3401 Civic Center Boulevard
Philadelphia, PA 19104-4399
Education:
BS (Biology)
College of William and Mary, 2004.
MD (Medicine)
George Washington University School of Medicine, 2009.
MSCE (Clinical Epidemiology)
University of Pennsylvania, 2017.
Permanent linkBS (Biology)
College of William and Mary, 2004.
MD (Medicine)
George Washington University School of Medicine, 2009.
MSCE (Clinical Epidemiology)
University of Pennsylvania, 2017.
Selected Publications
Moore K,, Hill N, Kim S, Same R, Gerber JS, Chiotos K : Impact of Antibiotic Treatment Duration on Clinical Outcomes in Acute Mastoiditis 15th Annual International Pediatric Antimicrobial Stewardship Conference, St. Louis, MO May 2025 Notes: Poster presentation.Balcarcel DR, Mai MV, Mehta SD, Chiotos K, Sanchez-Pinto LN, Himes BE, Yehya N.: Development and Validation of an Electronic Health Record-Based, Pediatric Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Subphenotype Classifier Model. Pediatr Crit Care Med 26(5), May 2025.
Srinivasan L, Cestare D, Medoro A, Rice JL, Chiotos K, Maschhoff K, Malleske D, Lorch S, Jensen E, Bamat N, Padula M, Lista R, Oluwalade B, Smith KP, Duran M, Simmons FW, Peterside I, Matthews KJ, Gibbs K. : Reducing Uninformative Respiratory Cultures in the Neonatal/Infant Intensive Care Unit. Pediatric Academic Societies 2025, Honolulu, HI Apr 2025 Notes: Poster presentation.
Chiotos K, Gerber J, Arroyo T, Tapper D, Patel A, Cowden L, Tolomeo P, Lautenbach E, Tarafdar S, Lin R, Kelly B. : High prevalence of multidrug resistant organisms in a pediatric post-acute care unit Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America Spring Conference 2025, Orlando, FL Apr 2025.
Chiotos K, Dutcher L, Grundmeier RW, Meyahnwi D, Lautenbach E, Neuhauser MM, Hicks LA, Hamilton KW, Li Y, Szymczak JE, Muller BM, Congdon M, Kane E, Hart J, Utidjian L, Cressman L, Jaskowiak-Barr A, Gerber JS: Impact of clinician feedback reports on antibiotic use in children hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia. Clin Infect Dis 80(2): 263-270, Feb 2025.
Randolph AG, Hall MW, Kissoon N, de Sousa DC, Chisti MJ, Carrol ED; Society of Critical Care Medicine Pediatric Sepsis Definitions Taskforce.: The 2024 Phoenix Sepsis Score Criteria: Part 5, What About "Parsimony" in the Criteria-Is Less Really More? Pediatr Crit Care Med 26(2): e266-271, Feb 2025.
Watson RS, Argent AC, Sorce LR, Randolph AG, Sanchez-Pinto LN, Bennett TD, Kissoon N, Schlapbach LJ; Society of Critical Care Medicine Pediatric Sepsis Definition Taskforce.: The 2024 Phoenix Sepsis Score Criteria: Part 1, the Evolution in Definition of Sepsis and Septic Shock. Pediatr Crit Care Med 26(2): e246-251, Feb 2025.
Cramer S, Chiotos K, Graham K, Sawhney S, Donoghue M, Cooper KK, Morgan RW, Topjian AA, Ekambaram M, Himebauch AS: The Impact of Early Infections on Survival After Pediatric Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest. SCCM Critical Care Congress 2025, Orlando, FL Feb 2025 Notes: Presented at SCCM 2025, Orlando, Florida.
Hall MW, Lodha R, Kissoon N, Randolph AG; Society of Critical Care Medicine Pediatric Sepsis Definition Taskforce.: The 2024 Phoenix Sepsis Score Criteria: Part 3, What About Using Stages of Sepsis in the Criteria? Pediatr Crit Care Med 26(2): e256-261, Feb 2025.
Flauzino de Oliveira C, Evans I, Argent AC, Lodha R, Menon K; Society of Critical Care Medicine Pediatric Sepsis Definitions Taskforce.: The 2024 Phoenix Sepsis Score Criteria: Part 2, What About Using Interventions in the Criteria? Pediatr Crit Care Med 26(2): e252-255, Feb 2025.