Sanjiv Devendra Mehta, MD, MBE
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Attending Physician, Critical Care Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Member, Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Core Faculty, Clinical Futures, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Research Institute
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
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine
3401 Civic Center Boulevard
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Email:
mehtasd@chop.edu
mehtasd@chop.edu
Education:
BA (Economics-Philosophy and Biology)
Columbia University , 2012.
MBE (Bioethics)
University of Pennsylvania , 2016.
MD (Medicine)
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, 2016.
MSCE (Clinical Epidemiology)
University of Pennsylvania , 2025.
Permanent linkBA (Economics-Philosophy and Biology)
Columbia University , 2012.
MBE (Bioethics)
University of Pennsylvania , 2016.
MD (Medicine)
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, 2016.
MSCE (Clinical Epidemiology)
University of Pennsylvania , 2025.
Selected Publications
Hunter RB, Kakarla S, Rahman S, Kumar S, Mehta S: AI chatbots in the PICU: parental enthusiasm contrasts with socioeconomic usage disparities. Inform Health Soc Care 51(1): 62-70, January 2026 Notes: Epub 2025 Nov 24.Mehta SD, Galligan M, Race J, Haines GR, Lutts MK, Bonafide CP, Sutton RM: Emergency Transfers Are Associated With Increased Financial Charges. Hosp Pediatr 16(1): e24-e30, January 2026.
Belfer SJ, Beslow LA, Vaz A, Shekdar K, Pollock A, Mehta S, Resendiz K, Raffini L, Cahill AM, Catapano J, Kundishora AJ: Delayed Bilateral Internal Carotid Artery Occlusion in a Pediatric Patient Following Traumatic Injury: Insights on Management and Interventional Approach. J Child Neurol December 2025 Notes: Online ahead of print.
Lockwood JM, Bajaj L, Mehta SD: Do Emergency Transfers Reflect Hospital Quality? Preventable Harm and the Next 100 000 Lives. Hosp Pediatr 15(11): e540-4542, November 2025.
Mehta SD, Gathers C‑A, Shepard LN, Putt M, Yehya N, Graham K, Morgan RW, Sutton RM; American Heart Association’s Get With The Guidelines®‑Resuscitation Investigators: Prearrest vital sign abnormalities are associated with adverse outcomes in pediatric ICU cardiac arrest: a Get With The Guidelines‑Resuscitation analysis. Resuscitation 216: 110846, November 2025 Notes: Epub 2025 Sep 24.
Balcarcel DR, Mehta SD, Dixon CG, Woods-Hill CZ, Goligher EC, Van Amsterdam WA, Yehya N: Feedback loops in intensive care unit prognostic models: an under-recognised threat to clinical validity. The Lancet Digital Health 100880, July 2025.
Ortiz J, Seif AE, States L, Mehta SD, MacFarland SP, Zheng DJ: Gemcitabine and Oxaliplatin-Induced Veno-Occlusive Disease in Pediatric Patient with Multiply Relapsed Germ Cell Tumor. Pediatric Blood Cancer Page: e31945, July 2025.
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. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine 26(5), May 2025.
Good RJ, Ahern E, Weber MD, Miller KR, DeVine M, Mehta SD, Conlon TW, Himebauch AS: Temporary Femoral Central Venous Catheters in the PICU: Two-Center, Retrospective Cohort Study of Catheter Tip Position and Symptomatic Venous Thromboembolism, 2016–2021. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine 26(5): e657-e668, May 2025.
Mehta S, Zackoff M, Cieplinski-Robertson J: Technology & Innovation in Pediatrics ICUs: A Progressive Look at North America. WFPICCS May 2025 Notes: Podcast.