Renee C. Willett, MD
Co-Director, Cardiac Critical Care Pediatric Resident Rotation, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Attending Physician, Division of Cardiac Critical Care Medicine, 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
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine
3401 Civic Center Boulevard
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Education:
BS (Chemistry with a Specialization in Biology with distinction)
University of Virginia, 2007.
MD (Medicine)
University of Virginia School of Medicine, 2011.
MS (Health Informatics)
Northwestern University, 2023.
Permanent linkBS (Chemistry with a Specialization in Biology with distinction)
University of Virginia, 2007.
MD (Medicine)
University of Virginia School of Medicine, 2011.
MS (Health Informatics)
Northwestern University, 2023.
Selected Publications
Willett R, Weller J, Pratap JN, Ostapenko S, Yehya N: Interactive Visualization of Anticoagulation Exposure and Laboratory Trends in Pediatric Cardiac ICU Patients: A Shiny-Based Exploratory Tool. Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Society, 20th Annual International Meeting, Austin, TX October 2025 Notes: Moderated Poster Presentation.Willett RC, Ralston BH, Martinez-Herrada A, Chang T, Yurasek G: A comparison study of virtual reality versus mannequin-based simulations for educating trainees in the pediatric cardiac critical care unit. Cureus 17(9): e91914, 2025.
Willett R, Gardner M, Savoca M, Shtayer L, Naim M, Pratap JN: A Supervised Machine Learning Approach for the Detection of Laboratory Anomalies Due to Intravenous Fluid Contamination. Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Society, 20th Annual International Meeting, San Diego, CA November 2024 Notes: Moderated Poster Presentation.
Willett RC, Pratap JN : AI is Knocking at the CICU Door. The Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Society, 2024 [cited 2026 Mar 25] https://pcics.org/ai-is-knocking-at-the-cicu-door/ 2024.
Boucek K, Mastropietro CW, Beall J, Keller E, Beshich A, Flores S, Chiebowski C, Yates AR, Choudhury TA, Mueller D, Kwaitkowski DM, Migally K, Karki K, Willett R, Rafman MR, Reddy C, Piggott K, Capone CA, Kapileshwarkar Y, Vijayakumar N, Prentice E, Narasimhulu AA, Martin RH, Costello JM: Collaborative Research from the Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Society (CoRe-PCICS) Investigators: Staged vs Complete Repair in Tetralogy of Fallot with Pulmonary Atresia. Ann Thorac Surg. 115(6): 1463-1468, 2023.
Ankola AA, Bailly DK, Reeder RW, Cashen K, Dalton HJ, Dolgner SJ, Federman M, Chassemzadeh R, Himebauch AS, Kamerkar A, Koch J, Kohne J, Lewen M, Srivastava N, Willett R, Alexander PMA: Risk Factors Associated With Bleeding in Children With Cardiac Disease Receiving Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation: A Multi-Center Data Linkage Analysis. Front Cardiovasc Med 8: 812881, 2022.
Deshpande SR, Willett RC, Ramakrishnan K, Peer SM, Sinha P: Circulatory support for prolonged electro-mechanical standstill in fulminant pediatric myocarditis. Int J Artif Organs. 44(6): 446-450, 2021.
Boucek K, Mastropietro C, Beall J, Keller E, Beshish A, Flores S, Chlebowski M, Yates AR, Choudhury T, Mueller D, Kwiatkowski DM, Migally K, Karki K, Willett R, Radman MR, Reddy C, Piggott K, Capone C, Kapileshwarkar Y, Vijayakumar N, Prentice E, Narasimhulu SS, Martin RH, Costello JM: Staged vs Complete Repair in Tetralogy of Fallot With Pulmonary Atresia. Circulation 144: A9472–A9472, 2021.
Deshpande SR, Willett RC, Ramakrishnan K, Peer SM, Sinha P: Circulatory support for prolonged electro-mechanical standstill in fulminant pediatric myocarditis. Int J Artif Organs 44(6): 446-450, 2021.
Ralston BH, Willett RC, Namperumal S, Brown NM, Walsh H, Munoz RA, Del Castillo S, Chang TP, Yurasek GK: Use of Virtual Reality for Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care Simulation. Cureus 13(6): e15856, 2021.