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Specialists in Critical Care

Welcome, and thank you for your interest in our Pediatric Critical Care Medicine (PCCM) Fellowship Program! We are excited to share some information with you about our fellowship, so you can understand the comprehensive, quality training we can provide you in PCCM, here in Arkansas!

The mission of our PCCM fellowship training program here at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) and Arkansas Children’s Hospital is to train physicians with the cognitive and technical skills necessary to serve as skilled clinicians, competent educators, and scholars. The goals of our program include:

  1. Education of fellows to understand, treat, and instruct on the biology of acute, life-threatening diseases and injury
  2. Develop skills needed to provide end-of-life care to patients and families
  3. Provide education necessary to develop cognitive and technical skills in order to prepare fellows to serve as skilled clinicians and competent educators,
  4. Teach fellows to independently design and conduct scholarly research and
  5. Cultivate an environment that is committed to equitable, diverse, and inclusive education and outreach to promote a sense of belonging within our community.

The majority of clinical experience for fellows occurs in the PICU at Arkansas Children’s Hospital.  Fellows also rotate through the CVICU, Anesthesia, and Sedation service.  Additionally, fellows are offered electives in a variety of clinical settings including transport medicine, clinical toxicology, renal replacement therapy, and cardiology (ECHO, EKG, and cath), to name a few.

The Section of Critical Care Medicine is actively involved within the American Academy of Pediatrics, Society of Critical Care Medicine, Pediatric Acute Lung Injury and Sepsis Investigators, Society for Pediatric Sedation, Extracorporeal Life Support Organization, American College of Graduate Medical Education, and American Heart Association.  This networking allows for scholarly advancement for all fellows and participation in multi-institutional studies.  Each fellow chooses a research project based on his or her own interests and gradually more time per year is devoted to research throughout the three-year program. Each fellow develops a Scholarship Oversight Committee, consisting of faculty that assist the fellow in developing and implementing a research project, with the goal of presenting this project regionally or nationally and having a manuscript or other ABP-approved scholarly work product for submission by the end of training.

We are excited that you are interested in applying to our PCCM fellowship program. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us!

Sincerely,

Katherine Irby, M.D. and Matt Malone, M.D.

Critical Care Faculty

Fourteen Board-certified pediatric intensivists comprise the primary teaching staff for the fellowship program. Four of these faculty members are cardiac intensivists who attend in both CVICU and PICU.

Fellowship Directors

Katherine Irby, M.D.
Associate Professor
Fellowship Program Director
Faculty Council Vice President
Research Director of Honors in Pediatrics
Website: Clinical Bio
Matthew P. Malone
Matthew P. Malone, M.D.
Associate Professor
Associate Fellowship Program Director
Associate Medical Director of ECMO
Arkansas Children's Patient Safety Officer
Website: Clinical Bio

Professors

Steve M. Schexnayder, M.D.
Steven M. Schexnayder, M.D.
Executive Vice-Chair of Pediatrics
Section Chief of Critical Care Medicine
Website: Clinical Bio
Peter M. Mourani
Pete Mourani, M.D.
Professor of Pediatrics
President of the Arkansas Children's Research Institute
Website: Clinical Bio
M. Michele Moss, M.D.
Michele Moss, M.D.
Professor
Medical Director of Transport and ECMO
Cardiac Intensivist and Cardiologist
Website: Clinical Bio
Parthak Prodhan, M.D., MBA
Parthak Prodhan, M.D., MBA
Professor, Medical Director of the CVICU
Website: Clinical Bio
Ronald C. Sanders Jr.
Ronald Sanders, M.D.
Professor, Medical Director of the PICU and Respiratory Care Services
Website: Clinical Bio

Associate Professors

Sabina Siddiqui, M.D.
Associate Professor
Surgical Intensivist
Rupal Bhakta-Grammer, M.D.
Rupal Bhakta-Grammer, M.D.
Associate Professor
Cardiac Intensivist
Website: Clinical Bio
Abdallah Dalabih, M.D., MBA
Abdallah Dalabih, M.D., MBA
Associate Professor, Medical Director of Sedation Services
Website: Clinical Bio
Xiomara C. Garcia-Casal, M.D.
Xiomara Garcia-Casal, M.D.
Associate Professor
Cardiac and Transplant
Website: Clinical Bio
Sanjiv Pasala, M.D.
Associate Professor
Website: Clinical Bio
Michael H. Stroud, M.D.
Michael H. Stroud, M.D.
Associate Professor
Website: Clinical Bio

Assistant Professors

Deidre Wyrick, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Surgical Intensivist
Trauma Medical Director
Erin Bennett, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Website: Clinical Bio
Kristen Long, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Website: Clinical Bio
Salim Aljabari, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Courtney M. Cox, M.D.
Courtney Cox, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Website: Clinical Bio
Nathan Epps, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Tyler Cunningham, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Cardiac Intensivist and Cardiologist

Other Faculty

The ACH/UAMS pediatric faculty includes over 200 faculty members representing virtually every pediatric subspecialty, including Cardiology, Pulmonology, Nephrology, Gastroenterology, Neonatology, Infectious Disease, Endocrinology, Hematology-Oncology, Pharmacology, Rheumatology, and Emergency Medicine physicians. Surgical specialists include cardiovascular surgeons, pediatric surgeons, pediatric neurosurgeons, pediatric urologists and pediatric otolaryngologists. Critical support physicians for the intensivists include pediatric radiologists, pediatric anesthesiologists, and pediatric pathologists.

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