
Sandeep Khanna, MD
Division Chief, PICU Medical Director
Pediatric Residency: University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) – Galveston
Pediatric Critical Care Fellowship: UC San Diego, Rady Children’s Hospital
Interests: Traumatic Brain Injury, ARDS, Cardiac Critical Care
Anesthesia Residency: UC San Diego

Raveen Raviendran, MD, MBA
Children’s Hospital Emergency Transport (CHET) Team Medical Director
PICU Clinical Director
Pediatric/ Internal Medicine Residency: University of West Virginia
Pediatric Critical Care Fellowship: UC San Diego, Rady Children’s Hospital
Cardiac Critical Care Fellowship: UC San Diego, Rady Children’s Hospital
Interests: Bioethics, Resuscitation, Transport, Cardiac Critical Care

Helen Harvey, MD, MS
UC San Diego PICU Fellowship Program Director
Pediatric Residency: UC San Diego, Rady Children’s Hospital
Pediatric Chief Resident: UC San Diego, Rady Children’s Hospital
Pediatric Critical Care Fellowship: UC San Diego, Rady Children’s Hospital
Anesthesia Residency: Johns Hopkins
Anesthesia Chief Resident: Johns Hopkins
Interests: Resuscitation, Post Cardiac Arrest Care, ARDS, Education, Simulation

Nicole Coufal, MD, PhD
Pediatric Residency: UC San Diego, Rady Children’s Hospital
Pediatric Critical Care Fellowship: UC San Diego, Rady Children’s Hospital
Multiple RO1 Awards
2018 Hartwell Investigator
2020 Doris Duke Clinical Scientist Development Award
Interests: Neurocritical Care, Genetics, Immunology, Microglia

Justin T Hamrick, MD
Pediatric Residency: University of Southern Carolina, Columbia, SC
Pediatric Chief Residency: University of Southern Carolina, Columbia, SC
Pediatric Critical Care Fellowship: UC San Diego, Rady Children’s Hospital
Anesthesia Residency: Johns Hopkins
Pediatric Anesthesia Fellowship: Johns Hopkins
Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesia Advanced Fellowship: University of Arkansas, Arkansas Children’s Hospital
Interests: Resuscitation, Leadership, Pediatric Anesthesia, Bedside Ultrasound, Difficult Airway

Branden Engorn, MD
Pediatric Residency: Johns Hopkins
Pediatric Chief Resident: Johns Hopkins
Anesthesia Residency: Johns Hopkins
Anesthesia Chief Resident: Johns Hopkins
Pediatric Anesthesia Fellowship: Johns Hopkins
Pediatric Critical Care Fellowship: Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA), USC
Interests: Quality Improvement, Education, Simulation, Leadership, Pediatric Anesthesia and Cardiac Anesthesia, ARDS

Erin Bradley, MD
Pediatric Residency: University of Michigan, CS Mott Children’s Hospital
Pediatric Critical Care Fellowship: Northwestern, Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago
Interests: Quality Improvement, Infectious Diseases, Antibiotic Clearance

Richard Villegas, MD
Pediatric Residency: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Anesthesia Residency: University of Texas – Southwestern, Dallas
Pediatric Anesthesia Fellowship: Washington University, St. Louis
Pediatric Critical Care Fellowship: UC San Diego, Rady Children’s Hospital
Interests: Pediatric Anesthesiology, Bedside Ultrasound
