Faculty

Khanna

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


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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


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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


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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


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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


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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