
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

Susan Duthie, MD
PICU Clinical 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
Interests: ARDS, Traumatic Brain Injury

Michael Worthen, MD
Pediatric Residency: Boston Children’s Hospital
Anesthesia Residency: Stanford
Pediatric Critical Care Fellowship: Boston Children’s Hospital
Interests: Cardiac Critical Care, Cardiac Anesthesia, Difficult Airway

Raveen Raviendran, MD, MBA
Children’s Hospital Emergency Transport (CHET) Team Medical 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
K08 Award: Examining Microglial Environmental Dependent Transcriptional Networks
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, Simulation, 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
Retired Faculty

Bradley Peterson, MD
Pediatric Residency – Balboa Naval Medical Center
Anesthesia Residency – Stanford
Interests: Traumatic Brain Injury, Hypertonic Saline Use, Post Cardiac Arrest Care

Robert Spear, MD
Pediatric Residency – Washington St. Louis
Pediatric Critical Care Fellowship – Johns Hopkins
Anesthesia Residency – Johns Hopkins
Anesthesia Chief Resident – Johns Hopkins
Interests: Pediatric Anesthesia, ARDS

Brock Fisher, MD
Pediatric Residency – UC San Diego, Rady Children’s Hospital
Pediatric Critical Care Fellowship – UC San Diego, Rady Children’s Hospital
Anesthesia Residency – UC San Diego
Interests: Pediatric Anesthesia, Hypertonic Saline