Current Fellows

Class of 2023

Patrick Chisum, MD

Pediatric Residency: UC Irvine, Children’s Hospital of Orange County (CHOC)

Research Interests: Shock in MISC v KD shock v Septic shock, Bronchoscopy fellow education

Matched at CHLA for 4th year advanced fellowship in cardiac critical care!!

Kyu Kim, MD

Pediatric Residency: UC San Diego, Rady Children’s Hospital

Research Interests: Rady Genomics Institute, Informatics

Interviewing for informatics fellowship

Katie Rodriguez, MD

Pediatric Residency: Rush University

Research Interests: Impact of Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) in critical care

Matched at Phoenix Children’s for 4th year advanced fellowship in neurocritical care!!

Class of 2024

Sarah Friedland, MD

Pediatric Residency: The Children’s Hospital at Montefiore Children’s (CHAM), Albert Einstein School of Medicine

Research Interests: Use of “Sickbay” in data analytics, extubation readiness, artificial intelligence

Mac Jones, DO

Pediatric Residency: DuPont Hospital for Children (Nemours Children’s Hospital), Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Sidney Kimmel Medical College

Research Interests: Transport medicine

Christina Rufener, MD

Pediatric Residency: Doernbecher Children’s Hospital, Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU)

Research Interests: ECMO, ELSO study, ARDS

Class of 2025

Jacqui Benner, MD

Pediatric Residency: Children’s Hospital of Orange County (CHOC), University of California – Irvine (UCI)

Research Interests:

Shua Weiss, MD

Pediatric Residency: Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles (CHLA), University of Southern California (USC)

Research Interests: Palliative medicine

Jeff Timberman, DO

Pediatric Residency: Valley Children’s Hospital, Stanford University SOM

Research Interests: