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Fellowship Available
Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Training University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Arkansas Children’s Hospital
The Program We offer a three-year fellowship in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine leading to board eligibility for the Critical Care medicine sub-board of the American Board of Pediatrics. Applicants must be board eligible in General Pediatrics by the standards of the American Board of Pediatrics, and hold a permanent resident status (“green card”) if trained First year fellows devote much of their time to rotations through the PICU. An additional month in Anesthesia is part of the first year experience. During this year fellows learn study design, biostatistics, grant writing, and manuscript preparation. The initiation of a research project completes the first year course of study. Further development and initiation of the fellow’s research project occupies most of the second year. Clinical responsibilities are reduced to provide research time. Clinical responsibilities during the second year include PICU, CVICU, and electives. The third year of the fellowship is largely devoted to research. Research time during this year is largely devoted to continued data collection, data analysis, and submission of a first authored paper reporting the fellow’s research findings. Clinical responsibilities during the third year include PICU, CVICU, and one month on Sedation Service. Senior fellows also participate in teaching a variety of courses, such as the Advanced Pediatric Life Support and Pediatric Advanced Life Support courses. An optional fourth year can be arranged to combine either clinical pharmacology or cardiovascular intensive care with general pediatric critical care. Finally, for candidates seeking dual certification in Pediatric Critical Care and Pediatric Cardiology, that option is available through a combined five-year fellowship. The People
Ten intensivists comprise the primary teaching staff for the fellowship program. Four of these faculty are cardiac intensivists who attend in both CVICU and PICU.
Stephen M. Schexnayder, MD - Section Chief Professor of Pediatrics and Internal Medicine Dr. Schexnayder serves as the chief of critical care, as well as the associate fellowship director. An Arkansas native, he is the current chair of the Pediatric Resuscitation Subcommittee of the American Heart Association that develops the PALS guidelines and the PALS course. He currently holds the Betty Lowe Distinguished Chair in Pediatric Education. His interests include developing teaching skills in trainees, Cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and resuscitation education.
Michele Moss, MD Professor of Pediatrics Dr. Moss joined the ACH/UAMS faculty in 1985. She is board- certified in pediatric critical care medicine and pediatric cardiology. She is Vice-Chair for Clinical Services of the Department of Pediatrics. She did her fellowship training at Yale University and currently serves as Chair of the Executive Committee for the Section on Critical Care of the American Academy of Pediatrics and is past Chair of the Section on Pediatrics for the Society of Critical Care Medicine. Dr. Moss is medical director of Angel One, the transport service at Arkansas Children's Hospital.
Mark J. Heulitt, MD Professor of Pediatrics Dr. Heulitt joined the program faculty in 1990 after completing his critical care fellowship at Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, TX. He completed a neonatology fellowship at Duke University in 1988. He is Medical Director of the Respiratory Care Department at Arkansas Children's Hospital. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Respiratory Care. He is director of the CCM respiratory physiology core laboratory. His research interests include development of and evaluation of mechanical ventilators, work of breathing and the evaluation of respiratory physiology in different animal models including mice, rats and pigs.
K. S. Anand, MBBS, DPhil, FAAP, FRCPCH Professor of Pediatrics, Anesthesiology, Pharmacology, & Neurobiology Dr. Anand joined the faculty in Sept. 1997 as section chief of critical care medicine and stepped down from this position in July, 2003. Following graduate medical education from Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Medical College (Univ. of Indore, India), Dr. Anand was a Rhodes Scholar at Univ. of Oxford, receiving a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1985. Subsequent training included a post-doctoral fellowship in the Dept. of Anesthesia, Harvard Medical School, internship and residency in pediatrics at Children’s Hospital, Boston and fellowship in pediatric critical care medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. He is currently on the Editorial Boards of Critical Care Medicine, Biology of the Neonate, and two other journals.
Richard Thomas (Tad) Fiser, MD - Program Director Associate Professor of Pediatrics Dr. Fiser serves as fellowship program director. Dr. Fiser is an Arkansas native and received his medical degree from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in 1991. Dr. Fiser also serves as Medical Director of the Arkansas Children’s Hospital ECMO Program, one of the larger ECMO programs in the United States. Dr. Fiser is certified by the American Board of Pediatrics in General Pediatrics as well as in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. His current research interests involve factors affecting outcomes of pediatric patients supported with ECMO.
Jerril W. Green, MD Associate Professor of Pediatrics Dr. Green joined the ACH/UAMS faculty in 1998. He is a native of Alabama and received a B.S. in Chemistry (cum laude) from Southern College in Birmingham. Dr. Green received his M.D. from the Univ. of South Alabama College of Medicine, and completed his pediatric residency in 1990. His pediatric critical care fellowship was completed in 1997 at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. He is Associate Medical Director and Chairman of the Medical Safety Committee at Arkansas Children's Hospital. Dr. Green’s interests include medical education and clinical research.
Adnan T. Bhutta, MD Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Dr. Bhutta is a cardiac intensivist and the Co-Director of CVICU for the Divisions of Pediatric Cardiology and Critical Care Medicine at Arkansas Children’s Hospital. He received his medical degree from The Aga Khan University College of Medicine in Karachi, Pakistan, in 1993. Dr. Bhutta’s internship, residency, and fellowship were all completed at UAMS and Arkansas Children's Hospital in Pediatrics and Pediatric Critical Care. Training was completed in 2002. He is board certified in General Pediatrics and Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. The aim of his current research is to determine if stress, induced by cardiopulmonary bypass, pain, or other mechanisms, during the neonatal period causes long term changes in the brain and to determine the mechanism of these changes. The long-term aim would be to develop therapeutic measures to minimize stress in the neonatal period thus minimizing psychiatric and behavioral morbidity in older children and adults.
Parthak Prodhan, MBBS Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Dr. Prodhan received his medical degree from the University of Nagpur, India in 1992. He completed his residency training in Pediatrics in India and at Cook County Children’s Hospital, Chicago and completed a Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston in 2002. He came to Arkansas Children's Hospital in 2004 and is currently working in the Divisions of Pediatric Cardiology and Pediatric Critical Care as an intensivist. His research interests are in the various aspects of acute respiratory failure and cardiac intensive care medicine in critically ill children.
Xiomara C. Garcia, MD Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Dr. Garcia received her medical degree from the University Central of Venezuela in 1988. She completed her residency training in Pediatrics and Pediatrics Intensive Care in Venezuela. She also completed her residency in Pediatrics and Pediatric Intensive Care, as well as Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine. Dr. Garcia came to Arkansas Children's Hospital in December of 2006 and is an intensivist in Pediatric Cardiology and Pediatric Critical Care. She is certified with the American Board of Pediatrics.
Michael H. Stroud, MD Instructor of Pediatrics Dr. Stroud joined the faculty in July 2007 as an instructor following fellowship in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine here at Arkansas Children's Hospital. He completed his medical degree at UAMS and pediatric residency at the University of Oklahoma. His current interests include conducting clinical trials in the pediatric transport environment, aimed at improving equipment, protocols, and therapeutic interventions. The focus of this research is to improve the clinical and functional outcomes of critically ill pediatric transport patients. This groundbreaking research has won numerous awards included awards from the Society for Pediatric Research and the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Other Faculty The ACH/UAMS pediatric faculty includes over 200 faculty members representing virtually every pediatric subspecialty, including 19 cardiologists, nine pulmonologists, Four nephrologists, 16 neonatologists, five gastroenterologists, four infectious disease specialists, five hematologists-oncologists, four pharmacologists, and 19 emergency medicine physicians.
Surgical specialists include two cardiovascular surgeons, five pediatric surgeons, two pediatric neurosurgeons, and five pediatric otolaryngologists. There are 30 pediatric anesthesiologists at Arkansas Children's Hospital.
Critical support physicians for the intensivists include 11 pediatric radiologists and six pediatric pathologists.
The Place
Arkansas Children’s Hospital is a private, not for profit, free standing children’s hospital with 310 beds. Established in 1910, the hospital underwent rapid growth in the 1980’s and is now one of the ten largest children’s hospitals in the nation. The hospital serves as the major pediatric teaching affiliate for the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.
The hospital is the only pediatric hospital in the state of Arkansas, and serves as a referral center for areas of Mississippi, southern Missouri, eastern Oklahoma, northern Louisiana and northeast Texas. Nationally renowned programs such as the pediatric cardiovascular surgery program and the ECMO program attract patients from other areas of the country as well.
The hospital is the base for the pediatric residency program of UAMS, which currently has 62 pediatric residents, 19 medicine-pediatric residents and two child neurology residents enrolled in the program. Fellows in critical care play a key role in educating pediatric housestaff in the care of critically ill children and adolescents.
The new PICU is a 26-bed unit with approximately 1,200 admissions per year. A separate 12 bed cardiovascular intensive care unit, as well as a four bed ECMO unit are in close proximity to the PICU. There is a separate 12-bed burn unit, as well as a 53-bed NICU.
The hospital operates a neonatal and pediatric transport service which uses two helicopters, three vans, and has a variety of fixed-winged aircraft available. All pediatric transports include a physician, and critical care fellows have ample opportunity to gain transport experience. PICU transports average approximately 80 per month.
Richard T. Fiser, MD Director, Fellowship Program E-mail: FiserRichard@uams.edu
For further information and an application, please write to: Connie Ocampo Fellowship Program Coordinator Pediatric Critical Care Medicine University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Medicine Department of Pediatrics Arkansas Children’s Hospital 800 Marshall Street, Slot 900 Little Rock, Arkansas 72202-3591 (Phone) (501) 364-1845 E-mail: OcampoConnieJ@uams.edu
Revised: November 2007
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and has a Conrad 30 waiver program. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply.
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University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Arkansas Children's Hospital 800 Marshall Street
Little Rock, AR 72202
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