School of Medicine

Our Pediatric Critical Care division provide services at Children's Hospital Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU), a 20-bed multidisciplinary unit providing comprehensive care of critically-ill medical and surgical patients. The division’s nine interventionists have established and continue to lead the PICU service line at children’s, added a neuro-intensivist and an NIH funded professor level member. Their leadership has led to the establishment of several new programs including Level 2 trauma, liver transplant and a burn program. 

The Division of Pediatric Critical Care, over the past few years, has grown to include nine intensivists. 
Individual Achievements:  

• Dr. Amy Creel was elected to the COMSEP executive council (national position)
• Dr. Richelle Monier has assumed the role of faculty for the  LSU Training Center Faculty for PALS and the directorship of the SIM center at Children’s
• Dr. Kayla Phelps published an article in the New England Journal of Medicine
• Dr. Carrie Henderson and Dr. Susan Glass initiated a multi-center, NIH funded study to optimize the process for decisions around home ventilation in children
• Dr. Zachary Daniels has developed the first pediatric stroke protocol in the region
• Dr. Nihal Godiwala was elected to the medical executive board at Children’s Hospital
• Dr. Hannah Bauer served as the site Principal Investigator (PI) for a multicenter study exploring social determinants of health
• Dr. Gary Duhon was named the Director of Medical Ethics at LSU Medical School.