Pediatric Intensivist, Associate Professor, Research Advisor
Driscoll Children's Hospital
Corpus Christi, Texas
Dr. Bhalala has a broad background in critical care medicine, with specific training and expertise in key research area of resuscitation and simulation. As a pediatric critical care medicine fellow at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and subsequently as a faculty at The Johns Hopkins University, he carried out cutting-edge research not only on swine model of resuscitation, but also clinical research in the area of resuscitation. After his rigorous fellowship training at CHOP, he joined Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine as an assistant professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine and continued his translational research in resuscitation. He was the Johns Hopkins Site-PI for NHLBI-funded, multicenter clinical trial of therapeutic hypothermia after pediatric cardiac arrest (THAPCA). At Johns Hopkins medical institution, in addition to leading multiple clinical research projects in critical care medicine, he also gained tremendous expertise in simulation and resuscitation. He was funded through NICHD Pediatric Critical Care and Trauma Scientist Development (K12) program. In the past, he was funded through NIH for Stress Hydrocortisone in Pediatric Septic Shock (SHIPSS) trial and Prone and Oscillation Pediatric Clinical Trial (PROSPECT) and through The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) for multi-center Pediatric Resuscitation Quality (PediRes-Q) initiative. Currently, I am completing projects on 1) Quality of resuscitation during tamponade-associated arrest using an innovative sternotomy mannequin, 2) Quality of resuscitation during ECPR using an innovative ECMO CPR mannequin, 3) Comparing rapid-cycle deliberate practice simulation curriculum with conventional simulation curriculum for resuscitation training of pediatric providers, and 4) Quality of cardiopulmonary resuscitation during ground and air medical transport of critically ill patients. He has a demonstrated record of accomplished and productive research projects in an area of high relevance for critical care, and his expertise and experience have prepared him to lead the simulation research session at SCCM congress 2023.
Saturday, January 21, 2023
5:00 PM – 5:15 PM PT
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Monday, January 23, 2023
9:45 AM – 10:45 AM PT
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Monday, January 23, 2023
10:40 AM – 10:45 AM PT
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