Indiana University School of Medicine

 

 

 

 

 

 

Faculty

Daniel Abraha, MD

  • Specialty: Pediatric Critical Care
  • Special Interests: Cardiac Care, General Critical Care, Post Operative Cardiac Care
  • Degree From: Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
  • Residency: Ethio-Swedish Children's Hospital, Ethiopia; Howard University Hospital, Washington, D.C.; and Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI.
  • Fellowship: Children's Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA)
  • Faculty Rank: Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
  • Phone: (317) 948-7128
  • Fax: (317) 944-5791

Veda Ackerman, MD

  • Specialty: Pediatric Critical Care
  • Special Interests: Pediatric intensive care, bronchopulmonary dysplasia, home ventilation, pediatric advanced life support (PALS)
  • Degree From: West Liberty State College, West Liberty, West Virginia, Bachelor of Science, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, West Virginia, Doctor of Medicine
  • Residency: Indiana University Medical Center
  • Fellowship: Section of Pediatric Pulmonology and Critical Care, IU Medical Center
  • Faculty Rank: Associate Professor of Pediatrics
  • Phone: (317) 948-7128
  • Fax: (317) 944-5791

Sheikh Ahmed, MD

  • Specialty: Pediatric Critical Care
  • Special Interests: Pediatric Pulmonology
  • Degree From: MB, BS Bachelor Of Medicine & Bachelor of Surgery, Karachi, Pakistan. H.S.C. Higher Secondary Certificate, Pakinstan Shipowner College, Karachi, Pakistan. S.S.C. Secondary School Cerificate Karachi Boy's Secondary School, Karachi, Pakistan
  • Residency: Medical Officer in MED-PEDS at Hillpark General Hospital Karachi, Pakistan. Medical Office in MED-PEDS at Medicomplex Hospital Karachi, Pakistan. Residency in Pediatrics. Lincoln Medical & Mental Center, Bronx, New York.
  • Fellowship: General Pediatric Practice (Baig, Admani & Kapoor Inc. at Elcentro, California. Fellow Pediatric Critical Care at Vanderbilt Children's Hospital, Nashville, Tennessee
  • Faculty Rank: Assistant Professor of Clincal Pediatrics
  • Phone: (317) 948-7128
  • Fax: (317) 944-5791

Andreas Deymann, MD

  • Specialty: Pediatric Critical Care
  • Special Interests: General Critical Care
  • Degree From: Ruhr University, Bochum Medical School
  • Residency: William Beaumont Hospital, Michigan
  • Fellowship: UCLA - Harbor General
  • Faculty Rank: Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
  • Phone: (317) 948-7128
  • Fax: (317) 944-5791

Howard Eigen, MD

  • Specialty: Pediatric Critical Care
  • Special Interests: Pediatric Intensive Care, Asthma, Cystic Fibrosis, Acute Lung Injury
  • Degree From: State University of New York School of Medicine
  • Residency: State University of New York School of Medicine
  • Faculty Rank: Professor of Pediatrics; Director, Pediatric Pulmonology & Critical Care; Associate Chairman of Pediatrics-Clinical Operations
  • Phone: (317) 948-7128
  • Fax: (317) 944-5791

Mandi Hopkins, MD

  • Specialty: Pediatric Critical Care
  • Special Interests: Pediatric Intensive Care
  • Degree From: University of Texas Medical Branch
  • Residency: Indiana University School of Medicine
  • Faculty Rank: Assistant Professor of Pediatric Critical Care
  • Phone: (317) 948-7128
  • Fax: (317) 944-5791

Mark Kaplan, PhD

  • Specialty: Pediatric Pulmonology Research
  • Degree From: Department of Immunology and Microbiology, Wayne State University School of Medicine
  • Residency: Department of Mecrobiology, University of Texas-Southwestern, Department of Cancer Biology, Harvard School of Public Health
  • Faculty Rank: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Associate Member, Walther Oncology Center, IUSM
  • Phone: (317) 948-7128
  • Fax: (317) 944-5791

William Ma, MD

  • Specialty: Pediatric Critical Care
  • Special Interests: Traumatic brain injury, Septic shock
  • Degree From: MD, Meharry Medical College, Nashville, TN. B.E. State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY.
  • Residency: Interanl Medicine and Pediatrics MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland, OH
  • Fellowship: Pediatric Critical Care, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Children's Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
  • Faculty Rank: Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
  • Phone: (317) 948-7128
  • Fax: (317) 944-5791

Jeffrey Macke, MD

  • Specialty: Pediatric Critical Care
  • Special Interests: Pediatric intensive care, high frequency ventilation, ECMO
  • Degree From: Indiana University School of Medicine
  • Residency: Indiana University Medical Center
  • Fellowship: Pediatric Pulmonology and Critical Care, Riley Children's Hospital, Indianapolis, IN
  • Faculty Rank: Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
  • Phone: (317) 948-7128
  • Fax: (317) 944-5791

Mara Nitu, MD

  • Specialty: Pediatric Critical Care
  • Special Interests: Pediatric Critical Care
  • Degree From: Carol Davila Medical University, Bucharest, Palmer College of Chiropractic, Davenport, IA
  • Residency: State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY
  • Fellowship: Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Cincinnati, OH
  • Faculty Rank: Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
  • Phone: (317) 948-7128
  • Fax: (317) 944-5791

Laura Pacholski, MD

  • Specialty: Pediatric Critical Care
  • Special Interests: Pediatric Critical Care
  • Degree From: Indiana University School of Medicine
  • Residency: Indiana University Medical Center, Riley
  • Faculty Rank: Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
  • Phone: (317) 948-7128
  • Fax: (317) 944-5791

Vinit Patel, MD

  • Specialty: Pediatric Critical Care
  • Special Interests: Cardiac Intensive Care, Acute Lung Injury, Wound Healing
  • Degree From: St. Georges University School of Medicine
  • Residency: State University of New York School of Medicine
  • Faculty Rank: Assistant Professor of Pediatric Critical Care
  • Phone: (317) 948-7128
  • Fax: (317) 944-5791

Firas Rabi, MD

  • Specialty: Pediatric Critical Care
  • Special Interests: Pediatric Intensive Care, Cardiac Critical Care, Renal Failure in the ICU, Immunopathogenesis of Sepsis Syndromes
  • Degree From: Jordan University of Science and Technology
  • Residency: Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY
  • Chief Residency: Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY
  • Fellowship: University of Iowa Carver School of Medicine
  • Faculty Rank: Assistant Professor of Pediatric Critical Care
  • Phone: (317) 948-7128
  • Fax: (317) 944-5791

Alexandre T. Rotta, MD, FCCM, FAAP

  • Specialty: Pediatric Critical Care
  • Special Interests: Cardiac Critical Care, Mechanical Ventilation, ARDS, Acute Lung Injury, High Fequency Ventilation, Lung Protection, Glucose Metabolism in Critially Ill Children
  • Degree from: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul School of Medicine, Porto Alegre, Brazil
  • Residency: Pediatric Resident, Children’s Hospital of Michigan and Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. Chief Pediatric Resident, Children’s Hospital of Michigan and Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan
  • Fellowship: Pediatric Critical Care Fellow, Women and Children’s Hospital of Buffalo and State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York
  • Facutly Rank: Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
  • Phone: (317) 948-7128
  • Fax: (317) 944-5791

Rajashekhar Siddappa, MD

  • Specialty: Pediatric Critical Care
  • Special Interests: Septic Shock, mechanical ventilation with HFOV, sedation in PICU
  • Degree From: Mysore Medical College
  • Residency: Medical College India
  • Fellowship: Children's Hospital (Buffalo)
  • Faculty Rank: Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
  • Phone: (317) 948-7128
  • Fax: (317) 944-5791

Richard Speicher, MD

  • Specialty: Pediatric Critical Care
  • Special Interests: Pediatric Intensive Care, Cardiac Critical Care
  • Degree from: MCP-Hahnemann School of Medicine
  • Residency: Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland Ohio
  • Fellowship: Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland Ohio
  • Faculty Rank: Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
  • Phone: (317) 948-7128
  • Fax: (317) 944-5791

Robert Tepper, MD, PhD

  • Specialty: Pediatric Critical Care
  • Special Interests: Infant pulmonary function testing, lung growth, lung development, airway reactivity
  • Degree From: University of Wisconsin School of Medicine
  • Residency: University of Wisconsin School of Medicine
  • Faculty Rank: Mary Agnes Kennedy and Katheryn Kennedy Weinberger, Professor of Pediatrics
  • Phone: (317) 948-7128
  • Fax: (317) 944-5791

Bradley Tilford, MD

  • Specialty: Pediatric Critical Care
  • Special Interests: Pediatric Intensive Care
  • Degree From: Loyola University of Chicago, Stritch School of Medicine
  • Residency: Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois
  • Fellowship: Children’s Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Illinois
  • Faculty Rank: Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
  • Phone: (317) 948-7128
  • Fax: (317) 944-5791

Alvaro Tori, MD

  • Specialty: Pediatric Critical Care
  • Special Interests: Pediatric Pulmonology/ICU
  • Degree From: Cayetano Heredia Peruvian University, Peru
  • Residency: Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis
  • Faculty Rank: Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
  • Phone: (317) 948-7128
  • Fax: (317) 944-5791

Lee Tosi, MD

  • Specialty: Pediatric Critical Care
  • Special Interests: Pediatric Cardiac Citical Care Medicine, Organ to Recipient Gender Matching in Orthotopic Heart Transplantation, Pediatric Critical Care Ultrasonography
  • Degree From: Southern Illinois University School of Medicine
  • Residency: Lutheran General Children’s Hospital
  • Fellowship: Mattel Children’s Hospital UCLA
  • Faculty Rank: Assistant Professor of Pediatric Critical Care
  • Phone: (317) 948-7128
  • Fax: (317) 944-5791

Andrea Weist, MD

  • Specialty: Pediatric Critical Care
  • Special Interests: Pediatric Critical Care, Asthma, C.F.
  • Degree From: University of Pittsburgh
  • Residency: Indiana University Medical Center
  • Fellowship: Indiana University Medical Center
  • Faculty Rank: Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
  • Phone: (317) 948-7128
  • Fax: (317) 944-5791

David Westenkirchner, MD

  • Specialty: Pediatric Critical Care
  • Special Interests: Pediatric pulmonology, critical care medicine
  • Degree From: Medical College of Ohio
  • Residency: Medical College of Ohio and Associated Hospitals
  • Faculty Rank: Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
  • Phone: (317) 948-7128
  • Fax: (317) 944-5791