Intensive Care
Physicians
Daniel Abraha, MD
Veda Ackerman, MD
Sheikh Ahmed, MD
Andreas Deymann, MD
Howard Eigen, MD
Deborah Givan, MD
Michelle Howenstine, MD
Hasnaa Jalou, MD
Young-Jee Kim, MD
Nadia Krupp, MD
Frederick Leickly, MD
William Ma, MD
Jeffrey Macke, MD
Gregory Montgomery, MD
Mara Nitu, MD
Laura Pacholski, MD
Alexandre Rotta, MD
Richard Speicher, MD
John Stevens, MD
Robert Tepper, MD
Bradley Tilford, MD
Lee Tosi, MD
Michael Tsangaris, MD
Girish Vitalpur, MD
Andrea Weist, MD
David Westenkirchner, MD
Jennifer Wiebke, MD
Vinit Patel, MD
Shekhar Raj, MD
The Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) at Riley Children's Hospital, located in central Indiana, provides specialized critical care services throughout the Midwest.
Acclaimed Riley Children's Hospital offers a core PICU of 38 beds, while the outstanding affiliate Methodist Hospital has a 12 bed PICU and IU Health North in Carmel has an 8 bed PICU.
Highly qualified pediatric intensivists staff all units. Supporting the intensivists are a multidisciplinary team of skilled professionals (nurses, respiratory therapists etc.), specialty, and sub-specialty physicians providing the highest quality care for patients and their families.
Utilizing advanced technologies such as extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), advanced ventilation techniques and the most advanced modern medical modalities to treat serious medical conditions such as respiratory failure, sepsis (serious infection), congenital heart disease, and trauma (e.g. automobile accidents, near drowning, hypothermia etc.) this team cares for over 2000 critically ill children yearly.
Riley Hospital for Children, a partner of the IU Health health care system, utilizes the IU Health Lifeline helicopters providing air-medical transport in conjunction with Riley's own Neonatal/Pediatric Critical Care ground transport system. A transport team that is among the most experienced in the country, completing more than 1000 transports a year provide the clinical expertise needed for stabilization and transport of critically ill or injured children.
