Chief, Division of Medical Critical Care
Boston Children's Hospital, Dept of Peds
Newton, Massachusetts
Dr. Michael Agus is the Chief of the Division of Medical Critical Care within the Department of Pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital where he is the Founding Medical Director of the Medical Intensive Care Unit and the Intermediate Care Unit, and holds an endowed chair in Critical Care. He is also Co-Medical Director of the Biocontainment Team at Boston Children’s. He is trained and board certified both as a pediatric endocrinologist and pediatric intensivist, and is Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. He graduated from undergraduate and medical schools at University of Pennsylvania, completed residency and endocrinology fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital, and critical care fellowship at MassGeneral Hospital for Chlidren.
Dr. Agus is engaged in clinical research activities that attempt to address unanswered questions concerning endocrine homeostasis in critically ill children, focusing currently on glycemic control in the ICU. He completed two large NHLBI/NIH R01-funded prospective, RCTs of euglycemia. The first, called SPECS involved 980 post-operative cardiac surgery patients <3 years of age at two centers. The second included 713 medical/surgical patients in 35 PICUs across the US and Canada. Results of both trials were published in the New England Journal of Medicine. He used technology, honed over several years of research, to allow the lowest severe hypoglycemia rate in the field. He is currently one of the PIs conducting the newly NICHD & CIHR funded multicenter joint US-Canadian SHIPSS trial, Stress Hydrocortisone in Pediatric Septic Shock.
Dr. Agus is a recognized teacher and mentor, a Fellow in the American College of Critical Care Medicine, and a member of the honorary societies including Society of Pediatric Research, American Pediatric Society, and The American Society for Clinical Investigation. He is the Immediate Past Chair of the Section on Critical Care of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
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Monday, April 18, 2022
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM US CST