Professor and Medical Director, Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
University of Florida College of Medicine
Jacksonville, Florida
Thomas A. Nakagawa, M.D., FAAP, FCCM, is a Professor of Pediatrics at The University of Florida College of Medicine-Jacksonville where he is the Medical Director of the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at Wolfson Children’s Hospital in Jacksonville, Florida. Dr. Nakagawa also serves as the Assistant Medical Director for Honorbridge Organ Donation Services in Durham, North Carolina.
Dr. Nakagawa is a national and international consultant for issues pertaining to pediatric organ and tissue donation and determination of circulatory and neurologic death. He is actively involved with work in the area of organ and tissue donation, neurologic and circulatory determination of death, and ethical issues pertaining to end-of-life care. Dr. Nakagawa has served on national committees including the Secretary of Health of Health and Human Services, Advisory Committee on Organ Transplantation (ACOT), the United Network of Organ Sharing UNOS/OPTN Pediatric Transplant committee, He was national faculty and co-chair for the Organ Donation and Transplantation Collaboratives sponsored by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Dr. Nakagawa is the lead author of the updated guidelines for the determination of brain death in infants and children from the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM), American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), and the Child Neurology Society. He has served as a consultant for the AAP on the revised pediatric organ donation and transplantation policy statement. His international involvement includes work with the Canadian Council for Donation and Transplantation, the Geneva Conference on Pediatric Donation, and the Canadian Pediatric Donation after Circulatory Death guideline.
Dr. Nakagawa is actively involved with the Society of Critical Care Medicine where he has held leadership positions including the Chair of the Pediatric Section Executive Steering Committee. He currently serves as the Pediatric Representative on the SCCM Council.
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Monday, April 18, 2022
7:00 AM – 8:00 AM US CST