Chief Pediatric Intensive Care
Baylor College of Medicine Texas Children's Hospital
Houston, Texas
Lara Shekerdemian is the Chief of Critical Care at Texas Children's Hospital and Professor and Vice Chair of Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine. She trained in Pediatrics, Pediatric Cardiology and Critical Care in London and Toronto. Prior to joining Texas Children's in 2010, she was the Director of Intensive Care at The Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne, Australia. Lara's academic interests lie in brain injury and long term developmental outcomes in children with congenital heart disease, ECMO, and latterly - COVID-19 disease in Children. During the COVID pandemic, she has been involved in operationalizing the hospital's response to provide care to acute and critically ill children with COVID-19 disease, as well as in providing intensive care to critically ill adults with and without COVID-19. In addition to her clinical and academic interests, Lara is an advocate for equity in the workplace and chairs the Department of Pediatrics Equity Committee at Baylor College of Medicine.
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Monday, April 18, 2022
7:00 AM – 8:00 AM US CST
Monday, April 18, 2022
7:00 AM – 8:00 AM US CST