Critical Care Medicine

The Pediatric Critical Care Medicine physicians provide 24-hour, in-house coverage in a multi-disciplinary, 22-bed Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) at Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital (CMHH), a Level I Pediatric Trauma Center located in the Texas Medical Center. Thanks to this team’s expertise, CMHH is one of only six organizations in the world that has received the Extracorporeal Life Support Organization’s Award for Excellence in Life Support every year since the award’s inception in 2006 and has earned the three-star rating, the highest possible distinction, from The Society of Thoracic Surgeons.

Medical and surgical subspecialists from all disciplines are immediately available in the PICU, and the UTHealth Houston Pediatric Critical Care Division is the quarterback of this highly trained team. This Division has a diverse group of critical care intensivists with many unique perspectives and areas of academic interest as well as a thriving fellowship where trainees treat pediatric patients from all subspecialties and provide critical care in one of the busiest Level I Trauma Centers in the United States. Our team is considered a community educational and clinical care resource, participating in local scholarly activities, having academic representation at the national level, and directing the transport of critically ill children.