The following list presents some of the breadth of research efforts in the division of Critical Care Medicine in the Department of Pediatrics at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine.  You can also view a recent list of publications by our faculty and fellows here.

Zehava L. Noah, M.D. 
Research interests include pulmonary habilitation, management of traumatic head injury, and complementary medicine.

Melissa Brannen, M.D. 
Research interests are focused in medical education, including team training, decision-making, communication, ECMO, and the use of simulation.

Ryan Carroll, M.D.
Research interests include CNS dysfunction including cerebral malaria and international health.

Conrad Epting, M.D. 
Research interests are focused on cardiac niche specification, cell-cell fusion, and cell surface engineering.

Denise M. Goodman, M.D., M.Sc. 
Research interests include health services research, evidence-based medicine, and outcomes analysis, and clinical studies of new therapies

Babette Horn, M.D. 
Research interests include intraoperative measurement of pulmonary function and perioperative management of the asthmatic patient.

Jason Kane, M.D. 
Clinical and research interests include international health, post-operative congenital heart patient outcomes, near infrared spectroscopy, and patient safety.

Michael Kelleher, M.D. 
Principal interest centers around lung injury, particularly as it relates to mechanical ventilation and clinical approaches that can prevent secondary injury.  A second area of interest is medical informatics, including early research in the application of fuzzy logic-based computational intelligence to medical decision making.

Steve Lestrud, M.D. 
Research interests include pulmonary mechanics and infectious aspects of pulmonary disease.

Kelly N. Michelson, M.D. 
Research interests include end-of-life issues and palliative care, including parental attitudes and cultural differences in approaching end-of-life decision making.

Janet L. Rossi, M.D. 
Research interests include studying the role of the endothelium, in specific, myosin light chain kinase, in the development of acute lung injury, ventilator induced lung injury and capillary leak. The focus is on translational research using small molecule inhibitors and animal models.

Ranna A. Rozenfeld, M.D. 
Research interests include shock, intestinal ischemia, inflammation and remote organ injury, and the role of oxygen free radicals in inflammation. Other interests include extracorporeal circulation, carbon monoxide poisoning, transport medicine, PICU quality and resident education.

David Steinhorn, M.D. 
Research involves the effects of mechanical ventilation on acute lung injury, endothelial activation during mechanical ventilation, end-of-life care, humanistic medicine integrating non-traditional therapies with Western medicine.

Eric Wald, M.D. 
Clinical and research interests include continuous veno-venous hemofiltration (CVVH), cardio-pulmonary bypass (CPB), the HPA axis and steroids, and post-operative congenital heart outcomes.