ECLS | ECMO | Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation
SOC Members
Adeel Abbasi, MD, ScM
Adeel Abbasi, MD, ScM, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine at Brown University. His work in the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at Brown University’s Center for Biomedical Informatics aims to improve patient outcomes by leveraging bioinformatics techniques including machine learning to address crucial knowledge gaps in mechanical circulatory support, including extracorporeal life support.
Peta Alexander, MDN
I am an Australian-trained Pediatric Cardiologist and Intensive Care Physician working at Boston Children's Hospital, MA, USA. I am the Director of Cardiac ECMO and MCS with a focus on optimizing potential circulatory support strategies for patients with congenital and acquired heart disease. I am Treasurer of the Board of Directors of the Extracorporeal Life Support Organization (ELSO), Co-Chair of PediECMO (a PALISI-ELSO Collaborative), and contribute to a number of other professional organizations. In my clinical practice, I strive for program-wide excellence in inter-disciplinary, goal-concordant, family-centered care
Marc Anders
Dr. Marc Anders is an Adult and Pediatric Critical Care Physician at Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, TX, USA. He is board certified in Anesthesiology and Critical Care in Europe, and furthermore Pediatric Critical Care in Australia. He strives to deliver the best clinical care for every individual patient, based on evidence and experience. His primary research interest is Mechanical Circulatory Support including Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation and Ventricular Assist Devices.
manders@elso.org
Pilar Anton-Martin, MD,PhD
Dr. Anton-Martin, MD PhD is a US board-certified pediatric cardiac intensivist with international training in neonatology, ECMO, pediatric intensive care, and pediatric cardiac intensive care. She is an avid ECMO researcher and scientific journal reviewer. Dr. Anton-Martin’s main research interests include extubation practices, anticoagulation, nutrition, and renal replacement therapies during ECMO support. In her clinical practice, she strives to provide excellent medical care with compassion and respect, advance scientific knowledge and medical education, and support access to medicine for all people in the world.
Matteo Di Nardo, MD
Dr Matteo Di Nardo is a pediatric intensivist in Children’s Hospital Bambino Gesù of Rome, Italy. From 2013, he is responsible of the respiratory ECMO program in the same hospital. He is also the coordinator of the neonatal and pediatric ECMO transport system in the center and south of Italy on behalf of the Italian Ministry of Health. From 2014 he is an active member of the EuroELSO Steering Committee.
matteo.dinardo@opbg.net
Jamie Furlong-Dillard, DO
Dr. Furlong-Dillard is board certified in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine and works in the Cardiac and Pediatric Intensive Care Units at Norton Children's Hospital with the University of Louisville. She is the ICU ECMO director and the critical care fellowship primary research mentor with research focus on ECMO outcomes, cardiac nutrition, safety and outcomes surrounding intubations, and ECMO simulation. She is actively involved in PediECMO and is the current conference chair and reviews journals for ASAIO, Perfusion and Cardiology in the Young. In her clinical practice she strives to provide compassionate care and is passionate about education and teaching.
jamie.furlong-dillard@louisville.edu
Wilson Grandin, MD, MPH, MEd
Dr. Wilson Grandin is an Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) in Boston and a faculty member at Harvard Medical School. He is the medical director of ECMO and Temporary Mechanical Circulatory Support at BIDMC. Dr. Grandin specializes in the care of patients with advanced heart failure, particularly those requiring advanced therapies such as heart transplantation and durable left ventricular assist device, and patients with cardiogenic shock. His clinical research has focused on management strategies and outcomes in patients requiring temporary and durable mechanical circulatory support.
Andrew Hadley-Brown, RN
Having trained in Adult Nursing at King's College London, Andrew is an ECMO Specialist for the ECMO Retrieval Service and Critical Care Area at Royal Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, UK. Previous research areas include pre-stabilisation in the transport of critically unwell adults, and the role of mechanical support pre/post organ transplantation.
andrew.hadley-brown@nhs.net
Aparna Hoskote
Dr Aparna Hoskote is a Paediatric Cardiac Intensivist in Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust and Honorary Associate Professor, UCL Institute of Cardiovascular Science, London, UK - a nationally commissioned centre for ECLS, cardiothoracic transplantation and ventricular assist devices. She is the deputy chair of the EuroELSO Scientific Committee and the chair of the EuroELSO Working Group on Neurological Monitoring and Outcome. She is currently the chair of the Cardiac ICU & Mechanical Circulatory Support section in the European Society of Paediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care (ESPNIC). She is committed to exemplary clinical care, international collaboration and outcomes research in children on ECLS.
ahoskote@elso.org
Ramanathan K. R
Dr. Ramanathan K. R is an Adult Cardiac Intensivist at the Cardiothoracic Intensive Care Unit at the National University Heart Centre, Singapore. He had his specialty training in Cardiac Anesthesiology from India and is trained in Intensive Care Medicine from Brisbane, Australia. He is currently the Program Director for the ICU Fellowship as well as the Advanced Fellowship Training Programes at NUH, Singapore. Dr. Ramanathan is closely associated with the National ECMO Services Workgroup at the Ministry of Health in Singapore. He also leads the courses workgroup at the ECMO education Committee at the Extracorporeal Life Support Organization.
ramanathan@elso.org
Jumana Yusuf Haji, MD
Experience with setting up the ECMO protocols with ELSO registration in two Indian centres at Aster CMI hospital Bangalore and HN Reliance Hospital Mumbai. Currently the ECMO program director at Fortis hospitals Mumbai with core focus to develop and support ECMO programs across institutes in rural and urban centers and support advanced critical care requirements of heart lung transplant patients. Specialize in awake and ambulatory ECMO, Ecmo as bridge to transplant and in use of ECMO for organ donation(OP ECMO and NRP). Publications on Awake ECMO (journal of cardiovascular thoracic surgery), ECMO in organ donation and ECMO in liver transplant recipients (textbook of anaesthesia for liver transplantation) and on setting up new ECMO PROGRAMS (RED BOOK 6 th edition chapter).
ecmo@drjumana.in
Max Malfertheiner, MD
Maximilian Malfertheiner is currently the Medical Director of the Lung Center Donaustauf, Germany. As a specialist for respiratory and intensive care medicine he is affiliated with the ECMO center of the University hospital Regensburg, Germany. Dr. Malfertheiner carried out a research fellowship at Yale University, New Haven, USA in 2007 and in 2017 he was working with the Critical Care Research Group at the Prince Charles Hospital in Brisbane, Australia with Prof. J. Fraser. Dr. Malfertheiner is speaker of the work group on Innovation on ECMO and ECLS of the EuroELSO. His work there is focused on new strategies on anticoagulation in ECMO therapy and clinical application of ECCO2R. Dr. Malfertheiner is a founding member of the European ECMO Advisory Board.
Jamie McElrath Schwartz, MD
Jamie McElrath Schwartz is an Assistant Professor of Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine and Pediatrics. She is a Co-Director of the Blalock-Taussig-Thomas Pediatric and Congenital Heart Center and Division Chief of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Dr. McElrath Schwartz's clinical practice is as a pediatric cardiac anesthesiologist and intensivist with focus on ECLS and perioperative care of critically ill children
jamie.schwartz@jhmi.edu
Meng Li, PhD
Dr. Meng Li is an expert in many areas of modern statistics and the Noah Harding Assistant Professor of Statistics at Rice University, Houston, TX, USA. His research focuses on structured high-dimensional and nonparametric inference on complex data, variable selection, Bayesian inference, and quantile regression. He closely collaborates with medical experts, and is committed to reproducible and interpretable data analysis methods with statistical rigor. He has been serving as an Associate Editor for the journal Bayesian Analysis since 2019.
meng@rice.edu
Jamel Ortoleva, MD
I am a Cardiothoracic Anesthesiologist and Intensivist at Boston Medical Center. After completing my Medical School training at Columbia University, I completed residency in Anesthesiology at Yale New Haven Hospital, my Intensive Care Fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital, and my Cardiothoracic Anesthesia Fellowship at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
I both cannulate and manage Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Support at Boston Medical Center as part of the ECMO team. My interests include mechanical circulatory support, right ventricular failure, echocardiography, resuscitation, and novel therapeutics and diagnostics for vasoplegia. I have several ongoing research projects in these areas and collaborate on a multi-institutional level.
jamilpo@gmail.com
Erika O’Neil, MD
Erika O’Neil is a Pediatric and ECMO intensivist in San Antonio, Texas. She practices neonatal, pediatric, cardiac and adult ECMO. She is currently the Brooke Army Medical Center ECMO Process Improvement Director and is a member of the United States Air Force Critical Care Air Transport team, transporting ECMO patients world-wide.
erika.oneil.md@gmail.com
Angelo Polito, MD
Head, Pediatric Intensive Care and Pediatric Extracorporeal Life Support Program, Geneva Children’s Hospital, Switzerland. Affiliated with The Geneva University Hospital, Switzerland. I have been working as a senior consultant in the field of peri-operative care of children with congenital heart diseases and ECMO services for the last 18 years, mainly at the Bambino Gesu’ Children’s Hospital in Italy, the largest paediatric hospital in Italy. During my fellowship at Children’s Hospital Boston I developed a deep interest in clinical research. I also earned a Master in Public Health degree at Harvard University that allowed me to sharpen my knowledge in the field of epidemiology. Since January 2021 I am the coordinator of the extracorporeal life support program at the Geneva Children’s Hospital.
My main research interests are clinical outcomes in pediatric patients after cardiac surgery or ECMO support with special interest in neurodevelopmental outcomes in pediatric patients after ECMO support and ethical issues in pediatric cardiac surgery/ECMO support. In addition to ELSO, I am actively participating in ESPNIC activities.
John Priest, BSRT RRT-NPS
John Priest is an ECMO Specialist II at Boston Children’s Hospital. He is also a Registered Respiratory Therapist and a neonatal pediatric specialist. His primary research interests related to Extracorporeal Life support is anticoagulation, mechanical ventilation, and quality improvement of congenital diaphragmatic hernia care. John is also active with the American Association for Respiratory Care, ELSO Database Development Committee, PediECMO Steering Committee, and is the Co-Chair of Boston Children’s Hospital Dissemination Council.
john.priest@childrens.harvard.edu
Aniket Rali, MD
Dr. Aniket Rali is an advanced heart failure and transplantation and critical care medicine physician at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, USA. He is boarded in advanced heart failure, critical care medicine, and echocardiography. His academic interests include critical care cardiology, with a focus on cardiovascular haemodynamics, advanced heart failure and mechanical circulatory support and cardiac transplantation.
aniket.rali@vumc.org
Twitter: @aniket_rali
Lakshmi Raman, MD
Dr. Lakshmi Raman is a pediatric intensivist and currently the Medical Director of the Pediatric and Neonatal ECLS program at Dallas Children’s Medical Center in Dallas Texas, an ELSO center of Excellence. Dr. Raman is currently the chair of the Publications committee at ELSO. Dr. Raman’s research interest is, understanding neurological injuries on ECMO. Dr. Raman has authored more than 50 peer-reviewed publications and currently directs an educational course to teach ECLS in Dallas, Texas
Ravi Thiagarajan, MBBS,MPH
Ravi Thiagarajan MBBS, MPH is a cardiac intensivist at Boston Children’s Hospital. He has extensive clinical experience and is well published in ECMO. He served as the registry co-chair 2009 – 2015. His interest include ECMO use in Congenital Heart Disease, ECPR, and long-term outcomes for ECMO survivors.
ravi.thiagarajan@cardio.chboston.org
Jordi Riera, PhD
I’m Jordi Riera, adult critical care physician at the Vall d’Hebron University Hospital in Barcelona, Spain. I’m the adult ECMO Program Director at this institution, tutor of ICU residents, PhD (cum laude & extraordinary award at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) and PI of several investigations on ECMO, lung transplant and respiratory infectious diseases (ORCID: 0000-0002-1738-4448).I’m part of the EuroELSO Steering Committee and Director of several national & international ECMO SIM-based training courses.
Our critically ill patients deserve the best care we can offer. To achieve this, we need solid training, well-coordinated worldwide collaboration and high-quality research, three of the main missions of ELSO, the organization of ECMO excellence.
jordi.rieradelbrio@vallhebron.cat
Twitter: @jrdelbrio
Peter Rycus, MPH
Peter Rycus is the executive director of ELSO and has been highly involved in the registry for over 25 years.
Peter Schellongowski, MD
Dr. Peter Schellongowski is a Medical Intensivist and Associate Professor of Medicine at the Medical University of Vienna, Austria. His clinical and scientific focus are critically ill hemato-oncologic and other immunosuppressed patients as well as ARDS management including extracorporeal gas exchange techniques. He is co-founder and co-coordinator of the Austrian-German initiative ‘Intensive Care in Haematologic and Oncologic Patients (iCHOP)’. Along with co-coordinating the ‘Registry for Critically Ill Cancer Patients of the iCHOP Initiative’ he also heads the ESICM-endorsed YELENNA Study of the ‘Caring for critically ill immunocompromised patients (Nine-I)’ study group on cancer patients with ARDS. He currently serves on the Euro ELSO Scientific Committee, where he coordinates the newly established webinar program.
peter.schellongowski@meduniwien.ac.at
Neel Shah, MD
Dr. Neel Shah is a pediatric intensivist at Washington University/St. Louis Children’s. His academic interests include data science and the use of machine learning in predicting ECMO outcomes. Clinically he is also interested in pediatric acute respiratory distress syndrome (pARDS)
Neel.Shah@wustl.edu
Kiran Shekar, MBBS, FCICM, FCCCM, PhD
Kiran Shekar is a Senior Intensive Care Specialist and Director of Research at the Prince Charles Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. He holds academic appointments as Adjunct Professor at Queensland University of Technology and Associate Professor at University of Queensland.
Shekar is passionate about addressing the global variability in intensive care and extracorporeal life support (ECLS) outcomes through innovation, research, and education. His research interests include pathophysiology of cardiorespiratory failure and ECLS. His ongoing research program “The No Tube Project” aims to integrate less invasive respiratory supports with ECLS to provide more personalized respiratory support and to minimise the burden of invasive mechanical ventilation.
Shekar is an active contributor to the Extracorporeal Life Support Organisation (ELSO) through his research and educational engagements. He is a member of the Asia-Pacific ELSO Education Committee and is the Course Director of an ELSO endorsed ECMO course. He is the research lead for ELSO Education Taskforce (ELSOed) and as a member of the scientific committee of the International ECMO Network, he contributes to global collaborative research in ECMO.
kiran.shekar@health.qld.gov.au
Sung-Min Cho, DO, MHS
Dr. Sung-Min Cho is an Assistant Professor of Neurology, Surgery, Anesthesia, and Critical Care Medicine. He joined the Johns Hopkins Division of Neuroscience Critical Care in 2019 as a faculty. Dr. Cho specializes in neurointensive care. He is the Director of Adult ECMO Research in the Division of Cardiac Surgery at Johns Hopkins. His research focus includes neurology and neurocritical care of cardiovascular disease, especially in patients with mechanical circulatory support devices.
csungmi1@jhmi.edu
Joseph Tonna, MD, MS
Dr. Joseph Tonna, MD, MS, FCCM, FACEP, FAAEM, is an Associate Professor with Tenure at the University of Utah with appointments in the Divisions of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Emergency Medicine. He is the Section Head of Cardiothoracic Critical Care, Medical Director of the Cardiovascular ICU/Cardiothoracic Critical Care, and the Associate Director of Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) Services. He works as an Attending Physician in the Cardiothoracic Intensive Care Units and in the Emergency Department. He is funded by the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). His clinical and research interests include extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (ECPR), delirium prevention, and enhancing sleep and mobility.
jtonna@elso.org