Sapna Kudchadkar is the Anesthesiologist-in-Chief of the Johns Hopkins Children's Center and Vice Chair for Pediatric Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She is an associate professor of anaesthesiology and critical care medicine, paediatrics and physical medicine and rehabilitation at JHUSOM. Her areas of interest include sleep disturbances in critically ill children, paediatric delirium prevention and management, sedation of mechanically ventilated children, paediatric ICU rehabilitation and mobility, and clinical epidemiology and biostatistics.
Dr Kudchadkar is the lead primary investigator (PI) for the international PARK-PICU study (Prevalence of Acute Rehab for Kids in the PICU), which includes >200 sites in the United States, Canada, Brazil, Europe and Australia. She is also the lead PI for an NIH-funded 10-hospital stepped-wedge cluster-randomised trial of a multifaceted early mobility programme for critically ill children (PICU Up!) and MPI for an NIH-funded multicentre randomised trial investigating physical rehabilitation and nutrition in paediatric ICU patients (PROXIMUS).
Dr Kudchadkar is a Diplomate of the American Board of Pediatrics and the American Board of Anesthesiology. She is a Fellow of the American College of Critical Care Medicine and the Senior Associate Editor of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. She also serves on the international advisory board of the Lancet Child and Adolescent Health.
The ICU Management & Practice team welcomes Dr Kudchadkar to its Editorial Board and looks forward to a successful collaboration.
