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Hospital for Children

Physicians and Staff

Pediatric Critical Care and PICU

The Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Division manages the University of Maryland's Hospital for Children's Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU), a 10-bed facility that provides state-of-the-art multidisciplinary critical care for young patients with life-threatening medical and surgical conditions. The division also maintains an 14-bed pediatric intermediate care unit to care for children with special needs or who require close monitoring.


John P. StraumanisJohn P. Straumanis, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics; Medical Director, MarylandCARES Program; Medical Director, Pediatric ICU and Pediatric Respiratory Care
Special Interests: Respiratory Syncitial Virus Infections/Bronchiolitis; Pediatric Advanced Life Support; Injury Prevention; Nitric Oxide; Child Advocacy
Medical Degree: Louisiana State University of School of Medicine
Residency: Medical University of South Carolina, Pediatrics
Fellowship: The Children's Hospital at the The University of Colorado School of Health Sciences
Certification: Pediatrics; Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
410-328-6957/academic office


Nan A. Garber, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics; Medical Director, Maryland ExpressCare for Kids; Director, Pediatric Critical Care Fellowship Program
Special Interests: Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, Medical Simulation, Transport Medicine 
Medical Degree: Tel Aviv University, Sackler School of Medicine
Residency: State University of New York at Buffalo/Children's Hospital of Buffalo
Fellowship: University Health Care Center of Pittsburgh/Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
Certification: Pediatrics; Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
410-328-6957/academic office


Susanna Scafidi, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Special Interests: Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury, Developing Brain Metabolism, Alterations in Metabolism After Injury
Medical Degree: Samarkand State Medical School, Samakand Uzbekistan
Residency: University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark, New Jersey
Fellowship: Children's Hospital at Montefiore/Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY
Certification: Pediatrics
410-328-6957/academic office


L. Kyle Walker, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Special Interests: Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
Medical Degree: University of Mississippi
Residency: Vanderbilt University Hospital, Nashville, TN
Fellowship: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
Certification: Pediatrics, Pediatric Critical Care
410-328-6957/academic office


Fasil Mohomed, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Special Interests: Open Lung Modes of Ventilation, Ultrasound Use in the ICU, Transport Medicine and TBI
Medical Degree: Spartan Health Sciences University
Residency: Southern Illinois University School of Medicine
Fellowship: University of Maryland Medical Center
410-328-6957/academic office



This page was last updated on: September 8, 2009.

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1-800-492-5538 (patients) or 1-800-373-4111 (physicians).