Meet Our Pediatric Critical Care Fellowship Alumni
Learn more about our Pediatric Critical Care Fellowships alumni fellows and their publications.
2025 – 2026 Fellows
Ian Francis, MD, PhD
- 2024 - 2026
Elizabeth Grogan, MD
- 2024 - 2026
Iman Nizami, MD
- 2023 - 2025
- Palliative Care Fellow at Nemours Children's Health
Courtney Alvis, MD
- 2022 - 2025
- Critical Care Faculty at Dayton Children's Hospital
Jordan Brauner, MD
- 2022 - 2025
- Critical Care Faculty at Nationwide Children's Hospital
Justin Julian, MD
- 2022 - 2025
- Neurocritical Care Fellow at Nationwide Children's Hospital
Kortney Pifher, MD
- 2022 - 2025
- Critical Care Faculty at Nationwide Children's Hospital
2020 – 2024 Fellows
Natalie Capretta, DO
- 2021 - 2024
- Critical Care Faculty at The Children’s Center at Presbyterian Hospital
Cynthia Moffitt, MD
- 2021 - 2024
- Critical Care Faculty at Riley Hospital for Children
Laura Wingert, MD
- 2021 - 2024
- Critical Care faculty at WVU Medicine Children’s Hospital
Jordan Lull, MD
- 2020 - 2023
- Critical Care Faculty, UVA Children’s Hospital
Lauren McCluney, MD
- 2020 - 2023
- Critical Care Faculty Nationwide Children’s Hospital
Robert Murray, MD
- 2020 - 2023
- Critical Care faculty, Northwest Pediatric Specialists/Nationwide Children’s Hospital
Erin Thornley, DO
- 2020 - 2023
- Physician Scientist at Phoenix Children’s Hospital/University of Arizona
2015 – 2019 Fellows
Claire Christian, MD
- 2019 - 2022
- Critical Care Faculty at Shriner’s Children's
Loren Farley, MD
- 2019 - 2022
- Anesthesia Resident, The Ohio State University
Hunter Johnson, MD
- 2019 - 2022
- Critical Care Faculty Nationwide Children’s Hospital
Sara Sanders, MD
- 2019 - 2022
- Critical Care Faculty, Connecticut Children’s Medical Center
Kelley Groves, MD
- 2018 - 2021
- Critical Care faculty, NYU Langone Health
Will Guider, MD
- 2018 - 2021
- Critical Care faculty, East Tennessee Children’s Hospital
Takaharu Karube, MD
- 2018 - 2021
- Critical Care faculty, Northwest Pediatric Specialists/Nationwide Children’s Hospital
Taylor Nickerson, MD
- 2018 - 2021
- Critical Care faculty, Cohen Children’s Medical Center – Northwell Health
Austin Biggs, MD
- 2017 - 2020
- Critical Care faculty, MUSC Shawn Jenkins Children’s Hospital
- 2017 - 2020
- Critical Care faculty, Nationwide Children’s Hospital
Holly Gillis, MD
- 2017 - 2020
- Anesthesia Faculty at University of Minnesota Masonic Children’s Hospital
Rachel Poeppelman, MD
- 2017 - 2020
- Critical Care faculty, University of Minnesota Masonic Children’s Hospital
Ambrish Patel, MD
- 2016 - 2019
- Pediatric Anesthesia Fellow, Nationwide Children’s Hospital
Trent Sims, DO
- 2016 - 2019
- Anesthesia Faculty at Mercy Children’s Hospital
Lara Srouji, MD
- 2016 - 2019
- Critical Care Faculty at Virginia Commonwealth University
Lauren Villo, MD
- 2016 - 2019
- Critical Care faculty, Beverly Knight Children’s Hospital
- 2015 - 2018
- Cardiology faculty, Nationwide Children’s Hospital
Jeffrey Naples, DO
- 2015 - 2018
- Critical Care faculty, Akron Children’s Hospital
- 2015 - 2018
- Critical Care faculty, Nationwide Children’s Hospital
Manzilat Akande, MD, MPH
- 2015 - 2018
- Critical Care faculty, Oklahoma University Medical Center
2010 – 2014 Fellows
Keegan Ziemba, MD
- 2014 - 2017
- Medical Director at Index Health
Ashish Nagpal, MD
- 2014 - 2017
- Critical Care Faculty at Cook Children’s Medical Center
- 2014 - 2017
- Critical Care Faculty, Nationwide Children’s Hospital
Sara Barnett-Hamen, MD
- 2013 - 2015
- Hospitalist, ProMedica Toledo Children’s Hospital
Sarah Steward, MD
- 2013 - 2016
- Critical Care Faculty, Akron Children’s Hospital
Robert Bishop, MD
- 2013 - 2016
- Cardiology and Critical Care faculty, Children’s Hospital Colorado
Rasika Venkatraman, MD
- 2012 - 2015
- Critical Care Faculty, Dayton Children’s Hospital
Shad Outsen, MD
- 2012 - 2015
- Critical Care Faculty, Primary Children’s Hospital
James Hungerford, MD
- 2012 - 2016
- Critical Care Faculty at Prisma Health
Markita Suttle, MD
- 2011 - 2014
- Critical Care Faculty, Nationwide Children’s Hospital
- 2011 - 2014
- Neurology and Critical Care Faculty, Nationwide Children’s Hospital
Benjamin Braun, MD
- 2011 - 2014
- Critical Care Faculty, Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital
Rabia Akbar, MD
- 2010 - 2012
- Pediatric Primary Care Provider, Mercy Health St. Charles Hospital
Ryan Nofziger, MD
- 2010 - 2013
- Critical Care Faculty, Akron Children’s Hospital
2005 – 2009 Fellows
- 2009 - 2012
- Critical Care Faculty, Nationwide Children’s Hospital
Cesar Mella, MD
- 2009 - 2012
- Pediatric Critical Care and Cardiac Intensivist, New York NY
- 2008 - 2011
- Critical Care Faculty, Nationwide Children’s Hospital
Jason Scimeme, MD
- 2008 - 2011
- Critical Care Faculty, Wolfson Children’s Hospital
Satesh Raju, MD
- 2007 - 2009
- 2007 - 2010
- Critical Care Faculty, Nationwide Children’s Hospital
- 2007 - 2009 (Dual Fellowship)
- Cardiology and Critical Care Faculty, Nationwide Children’s Hospital
- 2005 - 2008
- Critical Care Faculty, Nationwide Children’s Hospital
David Marquardt, MD
- 2005 - 2008
- Critical Care Faculty, ProMedica Toledo Children’s Hospital