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Spring 2021: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI)
PCICS Leadership
President’s Message May 2021
Melissa B. Jones, MSN, APRN, CPNP-AC
President, PCICS
CICU Nurse Practitioner
Children’s National Hospital
Washington, DC
Editor-In-Chief’s Message May 2021
Ivie D. Esangbedo, MD, MPH
Editor-in-Chief, PCICS Newsletter
Pediatric Cardiac Intensivist and Assistant Professor
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, TX
Vice President’s Message May 2021
David S. Cooper, MD, MPH
Vice President, PCICS
Medical Director, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit
Medical Director, Cardiac Anesthesia Recovery Unit
Co-Director, Center for Acute Care Nephrology
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
Professor of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Cincinnati, OH
Editorials
Guest Editorial: The Quest to Reduce Health Disparities in Congenital Heart Disease: Moving beyond Descriptions of Race-Based Outcomes
Keila N Lopez, MD, MPH
Associate Professor, Pediatrics
Director, Transition Medicine
Division of Pediatric Cardiology
Texas Children’s Hospital / Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX
Guest Editorial: Sawubona
Mark A. Clay, MD, MSCI
Medical Director of the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit
Co-Director Congenital Heart Center
Medical City Children’s Hospital
Dallas, TX
Guest Editorial: Women in Leadership
Catherine D. Krawczeski, MD, FAAP, FACC, FAHA
George H. Dunlap Endowed Chair in Cardiology
Division Chief, Pediatric Cardiology
Co-Director, The Heart Center
Nationwide Children’s Hospital
Professor of Pediatrics
The Ohio State University College of Medicine
Columbus, OH
Guest Editorial: Every Rainbow Requires A Spectrum
Jason Giangrosso, RN, BSN, CCRN
Pediatric cardiac critical care nurse
Travel Nurse, Trusted Health
UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital
San Francisco, CA
Early Career Editorial: Call to Action: Examining Health Disparities at the Institutional Level
Yuen Lie Tjoeng, MD, MS
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Cardiac Intensive Care Unit & Single Ventricle Program
Seattle Children’s Hospital
Seattle, WA
Early Career Editorial: Implicit Bias in the Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Unit
Natasha Afonso, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Section of Critical Care
Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital
Houston, TX
Committee Updates
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Advisory Committee May 2021 Update
Ndidiamaka L. Musa, MD
Professor of Pediatrics
University of Washington
Pediatric Cardiac Intensivist
Seattle Children’s Hospital
Seattle, WA
Shanelle Clarke, MD
Associate Medical Director of the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta
Cardiac Intensivist, Sibley Heart Center Cardiology
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine
Atlanta, GA
Megan Tracey, RN, MS, CPNP-PC, CNS
Heart Center APP and Critical Care Manager
Nurse Practitioner Cardiovascular Intensive Care
Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital
Palo Alto, CA
Connections Committee May 2021 Update
Jill Zender, APRN, CPNP-AC
Cardiac Intensive Care Unit
Nurse Practitioner
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, TX
Special Interest Groups Updates
Administrative SIG May 2021 Update
Sherri Kubis, RN, MSN, CCRN
Director of Cardiac Nursing
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA
Justin C. Yeh, MD
Chief Cardiac Intensive Care
Co-Director Heart Institute
UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
Associate Professor, Department of Critical Care Medicine
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Pittsburgh, PA
