SCCM President and Leadership

Vinay M. Nadkarni, MD, MS, FCCM, is a professor and endowed chair in the departments of Anesthesiology, Critical Care Medicine, and Pediatrics at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine.

Dr. Nadkarni served on the board of directors of the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies. He was president of the Citizen CPR Foundation, founding director of the CHOP Academy for Resuscitation of Children, CHOP Center for Pediatric Resuscitation, and CHOP Center for Simulation, Advanced Education, and Innovation. He has served as chair of the American Heart Association’s Emergency Cardiovascular Care Committee, chair and executive committee member of the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation, and was a founding member of the American Heart Association’s National Registry of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (Get with the Guidelines - Resuscitation).

Dr. Nadkarni’s impressive work includes his leadership roles in the National Emergency Airway Registry for Children (NEAR4KIDS) across 60 hospitals in the United States and abroad; the 106-site International Network for Simulation-Based Pediatric Innovation, Research, and Education (INSPIRE); and the 60-member Pediatric Resuscitation Quality Collaborative (pediRES-Q) learning “co-laboratory” that is  informing best practices and pioneering next-generation resuscitation care. He is also the leader of the emerging Global Resuscitation Alliance for Resuscitation of Children.

For more than 30 years, Dr. Nadkarni has demonstrated his commitment to “paying it forward,” volunteering with Operation Smile International to provide craniofacial surgical repair for more than 4000 children in resource-limited settings. During the past five years, he has mentored the growth and development of the Pediatric Simulation Training and Research Society of India (PediSTARS) and the birth of the ABC-Active Bleeding Control: Stop the Bleed program, which is taught to rickshaw drivers, shop owners, police officers, first responders, and high school children in India.

Dr. Nadkarni has been actively involved in SCCM since joining in 1989. His many contributions to SCCM have been recognized with the Presidential Citation Award, Asmund S. Laerdal Lifetime Achievement Award, and numerous national SCCM research awards. He has participated on a number of SCCM committees, including serving as chair of the Publications Advisory Committee, Congress Program Committee, and Strategic Planning Management Committee; associate editor of the Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Editorial Board; and secretary of Council.