Wood Center

Dr. Perman cares for patients with a rare, genetic blistering skin condition known as epidermolysis bullosa. She serves as co-PI on clinical pharmaceutical trials aimed at wound healing for this fragile patient population.

Dr. Srinivasan's research focuses on robotic and laparoscopic surgery, as well as stone disease. His interests include techniques in minimally invasive surgery, tools in management of voiding dysfunction and neurogenic bladder, and design/development of diagnostic and therapeutic devices in urology.

Dr. Lindell’s research program is centered on the biology of critical illness in children with immune dysfunction. His current translational research is focused on pediatric septic shock and the development of multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS) in critically-ill children.

Dr. Fowler’s research focuses on quality improvement and implementation initiatives around pediatric post-cardiac arrest care. She also researches healthcare workforce equity, and strategies for recruitment, retention, and advancement of physicians from underrepresented racial/ethnic backgrounds.

Dr. Woods-Hill researches diagnostic and treatment decision-making in the critical care setting, with a specific interest on the impact of these decisions on unintended patient harm and medical overuse. She focuses on bacterial bloodstream infections in children in the PICU, and diagnostic stewardship in this context.

The founder and director of CHOP's Center for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment, Dr. Adzick is an innovator in the field of fetal medicine, pursuing groundbreaking prenatal treatment for debilitating birth defects. He led the NIH-funded "Management of Myelomeningocele Study" (MOMS) at CHOP, a breakthrough research program that showed fetal surgery for spina bifida results in significantly improved outcomes.

Dr. Kirschen’s research interest is pediatric neurocritical care. His work focuses on using multimodality neuromonitoring and neuroimaging to detect and prevent brain injury in critically ill children, predicting recovery after severe acute brain injury, and the accurate diagnosis of brain death.

Dr. Feemster's research includes vaccine acceptance among parents and immunization providers, community-based interventions to improve vaccine uptake, neighborhood factors associated with the incidence of pertussis and influenza, and healthcare-associated respiratory infection in the pediatric ambulatory setting.

Dr. Nadkarni is an international leader in the development and implementation of critical care and resuscitation science in both resource-rich and resource-poor environments.

Dr. Weiss' research focuses on epidemiology of pediatric sepsis and mitochondrial dysfunction in sepsis-associated organ injury. The driving hypothesis for his research is that alterations in mitochondrial bioenergetics contribute to organ injury and immune dysregulation in a subset of children with sepsis.