Paul Stricker, MD, is a board certified pediatric anesthesiologist at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and an associate professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Stricker is also a graduate of the Intermountain Advanced Training Program in Healthcare Delivery Improvement at Intermountain Healthcare, Salt Lake City, Utah.

Dr. Stricker is a clinical outcomes researcher with an interest in children undergoing complex cranial vault reconstruction surgery. Dr. Stricker founded the Pediatric Craniofacial Collaborative Group, a consortium of North American pediatric anesthesiologists and craniofacial surgeons from over 30 institutions, and he has led this group in creating the multicenter Pediatric Craniofacial Surgery Perioperative Registry.

Dr. Stricker is a senior fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute and a senior scholar at the University of Pennsylvania Center for Perioperative Outcomes Research and Transformation (CPORT). He leads the Pedi-INQUIRE research team at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, whose mission is to determine pediatric clinical perioperative outcomes using bioinformatics, scientific, and quality improvement methodologies, and to develop diagnostic and therapeutic interventions to improve them.

Dr. Stricker leads the international Pediatric Perioperative Outcomes Group as it develops core outcome sets for pediatric perioperative research, promoting the integration of patient-centered outcomes in clinical research.

BA, Rutgers College (Biological Sciences), 1996

MD, New Jersey Medical School, 2001

Anesthesiology Residency, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, 2002-2005

Pediatric Anesthesiology Fellowship, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 2005-2006

Intermountain Advanced Training Program in Healthcare Delivery Improvement, Intermountain Healthcare, 2014

Associate Division Chief for Research, General Anesthesiology Division

Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care

American Society of Anesthesiologists, 2004-

Society for Pediatric Anesthesia, 2006-

International Anesthesia Research Society, 2011-