Famularo has experience with multicenter studies as well as National Institutes of Health and Investigational New Drug investigator-initiated studies. He joined the Department of Critical Care Medicine at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia in 2019. His first few months were focused on facilitating enrollments and coordinating study procedures for Collaborative Pediatric Critical Care Research Network trials. Since then, he has managed Linking Endotypes and Outcomes in Pediatric Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (LEOPARDS), an observational study with the goal to risk stratify pediatric ARDS patients and to identify sub-phenotypes with shared biology in order to appropriately target therapies in future trials.

His experience then granted him the opportunity to be the site lead for a two-by-two factorial, response-adaptive, randomized controlled clinical trial called PROSpect. In 2019, Stephen became chair in the Research Coordinator sub-group of the Pediatric Acute Lung Injury and Sepsis Investigators (PALISI) network.

Famularo has developed and collaborated on numerous study operation and data collection tools. Additionally, he served as a mentor, coach, new-hire trainer, and collaborator for other research coordinators, assistants, and investigators within critical care medicine (CCM), CHOP, and the PALISI network. He maintains regulatory, shipping, and laboratory training documentation for the CCM department and developed the system used to maintain weekend PI coverage for clinical trials.

In 2022, Famularo was nominated by CCM faculty for the CRC Research Excellence Award at CHOP. He is a certified clinical research professional and member of the Society of Clinical Research Associates. He advised on the practice of sharing research notes within EPIC and keeps informed consent form templates up to date for all 20 CCM studies.

Throughout his time in CCM, Famularo has developed many tools assisting with daily operations, standardization, screening, and training including EPIC reports to streamline the screening process for all CCM studies.

BA, University of Pittsburgh (Italian Language and Literature), 2017

SOCRA, 2022

Pediatric Acute Lung Injury and Sepsis Investigators, 2019

• PALISI Research Coordinator Standardization Chair, 2020-2023
• PALISI Research Coordinator Network Chair, Current

CRC Reach Award Nominee, 2022