Dr. Chris Horvat is a pediatric intensivist and informaticist at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. He started his academic career at UNC-Chapel Hill where he got his undergraduate and medical degrees, after which he completed a pediatric residency at Seattle Children's Hospital and a pediatric critical care fellowship at UPMC. Dr. Horvat also completed Pittsburgh’s T-32 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Pediatric Neurointensive Care through the Safar Center for Resuscitation Research, during which he earned a master’s in health administration (MHA) from the University of Pittsburgh. In his current work, he aims to utilize a combination of electronic health record-derived datasets, pharmaco-kinetic models, and pharmacogenomic insights to develop advanced clinical decision-support tools to help refine the use of potent sedatives and analgesic medications in the pediatric intensive care unit. He also serves as a clinical informatics leader, helping to deploy randomized, embedded, multifactorial, adaptive platform (REMAP) trials across the UPMC system.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this podcast, listeners should be able to:

List the concerns surrounding the pediatric subspecialty workforce and the unique position of PCCM.
Describe the modeling performed for each pediatric subspecialty.
Describe the future of the PCCM workforce, including the job opportunities that current PCCM fellows can expect and the utility of dual boarding in cardiology.

References

1. Leslie LK, Orr CJ, Turner AL, et al. Child Health and the US Pediatric Subspecialty Workforce: Planning for the Future. Pediatrics. 2024;153(Supplement 2). doi:10.1542/peds.2023-063678B

2. Horvat CM, Hamilton MF, Hall MW, McGuire JK, Mink RB. Child Health Needs and the Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Workforce: 2020–2040. Pediatrics. 2024;153(Supplement 2). doi:10.1542/peds.2023-063678G

3. Fraher E, Knapton A, McCartha E, Leslie LK. Forecasting the Future Supply of Pediatric Subspecialists in the United States: 2020–2040. Pediatrics. 2024;153(Supplement 2). doi:10.1542/peds.2023-063678C

4. Horak R V., Marino BS, Werho DK, et al. Assessment of physician training and prediction of workforce needs in paediatric cardiac intensive care in the United States. Cardiol Young. 2022;32(11):1748-1753. doi:10.1017/S1047951121004893

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