Tribute to Dr. Hector Wong - Biomarkers and Enrichment for Sepsis Trials by H. Wong, T. Shanley

Hector Wong, MD, Vice Chair of the Department of Pediatrics at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, passed away unexpectedly in January 2022. Dr. Wong was known as a brilliant scientist, mentor, and leader who dedicated his career to pediatric critical care research and fighting pediatric sepsis. He spent the majority of his career caring for patients and their families at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center where he served as Director of the Pediatric Critical Care Fellowship Program until 2004 and Director of the Division of Critical Care Medicine until 2020. Dr. Wong developed the Pediatric Sepsis Biomarker Risk Model PERSEVERE which helped for early identification and treatment of sepsis. Dr. Wong spoke about the use of his Pediatric Sepsis Biomarker Risk Model PERSEVERE in sepsis clinical trials at the 2016 PICC World Congress. This updated video contains a special tribute introduction by Dr. Paul Shanley, President and CEO of Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago. Publication date: February 17, 2022. Initial publication date: August 11, 2017. Please visit: http://www.openpediatrics.org OPENPediatrics™ is an interactive digital learning platform for healthcare clinicians sponsored by Boston Children’s Hospital and in collaboration with the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies. It is designed to promote the exchange of knowledge between healthcare providers around the world caring for critically ill children in all resource settings. The content includes internationally recognized experts teaching the full range of topics on the care of critically ill children. All content is peer-reviewed and open access-and thus at no expense to the user. For further information on how to enroll, please email: openpediatrics@childrens.harvard.edu