PCICS Podcast
The Podcast for Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care
We discuss various topics in pediatric cardiac intensive care, cardiology, cardiac surgery, and anesthesia. Episodes include challenging cases, new science, journal clubs, humanity topics, current events, education, and novel ICU therapies with guests from pediatric cardiac ICUs across the world and other leaders in the field. The PCICS Podcast is the official podcast of the Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Society and is the longest-running podcast for pediatric cardiology and pediatric cardiac critical care. Executive Producers: David Werho, Saidie Rodriguez, Deanna Tzanetos.
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Jun 8, 2021 • 19min
Episode 40: Maximizing End of Life Care
Dr. Roxanne Kirsch (The Hospital for Sick Children - Toronto) reflects on the very difficult topic of Maximizing End of Life Care, including managing conflict, optimizing communication, and multidisciplinary team roles.
Host: Jill Zender, CPNP-AC (UT Southwestern/Children’s Medical Center of Dallas)
Editor/Producer: David Werho, MD (UC San Diego).
May 24, 2021 • 26min
Episode 39: Growing the Future Administrative Leaders in Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care
Mark Scheurer, MD, MSc (Medical University of South Carolina) and Kay Stewart-Huey (Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta) discuss their careers in administration and offer advice for the future leaders in cardiac care.
Host: Sinai Zyblewski, MD (MUSC); Editor/Producer: David Werho, MD (UC San Diego).
Apr 30, 2021 • 24min
Episode 38: PCICS Podcast – Growing the Future Nursing Leaders in Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care
In a special episode honoring Nurse’s Week, Genevieve Frey Moylan, MSN, RN, CPN, from Lurie Children’s Hospital discusses fostering growth in the future nursing leaders in our field and how she was inspired to become a leader in nursing.
Host/Editor: Courtney Celani, MSN, CPNP-AC (Lurie Children’s Hospital); Producer: David Werho, MD (UC San Diego).
Apr 19, 2021 • 44min
Episode 37: PCICS Podcast - Newstalk April 2021 - Crisis Resource Management
In the latest Newstalk, hosts David Werho, Jill Zender, and Saidie Rodriguez discuss recent events in pediatric cardiac critical care and anything else that comes up. In this edition, guests Paul Checchia (Texas Children’s Hospital) and Darren Klugman (Johns Hopkins) discuss the recent freeze in Texas and other crises as well as topics ranging from crisis resource management, leadership, teams, and being thrown into a pool in Miami. Editor/Producer: David Werho, MD (UC San Diego).
Apr 1, 2021 • 25min
Episode 36: PCICS Podcast - Growing Female Faculty in Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care
Dr. Mary McBride (Lurie Children’s Hospital - Northwestern University) and Dr. Sushma Reddy (Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital - Stanford) speak about several important topics surrounding women building careers in cardiac critical care and academic medicine including balance, career development, pay inequity, and implicit gender bias. Host/Editor/Producer: Dr. Deanna Tzanetos (Norton Children’s Hospital), Co-Producer: David Werho, MD (UC San Diego).
Mar 17, 2021 • 18min
Episode 35: PCICS Podcast - Growing Physician Leaders in Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care
Dr. Mary Taylor, the Department Chair of Pediatrics at Children’s of Mississippi, speaks about important qualities for budding leaders in our field as well as different programs and ways to help foster growth as a leader in academic pediatrics. Host/Editor: Dr. Raj Sahulee (NYU - Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital), Producer: David Werho, MD (UC San Diego).
Mar 1, 2021 • 24min
Episode 34: PCICS Podcast - PCICS Anthony Chang Award Lecturer Dr. Ravi Thiagarajan
The winner of this year’s Anthony Chang Award, Dr. Ravi Thiagarajan from Boston Children’s Hospital, speaks about his career, ECMO research, the changing cardiac ICU workforce, burnout, and his advice for early career cardiac intensive care providers.
Host: Sarah Tabbutt, MD, PhD (UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital), Editor/Producer: David Werho, MD (UC San Diego).
Feb 15, 2021 • 32min
Episode 33: PCICS Podcast - Diversity, Equity, Inclusion - Part 2
Part two of our series on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion with Shanelle Clarke, MD (Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta), Maryam Naim, MD, MSCE (Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia), Carolyn Meltzer, MD (Emory University), Sarah Teele, MD (Boston Children’s Hospital), Keila Lopez, MD, MPH (Texas Children’s Hospital), and Kiona Allen, MD (Lurie Children’s Hospital). Host: Courtney Celani, CPNP-AC (Lurie Children’s Hospital), Host/Editor/Producer: Dr. Saidie Rodriguez (Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta), Producer: Dr. David Werho (UC San Diego).
Feb 3, 2021 • 26min
Episode 32: PCICS Podcast – Diversity, Equity, Inclusion – Part 1
Host: Courtney Celani, CPNP-AC (Lurie Children’s Hospital), Host/Editor/Producer: Dr. Saidie Rodriguez (Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta), Producer: Dr. David Werho (UC San Diego).
In honor of Black History Month, PCICS presents a special two-part series on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; a group of inspiring women from across the country speak about various issues in medicine, pediatric cardiology, and critical care surrounding diversity, equity, and racism.
Feb 3, 2021 • 12min
Episode 31: Right Ventricular Heart Failure and Myocardial Energetics
Host/Editor: Monica Mafla, RN, MS, CPNP (Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital – Stanford). Producer: Dr. David Werho (UC San Diego).
Dr. Sushma Reddy (Stanford) discusses her work on myocardial energetics and how she’s working to understand the role of oxidative damage and potentially new therapeutics for right ventricular heart failure in patients with congenital heart disease. Her recent publication on this topic can be found in the October 2020 edition of Circulation.
