Pediatric critical care is a complex and highly sophisticated branch of medicine. To deliver it well requires a strong multidisciplinary team: pediatric specialists; pediatric subspecialists; nurses; respiratory therapists and other therapists (speech, occupational and physical); pharmacists; child life specialists; and social workers. In total, the department has about 40 specially trained staff nurses caring for patients. Physicians throughout Stony Brook Children's interact and collaborate with the PICU.
As a closed unit, the PICU's physicians, known as pediatric intensivists, oversee and coordinate all the members of each child's care team.
Our intensivists include:
Katharine V. Biagas, MD, Division Chief
Ryan Hirschfeld, MD
Erin Hulfish, MD
Grace Ker, MD
Amarilis Martin, MD
Uchechi Oddiri, MD
Rahul Panesar, MD
Daniel Sloniewsky, MD
Randi Trope, DO
Catherine Urban, MD
Our Nurse Practitioners:
Tara Flocco, RN, MS, CPNP
Dawn McLaughlin, RN, MS, CPNP
Kristina Tzortzis, NP