Pediatric Neurocritical Care Fellowship

This one-year program offers two tracks depending on the candidate's previous fellowship training in either Child Neurology or Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. The curriculum includes the following:

• ICU Consult Rotation (six to seven months)
• Neurosurgery Rotation (one month)
• Adult Neurointensive Care at Northwestern University (two months)
• Rehabilitation Medicine at the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab (two to four weeks)
• Neurocritical Care Follow-Up Clinic (once a month)
• Neuroradiology (two to four weeks)

Program Tracks

Critical Care Track: Additional training with a formal neurophysiology course (two weeks).
Neurology Track: Additional rotations in the Cardiac ICU (two weeks) and and Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (two weeks).

Lurie Children’s offers the only pediatric neurocritical care advanced practice nurse fellowship in the country. This six-month program is designed to provide advanced practice nurses the opportunity to develop subspecialty expertise in pediatric neurocritical care. The fellow will work closely with Michele Mills, neurocritical care APN, in order to develop expertise in the neurologic exam, neuroimaging, diagnosis and management of neurologic conditions in critically ill patients.

• ICU Consult Rotation (sixteen weeks)
• PICU Rotation (two weeks)
• Neurosurgery/Neuro-oncology Rotation (two weeks)
• Rehabilitation (two weeks)
• Palliative Care (one week)
• Infectious Disease (one week)
• Neurocritical Care Follow-up Clinic (once a month)

• Chief of Service Conference and Neuroradiology Rounds: Every Thursday morning, the Neurology and NCC fellows present interesting cases to the division of Child Neurology, followed by Neuroradiology rounds.
• Neurocritical Care Conference and EEG Review: Every Friday, the NCC group reviews the previous week’s EEGs, discuss interesting cases, and have formal didactics
• Joint Adult-Pediatric Stroke/Neurocritical Care Conference: Every Friday, NCC discusses interesting vascular/neurocritical care cases with adult neurology, neuroradiology and neurosurgery.
• Neurobiology Conference: Once a month, invited speakers discuss their research in the neurosciences.
• Neurocritical Care-PICU conference: Once a month, NCC faculty provide didactics on neurologic topics relevant to a joint NCC/PICU audience.
• Neuroanatomy: Every Friday morning for half the year, joint Child and Adult Neurology trainees receive formal neuroanatomy lectures and wet lab experience.
• Stroke Consortium: Once a quarter, all the academic hospitals within greater Chicago gather to discuss interesting and educational stroke cases.

Focused clinical research will be encouraged and there are ample opportunities and mentors within the Division of Neurology and Division of Critical Care Medicine. The fellowship will include support for attendance to present research at a national meeting.

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• Trainee Stories: Kyle MacQuarrie, MD, PhD Video

Applicants for the physician fellowship should be board-certified/eligible in pediatric critical care or pediatric neurology. Physician inquiries should be directed to the fellowship directors, Andrea Pardo, MD, and Sue Hong, MD.

Applicants for the APN fellowship should have a minimum of two years of ICU nursing experience, a Masters in Nursing from an accredited university, be certified as an acute care pediatric nurse practitioner and be licensed as a registered nurse and advanced practice nurse in the state of Illinois by the time they begin the program.

APN inquiries should be directed to Andrea Pardo, MD, or Michele Mills, RN, MSN, FNP-BC, PNP-AC.

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