Steve Barnes, MD, the director of Pediatric Critical Care Program at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois, grew up in East Tennessee. He trained and practiced respiratory therapy before medical school at the University of Tennessee. At Johns Hopkins he completed his pediatric residency, pediatric chief residency, anesthesia residency and fellowships in pediatric critical care and pediatric anesthesia. Dr. Barnes coordinates research activities in the section. He is board certified in pediatrics, anesthesiology and pediatric critical care.

Edmundo Cortez, MD, the director of PICU North and assistant director of Medical Student Programs for Rush Medical College, is a Chicago native. He did his medical school training at Loyola University School of Medicine, Residency training at University of Chicago Children’s Hospital, Pediatric Critical Care training at Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin/Medical College of Wisconsin. He is board certified in general pediatrics and pediatric critical care medicine. His academic interests include medical student/resident education, shared medical decision making and evidence based medicine.

William R. Hayden, MD, associate chair of the Department of Pediatrics, came to Rush from the Johns Hopkins Medical Institution in 1991. He is a graduate of Northwestern University School of Medicine. He completed an internship at Evanston Hospital, a pediatric residency and chief residency at Children’s Medical Center and Parkland Medical Center in Dallas, Tex., and a neonatal-perinatal medicine fellowship at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is board certified in pediatrics, neonatology and pediatric critical care. Dr. Hayden serves as a member of the Medical Staff Executive Committee at Rush and as Immediate Past President of the Medical Staff and member of Rush Board of Trustees.

Phillip Jacobson, MD, scheduling and education coordinator for the Pediatric Critical Care Program, is a Chicago native who received his medical degree from the University of Illinois. He then traveled to Phoenix, where he was a resident in pediatrics. He joined Rush in 1992 after a fellowship in pediatric critical care at the University of Washington in Seattle. He is board certified in pediatrics and pediatric critical care.

Brian Rudinsky, MD, chief of division and PICU director at Stroger Hospital, attended Loyola University Medical Center and completed his residency, chief residency and pediatric critical care fellowship at the University of Chicago. He held a faculty and attending position at the University of Chicago from 1986 until joining Rush in 1999. He is board certified in pediatrics and pediatric critical care.

Paul Severin, MD, transport coordinator for the Pediatric Critical Care Program, returned to our program in 1999. During the previous year, he had been an attending physician at Chicago’s Shriner’s Children’s Hospital. He completed his medical school, residency and pediatric critical care fellowship at Rush Medical College in 1998. He is board certified in general pediatrics and pediatric critical care medicine. Dr. Severin also is an active member of Rush University’s Simulation Lab Steering Committee. See the newly arrived Baby Simulator. It is used for Pediatric Mock Codes and other applications.

Kenneth Boyer, MD, infectious disease consultant to pediatric critical care, is chairman of the Department of Pediatrics. He directed the PICU until 1991 and is board certified in pediatric critical care and pediatric infectious disease. As a professor at Rush Medical College, he has been honored several times for outstanding teaching. His training was completed in Cleveland (Metro and Rainbow Babies) and Los Angeles (UCLA). He directs the Rush/Stroger Hospital pediatric HIV program.