21526-Abu-Sultaneh, Samer

Samer Abu-Sultaneh, MD

Professor of Clinical Pediatrics

Associate Director, Pediatric Critical Care Fellowship Program

Co-Chair, IUSM Faculty Quality Improvement Portfolio Committee

Medical Director, Respiratory Care

Email
sultaneh@iu.edu
Address
Phase 2, Suite 4900
705 Riley Hospital Dr
Indianapolis, IN 46202
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Bio

Focusing on service to his patients, the university and the department, he serves as chair of the unplanned extubation committee, co-chair of the IUSM maintenance of certification QI portfolio committee and medical director of respiratory care at Riley Hospital for Children at Indiana University Health/Indiana University School of Medicine. He is also the past co-chair for the SCCM ICU liberation committee. Samer’s academic focus is respiratory-driven inter-professional quality improvement management protocols and implementing ICU liberation in pediatric ICUs, especially pediatric ventilator liberation.  

Dr. Abu-Sultaneh is involved in multiple Pediatric Acute Lung Injury and Sepsis Investigators (PALISI) sponsored multi-center studies like computerized decision support (CDS) for PARDS and LongVentKids. He is the co-chair of the pediatric ventilator liberation guidelines. Currently he is co-leading the implementation study of the guidelines through multicenter collaborative (VentLib4Kids). Continuing his interest in standardizing care and guidelines development, he became one of the co-chairs to oversee the development of the AARC/PALISI pediatric critical asthma clinical practice guidelines. 

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