Meet Our Team - Critical Care
Benny L. Joyner Jr., MD, MPH
- Chief, Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
- Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Anesthesiology, and Social Medicine
- Director, UNC Clinical Skills and Patient Simulation Center (CSPSC)
Clinical Interests: Airway inflammation in pediatric patients suffering from inhalation injury, human simulation, and team training.
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Jenny M. Boyd, MD
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Associate Professor, Pediatrics and Anesthesiology
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Medical Director, Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
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Associate Chief Medical Officer for Credentialing and Medical Staff Services, UNC Hospitals
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Faculty, UNC Institute for Healthcare Quality Improvements
Clinical Interests: Delirium, Sedation Practices in the ICU, Quality Improvement, Team Training, and Patient Safety
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Katherine C. Clement, MD
- Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Anesthesiology
Clinical Interests: Anesthesiology and pediatric critical care, Extracorporeal Life Support (ECLS).
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Margaret Kihlstrom, MD
- Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Anesthesiology
Clinical Interests: Anesthesiology, pediatric critical care, sedation.
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Stephanie Schwartz
- Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Clinical Interests: Pediatric Critical Care, anesthesiology, quality improvement and safety, ECMO.
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Rebecca Smith, MD
- Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Anesthesiology
Clinical Interests: Traumatic brain injury, palliative care, transport medicine.
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Margaret Kihlstrom, MD
- Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Anesthesiology
Clinical Interests: Anesthesiology, pediatric critical care, sedation.
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Matthew Pizzuto, MD
- Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Clinical Interests: Cardiac Intensive Care, Pulmonary hypertension, Research, Simulation
Tracie Walker, MD
- Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Clinical Interests: quality improvement to optimize sedation, prevent and recognize delirium and promote early mobilization of our pediatric ICU patients
Fellows
Third Year
- Katie Clouthier, DO
Residency: University of Connecticut
Medical School: University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine
- Shannon Solt, DO
Residency: Sinai Hospital of Baltimore
Medical School: West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine
Second Year
- Dennis Leung, MD
Residency: Loma Linda Children’s Hospital
Medical School: Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin University of Med & Science
- Jorge Feria, MD
Residency: Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
Medical School: Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University
First Year
- LeeAnne Flygt, MD
Residency: University of North Carolina
Medical School: University of Michigan Medical School
- Jeremy Sites, MD
Residency: University of Florida
Medical School: University of Kentucky College of Medicine
Administrative Staff
- Melissa Halkovic
Division Administrator
- Charlotte Weaver, MS
Administrative Director
- Tiffany Dias
Administrative Specialist
Faculty from the Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine lead several important UNC Children's program, including:
- Afsaneh Pirzadeh, MD, directs UNC Children's Pediatric Rapid Response System, the first of its kind in North Carolina.
- Afsaneh Pirzadeh, MD, is the physician leader for the Pediatric Schwartz Center Rounds, the first pediatric rounds established in North Carolina to provide staff support.
- Two members of our faculty, Benny Joyner, MD and Afsaneh Pirzadeh, MD, have taken the initiative of becoming TeamSTEPPS™ Master Trainers. They have implemented this training throughout the division and in many other departments in the hospital in an effort to encourage communication, improve patient care and enhance the teamwork environment.
- Jenny Boyd, MD, Katie Clement, MD, and Tina Schade Willis, MD, are actively involved in developing new clinical pathways, establishing new clinical protocols and heading all of the quality improvement efforts.
- Katie Clement, MD, is involved in improving our ECMO program and introducing new technologies to UNC in an effort to continue to provide the best care available for our little patients.
