Faculty and Staff
Chief
Jayesh Thakker, MD, MBA
Associate Professor, UNMC Division of Critical Care
Division Chief, UNMC Division of Critical Care
Faculty
Elizabeth J Bleed, MD, MA
Assistant Professor, UNMC Division of Critical Care
Medical Director for Complex Care in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Children’s Nebraska
Lindsay Blick, MD, MEd
Assistant Professor, UNMC Division of Critical Care
Associate Program Director, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Fellowship
Lauren Edwards, MD
Assistant Professor, UNMC Division of Critical Care
Associate Program Director, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Fellowship
Michael Facciolo, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, UNMC
Samantha Gilg, MD
Assistant Professor, UNMC Division of Cardiology
Assistant Professor, UNMC Division of Critical Care
Grant Hamill, MD
Assistant Professor, UNMC Division of Critical Care
Assistant Professor, UNMC Division of Pulmonology
Kelly Kadlec, MD, MEd
Professor, UNMC Division of Critical Care
Program Director, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Fellowship
Medical Director, Simulation Program
Medical Director, Project Austin
Santosh Kaipa, MD, MS
Assistant Professor, UNMC Division of Critical Care
Medical Director of Extracorporeal Services., Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
Andrew Macfadyen, MD
Associate Professor, UNMC Division of Critical Care
Medical Director, Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU)
Medical Director, Hand-in-Hand Pediatric Palliative Care Program
Sidharth Mahapatra, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, UNMC Department of Pediatrics
Associate Professor, UNMC Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Chair, Nebraska Children’s Brain Tumor Collaborative
Co-Director, Pediatric Cancer Research Group
Laura Ortmann, MD
Associate Professor, UNMC Division of Critical Care
Medical Director, Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit (CICU)
Jeffrey Salomon, MD, MBA
Associate Professor, UNMC Division of Critical Care
Assistant Professor, UNMC Department of Physiology
Timothy Welch, MD
Associate Professor, UNMC Division of Critical Care
Associate Professor, UNMC Department of Anesthesiology
