Newswise — MAYWOOD, Ill. – (March 6, 2015) Julie Fitzgerald, MD, brings her expertise in caring for critically ill children to the Ronald McDonald Children’s Hospital at Loyola University Medical Center where she is the division director for the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. She also is an associate professor in the Department of Pediatrics at Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine
As a pediatric intensivist Fitzgerald cares for some of the sickest pediatric patients in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. Her medical interests include pediatric sepsis, head trauma and pediatric sedation.
“Having a child in the Pediatric ICU can be one of the most overwhelming experiences a parent can go through. Pediatric critical care medicine allows me the opportunity to provide medical care to the sickest infants and children and to support their families through the entire experience,” said Fitzgerald. “Children have such amazing reserve and resilience that they can recover from devastating illness. And while being the physician in the Pediatric ICU is frequently mentally, physically and emotionally challenging, the reward of seeing the kids get better is enormous.”
In addition to caring for patients she is passionate about medical education, having been a featured speaker and lecturer. She helped to develop the pediatric critical care fellowship curriculum at The University of Chicago Comer Children’s Hospital where she also served as the fellowship director.
She is a member of the national pediatric fellowship program director’s committee for the Society of Critical Care Medicine. She is a fellow in the American Academy of Pediatrics and member of the American Medical Association, Society of Pediatric Sedation and Association of Pediatric Program Directors. She has served as a moderator for the University of Chicago Department of Pediatrics Fellow Research Program and is a member of the reviewer panel for Pedatric OnCall.
Fitzgerald is board certified in pediatric critical care and general pediatrics. She earned her medical degree from Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine. She completed a combined residency in internal medicine and pediatrics at University of Chicago Medical Center where she also completed a fellowship in Pediatric Critical Care.
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