Nadir Yehya, MD, MSCE

Nadir Yehya, MD, MSCE is an Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care and Pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and an attending physician in the pediatric intensive care unit at CHOP. Dr. Yehya’s research interests encompass all aspects of pediatric critical illness, with a particular emphasis on acute respiratory failure, acute respiratory syndrome (ARDS), and mechanical ventilation. ARDS consists of sudden, severe flooding of the lungs in response to an inflammatory insult causing difficulty breathing, frequently requiring mechanical ventilation. Sepsis is a leading cause of ARDS in children. His long-term goal is better characterization of ARDS in children and to test therapies designed to improve outcomes. Dr. Yehya has several active studies involving biomarkers, clinical epidemiology, trial methodology, and pathophysiological mechanisms in the field of pediatric sepsis and ARDS. He is a graduate of the University of California at Los Angeles School of Medicine. After completing pediatrics training at Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, he completed his pediatric critical care fellowship at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), and joined the faculty after graduation in 2011.