Executive Committee

President

  • Varsha Gharpure, MD, FAAP, FCCM
  • Pediatric Intensivist
  • Advocate Children’s hospital, Park Ridge, IL
  • Clinical Associate Professor, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science,
    North Chicago, IL

President-Elect

  • Candice White, MSN, APRN, AGCNS-BC
  • Advance Practice Nurse,
  • Structural Heart, Cardiothoracic surgery, Cardiology
  • UnityPoint Methodist Hospital, IL

Immediate Past President

  • Girish Deshpande, MD, FAAP, FCCM
  • Professor of Clinical Pediatrics,
  • Critical Care Medicine, Department of Pediatrics
  • University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria
  • Pediatric Intensivist, Children’s Hospital of Illinois, Peoria, IL

Secretary

  • Peter Kang,MD,MSCI
  • Assistant Professor of Neurology, Neurocritical Care Section
  • Interim Associate Program Director, Neurology Residency Program
  • Washington University School of Medicine & Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St Louis, MO

Treasurer

  • Rajat Kapoor, MD, MBA
  • Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
  • Department of Medicine,
  • Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Allergy Medicine
  • Indiana University School of Medicine
  • Indianapolis, Indiana