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
- Kristen Nelson McMillan, MD
- Associate Professor
- Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care
- Pediatric pulmonary Hypertension, Advanced Heart Failure
- Director, Pediatric Ventricular Assist Device program
- Advocate Children’s Hospital
- University of Chicago Comer Children’s Hospital
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