Short Bio:  Murray M. Pollack, MD, MCCM 

I am an outcomes researcher, pediatric critical care medicine specialist, a pioneer in this subspecialty, an experienced administrator, and mentor. My major focus has been measuring severity of illness and applying these methodologies to investigations of pediatric critical care, quality of care, emergency medicine, and neonatology. My major contributions include  

My current efforts major efforts are twofold.  First, I am developing the first dynamic risk methodology suitable for bedside use in individual patients.  Second, I am developing the conceptual framework for defining a new physiological state that could change the way we identify patients at risk for critical illness.   Currently these efforts utilize existing electronic health record databases and artificial intelligence, as well as more routine bio-statistical methods.  Most pertinent to this proposal, my team and I have developed a new conceptual framework for severity of illness pertinent to this era of electronic health records and artificial intelligence analytic methods.  This method, the Criticality Index uses a new outcome, probability of receiving intensive care, as the relevant outcome for all hospitalized children.  It uses measure of physiology, therapy, and intensity of care as core independent variables and machine learning.  We are able to predict care needs up to 30 hours in the future. 

I am currently at Children’s National Hospital.   

Bibliography:  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/myncbi/murray.pollack.1/bibliography/48189821/public/?sort=date&direction=descending