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Jeff Steiner, DO, MBA, is a pediatric anesthesiologist and medical educator who retired early from clinical medicine after a career at University of Texas Southwestern. During his time at UTSW, he served as an associate professor, program director of the Pediatric Anesthesiology Fellowship, and director of clinical operations for the Division of Anesthesia at UTSW. He is now the founder and financial planner at Second Opinion Financial, a fee-only fiduciary firm focused on helping physicians nav

Dr. Benson Hsu is a pediatric intensivist at Avera Children’s Hospital in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine. His academic work spans pediatric critical care, organ donation and transplantation, health services research, and national pediatric practice guidelines. In this episode, Dr. Hsu joins PedsCrit to discuss pediatric donation after circulatory determination of death, including the clinical, ethical, and sys

This episode is produced in collaboration with WFPICCS (the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies) showcasing the talks you can look forward to at WFPICCS 2026 in Melbourne, September 27–30. Dr. Sarah Seaton is an Associate Professor in Perinatal and Paediatric Research at the University of Leicester in the UK. She earned her undergraduate degree in Mathematics from the University of Wales, followed by a MSc in Medical Statistics and a PhD at Leicester. Dr. Seaton

Ryan Coleman, MD is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine with dual appointments in Critical Care Medicine and Pulmonary Medicine at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston. He earned his medical degree from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio School of Medicine, completed pediatric residency and pediatric critical care fellowship training at Baylor College of Medicine, and holds additional training in pediatric bioethics. Dr. Coleman is board-c

Charles Berde, MD, PhD, is the Sara Page Mayo Chair in Pediatric Pain Medicine and a Professor of Anaesthesia at Harvard Medical School. As a co-founder of the Pain Treatment Center at Boston Children's Hospital, he has spent decades at the forefront of pediatric analgesic pharmacology and the development of novel local anesthetics. His extensive translational research focuses on local anesthetic mechanisms and prolonged-duration formulations, making him a preeminent authority on the physiologic

About our Guests: Fran Balamuth, MD, PhD, MSCE, is division chief of Pediatric Emergency Medicine at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Dr. Balamuth’s research interests focus on pediatric sepsis recognition using epidemiologic and translational approaches, for which she has received NIH and foundation funding. She is the co-PI of the PROMPT BOLUS trial, a multinational pragmatic trial comparing saline vs balanced fluids in pediatric sepsis, which will be the largest acute care pediatric t