Caitlyn McNamara, MD
Mentors: Rachel Berger, MD, MPH and Ericka Fink, MD, MS
Dr. McNamara finished her training on our T32 in 2024. She was a pediatric critical care medicine fellow who was an award-winning and highly productive trainee during her T32 fellowship. She focused on the topic of abusive head trauma (the shaken baby syndrome) in infants. She published papers on the topics of both long-term outcomes and multiple organ failure in victims of abusive head trauma. For her work she received the bronze medal at the 2023 Congress of the Society of Critical Care Medicine, the 2024 National Neurotrauma Society Travel Award, was a Fink Scholar Abstract Winner, was selected as the top clinical fellow across all divisions in Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh in 2023 and was the Nancy Caroline Fellow award winner at the Safar Center in 2024. She has joined our faculty as an Assistant Professor of Critical Care Medicine in the Department of Critical Care Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.