Department or Service
Department of Pediatric Medicine, Intensive Care
Specialty
Intensive Care
Primary Location
Texas Children's Hospital
Contact Information
6621 Fannin
W6006
Houston, TX 77030
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Phone: 832-826-6230
Curtis E. Kennedy, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Section of Critical Care Medicine - Baylor College of Medicine
Medical School
Baylor College of Medicine, Doctor of Medicine, 1997
Internship
Baylor College of Medicine, Pediatrics, 1998
Residency
Baylor College of Medicine, Pediatrics, 2000
Fellowship
Baylor College of Medicine, Pediatric Critical Care, 2003
From Dr. Kennedy
Dr. Kennedy’s primary research focus is on predictive modeling of cardiac arrest in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. Through application of predictive modeling and data mining algorithms on physiologic and laboratory data trends, he is pursuing the creation of a clinically useful predictive model of cardiac arrest that will provide caregivers with advanced warning of impending arrests, thereby allowing for preventative measures that will abort the arrest or minimize its impact on the patient. His secondary research focus is on providing bedside decision support to clinicians by leveraging information in hospital information to automatically calculate derived measures that are used in making clinical decisions. Many of the decisions clinicians make in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit are based on data elements that must be calculated from multiple pieces of raw data in order to determine their value. By providing automated calculations, he hopes to improve the accuracy and consistency of data used in caring for PICU patients.
Professional Organizations *
- American Academy of Pediatrics
Member - Society of Critical Care Medicine
Member - American Medical Information Association
Member
Selected Publications
Kennedy CE, Turley JP. Time series analysis as input for clinical predictive modeling: Modeling cardiac arrest in a pediatric ICU. Theoretical Biology and Medical Modeling 2011 Oct 24;8(1):40.
Desai MS, Zainuer S, Kennedy C, Kearney D, Goss J, Karpen SJ. Cardiac Structural and Functional Alterations in Infants and Children with Biliary Atresia, Listed for Liver Transplantation. Gastroenterology 2011 Oct;141(4):1264-1272.e1-4. Epub 2011 Jul 14.
Kyle UG; Coss Bu JA; Kennedy CE; Jefferson LS. Organ dysfunction is associated with hyperglycemia in critically ill children. Intensive Care Medicine 2010 Feb; 36(2):312-20.
Studer MA, Kennedy CE, Dreyer WJ, Price JF, Moffett BS, Teitel ER, Carberry KE, Morales DL, McKenzie ED, Chang AC. An alternative treatment strategy for pump thrombus in the DeBakey VAD Child: use of clopidogrel as a thrombolytic agent. Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation 2006 Jul; 25(7): 857-61.
Lising M, Kennedy C. A Multimethod Approach to Evaluating Critical Care Information Systems. Computers, Informatics, Nursing 2005 January/February; 23(1):27-37.
* Texas Children's Hospital physicians' licenses and credentials are reviewed prior to practicing at any of our facilities. Sections titled From the Doctor, Professional Organizations and Publications were provided by the physician's office and were not verified by Texas Children's Hospital.
