How to Apply
The fellowship accepts applications through ERAS and participates in the national residency matching program (NRMP) through the annual fall subspecialty match. We start accepting applications for the match when ERAS opens in July for positions starting July the following year. When submitting your application, please also include 3 letters of recommendation addressed to our Fellowship Director, Martina Steurer. We typically schedule interviews in September and October. For benefits and salary information, please visit
For more information about the fellowship program:
- Email Kaitlin Clancey, Program Coordinator
- Benefits and salary
Current Fellows 2021-22
First Year
Medical School: Cairo University Medical School
Residency: SUNY Health Science Center at Brooklyn
Research: Evaluating Pulmonary Artery Hemodynamics in Congenital Heart Disease
Years: 2021-2024
Medical School: SUNY Downstate Medical Center
Residency: Tulane University Hospital and Clinics
Research: Trauma Informed Feedback in Medical Education
Years: 2021-2024
Carter Biewen, MD
Medical School: University of Minnesota Medical School
Residency: University of California, San Francisco, BCH-Oakland
Research: PARDS severity in resource-limited settings as defined using PALICC-2 criteria can be used to predict outcome and inform management
Years: 2021-2024
Jia Xin Huang, MD
Medical School: University of Vermont College of Medicine
Residency: University of California, Davis, School of Medicine
Research: Identifying outcome disparities and examining the association between acute kidney injury during diabetic ketoacidosis and future risk of diabetic nephropathy (microalbuminuria) in children with type 2 diabetes.
Years: 2021-2024
Medical School: UCLA
Residency: University of California, San Francisco
Research: Defining the Typical Course of Pulmonary Hypertension
Years: 2021-2024
Second Year
Medical School: Saint Louis University School of Medicine
Residency: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Research: Novel Autoantibody Discovery in Kawasaki Disease (KD) and Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome-Children (MIS-C)
Years: 2020-2023
Medical School: Boston University School of Medicine
Residency: University of California, San Francisco
Research: Using Machine Learning to Identify Electroencephalographic Markers of Arterial Ischemic Stroke in the Pediatric ICU: A Novel Quantitative EEG Approach
Years: 2020-2023
Medical School: Kasturba Medical College Mangalore
Residency: Albert Einstein Medical Center
Research: Racial disparities in pediatric ECMO outcomes
Years: 2020-2023
Michael Smith, MD
Medical School: Northwestern University - The Feinberg School of Medicine
Residency: University of California, San Francisco
Research: Factors contributing to age at tracheostomy decannulation in children with severe bronchopulmonary dysplasia
Years: 2020-2023
Third Year
Medical School: Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin University
Residency: Shands Children’s Hospital, University of Florida
Research: Transpulmonary Pressures and Lung Injury Biomarkers in Pediatric ARDS
Years: 2019-2022
Medical School: Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University
Residency: Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
Research: Acknowledging & Addressing Microaggressions, An Experiential Learning Approach
Years: 2019-2022
Sayyed Farishid Moussavi-Harami, MD
Medical School: University of Wisconsin School of Medicine
Residency: Albert Einstein Medical Center
Research: SHP-1 Modulation of Inflammation in Acute Lung Injury
Years: 2019-2023
Brian Young, MD
Medical School: Georgetown University School of Medicine
Residency: Baylor College of Medicine
Research: Infant Outcomes in Mothers with ACHD
Years: 2019-2023
Fourth Year
Medical School: Harvard Medical School
Residency: Boston Children's Hospital
Research: Scale-up of a silicon micropore membrane oxygenator for artificial placenta technology
Years: 2018-2022
Medical School: Emory University School of Medicine
Residency: University of California, San Francisco
Research: Acquiring skills in assessment of child development during the COVID-19 Pandemic: a virtual activity for clerkship
Years: 2018-2022
Fellowship Alumni
Critical care fellowship alumni are listed below by program year and current institutional affiliation:
April Edwell 2017-2021
Faculty, UCSF
Anyir Hsieh 2019-2022
CICU Group, CHLA
Elyssa Guslits 2018-2021
PICU Attending, Kaiser Santa Clara
Sarah Lau-Braunhut 2018-2021
CICU Group, CHLA
Alice Ramirez (Ainsworth) 2017-2021
CICU Fellowship, Stanford
Lindsay Braun 2017-2020
University of California, San Francisco
Hussam Inany 2018-2020
Saudi Arabia Cultural Mission
Jana Krystofova Mike 2016-2020
University of California, San Francisco
Kathryn Robertson 2017-2020
Kaiser, Santa Clara
Neelima Marupudi 2016-2019
University of Chicago
Emily Morell 2016-2019
University of California, San Francisco
Brian Goudy 2016-2019
University of California, Davis
Terry Dean 2016-2019
George Washington University
Malini Mahendra 2015-2019
University of California, San Francisco
Edmund Burke 2016-2018
University of California, San Francisco
Katie Kowalek 2015-2018
University of Arizona
Helayne Feferman 2015-2018
University of Arizona
Kari Wellnitz 2016-2018
University of Iowa
Amy Romer 2015-2018
University of Pennsylvania
Erika Wong 2016-2018
California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, CA
Matthew Zinter 2016-2018
University of California, San Francisco
Alison Nair 2013-2017
University of California, San Francisco
Timothy Rogers 2014-2017
Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, Oakland, CA