Efrat Lelkes, MD

Efrat Lelkes is a pediatric critical care and palliative care physician who is interesting in fostering an increased understanding and integration of bioethics in pediatrics to ameliorate moral distress and enhance meaning in medicine for providers. Through clinical ethics, multidisciplinary education and narrative ethics, she aims to strengthen our ability to provide excellent care, advance pediatric medicine further, and care for the sickest of children.
Education
2019 - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training, University of California
2017 - Hospice and Palliative Medicine, University of Washingon
2016 - Pediatric Bioethics, Mercy Children's
2013 - Pediatric Critical Care, University of California San Francisco
2009 - Pediatrics, University of Chicago
MD, 2006 - , University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
Websites

  1. Moynihan KM, Taylor LS, Siegel B, Nassar N, Lelkes E, Morrison W. "Death as the One Great Certainty": ethical implications of children with irreversible cardiorespiratory failure and dependence on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. Frontiers in pediatrics 2024. PMID: 38274466


  2. Babal JC, Lelkes E, Kloster H, Zwemer E, Lien ER, Sklansky D, Coller RJ, Moreno MA, Schultz R, Webber S. Pediatric Resident Well-being: A Group Concept Mapping Study. Academic pediatrics 2024. PMID: 38215904


  3. Levine A, Winn PA, Fogel AH, Lelkes E, McPoland P, Agrawal AK, Bogetz JF. Barriers to Pediatric Palliative Care: Trainee and Faculty Perspectives Across Two Academic Centers. Journal of palliative medicine 2023. PMID: 37318791


  4. Mahrik L, Stefanovie B, Maresova A, Princova J, Kolesar P, Lelkes E, Faux C, Helmlinger D, Prevorovsky M, Palecek JJ. The SAGA histone acetyltransferase module targets SMC5/6 to specific genes. Epigenetics & chromatin 2023. PMID: 36793083


  5. Christina Mulé, Shaina Rose Ciaccio, Rose Bendas, Monica Snyder, Jessica Bratt Carle, Angela Yvonne Dahm, Monika Jaquier, Sirena Washington, Jill Wieber Lens, Indre Razbadauskaite Venske, L. Emily Cotter, Giulia Faison, Erica C. Kaye, Taylor McIntyre, Anita Kumar Chang, Daniel J. Hurst, Rachel N. Hurst, Elise C. Tarbi, Katarina Lepinski, Efrat Lelkes. Full Collection of Personal Narratives. Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics 2022. PMID:


  6. Efrat Lelkes. Sacrifices. Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics 2022. PMID:


  7. Madrigal VN, Feltman DM, Leuthner SR, Kirsch R, Hamilton R, Dokken D, Needle J, Boss R, Lelkes E, Carter B, Macias E, Bhombal S. Bioethics for Neonatal Cardiac Care. Pediatrics 2022. PMID: 36317974


  8. Moynihan KM, Lelkes E, Kumar RK, DeCourcey DD. Is this as good as it gets? Implications of an asymptotic mortality decline and approaching the nadir in pediatric intensive care. 2021. PMID: 34599379


  9. Eileen Rhee, Efrat Lelkes, Wynne Morrison. Palliative Sedation. 2020. PMID:


  10. Lelkes E, Patel A, Joong A, Gossett JG. Should Decision Making Be Shared in High-Risk Pediatric Heart Donation? AMA journal of ethics 2020. PMID: 32449656


  11. Patel A, Joong A, Lelkes E, Gossett JG. Should Physicians Offer a Ventricular Assist Device to a Pediatric Oncology Patient With a Poor Prognosis? AMA journal of ethics 2019. PMID: 31127916


  12. Chao-Hui Huang, James Dionne-Odom, Kathleen Bickel, Efrat Lelkes, Elizabeth Kvale, Edward MacPhee. Trauma-informed Palliative Care: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Assessing and Treating Patients and Families with Trauma- and Stress-Related Symptoms (SA505). 2018. PMID:


  13. Lelkes E. Humility Through Humiliation in Continuity Clinic. 2016. PMID: 28479583


  14. Lelkes E, Headley MB, Thornton EE, Looney MR, Krummel MF. The spatiotemporal cellular dynamics of lung immunity. 2014. PMID: 24974157


  15. Efrat Lelkes, Mark R. Looney, Matthew F. Krummel. 162 Regulatory T cells modulate systemic illness following acute lung injury. 2013. PMID:


  16. Lelkes E, Unsworth BR, Lelkes PI. Reactive oxygen species, apoptosis and altered NGF-induced signaling in PC12 pheochromocytoma cells cultured in elevated glucose: an in vitro cellular model for diabetic neuropathy. 2001. PMID: 14715473