Katherine Biagas, MD

Dr. Katherine Biagas is a Professor of Pediatrics at Stony Brook Children’s Hospital, Director of the Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, and Vice Chair for Faculty Affairs in the Department of Pediatrics. She has been a board-certified physician practicing pediatric critical care for more than 30 years and has numerous honors including the designation of Fellow of the American College of Critical Care Medicine (FCCM). This prestigious designation honors practitioners, researchers, administrators and educators who have made outstanding contributions to the field of critical care. It also indicates that their achievements demonstrate personal and professional committment to the profession.

Dr. Biagas is internationally recognized for her expertise in the management of critically ill children, especially those with neurologic or cardiac diseases. She is a clinical researcher conducting studies on the functional, cognitive, and behavioral outcomes of children after critical illness. She is also a Chair of the Stony Brook University Institutional Review Board (IRB) that reviews and monitors all clinical research. Dr. Biagas is also a committed educator striving to impact the next generation of physicians by training nearly 50 fellows in her specialty. Dr. Biagas has led many local and national committees furthering the care of critically ill and injured children. She has published numerous manuscripts and book chapters in the field and has been invited to speak on a variety of topics at national and international conferences.

MOST RECENT (since 2015):

Sedation Research in Critically Ill Pediatric Patients: Proposals for Future Study Design From the Sedation Consortium on Endpoints and Procedures for Treatment, Education, and Research IV Workshop, Jackson, S.S., Lee, J.J., Jackson, W.M., Price, J.C., Beers, S.R., Berkenbosch, J.W., Biagas, K.V., Dworkin, R.H., Houck, C.S., Li, G. and Smith, H.A., Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, 25(4), pp.e193-e204, 2024.

Scoping review: neurocognitive outcome assessments after critical illness in children, Biagas, K.V., Heneghan, J.A., Abu-Sultaneh, S., Geneslaw, A.S., Maddux, A.B., Pinto, N.P., Murphy, S.A., Shein, S.L. and Cronin, M.T., Journal of intensive care medicine, 38(4), pp.358-367, 2023.

Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Patients: Sedation, Monitoring, and Neurodevelopmental Outcomes, Lee, J.J., Jaconia, G.D., Sun, L.S., Biagas, K.V., Naim, M.Y., Beers, S.R., Mintz, C.D. and Smith, H.A., Journal of Neurosurgical Anesthesiology, 35(1), pp.147-152, 2023.

Changes in distribution of severe neurologic involvement in US pediatric inpatients with COVID-19 or multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children in 2021 vs 2020, LaRovere, K.L., Poussaint, T.Y., Young, C.C., Newhams, M.M., Kucukak, S., Irby, K., Kong, M., Schwartz, S.P., Walker, T.C., Bembea, M.M. and Wellnitz, K., JAMA neurology, 80(1), pp.91-98, 2023.

Intubation practice and outcomes among pediatric emergency departments: a report from National Emergency Airway Registry for Children (NEAR4KIDS), Capone, C.A., Emerson, B., Sweberg, T., Polikoff, L., Turner, D.A., Adu‐Darko, M., Li, S., Glater‐Welt, L.B., Howell, J., Brown III, C.A. and Donoghue, A., Academic Emergency Medicine, 29(4), pp.406-414, 2022.

A core outcome measurement set for pediatric critical care, Pinto, N.P., Maddux, A.B., Dervan, L.A., Woodruff, A.G., Jarvis, J.M., Nett, S., Killien, E.Y., Graham, R.J., Choong, K., Luckett, P.M. and Heneghan, J.A., Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, 23(11), pp.893-907, 2022.

Design and reporting characteristics of clinical trials investigating sedation practices in the paediatric intensive care unit: a scoping review by SCEPTER (Sedation Consortium on Endpoints and Procedures for Treatment, Education and Research), Lee, J.J., Price, J.C., Gewandter, J., Kleykamp, B.A., Biagas, K.V., Naim, M.Y., Ward, D., Dworkin, R.H. and Sun, L.S., BMJ open, 11(10), p.e053519, 2021.

Postdischarge outcome domains in pediatric critical care and the instruments used to evaluate them: a scoping review, Maddux, A.B., Pinto, N., Fink, E.L., Hartman, M.E., Nett, S., Biagas, K., Killien, E.Y., Dervan, L.A., Christie, L.M., Luckett, P.M. and Loftis, L., Critical care medicine, 48(12), pp.e1313-e1321, 2020.

Long-term neurobehavioral and quality of life outcomes of critically ill children after glycemic control, Biagas, K.V., Hinton, V.J., Hasbani, N.R., Luckett, P.M., Wypij, D., Nadkarni, V.M., Agus, M.S., Srinivasan, V., Mourani, P.M., Chima, R. and Thomas, N.J., The Journal of pediatrics, 218, pp.57-63, 2020.

Plasma and Platelet Utilization in Children on Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation: A Call for Targeted Anticoagulation, Biagas, K.V. and Muratore, C.S., Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, 21(3), pp.296-297, 2020.

Short-term adverse outcomes associated with hypoglycemia in critically ill children, Faustino, E.V.S., Hirshberg, E.L., Asaro, L.A., Biagas, K.V., Pinto, N., Srinivasan, V., Bagdure, D.N., Steil, G.M., Coughlin-Wells, K., Wypij, D. and Nadkarni, V.M., Critical care medicine, 47(5), pp.706-714, 2019.

When is our job done? Evaluation of long-term psychological outcomes in pediatric critical care, Biagas, K. and Agus, M.S., Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, 20(11), pp.1099-1100, 2019.

Evaluation of the Pediatric Trauma Patient: Support for Judicious Use of CT Imaging, Biagas, K.V., Gross, E.R. and Muratore, C.S., Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, 20(6), pp.579-580, 2019.

Adverse Tracheal Intubation Events in Critically Ill Underweight and Obese Children: Retrospective Study of the National Emergency Airway for Children Registry (2013–2020), Gladen, K.M., Tellez, D., Napolitano, N., Edwards, L.R., Sanders Jr, R.C., Kojima, T., Malone, M.P., Shults, J., Krawiec, C., Ambati, S. and McCarthy, R., Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, 25(2), pp.147-158, 2024.

Safety of tracheal intubation in the presence of cardiac disease in paediatric ICUs, Gradidge, E.A., Bakar, A., Tellez, D., Ruppe, M., Tallent, S., Bird, G., Lavin, N., Lee, A., Nadkarni, V., Adu-Darko, M. and Bain, J., Cardiology in the Young, 28(7), pp.928-937, 2018.

Delirium in children after cardiac bypass surgery, Patel, A.K., Biagas, K.V., Clarke, E.C., Gerber, L.M., Mauer, E., Silver, G., Chai, P., Corda, R. and Traube, C., Pediatric critical care medicine, 18(2), pp.165-171, 2017.

Promoters and barriers to implementation of tracheal intubation airway safety bundle: a mixed-method analysis, Davis, K.F., Napolitano, N., Li, S., Buffman, H., Rehder, K., Pinto, M., Nett, S., Jarvis, J.D., Kamat, P., Sanders Jr, R.C. and Turner, D.A., Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, 18(10), pp.965-972, 2017.

Relationship between adverse tracheal intubation associated events and PICU outcomes, Parker, M.M., Nuthall, G., Brown III, C., Biagas, K., Napolitano, N., Polikoff, L.A., Simon, D., Miksa, M., Gradidge, E., Lee, J.H. and Krishna, A.S., Pediatric critical care medicine, 18(4), pp.310-318, 2017.

Delirium in the pediatric cardiac extracorporeal membrane oxygenation patient population: a case series, Patel, A.K., Biagas, K.V., Clark, E.C. and Traube, C., Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, 18(12), pp.e621-e624, 2017.

Post–intensive care syndrome: a look at PICU outcomes, Biagas, K.V. and Hough, R.F., Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, 17(11), p.1101, 2016.

BOOK CHAPTERS:

Sloniewsky D and Biagas KV:  Drowning.  Roger’s Textbook of Pediatric Intensive Care, 6th Edition.   Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins, Philadelphia, PA:2024: 477-483

Salant J, and Biagas KV:  Refractory asthma in pediatric patients: Practice Based Learning in Critical Care, Miller, Johnston, and Rumley eds.  Oxford University Press. New York, NY: 2022: 1-8.

Biagas KV, Wilhelm M, and Fuhrman BP:  Overview of breathing failure.  Pediatric Critical Care, 6th Edition.  Zimmerman and Rotta, eds.  Elsevier Saunders. Philadelphia, PA 2021:492-502

Bhatia, M and Biagas, KV:  Hematopoetic cell transplantation.  Roger’s Textbook of Pediatric Intensive Care, 5th Edition.   Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins, Philadelphia, PA 2015: 1928-1945.