Central Line episode 123: Subspecialty: Pediatrics

John Fiadjoe, MD

John Fiadjoe, MD, is an associate professor of anaesthesia at Harvard Medical School and the executive vice chair of the department of anesthesiology, critical care and pain medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital. Dr. Jones is passionate about improving the safety of airway management in children.

Dr. Fiadjoe received his undergraduate degrees in biomedical and electrical engineering from The Johns Hopkins University. He completed his MD degree at Northwestern University and trained in anesthesiology at SUNY Downstate Medical Center. Dr. Fiadjoe went on to a do a fellowship in pediatric anesthesiology at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Dr. Fiadjoe serves as the secretary/treasurer for the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia and the credentials committee chair for the American Board of Anesthesiology. Dr. Fiadjoe’s favorite quote is “let’s not talk about it. Let’s be about it”.

Annery Garcia-Marcinkiewicz, MD, MSCE

Annery Garcia-Marcinkiewicz, MD, MSCE, is an assistant professor of anesthesiology and critical care at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania. She is the associate division chief of diversity, equity, and inclusion for general anesthesiology, and the co-director of the Difficult Airway Program at CHOP. Dr. Garcia-Marcinkiewicz is passionate about improving the safety of pediatric airway management and airway education. She is the site PI for the Pediatric Difficult Intubation Registry at CHOP and enjoys engaging other interested sites in performing airway research. Dr. Garcia-Marcinkiewicz serves on the board of Women in Anesthesiology and is the current president-elect. She is passionate about improving the inclusion of women and underrepresented in medicine colleagues into academic medicine. She enjoys choreographing dance routines and writing short plays with her 3 kids, Lea (10), Vincent (8), and Emilia (3), and their German Shephard pup, “Noodle.”

Dr. Garcia-Marcinkiewicz received her undergraduate degree from the Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education, at the City University of New York, where she studied biomedical science. She graduated from the New York University School of Medicine and did her anesthesiology residency at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Dr. Garcia-Marcinkiewicz then did her pediatric anesthesiology fellowship at CHOP and remained on faculty ever since. She then obtained a master of science in clinical epidemiology from the University of Pennsylvania. She enjoys journalistic writing and suspense thrillers.

Adam Striker, MD, FASA

Adam Striker, MD, FASA, is currently Chair of the ASA Committee on Communications, and is the series editor for ASA’s Central Line podcast series. He is an Associate Professor and serves as staff anesthesiologist in the Division of Cardiac Anesthesia at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital and in the Division of Pediatric Anesthesia at Kentucky Children’s Hospital as part of the Joint Congenital Heart Care Program. He received his undergraduate degree in engineering from Purdue University and his medical degree from Indiana University. He completed his pediatric anesthesiology fellowship at Northwestern University.