Vinay Nadkarni

Vinay Nadkarni MD, MS, FCCM, FERC, FAHA is an Endowed Chair of Critical Care Medicine, Director of the Center for Simulation, Advanced Education and Innovation at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and Associate Director of the Center for Resuscitation Science at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. He is an internationally recognized physician-scientist with a longstanding commitment to the discovery, translation and implementation of shock, trauma and resuscitation science. He serves as co-chair of the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR, 2007-2015), the leading scientific liaison collaborative for the resuscitation councils of Europe, Canada, Latin America, South Africa, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. He was chairman of the national AHA Emergency Cardiovascular Committee 2006-2010. With national colleagues, he formed a scientific advisory board, which founded and obtained funding for an AHA National Registry of CPR to collect, analyze, and publish national trends in the process and outcomes of in-hospital cardiac arrest.