Alicia Alcamo

Alicia, MD, MPH, is a pediatric critical care physician-scientist at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and the University of Pennsylvania, with a research focus on improving survivorship and long-term neurocognitive outcomes in children who survive sepsis. She received her MD and Master of Public Health from The Ohio State University and completed pediatric residency at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, where she also served as chief resident. She then completed a pediatric critical care medicine fellowship at the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, along with an NIH T32 fellowship in neurointensive care research.

Since joining the CHOP/Penn faculty in 2019, Dr. Alcamo has contributed to CHOP’s Pediatric Sepsis, Pediatric Neurocritical Care, and Pediatric Outcomes Post-Critical Care Outreach and Research Network programs. Her work aims to define trajectories of neurocognitive recovery after sepsis and identify risk factors associated with worse outcomes to better recognize – and support – children at highest risk. She is the recipient of an NIH K23 award studying neurocognitive recovery during the first year after pediatric sepsis.