L. Nelson Sachenz-Pinto

Nelson is a pediatric critical care physician, data science researcher, and clinical informatician. He is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics (Division of Critical Care) and Preventive Medicine (Division of Biostatistics and Informatics) at Northwestern University and Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago.

His NIH-funded research focuses on applying data science, AI, and informatics tools to improve the care of children with sepsis and other acute and critical care conditions.

He has led several large-scale data sharing initiatives and data collaboration projects both nationally and internationally, including co-leading the team that derived and validated the Phoenix criteria for sepsis in children.

He is one of the founders and past chairs of the PICU Data Collaborative, which is collecting granular, anonymized electronic health record data from over half a million critically ill children from 26 institutions in the US.