Dr. Maryam Naim is an Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Critical Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, and the Associate Chief of Research in the Division of Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care Medicine at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Over the last 16 years, her research and clinical efforts have been dedicated to improving outcomes children who experience cardiac arrest. Her work in the cardiac arrest research laboratory investigated novel methods of performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation to a hemodynamic target and she was a co-investigator in ICU-RESUS a multicenter study exploring the impact of high-quality CPR in outcomes following pediatric in hospital cardiac arrest. She has worked with the Cardiac Arrest Registry to Enhance Survival to describe the impact of bystander CPR in pediatric out of hospital cardiac arrest and showed that racial disparities in provision of bystander CPR were related to neighborhood level social determinants of health. Additionally, she has described the superiority of CPR with rescue breathing to compression-only CPR in the pediatric out of hospital cardiac arrest population. Her long-term career goals are to improve outcomes in pediatric cardiac arrest. She has additional leadership roles include physician recruitment, physician wellbeing and diversity equity and inclusion (DEI). She is part of the research core of the CHOP Center for Health Equity and co-chairs the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit DEI committee.