Maria Fraga, MD
Disclosures: Nothing to disclose - 03/12/2024
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NAME: María V. Fraga, MD

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POSITION TITLE: Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics

EDUCATION/TRAINING (Begin with baccalaureate or other initial professional education, such as nursing, include postdoctoral training and residency training if applicable. Add/delete rows as necessary.)

INSTITUTION AND LOCATION

DEGREE

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Completion Date

MM/YYYY

 

FIELD OF STUDY

 

University of Buenos Aires Medical School

MD

06/99

Medicine

The Children’s Hospital of Buenos Aires

Residency

06/04

Pediatrics

National Pediatric Hospital of Buenos Aires

Fellowship

6/05

Neonatology

Albert Einstein Medical Center, Phila PA

Residency

6/08

Pediatrics

The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Fellowship

6/11

Neonatology

 

 

A.              Personal Statement
 

I am a Professor of Clinical Pediatrics and an attending neonatologist physician at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia with an interest in the bedside assessment of neonatal cardiac hemodynamics and in procedural and diagnostic point-of-care ultrasound. I have completed my training on functional neonatal echocardiography as well as different Point-of-Care Ultrasound applications. Furthermore, I have developed the “Clinician Performed Ultrasound Program” in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia for which I am currently the director and have been teaching in Ultrasound courses nationwide as well as internationally. Since 2015 I have been the co-director of the CHOP Bedside Ultrasound Course, offering multi-discipline training in pediatric and neonatal procedural and diagnostic ultrasound applications.

Since 2014 I have been the PI for multicenter studies which have given me the experience in conducting clinical research in critically ill infants. I am currently the site PI for a multicenter pilot trial “Milrinone in Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia” sponsored by the NICHD through the Neonatal Research Network (NRN). My specific area of interest include education in Point-of-Care Ultrasound and neonatal hemodynamics to improve patient care.

 

Citations:

  1. Fraga MV, Stoller JZ, Lorch SA: Novel Technologies for Neonatal Care: The Case of Point-of-Care Lung Ultrasonography. Pediatrics 142(3), September 2018 Notes: DOI: 10.1542/peds.2018-1621. Epub 2018 Aug 14.
  2. Giesinger RE, Stanford AH, Rios DR, Bhombal S, Fraga MV, Levy VY, McNamara PJ; United States Hemodynamics Collaborative: Targeted neonatal echocardiography in the United States of America: the contemporary perspective and challenges to implementation. Pediatr Res Page: online, February 2019 Notes: DOI: 10.1038/s41390-019-0338-3. Epub ahead of print.
  3. Fraga MV, Dysart KC, Rintoul N, Chaudhary AS, Ratcliffe SJ, Fedic A, Kren S, Cohen MS, Kirpalani H: Cardiac output measurement using the Ultrasonic Cardiac Output Monitor: A validation study in newborn infants. Neonatology Page: online, July 2019 Notes: DOI: 10.1159/000501005. Published online July 19, 2019.
  4. Gaulton JS, Mercer-Rosa LM, Glatz AC, Jensen EA, Capone V, Scott C, Appel SM, Stoller JZ, Fraga MV: Relationship between pulmonary artery acceleration time and pulmonary artery pressures in infants. Echocardiography 36(8): 1524-1531, August 2019 Notes: DOI: 10.1111/echo.14430. Published online July 1, 2019

 

 

B.              Positions, Scientific Appointments, and Honors
 

Positions

 

2011-2017                              Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

2017-present                            Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

2011-present                            Attending Neonatologist, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

 

Honors

 

1999                                                        Honor Diploma, University of Buenos Aires Medical School

2011              Henle Chair Award, Research Proposal “Cardiac Output Measurement in neonates Using the Ultrasound Cardiac Output Monitor (USCOM):A Validation Study in Newborn Infants”.

2016              Named to the 2015-2016 Early Career Faculty Honor Roll by the Senior Resident Graduating Class on June 1, 2016 at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA

2017              Named to the 2016-2017 Early Career Faculty Honor Roll by the Senior Resident Graduating Class on June 7, 2017 at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA

2021              Department of Pediatrics Alan R. Cohen Master Clinician Award 2021, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

2021              Presidential Citation, Society of Critical Care Medicine

 

 

C.              Contributions to Science
1. My early publications directly addressed the importance and accuracy if non-invasive hemodynamic monitoring methods. In collaboration with my colleagues we published the following manuscripts:

             

a.      Fraga MV, Dysart KC, Rintoul N, Chaudhary AS, Ratcliffe SJ, Fedic A, Kren S, Cohen MS, Kirpalani H: Cardiac output measurement using the Ultrasonic Cardiac Output Monitor: A validation study in newborn infants. Neonatology Page: online, July 2019 Notes: DOI: 10.1159/000501005. Published online July 19, 2019.

b.      Ansems S, Kirpalani H, Mercer-Rosa L, Wang Y, Hopper RK, Fraga MV, Jensen EA: Patent Ductus Arteriosus and the Effects of its late Closure in Preterm Infants with severe Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia. Neonatology Page: online, July 2019.

c.      Gaulton JS, Mercer-Rosa LM, Glatz AC, Jensen EA, Capone V, Scott C, Appel SM, Stoller JZ, Fraga MV: Relationship between pulmonary artery acceleration time and pulmonary artery pressures in infants. Echocardiography 36(8): 1524-1531, August 2019 Notes: DOI: 10.1111/echo.14430. Published online July 1, 2019.

d.      Pawlowski TW, Stoller JZ, Rintoul NE, Hedrick HL, Quartermain MD, Fraga MV: Point-of-care ultrasound for the evaluation of venous cannula position in neonatal extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. J Perinatol April 2021 Notes: doi: 10.1038/s41372-021-00936-8.

 

2.              In addition to the contributions described above, later I focused not only on neonatal hemodynamics but also on the use of Point-of-Care ultrasound for many different applications as shown in the following publications:

 

  1. Conlon TW, Nishisaki A, Singh Y, Bhombal S, De Luca D, Kessler DO, Su ER, Chen AE, Fraga MV: Moving Beyond the Stethoscope: Diagnostic Point-of-Care Ultrasound in Pediatric Practice. Pediatrics Page: online, September 2019 Notes: DOI: 10.1542/peds.2019-1402. Published online September 3, 2019.             
  2. Fraga MV, Stoller JZ, Glau CL, De Luca D, Rempell RG, Wengler JL, Yek Kee C, Muhly WT, Boretsky K, Conlon TW: Seeing Is Believing: Ultrasound in Pediatric Procedural Performance. Pediatrics.   (eds.). American Academy of Pediatrics, 144(5): online, October 2019 Notes: DOI: 10.1542/peds.2019-1401. Published online October 15, 2019.             
  3. Miller L, Stoller J, Fraga MV: "Point-of-care ultrasound in the neonatal ICU" Current Opinion in Pediatrics 31(00), December 2019 Notes: Online DOI:10.1097/MOP.0000000000000863.
  4. Singh Yogen, Tissot Cecile, Fraga María V, Yousef Nadya, Cortes Rafael Gonzalez, Lopez Jorge, Sanchez-de-Toledo Joan, Brierley Joe, Colunga Juan Mayordomo, Raffaj Dusan, Da Cruz Eduardo, Durand Philippe, Kenderessy Peter, Lang Hans-Joerg, Nishisaki Akira, Kneyber Martin C, Tissieres Pierre, Conlon Thomas W, De Luca Daniele: International evidence-based guidelines on Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) for critically ill neonates and children issued by the POCUS Working Group of the European Society of Paediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care (ESPNIC). Critical care (London, England) 24(1): 65, Feb 2020.

 

 

Complete List of Published Work

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=fraga+mv