Dr. Nadir Yehya is an Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and University of Pennsylvania. He is interested in all aspects of mechanical ventilation in children, including experimental pre-clinical models, ventilator-induced lung injury, and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Dr. Yehya’s research, which is supported by the National Institutes of Health, focuses on protein and mRNA biomarkers in pediatric ARDS for identification of disease subtypes and elucidation of pathologic pathways. He also has interests in clinical epidemiology, trial and observational study methodology, and disparities in critically ill children.