UT Southwestern Medical Center, Children’s Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA;
Dr. Javier Lasa is Associate Professor in the Divisions of Critical Care and Cardiology and also serves as Executive Director of the Heart Center Informatics and Innovation Core (I2C) at Children’s HealthSM in Dallas, TX. After receiving his medical degree at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, he went on to complete residency training in General Pediatrics as well as dual-fellowship training in Cardiology and Critical Care Medicine at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. His clinical expertise lies in the care of critically ill children and adults with congenital and acquired heart disease as well as those with advanced heart failure requiring extracorporeal life support and those undergoing heart transplantation. Dr. Lasa’s research interests in resuscitation science have led to several publications that have shed light on the risks and benefits of extracorporeal resuscitation (also known as E-CPR). Dr. Lasa volunteers as an invited member of the American Heart Association Emergency Cardiovascular Care Science Subcommittee and is serving as the 2025 Co-Chair of the American Heart Association Pediatric Advanced Life Support Writing Group. Dr. Lasa also serves on the editorial board of the journal Pediatric Critical Care Medicine and is an Executive Board member of the Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care Consortium (PC4). In addition, Dr. Lasa is board certified in Clinical Informatics and serves as the Director of the Heart Center Informatics and Innovation Core (I2C), which aims to create an innovative and data-forward approach to operational and clinical decisions that ultimately increases the quality of care for patients with congenital and acquired heart disease.

Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital; Assistant Professor, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine;
Dr. Wesam Sourour is a Pediatric Cardiac Intensivist and an Assistant Professor of Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, as well as the Program Director of the Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care Fellowship at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. He earned his medical degree from St. George's University School of Medicine and completed advanced training in Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care at Northwestern University McGaw Medical Center before joining the Northwestern faculty. Dr Sourour’s research focuses on high-fidelity physiologic data, analytics and signal engineering to improve outcomes in the cardiac ICU. He has authored numerous peer-reviewed studies leveraging high-fidelity data to characterize hemodynamic responses to medications and different physiological states and has presented his work nationally and internationally.

Heart Center, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago ;
Dr. Jordan Griffiths is an Australian Emergency Medicine trainee currently undertaking a research fellowship at Lurie Children's Hospital in Chicago. Her work focuses on leveraging high-fidelity physiologic data from pediatric and cardiac intensive care units to better understand physiology, hemodynamic responses, and treatment effects in critically ill children. She has experience in large-scale data extraction, data curation, and statistical analysis of continuous ICU monitoring datasets. Jordan is passionate about using complex, high-fidelity data to answer clinically meaningful questions that can improve the care of children. While her current research focuses on the pediatric cardiac population, her broader goal is to apply these methods across pediatric and emergency medicine to generate evidence that informs everyday clinical practice.

Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital; Associate Professor Northwestern, University Feinberg School of Medicine ;
Dr. Rohit Loomba is a pediatric cardiac intensivist and Director of Clinical Research at the Heart Center at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, with expertise in pediatric cardiac critical care, cardiovascular physiology, and congenital heart disease. His clinical and academic work focuses on the application of high-fidelity physiologic data to improve outcomes for critically ill children with heart disease, with a particular interest in hemodynamics, acute kidney injury, transplantation, and postoperative critical care. He has extensive experience in clinical and translational research and has authored numerous peer-reviewed publications spanning pediatric cardiology, cardiac intensive care, and perioperative physiology. Dr. Loomba’s research program centers on high-frequency physiologic monitoring, waveform analytics, and advanced hemodynamic modeling using streaming bedside data. His work leverages high-fidelity physiologic signals—including arterial pressure, pulse oximetry, near-infrared spectroscopy, and other continuous monitoring streams—to better characterize cardiovascular function and develop novel approaches to hemodynamic assessment and clinical decision support in pediatric cardiac critical care. He has led and collaborated on studies applying waveform analysis, physiologic modeling, and data science methods to better understand patient trajectories and therapeutic responses in the cardiac intensive care environment.