Joshua D. Koch, MD

As Senior Vice President and Hospital Based in Chief at Phoenix Children's, Joshua D. Koch, MD, provides strategic and operational leadership for the health system's hospital-based clinical services, including Critical Care, Neonatology and Fetal Care, Emergency Departments and Urgent Cares, Hospital Medicine, Radiology and Pathology. He is also a practicing pediatric critical care physician.

Dr. Koch previously served as co-director of the Center for Heart Care and division chief of both Cardiac Critical Care Medicine and Pediatric Critical Care Medicine at Phoenix Children's. During his tenure, he helped build nationally recognized programs, expand multidisciplinary care teams and advance innovative approaches to caring for critically ill children. His leadership has been instrumental in strengthening clinical excellence and improving outcomes for some of Phoenix Children's most complex patients.

He is nationally recognized for his work in optimizing neurologic outcomes for critically ill infants and children, preventing cardiac arrest and improving post-cardiac arrest care. He has published extensively in leading peer-reviewed medical journals and has presented his research at national and international conferences focused on pediatric critical care and cardiac intensive care.

Dr. Koch earned his medical degree from the University of Kansas. He completed his pediatric residency and pediatric critical care medicine fellowship at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, where he served as both chief resident and chief fellow. He maintains academic appointments with Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, the University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix and Creighton University School of Medicine, where he is committed to training the next generation of physicians.

He is board certified by the American Board of Pediatrics in pediatrics and pediatric critical care medicine. He is an active member of the Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Society, the Pediatric Critical Care Colloquium and the Virtual Pediatric Systems PICU Advisory Board. He serves on a number of other councils and committees dedicated to ensuring high-quality patient care and safety.

Dr. Koch's interest in clinical research focuses on optimizing neurological outcomes for critically ill infants and children, as well as preventing cardiac arrest and improving post-cardiac arrest management in the intensive care unit. He has published research in peer-reviewed journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine, the World Journal for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery, Cardiology in the Young and Current Opinions in Cardiology. He also has presented at World Congress of Pediatric Cardiology and Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Society meetings.

In his free time, Dr. Koch enjoys reading, hiking and playing video games with his children.