I believe we should always strive to deliver personalized, world-class care and treatment that brings the best long-term outcomes for children with critical heart disease.
About Lillian Su, MD
Lillian Su, MD, serves as Section Chief and Medical Director of the Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit (CVICU), and is a pediatric critical care medicine specialist at Phoenix Children's where she provides expert care for children who need this critical level of treatment.
Dr. Su earned her undergraduate degree from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and her medical degree from Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University in Philadelphia. She completed a residency in pediatrics at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles before training as a fellow in pediatric critical care medicine at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where she served as chief fellow. She then completed a senior fellowship in cardiac critical care at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, in Philadelphia.
Dr. Su is board certified by the American Board of Pediatrics in general pediatrics and pediatric critical care medicine. She is on the board of directors of the Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Society and serves as co-executive producer of the organization's podcast. She is a member of the Society of Critical Care Medicine, among others.
As a committed researcher, Dr. Su has published book chapters and educational materials, as well as peer-reviewed studies in numerous journals such as Resuscitation, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Congenital Heart Disease, and the World Journal for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery. She is also a frequently invited guest speaker at national and international conferences including annual meetings of the Pediatric Intensive Care Society and the Extracorporeal Life Support Organization.
When she isn't at work, Dr. Su enjoys spending time with her family, hiking and traveling.
Medical School / Education
Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
Residency
(Pediatrics) Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
Fellowship
(Pediatric Critical Care Medicine) Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, PA
(Cardiac Critical Care Medicine) Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, PA
Pediatrics, Subspecialty-Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
American Board of Pediatrics
Cardiac ICU
Professional Affiliations
Board of Directors, Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Society
Member, Society of Critical Care Medicine
Su L, Spaeder M.C, Jones, M, Sinha, P, Nath D, Jain P, Berger J, Williams L, Shankar V. Implementation of an ECPR Simulation Program Reduces ECPR Times in Real Patients. 2014 Pediatric Critical Care Medicine 15(9):856-60.
Costello JP, Olivieri LJ, Su L, Krieger A, Alfares F, Thabit O, Marshall MB, Yoo S, Kim PC, Jonas RA, Nath DS. Incorporating Three-dimensional Printing into a Simulation-based Congenital Heart Disease and Critical Care Training Curriculum for Resident Physicians. 2014 Congenital Heart Disease. Article first published online: 11 NOV 2014 | DOI: 10.1111/chd.12238.
Su L, Waller M, Kaplan S, Watson A, Jones M, Wessel D. Cardiac Resuscitation Events: One Eyewitness is Not Enough. 2015 Pediatric Critical Care Medicine; 16: 335-342.
Olivieri LJ, Su L, Hynes CF, Krieger A, Alfares FA, Ramakrishnan K, Zurakowski D, Marshall MB, Kim PCW, Jonas RA, Nath DS. Just-in-time training using 3D printed cardiac models after congenital cardiac surgery. 2016 World Journal for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery 7(2): 164-68.
Su L, Kaplan S, Burd R, Winslow C, Hargrove A, Waller M. Trauma resuscitation: Can team behaviors in the pre-arrival period predict resuscitation performance? BMJ Stel Published Online First: 20 February 2017. doi:10.1136/bmjstel- 2016-000143.
Siems A, Tomaino E, Watson A, Spaeder M, Su L. Improving quality in measuring time to initiation of CPR during in-hospital resuscitation. Resuscitation. DOI:10.1016/j.resuscitation.2017.06.018.
