Sidney Kimmel Medical Center at Thomas Jefferson University
Scott L. Weiss MD MSCE FCCM is Division Chief of Critical Care and Vice-Chair for Research in the Department of Pediatrics at Nemours Children’s Hospital (DuPont)-Delaware and an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Pathology, Anatomy, and Cell Biology at the Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University. He is currently serves as the co-Vice Chair for the Pediatric Surviving Sepsis Campaign and has published widely on pediatric sepsis recognition, management, and pathology. Dr. Weiss’ research focuses on epidemiology and mitochondrial dysfunction in pediatric sepsis, including risk factors, biomarkers, and mechanisms of sepsis-induced immune dysregulation and organ dysfunction. He is also the co-PI of the multinational Pragmatic Pediatric Trial of Balanced versus Normal Saline fluid in Sepsis (PRoMPT BOLUS), a multicenter, multinational pragmatic randomized trial of balanced fluids versus saline for the resuscitation of pediatric septic shock