Boston Children's Hospital
Dr. Robert J. Graham is an associate professor at Harvard Medical School and senior associate in the Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital. He has a special interest in acute and chronic care of children with technology dependence. Through clinical innovation, research, and teaching Dr. Graham seeks to extend critical care services beyond the intensive care unit (ICU) to optimize the outcomes for children and young adults with special healthcare needs as well as the experience of their families. In 2007, he developed a novel clinical program, the Critical Care, Anesthesia, and Perioperative Extension (CAPE) and Home Ventilation Program at Boston Children’s Hospital. Dr. Graham’s research includes health-services efforts investigating models of care, patient/parent-reported outcomes, and resource utilization, as well as clinical investigations, focusing on patients with neuromuscular diseases and other populations with chronic respiratory failure and technology supports. In 2017, he founded the Chronic Critical Illness & Long-term Ventilation Subgroup as part of the Pediatric Acute Lung and Sepsis Investigator (PALISI) Network. He also started the Multicenter Tracheostomy Research Collaboration (MyTRaCh), supporting an NIAID funded RO1 tracheal microbiome study, for which he is a co-I, and other ancillary projects.