Adnan T. Bhutta, MD

Bio

Adnan Bhutta, MD, joined Indiana University School of Medicine/Riley Children’s Health as division chief of pediatric critical care medicine and clinical professor of pediatrics in August 2022. He came from the University of Maryland where he served as professor of pediatrics and division head of pediatric critical care medicine since 2014. Dr. Bhutta received his medical degree from the Aga Khan University in Karachi, Pakistan and did his training in pediatrics and pediatric critical care medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and Arkansas Children’s Hospital followed by additional fellowship in pediatric cardiac intensive care at the same institution. He served as an attending physician in both the pediatric intensive care unit as well as the cardiac intensive care unit at Arkansas Children’s Hospital from 2002-2014 and also served as the medical director of the cardiac intensive care unit at Arkansas from 2004-2014. Dr. Bhutta is a fellow and member of the American Academy of Pediatrics as well as a member of the Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Society, Society of Pediatric Research and Society for Critical Care Medicine.

The primary focus of Dr. Bhutta's research is to improve the provision of acute and critical care in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC’s). He is an active member of a multi-national collaborative focused on reducing morbidity and mortality of acute illness in LMIC’s and is an active collaborator on ongoing research and educational projects in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. He also has maintained an active interest in clinical research related to the care of critically ill children, especially those with cardiac disease with a special focus on the reduction of neurologic injury because of various stressors encountered during the care of young children in the intensive care unit. He is the author or co-author of more than 90 publications.