Email

chartan@bcm.edu

Positions

Assistant Professor

Pediatrics-Critical Care
Pediatrics- Pulmonary Hypertension
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX US
Associate Medical Director - RV Failure Program Assistant Medical Director - Lead, ECMO Education

Education

Clinical Fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine

06/2017 - Houston, Texas United States

Pediatric Pulmonary Hypertension

Postdoctoral Fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine

06/2017 - Houston, United States

ECMO

Fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine

Houston, Texas United States

Pediatric Critical Care, 2016

Residency at Baylor College of Medicine

Houston, Texas United States

Pediatrics, 2013

Internship at Baylor College of Medicine

Houston, Texas United States

Pediatrics, 2011

MD from Nova Southeastern University, 2010

Fort Lauderdale, Florida United States

Professional Interests

• Pediatric Pulmonary Hypertension
• Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO-advanced cardiopulmonary support)
• RV Failure and Pediatric Pulmonary Hypertension
• Cardiopulmonary support strategies to improve clinical outcomes
• Diagnostic Errors and Medical Decision making

Professional Statement

I am dedicated as a clinician to providing high quality, safe, and compassionate care of critically ill children in the ICU.

I have additional training and interest in extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in the Pediatric ICU setting as well as the NICU and CVICU.
I am the Associate Medical Director of the Right Ventricular Failure Program at Texas Children's Hospital.
I am also one of a few physicians at Texas Children’s Hospital that diagnose, treat and care for patients with pediatric pulmonary hypertension. We have the region's only center for PH and one of only a few PHA accredited and certified comprehensive clinical care centers for Pediatric Pulmonary Hypertension in the nation.

I am board certified in General Pediatrics and Pediatric Critical Care Medicine.

Websites

Selected Publications

• Chartan C, Aarons E, De A, Fishberger S, Messina J, Abdirahman I, Arora S, Dekna M, Lau KK. "Index of Suspicion. Case 1: Status epilepticus, hypertension, and tachycardia in a 5-year-old boy. Case 2: Cardiopulmonary arrest during gymnastics practice in a teenage girl. Case 3: Acute renal failure in a teenage boy who has autism and pica.." Pediatr Rev. 2011 June ; 32 (6): 257-63. Pubmed PMID: 21632878

Memberships

American Academy of Pediatrics

Extracorporeal Life Support Organization

Pulmonary Hypertension Association

Society of Critical Care Medicine