Sapna R. Kudchadkar, MD, PhD

Pediatric Critical Care MedicinePediatric Anesthesiology

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Languages

French
Kannada
English

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Gender

Female

Johns Hopkins Affiliations:

Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Faculty

About Sapna R. Kudchadkar

Physician’s Office Phone

410-955-6412

Professional Titles

Vice Chair for Pediatric Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine
Anesthesiologist-In-Chief, Johns Hopkins Children’s Center
Director, International PICU Up! Collaborative

Primary Academic Title

Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine

Johns Hopkins Physician

Background

Dr. Sapna Kudchadkar is the Anesthesiologist-in-Chief of the Johns Hopkins Children's Center and Vice Chair for Pediatric Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She is a professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine, pediatrics and physical medicine and rehabilitation at JHUSOM. Her areas of interest include sleep disturbances in critically ill children, pediatric delirium prevention and management, sedation of mechanically ventilated children, pediatric ICU rehabilitation and mobility, and clinical epidemiology and biostatistics.

Dr. Kudchadkar received her undergraduate degree in both biochemistry and French at Washington University in St. Louis, where she graduated magna cum laude. She went on to attend University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, where she earned her M.D. and completed an internship with the Open Society Institute Soros Community Health Program. She completed residencies in pediatrics at Johns Hopkins Children's Center and in anesthesiology at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, followed by clinical fellowships in pediatric critical care and pediatric anesthesiology. Dr. Kudchadkar received her PhD in clinical investigation at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Her primary research focus is the integration of sleep promotion, sedation optimization and delirium prevention to promote early mobility and improve functional outcomes for survivors of pediatric critical illness. Dr. Kudchadkar is the lead PI for the international PARK-PICU study (Prevalence of Acute Rehab for Kids in the PICU, park.web.jhu.edu), which includes >200 sites in the United States, Canada, Brazil, Europe and Australia. She is also the lead PI for an NIH funded 10-hospital stepped-wedge cluster-randomized trial of a multifaceted early mobility program for critically ill children (PICU Up!; NCT04989790) and MPI for an NIH-funded multicenter randomized trial investigating physical rehabilitation and nutrition in pediatric ICU patients (PROXIMUS; NCT05296096)

In April 2013, Dr. Kudchadkar was awarded the Alfred Sommer Scholar award at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, given to Ph.D. candidates "who exemplify scientific excellence, energy, ambition, political acumen and a determination to change the world" through public health research. In 2025, she was the recipient of the Drs. Vidyasagar and Nagamani Dharmapuri Award for Excellence in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine from the Society of Critical Care Medicine and also received the 2025 Sean Berenholtz Award for Quality and Safety from the Armstrong Institute.

Dr. Kudchadkar is a Fellow of the American College of Critical Care Medicine and the Senior Associate Editor of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. She also serves on the international advisory board of the Lancet Child and Adolescent Health.

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Additional Academic Titles

Professor of Pediatrics, Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Research Interests

Actigraphy, Clinical epidemiology and biostatistics, Links between sleep disturbances and neuroinflammation, Pediatric difficult airway management, Pediatric ICU rehabilitation and mobility, Sedation of mechanically ventilated children, Sleep disturbances in critically ill children, Sleep promotion, sedation optimization and delirium prevention in the management of children in the PICU, Sleep-wake cycles in critically ill children

Lab Website

Sapna Kudchadkar Lab - Lab Website

Work in the Sapna Kudchadkar Lab focuses on the impact of sleep disturbances on critically ill children and the impact of sleep promotion, optimizing sedation and preventing delirium in pediatric critical care patients. We're investigating the effects of critical illness on sleep-wake cycles during short- and long-term recovery using actigraphy.

Research Summary

Dr. Kudchadkar’s primary research focuses on the role of sleep disturbances as a modulator of outcomes in critically ill children, and the effects of sleep promotion, sedation optimization, delirium prevention and early mobilization in the management of children admitted to the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. She is also investigating the effects of critical illness on sleep-wake cycles during short and long-term recovery using actigraphy, and the potential links between sleep disturbances and neuroinflammation in the developing brain.

Dr. Kudchadkar has initiated quality improvement initiatives for rehabilitation of critically ill children in the PICU through creation of the PICU Up! Program. She is the Lead PI for the international PARK-PICU Study (Point Prevalence of Acute Rehabilitation for Kids in the PICU), with >200 ICUs in US, Brazil, Canada and Europe participating (park.web.jhu.edu). She is the lead PI of a multicenter stepped-wedge cluster RCT to investigate the impact of a multicomponent early mobility intervention in critically ill children.

Google Scholar - Publications

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=IMY9fAIAAAAJ&hl=en

PubMed - Publications

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/myncbi/sapna.kudchadkar.1/bibliography/40003583/public/?sort=date&direction=descending

Courses & Syllabi

Scholarly Concentrations: Clinical Research, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 10/1/20

Patents

PICU Up!,

Education services, namely conducting workshops, courses, and providing educational materials directed to pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) specific protocols for early mobilization of pediatric patients to optimize sleep-wake, sedation, and activity and for determining a pediatric patient's safe level of activity in order to improve the outcomes of critically ill children admitted to the PICU by increasing developmentally appropriate activity

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Honors

2025 Sean Berenholtz Award, Armstrong Institute for Quality and Safety
2025 Drs. Vidyasagar and Nagamani Dharmapuri Award for Excellence in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
2017 Baltimore Magazine Top Doctor
President's Frontier Award Finalist, Johns Hopkins University, 2/1/21
Fellow of the American College of Critical Care Medicine, 2/17/20
Outstanding Early Career Investigator Award, American Thoracic Society, 1/18/16
Alfred Sommer Scholar Award-Graduate Training Program in Clinical Investigation, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 1/1/12
Extramural Pediatric Loan Repayment Program (LRP) Award, NIH, 1/1/11
KL2 Clinical Research Scholars Award, Johns Hopkins, 1/1/11
Fellow Travel Award, American Thoracic Society, 1/1/11
Best Poster, Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine (ACCM) Research Day, 1/1/10
Research Fellowship Grant, Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research (FAER), 1/1/10
Leadership Award, American Medical Women's Association, 1/1/03
National Medical Student Poster Winner, American College of Physicians (ACP), 1/1/03
Fellowship Award, Soros Foundation Open Society, 1/1/01
William Greenleaf Eliot Distinguished Leadership and Service Award, Washington University in St. Louis, 1/1/99

Graduate Program Affiliations

Johns Hopkins Bloombergy School of Public Health: GTPCI Advisory Board

Memberships

American Academy of Pediatrics, Critical Care section member, Fellow
American Delirium Society, Research Committee Member (Appointed)
American Society of Anesthesiology
Society for Anesthesia and Sleep Medicine, Pediatric Sleep Committee (Appointed)
Society of Critical Care Medicine,
Pediatric section member
Society of Pediatric Anesthesia, Education Committee Member
Society of Pediatric Anesthesia, Research Committee Member

Professional Activities

Lancet Child and Adolescent Health, International Advisory Board
Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Senior Associate Editor

Locations

The Johns Hopkins Hospital
- 1800 Orleans Street, Baltimore, MD 21287
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- fax: 410-955-5001

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Education

Graduate School: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, PhD, 2018
Fellowship: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, 2011
Residency: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, 2009
Residency: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Pediatrics, 2006
Medical Education: University of Chicago School of Medicine, MD, 2003

Board Certifications

Pediatric Anesthesiology: American Board of Anesthesiology, 2014
Pediatric Critical Care Medicine: American Board of Pediatrics, 2012
Anesthesiology: American Board of Anesthesiology, 2010

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