About Us
From top left (clockwise): Mohamed, Vinay, LeAnthony, Elora
To contact the group please call us at 410-328-6957 or email us at our
addresses below.
Vinay Vaidya, M.D.
vvaidya@peds.umaryland.edu
Vinay Vaidya, M.D. is the project leader for the current
research projects involving continuous medication infusions in ICU
patients. He is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Director
of Pediatric Critical Care Fellowship Program. He holds a faculty
position in the Division of Pediatric Critical Care at the University
of Maryland Hospital for Children. His major research focus is medical
informatics, specifically rapid application development for clinical
use in critically ill neonates and children. In addition to being a pediatric critical care physician
he is an avid programmer. Dr. Vaidya has created a number of
clinical software applications which include the DKA program
(for management of diabetic
ketoacidosis), and TPN 2000, (a computerized program with rich decision
support tools, used at a number of leading children's hospitals, (website: www.marvinmedisoft.com)
A novel and very useful software created by Dr. Vaidya for the
specifically for standardized concentrations is the "Concentration
Optimizer". This is a program which automates the task of rapidly
identify two to four ideal standard concentrations for any drug used as
continuous infusions. A process that could potentially take weeks to
months, is accomplished in minutes.
Mohamed I. Gaffoor, M.D.
mgaffoor@peds.umaryland.edu
Mohamed Gaffoor, M.D. is a fellow in the Division
of Pediatric Critical Care at the University of Maryland Hospital for
Children. His major interest and research focus is medical informatics in the PICU. Dr. Gaffoor has
aided in creating computer applications within the University of Maryland PICU.
In addition, Dr. Gaffoor is the webmaster for this website, www.icudrips.org
LeAnthony Mathews, M.S., R.N.
LeAnthony is a critical care nurse in Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
at the University of Maryland Hospital for Children. He is also an Informatician
specializing in decision support systems including knowledge management and
machine learning. In addition to working on the ICU Drips project he is the
creator of Arrestsheet.com, a web-based,
comprehensive program for generation of code sheet for any child, from the
smallest neonate to the largest adolescent patient.
Elora Hilmas, PharmD
Elora Hilmas is the Pediatric Pharmacy Clinical Manager at the University
of Maryland Medical Center. She is a graduate of the University of
Maryland Pharmacy School where she obtained her PharmD. Her pharmacy
practice and pediatric specialty residencies were completed at the Johns Hopkins
Hospital. She recently achieved Board Certification in Pharmacotherapy (BCPS)
and has articles published in the American Journal of Hospital Pharmacy (AJHP)
and the Journal of Pediatric Pharmacy. In her current job, she focuses on
medication safety by being an active participant in the Medication Error and
Adverse Drug Event Advisory Council. She collaborates on a number of
medication safety initiatives within a multidisciplinary team.
Human Factors Research Group
The Human Factors Research Group
(HFRP)
is a multidisciplinary research group at the University of Maryland School of
medicine. Their goal is to investigate how fusion of human factors,
technology and medicine can together improve patient safety. Several of their
members are actively involved in our research related to ICU drips. Yan Xiao, PhD,
F. Jacob Seagull, PhD, and
Yen-Chiao (Angel) Lu, RN, MS.
