Dr. Matthew Kirschen is a pediatric neurocritical care expert and educator, instrumental in updating U.S. brain death determination guidelines. At the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), he combines clinical practice with research on pediatric brain injury following cardiac arrest and trains medical professionals in neurocritical assessment techniques.

• Pediatric brain injury after cardiac arrest

• Brain death determination and assessment protocols

• Ethics in neurocritical care and neurology

• Attending Physician, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine in the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

• Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

• Assistant Professor of Neurology, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

• Consciense/Neurocore