University of Texas HSC San Antonio
My name is Travis Odom and I am a 3rd-year pediatric critical care fellow at UT Health San Antonio Long School of Medicine. I received my pediatrics residency training after completing the MD/MBA program, both at East Carolina University Brody School of Medicine in North Carolina. My passion for medicine stems from a desire to serve the most vulnerable among us - children, and to support their parents through perhaps the most difficult times of their lives. Critical care medicine taught me to love physics and chemistry, subjects that frustrated me greatly in the classroom, but seeing them in real time in my patients, and learning to master the physiology, has been exceptionally fulfilling. I want my career to be full of time to teach and mentor others, as so many have done for me, and to never stop thirsting for knowledge. I have a myriad of career interests, including unit management and administration, ethics and palliative care in the ICU, as well as research. I've found myself spending a significant amount of time researching bleeding and blood transfusions, and their complications in neonates including associations with NEC and postoperatively after cardiopulmonary bypass. I'm proud to attend this year's SCCM congress and share some of my research, but enough about me - thanks for being here and reading this.