Professor
Boston Children's Hospital
Dr. Adrienne Randolph is Professor of Anaesthesia and Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital. After medical school at Stanford University, she completed pediatric residency and pediatric critical care fellowship at UCSF. She then received a master’s degree in bioinformatics from the University of Utah and completed a pulmonary physiology research fellowship at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. She has been an attending physician in the Medical-Surgical pediatric ICU at Boston Children’s since 1997. Dr. Randolph is the founder and first Chair of the Pediatric Acute Lung Injury and Sepsis Investigator’s (PALISI) Network, a clinical research consortium of over 80 pediatric ICUs in the U.S. and Canada that has worked together for over two decades. In 2007 she founded the multicenter PALISI Pediatric Critical Care Influenza and Emerging Pathogens (PICFLU-EP) Network (picflu.org), investigating influenza vaccine effectiveness and the immune response to severe infection in children with influenza-related critical illness. She is now leading a CDC funded study of severe complications of COVID-19 children and adolescents across over 70 pediatric hospitals called Overcoming COVID-19. Dr. Randolph’s studies are funded by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health. She is an active member of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and is on the Council of the International Sepsis Forum.