Lara Nelson, MD

Lara P. Nelson, MD, is the Interim Chief of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology Critical Care Medicine and an assistant professor of clinical pediatrics at Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California. Dr. Nelson spends her clinical time at Children's Hospital Los Angeles attending in the cardiothoracic and pediatric intensive care units.

She is also the medical director of the Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) program. A program designed to support children with life-threatening respiratory and/or cardiac illness while they recover. Additionally, she is trying to improve care for children and their parents facing pediatric critical illness with her research into the stress response, such as posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), of these families.