About
I'm a board-certified PICU doc and general pediatrician. I'm also a dad who panic-watched the baby monitor at 3 AM even though I know the actual risks are incredibly low! My goal isn't to tell parents what to do. It's to give you the evidence and let you make the call for your own kid.
In the pediatric ICU, I take care of children who are extremely ill. Kids with severe infections, cancer, trauma, or other conditions that require intensive monitoring and life support. At home, I've stared at the baby monitor at 3 AM absolutely convinced my daughter wasn't breathing, even though I know the actual risk is tiny. I've fully experienced both sides of this, and I think that perspective matters when you're trying to figure out what to do at 2 AM.
My goal is to focus on the actual evidence and present it honestly, including where docs disagree, so you can make informed decisions for your own kid.
I've found that health messaging, even from well-meaning sources, often picks a side and presents only the facts that support it. I try to do something different. I want to show you the full picture, including where reasonable, well-intentioned experts see things differently. I tell you what I recommend and what I do for my own kid, and I trust you to decide what's right for yours.
Here's a quick example. When the RSV antibody came out, I intentionally listened to both camps. The pro-vaccine side talked about millions of ER visits and tens of thousands of hospitalizations every year. The skeptical side pointed out that for the vast majority of individual kids, RSV is a cold they'll get through just fine. Both of those things are actually true. They're just different ways of framing the same data. I'm firmly on the pro-vaccine side, I gave it to my daughter without hesitation, and I'd recommend it to any parent. But I think you deserve to hear the full picture, not just the conclusion.
I did my pediatrics residency at Boston Children's Hospital through Harvard Medical School, then my critical care fellowship at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia through the University of Pennsylvania. I'm currently an Assistant Professor at Baylor College of Medicine and an attending in the PICU at Texas Children's Hospital, the largest children's hospital in the US. Our ICU is a 90+ bed unit where we take care of some of the sickest kids in the country, from newborns to young adults. I'm board-certified in both general pediatrics and pediatric critical care medicine, and I'm a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
I live in Houston with my wife and our daughter, who is honestly the reason this whole site exists. When we're not at the park or walking around the city, we're usually hunting for donut shops, pastry spots, and escape rooms. We know it sounds lame but don't knock it till you try it! I also mountain bike whenever Houston weather cooperates, which is less often than I'd like.
I also make short videos on these topics. Same approach, no fear-mongering.
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