Alan Glenn Woodruff, MD, FCCM

About Me

I am board certified in general pediatrics and pediatric critical care medicine. In addition to my faculty appointment with the Department of Anesthesiology at Wake Forest School of Medicine, I am also appointed in the Department of Pediatrics and am an affiliate of the Office of Global Health. I direct the Malignant Hyperthermia Diagnostic Lab, one of only 2 civilian testing centers in the U.S., and a resource that offers the gold standard Caffeine Halothane Contracture Test.

In addition to clinical leadership, I am a faculty member of the Critical Illness and Injury Recovery Research Center, a multidisciplinary group aiming to advance critical care research in our region. I am a board member of the Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Institutional Review Board and have leadership roles within the creative community of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the Pediatric Acute Lung Injury and Sepsis Investigators- Post-PICU subgroup.

I aim to advance the field of pediatric critical care with research on the long-term, post-hospital outcomes after pediatric critical illness and how to better understand and optimize a child's recovery trajectory. This work has led to fruitful collaborations with dozens of researchers domestically and internationally

Research

Publications

Inhaled Epoprostenol in Children With Pediatric Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome: A Single-Center Retrospective Study. Scalone EJ, Woodruff AG, Saha AK, Wright JM, Dixon KL, Bass AL, Walsh MJ, McCrory MC. Pediatr Pulmonol. 2025 Feb; 60(2):e71010.
Prevalence, management, health-care burden, and 90-day outcomes of prolonged mechanical ventilation in the paediatric intensive care unit (LongVentKids): an international, prospective, cross-sectional cohort study. Kawaguchi A, Fernandez A, Baudin F, Chiusolo F, Lee JH, Brierley J, Colleti J, Reiter K, Won Kim K, Lopez Fernandez Y, Kneyber M, Pons-Òdena M, Napolitano N, Graham RJ, Kawasaki T, Garros D, Garcia Guerra G, Jouvet P. Lancet Child Adolesc Health. 2025 Jan; 9(1):37-46.
Child Opportunity Index and Pediatric Intensive Care Outcomes: A Multicenter Retrospective Study in the United States. McCrory MC, Akande M, Slain KN, Kennedy CE, Winter MC, Stottlemyre MG, Wakeham MK, Barnack KA, Huang JX, Sharma M, Zurca AD, Pinto NP, Dziorny AC, Maddux AB, Garg A, Woodruff AG, Hartman ME, Timmons OD, Heidersbach RS, Cisco MJ, Sochet AA, Wells BJ, Halvorson EE, Saha AK. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2023 Dec;
Navigating the Multiverse: Heterogeneity in Pediatric Burn Care in the United States. Woodruff AG, Bass AL, McCrory MC. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2022 Nov; 23(11):958-960.
A Core Outcome Measurement Set for Pediatric Critical Care. Pinto NP, Maddux AB, Dervan LA, Woodruff AG, Jarvis JM, Nett S, Killien EY, Graham RJ, Choong K, Luckett PM, Heneghan JA, Biagas K, Carlton EF, Hartman ME, Yagiela L, Michelson KN, Manning JC, Long DA, Lee JH, Slomine BS, Beers SR, Hall T, Morrow BM, Meert K, Arias Lopez MDP, Knoester H, Houtrow A, Olson L, Steele L, Schlapbach LJ, Burd RS, Grosskreuz R, Butt W, Fink EL, Watson RS. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2022 Aug;

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