Ivie Esangbedo MD, MPH, FAAP
Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care
Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Consultant Pediatric Cardiac Intensivist
University of Washington / Seattle Children’s Hospital
Seattle, Washington, USA
Dr. Ivie Esangbedo is a Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Washington and a pediatric cardiac intensivist at Seattle Children’s Hospital. She serves as Director of Resuscitation for the Heart Center, leads the Cardiac Resuscitation Improvement Team, and is Associate Director for critical care simulation.
Dr. Esangbedo earned her medical degree from the University of Lagos and an MPH in Global Health Promotion from George Washington University. She completed Pediatrics residency at St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center, followed by fellowship in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine/Texas Children’s Hospital and advanced fellowship training in Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
Her academic work focuses on pediatric cardiac arrest, resuscitation science, ECPR, simulation, and quality improvement. She is the founder and principal investigator of the Children’s Heart Registry for Cardiac Arrests and has led multicenter research examining cardiac arrest and resuscitation in children with congenital and acquired heart disease.
Dr. Esangbedo is particularly committed to translating resuscitation science into better bedside care, using multidisciplinary quality improvement, simulation, and education to strengthen teams and improve outcomes for critically ill children with heart disease.