The Videography In Pediatric Emergency Resuscitation (VIPER) Collaborative

Aaron Donoghue, MD, MSCE is an Associate Professor of Critical Care Medicine and Pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania, and an Attending Physician in the Divisions of Critical Care Medicine and Emergency Medicine at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Dr. Donoghue's areas of academic interest include pediatric resuscitation science, CPR, airway management, and simulation education. He has worked with the American Heart Association since 2006, serving as a member of the Pediatric Subcommittee of the Emergency Cardiovascular Care Committee for 6 years, followed by 4 years as a member of the Educational Science and Programs Subcommittee. He currently serves as the Vice-Chair of the Educational Writing Group for the AHA ECC. He served as a writing group member on the 2010, 2015, and 2020 AHA Guidelines for Emergency Cardiovascular Care as well as the recently published scientific statement on Resuscitation Education. 

Karen O’Connell, MD, MEd is a pediatric emergency medicine physician at Children’s National Hospital (CNH) and an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine with the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences in Washington, DC. She is the Director of Patient Safety and Resuscitation for the Emergency Medicine and Trauma Center at CNH and lead the multi-disciplinary quality improvement and safety initiatives for emergency department medical and trauma resuscitation.  Her clinical research over the past decade has focused on resuscitation quality improvement, family-centered care, patient safety, and EMS for children. She has national collaborative research experience as an investigator and serves as the Site PI with the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN).  She has served nationally on the advisory board for the National EMSC Data Analysis Resource Center (NEDARC) for five years and currently serves in her second term as an Executive Committee member for the American Academy of Pediatrics, Section on Emergency Medicine.  Regionally, she has been appointed the Associate Pediatric Medical Director with the Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Services Systems (MIEMSS) since 2007.  She completed her Masters in Education in 2011 with a focus on human and organizational learning from the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences and has created numerous resuscitation education curricula for providers of all levels of training, from prehospital to subspecialty level training.  Currently, she leads a multidisciplinary critical airway symposium locally and nationally, has authored and lead the pediatric high performance CPR protocol roll-out for Maryland EMS, and educates providers nationally as a PREP EM instructor.  

Benjamin Kerrey, MD, MS is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. Dr. Kerrey is board-certified in both Pediatrics and Pediatric Emergency Medicine as is an attending physician in the Division of Emergency Medicine at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC). Dr. Kerrey is the Assistant Medical Director for the emergency department Shock Trauma Suite at CCHMC and the director of the Medical Resuscitation Committee.  He is also the Research Director of the Center for Simulation and Research at CCHMC. His primary responsibilities are attending and working clinically in the pediatric emergency departments at CCHMC and the education of the residents and fellows rotating in the PED. His academic and research efforts focus on optimizing the care of pediatric patients with high acuity, low frequency medical emergencies. He has led the establishment of a pediatric airway research program, based largely on the use of in situ simulation and video-based data collection. His specific area of expertise is optimizing the performance of rapid sequence intubation in a pediatric setting.

Tara Neubrand, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. Dr. Neubrand is board certified in Pediatrics and Pediatric Emergency Medicine and is an attending physician in the Section of Emergency Medicine at Children’s Hospital Colorado (CHCO). She is the medical director of the CHCO Resuscitation Committee, a multidisciplinary team whose primary objective is to facilitate systematic processes for case review, video review, team feedback, education, and establishment of quality improvement priorities for the care of critically ill patients in the ED. Her primary responsibilities include review of all cardiac arrest and emergency airway management throughout both the primary CHCO ED and all associated satellite UC/EDs. She has led multiple quality improvement initiatives that have resulted in improvements in care of critically ill patients in the pediatric ED. Dr. Neubrand has provided editorial contributions to the 2020 American Heart Association Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care for Pediatric Life Support.