Ayse Akcan-Arikan, MD

Dr Akcan-Arikan is a dual trained pediatric intensivist and nephrologist and an Associate Professor of Pediatrics with tenure at Baylor College of Medicine. Dr Arikan is a clinician-scientist whose research focus is on the recognition and management of acute kidney injury in the critically ill, pharmacokinetics in extracorporeal therapies, management of multiple organ failure, as well as sepsis resuscitation and outcomes. She is supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for her work in new noninvasive methods for real-time monitoring of organ dysfunction and pharmacokinetics in critically ill children. She is an Executive Committee member of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) supported Collaborative Pediatric Critical Care Research Network (CPCCRN) and serves as a core site principal investigator. She is also an executive committee member for the Prospective Pediatric Acute Kidney Injury Research Group (ppAKI-RG) and Worldwide Exploration of Renal Replacement Therapy Outcomes (We-ROCK) research collaboratives. She is an associate editor for renal critical care for the journal Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. She is the site principal investigator of multiple pediatric renal support device studies as well as urinary biomarkers.

Dr Arikan also serves as the Medical Director of the Critical Care Nephrology and Inpatient Dialysis and the Medical Director of the Extracorporeal Liver Support programs at Texas Children’s Hospital. The renal support program is one of the largest in the nation and averages more than 6000 acute dialytic procedures annually. The critical care nephrology program houses the inaugural postdoctoral advanced training in pediatric critical care nephrology in North America as well as a unique quality assurance and improvement program in acute renal extracorporeal therapies based on active surveillance of patient safety, both under Dr Arikan’s leadership.

Clinical Interests:

• Intensive Care Nephrology

• Acute kidney injury

• Acute liver failure / MARS (Molecular Adsorbent Recirculating System)

Research Interests:

• CRRT (continuous renal replacement therapy)

• Nutrition on acute dialysis

• Cardiorenal syndrome

• Hepatorenal syndrome