Lakshmi Raman, M.D.

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Dr. Lakshmi Raman serves as the Medical Director of the Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) program She has primarily focused her efforts on education and research apart from overseeing the clinical care of these patients.

Since ECMO is high-risk therapy with low probability events education is an integral part of running an ECMO program. We run a two day education course with hands on simulation for incoming fellows and specialists who assist in caring for the ECMO pump on a yearly basis and I oversee the curriculum. I also direct a 3-day National ECMO course once a year which has been endorsed by the Extra Corporeal Life Support Organization (ELSO) which is a parent organization and serve as the first course to be endorsed by ELSO and attended by participants across the Nation and Internationally.

My research focus has been to evaluate the neurological injury in patients who are on Extracorporeal life support, otherwise commonly referred to as Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO). I have collaborated this work with biomedical engineers and scientists in the lab. I previously had funding through AHA association and recently funded through the Hartwell Foundation to carry on this work through my collaborators. I am also working with the bioinformatics group at UT to use machine learning help understand neurological injuries. This work is primarily done by critical care fellows and have been awarded the Lyda-Hill Award to do the study. With my role as the Medical Director of the ECMO program at Children’s Medical Center of Dallas I am interested in finding ways to predict neurological events on ECMO.

With my leadership and focus on ECMO, I have recently published my work that I have done both locally and nationally with ELSO community. I continue to present my work at National and International meetings.

I also serve as a reviewer for Neuroscience Letters, Journal of Pediatric Surgical Research, ASAIO and serve on the review committee for fellow clinical grants and abstracts with Pediatric Academic Society. I also serve on the editorial board for ASAIO. I have been appointed to the steering committee at ELSO to chair the protocols, guidelines and grant committee. I also serve on the National committee for education and scientific review with ELSO data registry.