Joshua Wolovits, M.D. Titles and Appointments Associate Professor Schools Medical School Departments Pediatrics You have reached the Academic Profile. For more information on the doctor and patient care, please visit the clinical profile. Biography Download Curriculum Vitae As an attending physician in the Cardiac ICU, Dr. Wolovits is interested in optimizing the safety and efficiency of the care of patients with critical heart disease. To this end, he is involved in a number of projects related to quality improvement including standardized feeding algorithms, ventilator weaning protocols, standardized criteria for ICU discharge and prevention of CLA-BSI. His research efforts are aimed at understanding the effects of these interventions on patient care and hospital stay. Education Medical School UT Southwestern Medical School (2002) Internship Children's Medical Center Dallas (2003), Pediatrics Residency Children's Medical Center Dallas (2005), Pediatrics Fellowship University of California San Francisco (2008), Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Research Interest Probiotics/Commensal organisms and their effects on immune mediators in the developing gut Sedation strategies in the cardiac patient Strategies to prevent shunt thrombosis in the single ventricle patient Publications Clinical and Risk Analytics Associations With Extubation Failure in Children Following Congenital Cardiac Surgery: A Multicenter Retrospective Cohort Study, 2017-2020 Hames DL, Abbas Q, Asfari A, Borasino S, Diddle JW, Fu Y, Gazit AZ, Lipsitz S, Marshall AM, Reise K, Guerineau LR, Wolovits JS, Salvin JW Pediatric Critical Care Medicine 2025 Sep 26 e1105-e1114 The Acidemia Index: A Near Real-Time Risk Analytics Algorithm is Associated With Measured Acidemia in Pediatric Critical Care Patients, a Multi-Center Validation Study Asfari A, Gazit AZ, Futterman C, Kelly RB, Macfadyen A, Copper DS, Salvin JW, Szadkowski A, Borasino S, Wolovits J, Zaccagni HJ Critical Care Explorations 2025 Jun 7 e1281 Extubation Failure in Neonates Following Congenital Cardiac Surgery: Multicenter Retrospective Cohort, 2017-2020 Hames DL, Abbas Q, Asfari A, Borasino S, Diddle JW, Gazit AZ, Lipsitz S, Marshall A, Reise K, Guerineau LR, Wolovits JS, Salvin JW Pediatric Critical Care Medicine 2025 May 26 e590-e599 A Near Real-Time Risk Analytics Algorithm Predicts Elevated Lactate Levels in Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care Patients Asfari A, Wolovits J, Gazit AZ, Abbas Q, Macfadyen AJ, Cooper DS, Futterman C, Penk JS, Kelly RB, Salvin JW, Borasino S, Zaccagni HJ Critical Care Explorations 2023 Dec 5 E1013 Unplanned Extubation During Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care: U.S. Multicenter Registry Study of Prevalence and Outcomes∗ Perry T, Klugman D, Schumacher K, Banerjee M, Zhang W, Bertrandt R, Wolovits JS, Murphy LD, Misfeldt AM, Alten J, Cooper DS Pediatric Critical Care Medicine 2023 Jul 24 551-562 HeartWatch: Implementing a Pediatric Heart Center Program to Prevent Cardiac Arrests Outside the ICU Birely A, Avula S, Butts RJ, Wolovits JS, Lemler MS, Hoffman OL Pediatric Quality and Safety 2022 Nov 7 E617 Optimizing Neurodevelopmental Outcomes in Neonates With Congenital Heart Disease Ortinau CM, Smyser CD, Arthur L, Gordon EE, Heydarian HC, Wolovits J, Nedrelow J, Marino BS, Levy VY Pediatrics 2022 Nov 150 Commentary: What's in the secret sauce? With so many ingredients, who knows…but maybe, who cares? Yu P, Wolovits JS Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2022 Jul 164 223-224 Early Changes in Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Are Associated With Cardiac Arrest in Children With Congenital Heart Disease Yu P, Esangbedo I, Li X, Wolovits J, Thiagarajan R, Raman L Frontiers in Pediatrics 2022 Jun 10 Cerebral Blood Flow Monitoring in High-Risk Fetal and Neonatal Populations Leon RL, Ortigoza EB, Ali N, Angelis D, Wolovits JS, Chalak LF Frontiers in Pediatrics 2022 Jan 9 Results 1-10 of 15 1 2 Next Last Books Featured Books Lesions with Decreased Pulmonary Blood Flow. In Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Handbook, 1st edition, Jones MB, Klugman D, Fitzgerald RK, Kohr LM, Berger JT, Costello JM, Bronicki R Wolovits JS, Torzone A (2015). Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Books Honors & Awards Best Pediatric Specialists/Doctors in DallasD Magazine (2015-2018) Above and Beyond, peer-nominated service award, Children’s Medical Center (2004) Professional Associations/Affiliations American Academy of Pediatrics Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Society Society of Critical Care Medicine Texas Medical Association
