Teresa Kortz

Teresa is an Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics in Critical Care Medicine, Affiliate Faculty of the Institute for Global Health Sciences, and co-director of the Pediatric Global Health Pathway at UCSF at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She has a master’s degree in Global Health Sciences and a Ph.D. in Global Health Sciences Clinical Research in progress. She is an NIH-funded researcher who studies pediatric sepsis etiology, prognostic biomarkers, and clinical outcomes in East Africa. In 2019, she was awarded the Society for Pediatric Research’s Physician-Scientist Bridging to Success Award for her past contribution and future potential as a physician-scientist. Recently, she was a sepsis consultant at the World Health Organization (WHO) and a member of the WHO COVID-19 Clinical Management Pillar in the Department of World Health Emergencies. She is currently a member of a Technical Advisory Group to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) providing guidance related to pediatric critical care in resource variable settings and a collaborating member of the UCSF-WHO Collaborating Center. Teresa is the past co-chair and current scientific co-chair of the Pediatric Acute Lung Injury and Sepsis Investigators (PALISI) Network Global Health subgroup through which she leads collaborative, international projects that aim to assess the burden of and resource utilization due to acute, critical pediatric illness in resource-limited settings.