Deborah Franzon, MD
Professor
Pediatrics
School of Medicine

Awards

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• Patient Safety Award, UCSF Health, 2019
• Fellow, College of Critical Care Medicine, Society of Critical Care Medicine, 2018

Education & Training

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• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training University of California 2018
• Fellowship, Pediatric Critical Care Rady Children's Hospital 06/2002
• Pediatric Residency University of California 06/1999
• MD Medicine University of California 06/1996
• BA Environmental Sciences University of California 05/1991

Interests

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• Enhancing EHR for clinical decision support
• Delirium Reduction
• Patient safety
• Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia
• Quality Improvement
• Implementation science

Publications (13)

Top publication keywords:
Intensive Care Units, PediatricCardiopulmonary ResuscitationEpinephrineCross InfectionElectronic Health RecordsHypercapniaHospital Rapid Response TeamHeart ArrestCatheterization, Central VenousMedical Order Entry SystemsCatheter-Related InfectionsInservice TrainingResuscitationSepsisChecklist

• Association of Early Epinephrine with Hemodynamics and Outcome in Pediatric In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: A Secondary Analysis of a Multicenter, Cluster-randomized Clinical Trial Intensive Care Unit Resuscitation (ICU-RESUS).
  Annals of the American Thoracic Society 2025 Siems A, Naim MY, Berg RA, Reeder RW, Ahmed T, Bell MJ, Bishop R, Bochkoris M, Burns C, Carcillo JA, Carpenter TC, Diddle JW, Federman M, Fernandez R, Fink EL, Franzon D, Frazier AH, Friess SH, Graham…
• Outcomes, Characteristics, and Physiology of In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest in Children With Sepsis.
  Critical care medicine 2025 Morgan RW, Reeder RW, Carcillo JA, Carpenter TC, Fitzgerald JC, Graham K, Kilbaugh TJ, Meert KL, Nadkarni VM, Palmer CA, Sharron MP, Weiss SL, Wolfe HA, Ahmed T, Bell MJ, Bishop R, Burns C, Diddle JW,…
• Epinephrine Dosing Intervals Are Associated With Pediatric In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Outcomes: A Multicenter Study.
  Critical care medicine 2024 Kienzle MF, Morgan RW, Reeder RW, Ahmed T, Berg RA, Bishop R, Bochkoris M, Carcillo JA, Carpenter TC, Cooper KK, Diddle JW, Federman M, Fernandez R, Franzon D, Frazier AH, Friess SH, Frizzola M, …
• Association of Pediatric Postcardiac Arrest Ventilation and Oxygenation with Survival Outcomes.
  Annals of the American Thoracic Society 2024 Frazier AH, Topjian AA, Reeder RW, Morgan RW, Fink EL, Franzon D, Graham K, Harding ML, Mourani PM, Nadkarni VM, Wolfe HA, Ahmed T, Bell MJ, Burns C, Carcillo JA, Carpenter TC, Diddle JW, Federman M, …
• Effect of Physiologic Point-of-Care Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Training on Survival With Favorable Neurologic Outcome in Cardiac Arrest in Pediatric ICUs: A Randomized Clinical Trial.
  JAMA 2022 ICU-RESUS and Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health, Human Development Collaborative Pediatric Critical Care Research Network Investigator Groups, Sutton RM, Wolfe HA, Reeder RW, …

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• Variability in chest compression rate calculations during pediatric cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
  Resuscitation 2020 Landis WP, Morgan RW, Reeder RW, Graham K, Siems A, Diddle JW, Pollack MM, Maa T, Fernandez RP, Yates AR, Tilford B, Ahmed T, Meert KL, Schneiter C, Bishop R, Mourani PM, Naim MY, Friess S, Burns C, …
• Improving outcomes after pediatric cardiac arrest - the ICU-Resuscitation Project: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.
  Trials 2018 Reeder RW, Girling A, Wolfe H, Holubkov R, Berg RA, Naim MY, Meert KL, Tilford B, Carcillo JA, Hamilton M, Bochkoris M, Hall M, Maa T, Yates AR, Sapru A, Kelly R, Federman M, Michael Dean J, McQuillen…
• Discordant identification of pediatric severe sepsis by research and clinical definitions in the SPROUT international point prevalence study.
  Critical care (London, England) 2015 Weiss SL, Fitzgerald JC, Maffei FA, Kane JM, Rodriguez-Nunez A, Hsing DD, Franzon D, Kee SY, Bush JL, Roy JA, Thomas NJ, Nadkarni VM, SPROUT Study Investigators and Pediatric Acute Lung Injury and …
• Variability of characteristics and outcomes following cardiopulmonary resuscitation events in diverse ICU settings in a single, tertiary care children's hospital*.
  Pediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies 2014 Gupta P, Yan K, Chow V, Dao DT, Gossett JM, Leong K, Franzon D, Halamek LP, Reddy S, Berg RA, Roth SJ, Nadkarni VM
• Use of electronic medical record-enhanced checklist and electronic dashboard to decrease CLABSIs.
  Pediatrics 2014 Pageler NM, Longhurst CA, Wood M, Cornfield DN, Suermondt J, Sharek PJ, Franzon D
• Improving code team performance and survival outcomes: implementation of pediatric resuscitation team training.
  Critical care medicine 2014 Knight LJ, Gabhart JM, Earnest KS, Leong KM, Anglemyer A, Franzon D
• Embedding time-limited laboratory orders within computerized provider order entry reduces laboratory utilization.
  Pediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies 2013 Pageler NM, Franzon D, Longhurst CA, Wood M, Shin AY, Adams ES, Widen E, Cornfield DN
• Computerized physician order entry with decision support decreases blood transfusions in children.
  Pediatrics 2011 Adams ES, Longhurst CA, Pageler N, Widen E, Franzon D, Cornfield DN