Deborah Franzon, MD
HS Clinical Professor
COO
Chancellor/EVC/FAS

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 (24)

Top publication keywords:
Intensive Care Units, PediatricCardiopulmonary ResuscitationEpinephrineCross InfectionAirway ExtubationElectronic Health RecordsHypercapniaHospital Rapid Response TeamHeart ArrestCatheterization, Central VenousMedical Order Entry SystemsCatheter-Related InfectionsBradycardiaResuscitationChecklist

• Implementation and evaluation of a quality improvement project to standardize food insecurity screening in a pediatric nephrology clinic.
  Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany) 2026 Glenn Lecea EM, Winnicki E, Oates A, Franzon D, Evans J, Plantinga L, Tuot DS
• Modeling interprofessional collaboration: an instrumental case study of interprofessional co-facilitation in simulation-based team training.
  Journal of interprofessional care 2026 Bochatay N, Ju M, Nottingham M, Tsang L, Essakow J, Franzon D, Werne A, Lyndon A, van Schaik S
• Methods for Addressing Missingness in Electronic Health Record Data for Clinical Prediction Models: Comparative Evaluation.
  JMIR medical informatics 2025 Digitale J, Franzon D, Pletcher MJ, McCulloch CE, Gennatas ED
• 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…
• Expert-augmented machine learning for predicting extubation readiness in the pediatric intensive care unit.
  BMC medical informatics and decision making 2025 Digitale J, Franzon D, Ge J, McCulloch C, Pletcher MJ, Gennatas ED

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• 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,…
• Changing the conversation: impact of guidelines designed to optimize interprofessional facilitation of simulation-based team training.
  Advances in simulation (London, England) 2024 Ju M, Bochatay N, Werne A, Essakow J, Tsang L, Nottingham M, Franzon D, Lyndon A, van Schaik S
• Brief report: incidence and outcomes of pediatric tracheal intubation-associated cardiac arrests in the ICU-RESUS clinical trial.
  Critical care (London, England) 2024 Nishisaki A, Reeder RW, McGovern EL, Ahmed T, Bell MJ, Bishop R, Bochkoris M, Burns C, Carcillo JA, Carpenter TC, Diddle W, Federman M, Fink EL, Franzon D, Frazier AH, Friess SH, Graham K, Hall M, …
• Early bolus epinephrine administration during pediatric cardiopulmonary resuscitation for bradycardia with poor perfusion: an ICU-resuscitation study.
  Critical care (London, England) 2024 O'Halloran AJ, Reeder RW, Berg RA, Ahmed T, Bell MJ, Bishop R, Bochkoris M, Burns C, Carcillo JA, Carpenter TC, Dean JM, Diddle JW, Federman M, Fernandez R, Fink EL, Franzon D, Frazier AH, Friess SH, …
• 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, …
• Early Cardiac Arrest Hemodynamics, End-Tidal C o2 , and Outcome in Pediatric Extracorporeal Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation: Secondary Analysis of the ICU-RESUScitation Project Dataset (2016-2021).
  Pediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies 2023 Yates AR, Naim MY, Reeder RW, Ahmed T, Banks RK, Bell MJ, Berg RA, Bishop R, Bochkoris M, Burns C, Carcillo JA, Carpenter TC, Dean JM, Diddle JW, Federman M, Fernandez R, Fink EL, Franzon D, Frazier …
• Chest compressions for pediatric organized rhythms: A hemodynamic and outcomes analysis.
  Resuscitation 2023 Zinna SS, Morgan RW, Reeder RW, Ahmed T, Bell MJ, Bishop R, Bochkoris M, Burns C, Carcillo JA, Carpenter TC, Cooper KK, Michael Dean J, Wesley Diddle J, Federman M, Fernandez R, Fink EL, Franzon D, …
• Associations Between End-Tidal Carbon Dioxide During Pediatric Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Quality, and Survival.
  Circulation 2023 Morgan RW, Reeder RW, Bender D, Cooper KK, Friess SH, Graham K, Meert KL, Mourani PM, Murray R, Nadkarni VM, Nataraj C, Palmer CA, Srivastava N, Tilford B, Wolfe HA, Yates AR, Berg RA, Sutton RM, ICU-…
• Identification of post-cardiac arrest blood pressure thresholds associated with outcomes in children: an ICU-Resuscitation study.
  Critical care (London, England) 2023 Gardner MM, Hehir DA, Reeder RW, Ahmed T, Bell MJ, Berg RA, Bishop R, Bochkoris M, Burns C, Carcillo JA, Carpenter TC, Dean JM, Diddle JW, Federman M, Fernandez R, Fink EL, Franzon D, Frazier AH, …
• 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, …
• 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