Teresa Kortz, MD, MS, PhD
Associate Professor
Pediatrics
School of Medicine

Education & Training

Show all (7) Hide

• PhD Global Health Sciences Clinical Research University of California, San Francisco 12/2023
• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training University of California, San Francisco 2020
• MS Global Health Sciences University of California, San Francisco 07/2015
• Critical Care Medicine Fellowship Stanford University 06/2014
• Pediatrics Residency Stanford University 06/2011
• MD Medicine University of Washington School of Medicine 06/2008
• BA, BS Neurobiology, Spanish Language and Literature University of Washington 06/2004

Websites

Show all (1) Hide

• Global PARITY Project (PALISI) (palisiglobalhealth.org)

Grants and Projects

Show all (1) Hide

• Fever Etiology and Prognostic Point-of-Care Biomarkers in African Children with Severe Febrile Illness, NIH, 2020-2025

Publications (38)

Top publication keywords:
Cost-Benefit AnalysisCritical IllnessMalawiSepsisMalaria, FalciparumContinuous Positive Airway PressureFeverGoalsMobile Health UnitsPneumoniaCommon Data ElementsClinical DeteriorationCritical CareShock, SepticFluid Therapy

• A research definition and framework for acute paediatric critical illness across resource-variable settings: a modified Delphi consensus.
  The Lancet. Global health 2024 Arias AV, Lintner-Rivera M, Shafi NI, Abbas Q, Abdelhafeez AH, Ali M, Ammar H, Anwar AI, Adabie Appiah J, Attebery JE, Diaz Villalobos WE, Ferreira D, González-Dambrauskas S, Irfan Habib M, Lee JH, …
• 282: LINGUISTIC ISOLATION CORRELATES WITH LENGTH OF STAY FOR PEDIATRIC ONCOLOGY PATIENTS IN CALIFORNIA.
  Critical Care Medicine 2023 Samuel Ennett, Megan Burcham, Matt Lypka, Andrew Kampfschulte, Akansha Das, Robert Fitzgerald, Brian Boville, Surender Rajasekaran, Teresa Kortz, Mara Leimanis-Laurens
• 672: PEDIATRIC LUNG DISEASE IN RESOURCE-LIMITED SETTINGS: A SECONDARY ANALYSIS OF THE GLOBAL PARITY STUDY.
  Critical Care Medicine 2023 Carter Biewen, Robinder Khemani, Shan Ward, Asya Agulnik, Srinivas Murthy, Teresa Kortz, Kenneth Remy
• 786: THE ETIOLOGY OF HOSPITAL MORTALITY IN CHILDREN IN LMICS: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND META-ANALYSIS.
  Critical Care Medicine 2023 Teresa Kortz, Rishi Mediratta, Audrey Smith, Katie Nielsen, Asya Agulnik, Stephanie Gordon-Rivera, Hailey Reeves, Nicole O’Brien, Jan Hau Lee, Niranjan Kissoon, Yemisi Takwoingi, Matthew Wiens, Adnan …
• Verbal Autopsy to Assess Postdischarge Mortality in Children With Suspected Sepsis in Uganda.
  Pediatrics 2023 Knappett M, Hooft A, Maqsood MB, Lavoie PM, Kortz T, Mehta S, Duby J, Akech S, Maina M, Carter R, Popescu CR, Daftary R, Mugisha NK, Mwesigwa D, Kabakyenga J, Kumbakumba E, Ansermino JM, Kissoon N, …

Show all (33 more) Hide

• Stages of change: Strategies to promote use of a Pediatric Early Warning System in resource-limited pediatric oncology centers.
  Cancer medicine 2023 Woo MC, Ferrara G, Puerto-Torres M, Gillipelli SR, Elish P, Muniz-Talavera H, Gonzalez-Ruiz A, Armenta M, Barra C, Diaz-Coronado R, Hernandez C, Juarez S, Loeza JJ, Mendez A, Montalvo E, Peñafiel E, …
• 258: CHALLENGES IN INSTITUTIONAL APPROVAL PROCESS FOR A MULTINATIONAL STUDY: THE GLOBAL PARITY.
  Critical Care Medicine 2022 Eliana López-Barón, Asya Agulnik, Qalab Abbas, Adrian Holloway, John A. Appiah, Niranjan Kissoon, Teresa Kortz, Jan Hau Lee, Adnan Bhutta, Kenneth Remy, Paula Caporal, Ericka Fink, Fiona Muttalib, …
• 643: ESTIMATING THE GLOBAL PREVALENCE OF PEDIATRIC ACUTE CRITICAL ILLNESS IN RESOURCE-LIMITED SETTINGS.
  Critical Care Medicine 2022 Firas Sakaan, Adrian Holloway, Qalab Abbas, John Appiah, Jonah Attebery, Paula Caporal, Ericka Fink, Niranjan Kissoon, Jan Hau Lee, Eliana López-Barón, Srinivas Murthy, Fiona Muttalib, Kenneth Remy, …
• 649: PROGNOSTIC BIOMARKERS IN AFRICAN CHILDREN WITH SEVERE FEBRILE ILLNESS.
  Critical Care Medicine 2022 Teresa Kortz, Mai Baalbaki, Chayse Jones, Raya Mussa, Joel Manyahi, Hendry Sawe, Michael Matthay
• PP101 [Global health » Resource limited settings]: DEFINING PEDIATRIC CRITICAL ILLNESS FOR RESEARCH ACROSS RESOURCE VARIABLE SETTINGS: A MODIFIED DELPHI CONSENSUS.
  Pediatric Critical Care Medicine 2022 A. V. Arias, M. Lintner Rivera, N. I. Shafi, A. Anwar, A. T. Bhutta, T. Bleakly Kortz, A. Agulnik, O. (Qalab Abbas, Hafeez Abdelhafeez, Muhammad Ali, Hala Ammar, John Appiah, Jonah Attebery, Willmer …
• PP108 [Global health » Resource limited settings]: CHALLENGES IN INSTITUTIONAL ETHICS REVIEW AND APPROVAL PROCESS FOR A MULTI-NATIONAL, MULTI-CENTER STUDY IN RESOURCE-LIMITED SETTINGS: THE GLOBAL PARITY STUDY.
  Pediatric Critical Care Medicine 2022 E. López Barón, A. Holloway, A. Agulnik, Q. Abbas, J. A. Appiah, J. E. Attebery, D. He, P. Caporal, E. L. Fink, S. Hooli, N. Kissoon, J. H. Lee, E. Miller, F. Muttalib, K. Nielsen, M. Puerto Torres, K…
• PP115 [Global health » Resource limited settings]: GLOBAL PARITY: A GLOBAL POINT PREVALENCE STUDY OF PEDIATRIC ACUTE CRITICAL ILLNESS IN RESOURCE-LIMITED SETTINGS.
  Pediatric Critical Care Medicine 2022 F. M. Sakaan, A. Agulnik, M. Puerto Torres, A. Holloway<iller, Q. Abbas, J. A. Appiah, J. Attebery, W. Blackwelder, P. Caporal, E. L. Fink, D. He, S. Hooli, N. Kissoonmuttalibmurthy, J. Lee, M. O. …
• The Burden of Critical Illness in Hospitalized Children in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Protocol for a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
  Frontiers in pediatrics 2022 Kortz TB, Nielsen KR, Mediratta RP, Reeves H, O'Brien NF, Lee JH, Attebery JE, Bhutta EG, Biewen C, Coronado Munoz A, deAlmeida ML, Fonseca Y, Hooli S, Johnson H, Kissoon N, Leimanis-Laurens ML, …
• Global PARITY: Study Design for a Multi-Centered, International Point Prevalence Study to Estimate the Burden of Pediatric Acute Critical Illness in Resource-Limited Settings.
  Frontiers in pediatrics 2022 Abbas Q, Holloway A, Caporal P, López-Barón E, Agulnik A, Remy KE, Appiah JA, Attebery J, Fink EL, Lee JH, Hooli S, Kissoon N, Miller E, Murthy S, Muttalib F, Nielsen K, Puerto-Torres M, Rodrigues K, …
• Functional Outcomes and Morbidity in Pediatric Sepsis Survivors: A Tanzanian Experience.
  Frontiers in pediatrics 2022 Lau-Braunhut SA, Smith AM, Steurer MA, Murray BL, Sawe H, Matthay MA, Reynolds T, Kortz TB
• Delayed Presentation and Mortality in Children With Sepsis in a Public Tertiary Care Hospital in Tanzania.
  Frontiers in pediatrics 2021 Smith AM, Sawe HR, Matthay MA, Murray BL, Reynolds T, Kortz TB
• Diagnosis and Acute Management of COVID-19 and Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children.
  Pediatric emergency care 2021 Kortz TB, Connolly E, Cohen CL, Cook RE, Jonas JA, Lipnick MS, Kissoon N
• Common data elements for predictors of pediatric sepsis: A framework to standardize data collection.
  PloS one 2021 Mawji A, Li E, Chandna A, Kortz T, Akech S, Wiens MO, Kissoon N, Ansermino M
• O010 / #378: STANDARDIZATION OF PREDICTORS FOR STUDIES OF PAEDIATRIC SEPSIS.
  Pediatric Critical Care Medicine 2021 A. Mawji, E. Li, S. Akech, A. Chandna, T. Kissoon, T. Kortz, Y. Lubell, P. Turner, M. Wiens, J. Ansermino
• P0292 / #1639: PEDIATRIC SEPSIS INTERVENTIONS AND IN-HOSPITAL MORTALITY IN A RESOURCE-LIMITED EMERGENCY MEDICINE DEPARTMENT.
  Pediatric Critical Care Medicine 2021 S. Lau-Braunhut, M. Steurer-Muller, B. Murray, H. Sawe, T. Reynolds, T. Kortz
• Predicting mortality in pediatric sepsis: A laudable but elusive goal.
  Jornal de pediatria 2020 Kortz TB, Kissoon N
• Quality and capacity indicators for hospitalized pediatric oncology patients with critical illness: A modified delphi consensus.
  Cancer medicine 2020 Arias AV, Garza M, Murthy S, Cardenas A, Diaz F, Montalvo E, Nielsen KR, Kortz T, Sharara-Chami R, Friedrich P, McArthur J, Agulnik A
• A 14-day follow-up of adult non-malarial fever patients seen by mobile clinics in rural Malawi.
  Malawi medical journal : the journal of Medical Association of Malawi 2020 Baltzell KA, Kortz TB, Blair A, Scarr E, Mguntha AM, Bandawe G, Schell E, Rankin SH
• 1251.
  Critical Care Medicine 2020 Anita Arias, Marcela Garza, Srinivas Murthy, Adolfo Cardenas, Franco Diaz, Erika Montalvo, Katie Nielsen, Teresa Kortz, Rana Sharara-Chami, Paola Friedrich, Jennifer McArthur, Asya Agulnik
• Distinct Biomarker Profiles Distinguish Malawian Children with Malarial and Non-malarial Sepsis.
  The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene 2019 Kortz TB, Nyirenda J, Tembo D, Elfving K, Baltzell K, Bandawe G, Rosenthal PJ, Macfarlane SB, Mandala W, Nyirenda TS
• 'Not all fevers are malaria': a mixed methods study of non-malarial fever management in rural southern Malawi.
  Rural and remote health 2019 Baltzell K, Kortz TB, Scarr E, Blair A, Mguntha A, Bandawe G, Schell E, Rankin S
• Abstract PCCLB-26.
  Pediatric Critical Care Medicine 2018 T. Kortz, S. MacFarlance, J. Nyirenda, D. Tembo, K. Elfving, K. Baltzell, G. Bandawe, P. Rosenthal, W. Mandala, T. Nyirenda
• Abstract PCCLB-27.
  Pediatric Critical Care Medicine 2018 T. Kortz, H. Sawe, B. Murray, M. Matthay, T. Reynolds
• Reconciling Conflicting Results From Pediatric Sepsis Studies: The Need for Context-Specific Sepsis Bundles.
  Pediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies 2018 Kortz T, Rosenthal PJ
• Characterizing Pediatric Non-Malarial Fever and Identifying the At-Risk Child in Rural Malawi.
  Global pediatric health 2018 Kortz TB, Blair A, Scarr E, Mguntha AM, Bandawe G, Schell E, Rankin S, Baltzell K
• Bubble Continuous Positive Airway Pressure in the Treatment of Severe Pediatric Pneumonia in Malawi: A Cost-effectiveness Analysis.
  Pediatrics 2018 Teresa Kortz, Elliot Marseille, Jim Kahn
• Challenges and Priorities for Pediatric Critical Care Clinician-Researchers in Low- and Middle-Income Countries.
  Frontiers in pediatrics 2017 von Saint André-von Arnim AO, Attebery J, Kortz TB, Kissoon N, Molyneux EM, Musa NL, Nielsen KR, Fink EL, Pediatric Acute Lung Injury and Sepsis Investigators (PALISI) Network
• Clinical Presentation and Outcomes among Children with Sepsis Presenting to a Public Tertiary Hospital in Tanzania.
  Frontiers in pediatrics 2017 Kortz TB, Sawe HR, Murray B, Enanoria W, Matthay MA, Reynolds T
• Fluid Resuscitation in Pediatric Septic Shock: The Case Against Haste.
  Pediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies 2017 Kortz T, Kissoon N
• Mawasiliano (Correspondence/Correspondance).
  African journal of emergency medicine : Revue africaine de la medecine d'urgence 2017 Kortz TB, Murray B, Sawe HR, Reynolds T
• Clinical outcomes and mortality before and after implementation of a pediatric sepsis protocol in a limited resource setting: A retrospective cohort study in Bangladesh.
  PloS one 2017 Kortz TB, Axelrod DM, Chisti MJ, Kache S
• Bubble continuous positive airway pressure in the treatment of severe paediatric pneumonia in Malawi: a cost-effectiveness analysis.
  BMJ open 2017 Kortz TB, Herzel B, Marseille E, Kahn JG
• Surviving paediatric sepsis in Tanzania: a prospective cohort study to identify risk factors.
  The Lancet Global Health 2017 Teresa B Kortz, Hendry Sawe, Brittany Murray, Michael Matthay, Teri Reynolds