Sarah E. Hendrickson, MD
- Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
- Pediatrics
- English
Sarah Hendrickson, M.D., is a pediatric intensive care physician and an assistant in pediatrics at Mass General for Children. She is also an instructor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Hendrickson specializes in the care of critically ill infants, children and adolescents, and those with complex diseases. She completed her training in general pediatrics at Stanford Hospital for Children and her fellowship in pediatric critical care at Mass General for Children (MGHfC). Following fellowship, she joined the faculty of Boston Children’s Hospital and returned to MGHfC in 2024 as an attending physician in the pediatric intensive care unit, and medical director of the inpatient unit at Shriners Children’s Boston.
Dr. Hendrickson’s interests focus around optimizing care at the bedside. She is interested in simulation and how it is used to enhance team dynamics and communication, as well as how technology is most effectively used in the pediatric intensive care setting. She has studied anonymous physician feedback and how teamwork and professionalism are impacted by environmental stressors.
Pediatric Care
Specialties
- Burn Care
- Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
- Pediatrics
- Wound Care & Skin Disorders
WHERE I PROVIDE CARE
More About Me
- American Board of Pediatrics, Pediatrics, Pediatrics - General
- American Board of Pediatrics, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
Medical Education
University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
Rochester, NY
United States of America
5/31/2013
Residency
Lucile Packard Children's' Hospital/Stanford Pediatric Residency
Palo Alto, CA
United States of America
6/30/2016
Fellowship
MGH Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
Boston, MA
6/30/2019
Harvard Medical School
Instructor
- 2024-Present: Medical Director, Inpatient Unit, Shriners Children’s Boston
- 2018-2019: Chief Fellow, Pediatric Critical Care Fellowship, MGHfC
- 2016-Present: Member, Society of Critical Care Medicine
- 2013-Present: Member, American Academy of Pediatrics
- 2019: Co-author, Hosp Pediatr.
- 2010: Co-author, Social Science & Medicine
- 2007: Co-author, Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics
- 2021: AAP Section on Critical Care Best QI Abstract Award
- 2017, 2018: Fellow Teaching Award Finalist, MGHfC Pediatric Residency Program
- 2014, 2016: Distinction in Teaching, Stanford University School of Medicine Pediatric Clerkship
- Pediatric Grand Rounds: North Shore Medical Center; The “Rare” Case of Influenza Encephalitis (2018)
- Poster Presentation: Boston Children’s Hospital Nurses Week, Quick Thinking: How the MICU Adapted Simulation for the Pandemic (5/2021)
- Poster Presentation: Pediatric Hospital Medicine Clinical Conundrum Conference; Refractory Kawasaki’s with a Ferritin of 26,000 (2016)
- Poster Presentation: Stanford Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Research Symposium; Use of A3 Thinking to Evaluate Patient Discharge Paperwork (Q1 and 6/2015)
- Poster Presentation: American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Annual Meeting; Using Electronic Medical Records to Improve Quality of Care (3/2013)
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