Teresa Kortz, MD, MS, PhD
Teresa Kortz is an Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics in Critical Care Medicine, Program Director of the Faculty Affiliate Program of the Institute for Global Health Sciences, and co-director of the Pediatric Global Health Scholars Pathway. She has a master’s degree in Global Health Sciences and a PhD in Global Health Sciences Clinical Research in progress. She is an NIH-funded researcher and studies pediatric sepsis etiology, prognostic biomarkers, and clinical outcomes in East Africa. Previously, 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 was a member of a Technical Advisory Group to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and provided guidance related to pediatric critical care in resource variable settings. As a member of the UCSF-WHO Collaborating Center she contributes to pediatric and critical care-related WHO projects and initiatives. Dr. Kortz 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.