Lazaro N Sanchez-Pinto

Lazaro N Sanchez-Pinto serves as Associate Professor in Pediatrics (Critical Care) and Preventive Medicine (Biostatistics and Informatics) at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, with clinical practice at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago. His dual expertise bridges pediatric critical care medicine and biomedical informatics to advance data-driven precision medicine for critically ill children.

His educational trajectory includes:

• MD from Autonomous University of Barcelona (2006)
• Pediatrics Residency at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center (2011)
• Pediatric Critical Care Fellowship at Children's Hospital Los Angeles (2014)
• Advanced Informatics Fellowship and Master of Biomedical Informatics (MBI) from Oregon Health & Science University (2015)

Sanchez-Pinto's NIH-funded research pioneers data-driven phenotyping of pediatric sepsis, ARDS, and MODS through integration of clinical, physiologic, and multi-omics data. He develops predictive enrichment strategies to enable personalized critical care interventions, with emphasis on operationalizing clinical decision support tools at the bedside. His work spans biomedical informatics infrastructure development and translational analytics for precision medicine.

His 2025 publications reveal accelerating focus on multi-omics integration (metabolomics/cytokines) for sepsis subphenotyping and hemodynamic parameter optimization. Key trends include development of prognostic enrichment frameworks for acute kidney injury in sepsis, refinement of international sepsis definitions, and validation of dynamic arterial elastance metrics for fluid responsiveness prediction in pediatric critical care.

Major recognitions include:

• Fellow of American College of Critical Care Medicine (2025)
• Northwestern Excellence in Scholarship Award (2024)
• Three-time STAR Research Award from Society of Critical Care Medicine (2019-2020)
• Endowed research scholar awards from Stanley Manne Children’s Research Institute (2019, 2021)
• FAMIA Fellowship and multiple teaching awards

As KL2 Career Development Award recipient, he leads the PRIMER-PICU study advancing precision medicine in pediatric ICUs. His mentorship earned the Lurie Children's Outstanding Fellowship Mentorship Award (2020), while his editorial service includes Pediatric Critical Care Medicine's editorial board. He actively shapes national guidelines through the Pediatric Sepsis Definition Task Force and PICU Data Collaborative leadership.

Sanchez-Pinto drives innovation as core member of Northwestern's Institute for Augmented Intelligence in Medicine and IPHAM's Center for Dissemination and Implementation Science. His Virtual PICU initiative establishes collaborative data infrastructure across 150+ pediatric ICUs, accelerating implementation of data-driven critical care protocols while leading the Pediatric Analytics and Data Science (PEDAL) subgroup for PALISI Network.