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Deborah Franzon, MD

Title(s)	HS Clinical Professor, COO
School	Chancellor/EVC/FAS
Address	550 16th Street, #5310 San Francisco CA 94158
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Biography

education and training

University of California, San Francisco, CA		2018	Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training
University of California, Berkeley	BA	05/1991	Environmental Sciences
University of California, San Diego	MD	06/1996	Medicine
University of California, San Diego		06/1999	Pediatric Residency
Rady Children's Hospital, San Diego, CA		06/2002	Fellowship, Pediatric Critical Care

awards and honors

UCSF Health	2019		Patient Safety Award
Society of Critical Care Medicine	2018		Fellow, College of Critical Care Medicine

Research

keywords

Quality Improvement, Patient safety, Implementation science, Enhancing EHR for clinical decision support, Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia, Delirium Reduction

Featured Publications

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Bibliographic

publications

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Implementation and evaluation of a quality improvement project to standardize food insecurity screening in a pediatric nephrology clinic. Pediatr Nephrol. 2026 Jul 08. Glenn Lecea EM, Winnicki E, Oates A, Franzon D, Evans J, Plantinga L, Tuot DS. PMID: 42417998.

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Nep Nephrology Ped Pediatrics
Modeling interprofessional collaboration: an instrumental case study of interprofessional co-facilitation in simulation-based team training. J Interprof Care. 2026 May 24; 1-9. Bochatay N, Ju M, Nottingham M, Tsang L, Essakow J, Franzon D, Werne A, Lyndon A, van Schaik S. PMID: 42178661.

View in: PubMed Mentions: Fields:
Hea Health Services
Methods for Addressing Missingness in Electronic Health Record Data for Clinical Prediction Models: Comparative Evaluation. JMIR Med Inform. 2025 11 14; 13:e79307. Digitale J, Franzon D, Pletcher MJ, McCulloch CE, Gennatas ED. PMID: 41237368; PMCID: PMC12617989.

View in: PubMed Mentions: Fields:
Med Medical Informatics
Translation:Humans
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). Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2025 09; 22(9):1361-1371. 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 K, Hall M, Harding ML, Hehir DA, Horvat CM, Huard LL, Kilbaugh TJ, Maa T, Manga A, McQuillen PS, Meert KL, Mourani PM, Nadkarni VM, Notterman D, Pollack MM, Qunibi DW, Sapru A, Schneiter C, Sharron MP, Srivastava N, Tabbutt S, Tilford B, Viteri S, Wessel D, Wolfe HA, Yates AR, Zuppa AF, Morgan RW, Sutton RM. PMID: 40466056; PMCID: PMC12416153.

View in: PubMed Mentions: 1 Fields:
Pul Pulmonary Medicine
Translation:Humans
Expert-augmented machine learning for predicting extubation readiness in the pediatric intensive care unit. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2025 07 01; 25(1):232. Digitale J, Franzon D, Ge J, McCulloch C, Pletcher MJ, Gennatas ED. PMID: 40597185; PMCID: PMC12220236.

View in: PubMed Mentions: 1 Fields:
Med Medical Informatics
Translation:Humans
Outcomes, Characteristics, and Physiology of In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest in Children With Sepsis. Crit Care Med. 2025 Aug 01; 53(8):e1529-e1541. 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, Fink EL, Franzon D, Frazier AH, Friess SH, Hehir DA, Horvat CM, Huard LL, Maa T, McQuillen PS, Mourani PM, Naim MY, Pollack MM, Sapru A, Srivastava N, Yates AR, Berg RA, Sutton RM, for the ICU-Resuscitation Project (ICU-RESUS) Investigators and the. PMID: 40558671; PMCID: PMC12286578.

View in: PubMed Mentions: 1 Fields:
Cri Critical Care
Translation:Humans
Changing the conversation: impact of guidelines designed to optimize interprofessional facilitation of simulation-based team training. Adv Simul (Lond). 2024 Oct 12; 9(1):43. Ju M, Bochatay N, Werne A, Essakow J, Tsang L, Nottingham M, Franzon D, Lyndon A, van Schaik S. PMID: 39394595; PMCID: PMC11476600.

View in: PubMed Mentions: 3
Brief report: incidence and outcomes of pediatric tracheal intubation-associated cardiac arrests in the ICU-RESUS clinical trial. Crit Care. 2024 08 30; 28(1):286. 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, Hehir DA, Horvat CM, Huard LL, Maa T, Manga A, McQuillen P, Meert KL, Morgan RW, Mourani PM, Nadkarni VM, Naim MY, Notterman D, Palmer CA, Sapru A, Schneiter C, Sharron MP, Srivastava N, Viteri S, Wessel D, Wolfe HA, Yates AR, Zuppa AF, Sutton RM, Berg RA. PMID: 39215367; PMCID: PMC11365269.

View in: PubMed Mentions: 2 Fields:
Cri Critical Care
Translation:Humans
Early bolus epinephrine administration during pediatric cardiopulmonary resuscitation for bradycardia with poor perfusion: an ICU-resuscitation study. Crit Care. 2024 07 16; 28(1):242. 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, Graham K, Hall M, Hehir DA, Horvat CM, Huard LL, Kienzle MF, Kilbaugh TJ, Maa T, Manga A, McQuillen PS, Meert KL, Mourani PM, Nadkarni VM, Naim MY, Notterman D, Pollack MM, Sapru A, Schneiter C, Sharron MP, Srivastava N, Tilford B, Topjian AA, Viteri S, Wessel D, Wolfe HA, Yates AR, Zuppa AF, Sutton RM, Morgan RW. PMID: 39010134; PMCID: PMC11251231.

View in: PubMed Mentions: 3 Fields:
Cri Critical Care
Translation:Humans
Epinephrine Dosing Intervals Are Associated With Pediatric In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Outcomes: A Multicenter Study. Crit Care Med. 2024 Sep 01; 52(9):1344-1355. 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, Graham K, Hall M, Horvat C, Huard LL, Maa T, Manga A, McQuillen PS, Meert KL, Mourani PM, Nadkarni VM, Naim MY, Pollack MM, Sapru A, Schneiter C, Sharron MP, Tabbutt S, Viteri S, Wolfe HA, Sutton RM, Oxy-PICU Investigators of the Pediatric Critical Care Society Study Group. PMID: 38833560; PMCID: PMC11326980.

View in: PubMed Mentions: 2 Fields:
Cri Critical Care
Translation:Humans
Association of Pediatric Postcardiac Arrest Ventilation and Oxygenation with Survival Outcomes. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2024 06; 21(6):895-906. 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, Friess SH, Hall M, Hehir DA, Horvat CM, Huard LL, Maa T, Meert KL, Naim MY, Notterman D, Pollack MM, Schneiter C, Sharron MP, Srivastava N, Viteri S, Wessel D, Yates AR, Sutton RM, Berg RA. PMID: 38507645; PMCID: PMC11160133.

View in: PubMed Mentions: 2 Fields:
Pul Pulmonary Medicine
Translation:Humans
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). Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2024 Apr 01; 25(4):312-322. 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 AH, Friess SH, Graham K, Hall M, Hehir DA, Horvat CM, Huard LL, Maa T, Manga A, McQuillen PS, Morgan RW, Mourani PM, Nadkarni VM, Notterman D, Pollack MM, Sapru A, Schneiter C, Sharron MP, Srivastava N, Tilford B, Viteri S, Wessel D, Wolfe HA, Yeh J, Zuppa AF, Sutton RM, Meert KL. PMID: 38088765; PMCID: PMC10994777.

View in: PubMed Mentions: 1 Fields:
Cri Critical Care Ped Pediatrics
Translation:Humans
Chest compressions for pediatric organized rhythms: A hemodynamic and outcomes analysis. Resuscitation. 2024 01; 194:110068. 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, Frazier AH, Friess SH, Graham K, Hall M, Harding ML, Hehir DA, Horvat CM, Huard LL, Landis WP, Maa T, Manga A, McQuillen PS, Meert KL, Mourani PM, Nadkarni VM, Naim MY, Notterman D, Pollack MM, Sapru A, Schneiter C, Sharron MP, Srivastava N, Tilford B, Viteri S, Wessel D, Wolfe HA, Yates AR, Zuppa AF, Berg RA, Sutton RM. PMID: 38052273; PMCID: PMC10843614.

View in: PubMed Mentions: 1 Fields:
Eme Emergency Medicine
Translation:Humans
Associations Between End-Tidal Carbon Dioxide During Pediatric Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Quality, and Survival. Circulation. 2024 01 30; 149(5):367-378. 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-RESUS and Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Collab. PMID: 37929615; PMCID: PMC10841728.

View in: PubMed Mentions: 9 Fields:
Car Cardiology Vas Vascular Diseases
Translation:Humans
Identification of post-cardiac arrest blood pressure thresholds associated with outcomes in children: an ICU-Resuscitation study. Crit Care. 2023 10 07; 27(1):388. 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, Friess SH, Graham K, Hall M, Harding ML, Horvat CM, Huard LL, Maa T, Manga A, McQuillen PS, Meert KL, Morgan RW, Mourani PM, Nadkarni VM, Naim MY, Notterman D, Pollack MM, Sapru A, Schneiter C, Sharron MP, Srivastava N, Tilford B, Viteri S, Wessel D, Wolfe HA, Yates AR, Zuppa AF, Sutton RM, Topjian AA. PMID: 37805481; PMCID: PMC10559632.

View in: PubMed Mentions: 6 Fields:
Cri Critical Care
Translation:Humans
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 03 08; 327(10):934-945. 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, Ahmed T, Bishop R, Bochkoris M, Burns C, Diddle JW, Federman M, Fernandez R, Franzon D, Frazier AH, Friess SH, Graham K, Hehir D, Horvat CM, Huard LL, Landis WP, Maa T, Manga A, Morgan RW, Nadkarni VM, Naim MY, Palmer CA, Schneiter C, Sharron MP, Siems A, Srivastava N, Tabbutt S, Tilford B, Viteri S, Berg RA, Bell MJ, Carcillo JA, Carpenter TC, Dean JM, Fink EL, Hall M, McQuillen PS, Meert KL, Mourani PM, Notterman D, Pollack MM, Sapru A, Wessel D, Yates AR, Zuppa AF. PMID: 35258533; PMCID: PMC8905390.

View in: PubMed Mentions: 34 Fields:
Med Medicine (General)
Translation:Humans
Variability in chest compression rate calculations during pediatric cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Resuscitation. 2020 04; 149:127-133. 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, Manga A, Franzon D, Tabbutt S, McQuillen PS, Horvat CM, Bochkoris M, Carcillo JA, Huard L, Federman M, Sapru A, Viteri S, Hehir DA, Notterman DA, Holubkov R, Dean JM, Nadkarni VM, Berg RA, Wolfe HA, Sutton RM, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Collaborative Pediat. PMID: 32088254; PMCID: PMC7296394.

View in: PubMed Mentions: 2 Fields:
Eme Emergency Medicine
Translation:Humans
Improving outcomes after pediatric cardiac arrest - the ICU-Resuscitation Project: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Trials. 2018 Apr 03; 19(1):213. 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 PS, Franzon D, Pollack MM, Siems A, Diddle J, Wessel DL, Mourani PM, Zebuhr C, Bishop R, Friess S, Burns C, Viteri S, Hehir DA, Whitney Coleman R, Jenkins TL, Notterman DA, Tamburro RF, Sutton RM, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Collaborative Pediat. PMID: 29615134; PMCID: PMC5883604.

View in: PubMed Mentions: 16 Fields:
Med Medicine (General)The Therapeutics
Translation:Humans CTClinical Trials
Discordant identification of pediatric severe sepsis by research and clinical definitions in the SPROUT international point prevalence study. Crit Care. 2015 Sep 16; 19:325. 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 Sepsis Investigators Network. PMID: 26373923; PMCID: PMC4572676.

View in: PubMed Mentions: 55 Fields:
Cri Critical Care
Translation:Humans
Variability of characteristics and outcomes following cardiopulmonary resuscitation events in diverse ICU settings in a single, tertiary care children's hospital*. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2014 Mar; 15(3):e128-41. Gupta P, Yan K, Chow V, Dao DT, Gossett JM, Leong K, Franzon D, Halamek LP, Reddy S, Berg RA, Roth SJ, Nadkarni VM. PMID: 24413318.

View in: PubMed Mentions: 7 Fields:
Cri Critical Care Ped Pediatrics
Translation:Humans
Use of electronic medical record-enhanced checklist and electronic dashboard to decrease CLABSIs. Pediatrics. 2014 Mar; 133(3):e738-46. Pageler NM, Longhurst CA, Wood M, Cornfield DN, Suermondt J, Sharek PJ, Franzon D. PMID: 24567021; PMCID: PMC3934335.

View in: PubMed Mentions: 37 Fields:
Ped Pediatrics
Translation:Humans
Improving code team performance and survival outcomes: implementation of pediatric resuscitation team training. Crit Care Med. 2014 Feb; 42(2):243-51. Knight LJ, Gabhart JM, Earnest KS, Leong KM, Anglemyer A, Franzon D. PMID: 24158170.

View in: PubMed Mentions: 30 Fields:
Cri Critical Care
Translation:Humans
Embedding time-limited laboratory orders within computerized provider order entry reduces laboratory utilization. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2013 May; 14(4):413-9. Pageler NM, Franzon D, Longhurst CA, Wood M, Shin AY, Adams ES, Widen E, Cornfield DN. PMID: 23439456.

View in: PubMed Mentions: 13 Fields:
Cri Critical Care Ped Pediatrics
Translation:Humans CTClinical Trials
Computerized physician order entry with decision support decreases blood transfusions in children. Pediatrics. 2011 May; 127(5):e1112-9. Adams ES, Longhurst CA, Pageler N, Widen E, Franzon D, Cornfield DN. PMID: 21502229.

View in: PubMed Mentions: 21 Fields:
Ped Pediatrics
Translation:Humans