About
Dr. Melania M. Bembea is Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She holds a joint appointment in the Department of Pediatrics. Dr. Bembea came to Johns Hopkins as a Pediatric Critical Care Medicine fellow in 2006 and joined the PICU faculty as an attending physician in 2009. Beginning in 2015, she became Director of the Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) Program in the Children’s Center. Approximately 25–38 neonates, infants, and children are treated with ECMO each year at Johns Hopkins. Dr. Bembea oversees education, quality improvement, and administrative aspects of the program. She also ensures that the...