In January, Sapna Kudchadkar took on an important new role: vice chair for pediatric anesthesiology and critical care medicine (pediatric ACCM) and anesthesiologist-in-chief of Johns Hopkins Children’s Center.

"Preventive medicine isn’t generally associated with our fields, but it should be. Anything we can do to optimize vaccinations or preventive care and prevent trauma, so that kids aren’t ending up in our intensive care units and operating rooms, is what we must focus on for our communities.”

—Sapna Kudchadkar, newly appointed vice chair for pediatric anesthesiology and critical care medicine and anesthesiologist-in-chief of Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, on her mission to support community outreach in areas such as gun violence prevention and asthma prevention. Read more about Kudchadkar’s vision for her new role: Bit.ly/PedAnesJHCC