Michael Lintner-rivera MD

Dr. Michael D. Lintner-Rivera grew up moving with his family throughout Latin America. They eventually settled in their mother’s home country of Nicaragua. After high school, he moved to the US for further education. He went to medical school at the University of Illinois College of Medicine, Peoria, and stayed there to complete a combined Internal Medicine-Pediatrics residency program. He completed a pediatric critical care fellowship at Phoenix Children’s. He did an additional year of training, combining a critical care ultrasound fellowship (London, ON) with a pediatric critical care global health fellowship. He spent 6 months in Blantyre, Malawi, where he did ultrasound-based research on AKI in pediatric cerebral malaria. His clinical and research interests are in global health and the utilization of POCUS for assessing hemodynamics.