Monica E. Kleinman MD

Dr. Monica Kleinman has a strong clinical and academic interest in pediatric resuscitation, including the development of evidence-based treatment guidelines. Dr. Kleinman has been a volunteer for the American Heart Association (AHA) for more than 30 years. In 2003 she was appointed to the AHA’s National Emergency Cardiovascular Care Committee's Pediatric Subcommittee and subsequently served as its chair from 2007 through 2009.

Dr. Kleinman's contributions include serving as an editor of the 2006 version of the Provider and Instructor Textbooks for Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS), and writing group chair for the 2010 AHA PALS Guidelines and 2015 AHA Basic Life Support Guidelines. From 2011 through 2015 she served as co-chair of the Pediatric Task Force for the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR), the international consortium that develops consensus statements on resuscitation science and treatment recommendations. Currently, Dr. Kleinman serves as a Domain Lead for the ILCOR continuous evidence evaluation process.
Dr. Kleinman is also passionate about patient safety and harm prevention, including the early identification of patient deterioration outside of the critical care setting. She developed the early warning score system used at Boston Children’s Hospital and has published several reports on its use as a predictor of deterioration in specific patient populations as well as in resource-limited settings. She is also interested in in-hospital emergency response systems in Children’s Hospitals, the use of checklists for improving patient safety, and inter-facility transport for critically ill children.