Thomas Alan Nakagawa MD, FAAP, FCCM

Thomas (Tom) Nakagawa, M.D., FAAP, FCCM, joined Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in April 2016 as chief of the Division of Critical Care Medicine and director of the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. He is also a professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine PAR (pending academic review). Previously Dr. Nakagawa was a professor of anesthesiology and pediatrics and section head for pediatric critical care medicine at Wake Forest School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, as well as medical director of pediatric critical care medicine and director of respiratory care at Brenner Children’s Hospital and Wake Forest Baptist Health.

Dr. Nakagawa is recognized as a national and international leader in organ donation and transplantation. He has worked with policy and guideline development and served as national faculty for the Organ Donation and Organ Transplantation Collaborative of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Health Resources Services Administration. In 2011 and 2013 he chaired the National Pediatric Organ Donation Summits sponsored by HHS. He was also the lead author for the 2011 multi-society (Society of Critical Care Medicine [SCCM], American Academy of Pediatrics and Child Neurology Society) Revised Guidelines for the Determination of Brain Death in Infants in Children