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The Critical Care Center at Children’s Hospital of New Jersey at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center is the state’s largest pediatric critical care unit, housing the cardiac intensive care and medical/surgical intensive care units. The 19-bed multidisciplinary Pediatric Intensive Care Unit opened in early 2001, meeting a great demand in patient numbers and acuity throughout the state.
The Division of Pediatric Critical Care includes board-certified pediatric critical care intensivists and critical care nurses, who provide 24-hour in-hospital coverage seven days a week. In September 2001, the division assumed responsibility for the administration and care of patients for the Pediatric Special Care Unit at Monmouth Medical Center, also a member of Barnabas Health.
The Leapfrog Group, a consortium of the largest purchasers of health care in the United States, has put forth several initiatives that it believes are necessary for quality comprehensive health care for its members and their employees. One of these initiatives is the concept of an “intensivist-led” interdisciplinary health care team in the intensive care unit. This model of care has been and continues to be the standard of practice on the critical care units at Children’s Hospital of New Jersey.
New Jersey’s largest state-of-the-art pediatric intensive care unit has in-hospital coverage by Board-certified intensivists 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Our team includes:
Meena Kalyanaraman, MD
Derrick McQueen, MD
Joseph Sykes, MD
Frank A. Briglia, MD, MPH, FAAP
Sushmita Mikkilineni, MD, FAAP
Meena Kalyanaraman, MD
 Meena Kalyanaraman, MD, is a board-certified pediatric critical care intensivist at Children’s Hospital of New Jersey at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center. She received her undergraduate degree from Adash Vudyalaya Matriculation Higher Secondary School in Chennai, India, and her medical degree from Kilpauk Medical College at the University of Madras in Chennai, India. Dr. Kalyanaraman did her residency in pediatrics at Sparrow Hospital and Michigan State University in Lansing, Michigan, and her fellowship training at Children’s Hospital of Michigan – Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan.
Derrick McQueen, MD
 Derrick McQueen, MD, is a board-certified pediatric critical care intensivist at Children’s Hospital of New Jersey at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center. He received his undergraduate degree from Georgetown University in Washington, DC and his medical degree from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ), New Jersey Medical School in Newark. Dr. McQueen completed his residency and fellowship training in pediatrics also at UMDNJ. He then completed fellowship training in pediatric critical care at New York Hospital Cornell Medical Center, New York, New York.
Joseph Sykes, MD
Joseph Sykes, MD, is a board-certified pediatric critical care intensivist at Children’s Hospital of New Jersey at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Benin in Benin City, Nigeria and his medical degree from the University of Benin Teaching Hospital. Dr. Sykes completed his residency in pediatrics and fellowship training pediatric critical care at Albert Einstein College of Medicine – Montefiore Medical Centre in Bronx, New York.
Frank A. Briglia, MD, MPH, FAAP
Dr. Briglia is Board Certified in Pediatrics and Pediatric Critical Care. He received his medical degree from UMDNJ – Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and his Master of Public Health degree from the University of Michigan, School of Public Health. He completed his fellowship in critical care medicine at Children’s National Medical Center, George Washington University School of Medicine in Washington, D.C. and his pediatric residency at St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children, Temple University School of Medicine in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Prior to joining Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, Dr. Briglia was the Division Head, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. He also served as the Chairman of Pediatrics at The Children’s Regional Hospital in Camden, New Jersey.
Dr. Briglia founded the Specare Center for Special Healthcare Needs located inVoorhees, NJ and also is Medical Director for the Ventilator-Dependent Unit at Wanaque Pediatric Rehabilitation Center in Haskell, NJ. He is Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Anesthesiology at UMDNJ.
Dr. Briglia has been honored with The New Jersey Department of Health’s Al Hanson Public Health Award; American Heart Association, New Jersey Affiliate Award for the Top PALS Training Center in the state award and the David S. Smith Teaching Award/Senior Resident Award from St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children.
Active in community service, Dr.Brigliahas served as the chair and vice chair of the Governor’s Advisory Council on Emergency Medical Services for Children (EMS-C), New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services. He is also a member of the Committee on Emergency Department Regulations of the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services and the Committee on Prevention of Youth Violence. Dr. Briglia has participated in several state-sponsored medical grant programs and has co-authored articles for medical journals such as Critical Care Medicine, Circulatory Shock and International Journal of Pediatrics.
Sushmita Mikkilineni, MD, FAAP
 Board certified in pediatric critical care, Dr. Mikkilineni received her medical degree from the University of Delhi in India. She completed her residency training at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University and Lady Hardinge Medical College Hospital in India.
Dr. Mikkilineni is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, and an active participant in the American Thoracic Society, the New Jersey Thoracic Society, the American Lung Association, the New Jersey Pediatric Asthma Coalitionand theAsthma Committee of the Maternal and Child Health Consortium of Central Jersey. She has co-authored articles that have appeared in the Journal ofPediatricHematologyand Oncology and Pulmonology journal as well as written chapters for two books, Dysphagia and the Child with Developmental Disabilities and Rehabilitation of the Patient with Respiratory Disease.
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