Teresa Kortz

Teresa is an Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics in Critical Care Medicine, Director of the Institute for Global Health Sciences Affiliate Program, and Director of the Pediatric Global Health Scholars Pathway at the University of California, San Francisco. She has a PhD in Global Health Sciences and is an NIH-funded researcher of pediatric sepsis etiology, prognostic biomarkers, and clinical outcomes in East Africa.

Previously, she was a sepsis consultant at the World Health Organization (WHO) and is the current Pediatric Critical Care Lead of the UCSF-WHO Collaborating Center.

Teresa is a current member of the Society of Critical Care Medicine Sepsis in Resource-Limited Settings Taskforce, and the past co-chair of the Pediatric Acute Lung Injury and Sepsis Investigators (PALISI) Network Global Health subgroup through which she leads collaborative, international projects that aim to assess the burden of and resource utilization due to acute, critical pediatric illness in resource-limited settings.