Dr. Kenneth Aron Schenkman, MD

Kenneth A. Schenkman, MD, PhD, is attending physician in the PICUs at Seattle Children’s Hospital and Harborview Medical Center; he is associate professor of pediatrics and anesthesiology and adjunct associate professor of bioengineering at the University of Washington School of Medicine. He is director of critical care medicine research at Seattle Children’s. Schenkman received his MD from Indiana University and completed a pediatrics residency at the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, where he also served as chief resident.

He trained in pediatric critical care at Seattle Children’s and received a PhD in bioengineering from the University of Washington. He has an active research program developing optical spectroscopic technologies for clinical assessment of intracellular oxygenation and mitochondrial function. Schenkman has been awarded a U.S. patent and filed two additional patent applications in 2006 for his pioneering work on developing an intracellular …oxygen monitor. Schenkman has published dozens of manuscripts and abstracts in the field of optical spectroscopy for physiologic and clinical applications, and has published several book chapters on pediatric critical care topics. He also has been an active reviewer for journals in the fields of medicine, physiology and engineering.