Vinay Nadkarni MD, MS is a Professor and Endowed Chair at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), Departments of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. Dr. Nadkarni is a founding director for the CHOP Center for Pediatric Resuscitation (C.P.R.) and the CHOP Center for Simulation, Advanced Education and Innovation. Currently, he serves on the Executive Committee of the Society for Critical Care Medicine (SCCM). He has served as chair of the American Heart Association’s Emergency Cardiovascular Care Committee (2006-2010) and ILCOR, the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (2007-2016). He was a founding member of the American Heart Association’s National Registry of CPR (Get with the Guidelines-Resuscitation) in over 300 hospitals nationwide, the AHRQ funded National Emergency Airway Registry for Children (NEAR-4-KIDS) across 50 hospitals in the USA, the 106 site International Network for Simulation-Based Pediatric Innovation, Research and Education (INSPIRE) and the 40 member Pedi-RES-Q learning “co-laboratory” that is collecting data to inform practice and help pioneer “neXt generation” resuscitation care. Over the past 5 years he has mentored the growth and development of the PediSTARS (Pediatric Simulation Training and Research Society) across India, and the birth of the UPenn IREF funded ABC Active Bleeding Control-Stop the Bleed program in Hyderabad and Bangalore. Dr. Nadkarni has authored more than 600 peer-reviewed manuscripts and 35 book chapters related to the practice of resuscitation science and critical care. Over the course of his career, he has mentored more than 140 postdoctoral fellows and physician-scientists, culminating in recognition by the American Academy of Pediatrics Critical Care Lifetime Distinguished Career Award (2014), the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR) Giant’s award (2015), and the American Heart Association Lifetime Achievement Award for Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation Science (2017).