Medical Director, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit
Medical Director, CICU ECMO Program
Dr. Stacie B. Peddy is a pediatric cardiac intensivist and serves as medical director of the cardiac intensive care unit (CICU) and CICU ECMO Program within the Nicklaus Children’s Hospital Heart Institute. In her role as medical director, Dr. Peddy is responsible for setting the strategy of the CICU and CICU ECMO Program, as well as overseeing all clinical care, quality metrics, teaching, research and fiscal planning. She earned her medical degree with summa cum laude honors from the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Peddy completed a residency in pediatrics at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She then pursued fellowships in pediatric critical care medicine and cardiology at The Children's Center at The John Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her clinical interests include cardiac critical care, cardiac simulation, ECMO, patient safety and quality outcomes.
Before joining Nicklaus Children's Hospital, Dr. Peddy served as medical director of the Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Unit and director of the Pediatric ECMO Program at the University of Maryland Children’s Hospital. She is board certified in general pediatrics, pediatric cardiology and pediatric critical care medicine. She is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics, American College of Cardiology, Society for Critical Care Medicine and Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Society. Dr. Peddy has published her work in, and served as a reviewer for, peer-reviewed journals. She has also contributed several chapters to medical textbooks and presented her work at both national and international conferences.
The Heart Institute at Nicklaus Children’s, a world leader in pediatric cardiology and cardiovascular surgery for the care of children with congenital heart disease, serves as a beacon to families confronting the reality of a child or newborn with a heart defect. It offers the most innovative and least invasive approaches to the treatment of congenital heart disease, including many first-in-the-world procedures that were pioneered right here by The Heart Institute’s own internationally renowned cardiologists and cardiovascular surgeons.