Elizabeth Laverriere McGovern, MD, MPH, FAAP

Dr. McGovern is a graduate of the Georgetown University with a Bachelor of Science of Biology and Psychology, the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where she obtained an MD, and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where she obtained a Master's in Public Health. Dr. McGovern completed pediatrics residency at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and general anesthesiology residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. She then returned to CHOP and completed fellowships in pediatric critical care medicine and pediatric anesthesiology. In 2019 she started as an attending physician in the divisions of CHOP pediatric critical care medicine and general anesthesiology. In 2020 she joined the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine and is currently an Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, Critical Care, and Pediatrics.
In collaboration with multidisciplinary teams in pediatric anesthesiology and critical care, she has developed a niche is pediatric airway management, including difficult airway management and airway education and quality improvement efforts. She is a member of the PICU Airway Safety Committee and the Anesthesiology AirEquip difficult airway group. Dr. McGovern has developed and is studying novel approaches for pediatric airway management education in order to improve intubation safety in the PICU, including strategies for tracking pediatric intubation skill performance over time, identifying gaps in intubation skills, and developing interventions to improve skills deficits.