Peter A. Meaney, MD, MPH

Peter Meaney is a board-certified pediatric critical care physician with more than 20 years of tertiary and quaternary pediatric intensive care experience at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Stanford Medicine.

He is currently Adjunct Professor of Pediatrics at Stanford University School of Medicine. From 2018 to 2026, he served as Clinical Professor of Pediatrics and a pediatric critical care attending at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford. Previously, he served on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania and as an attending physician at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

Dr. Meaney’s clinical and scholarly work spans pediatric deterioration, cardiopulmonary arrest, resuscitation quality, respiratory failure, physiologic monitoring, team performance, and patient safety. His Master of Public Health training in quantitative methods supports critical appraisal of research evidence, clinical metrics, and outcomes.

His work includes national and international evidence review and consensus development through the American Heart Association and the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation. He has also served on hospital committees addressing resuscitation, airway quality, patient safety, clinical competence, and professional practice.

Through Cadence Health Strategies LLC, Dr. Meaney provides independent pediatric critical care consultation. Academic affiliations are provided for identification; consulting opinions are his own and do not represent an institution.

Selected Publications

Dr. Meaney has authored and co-authored peer-reviewed publications in New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, Pediatrics, Circulation, Critical Care Medicine, Resuscitation, and The Lancet, among others.

A full bibliography is available via the National Library of Medicine:
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