Dr. Pamela C. Petersen is an Associate Professor of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine and practices at Texas Children's Hospital (TCH), where she provides care for critically ill neonates, children, and young adults. Board certified in Pediatrics and Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, she combines clinical expertise with a background in biomedical engineering to advance technology-enabled care delivery.
Dr. Petersen serves as the Associate Chief Health Information Officer for Inpatient Services at Texas Children's Hospital, where she partners with clinical, operational, and IT leaders to optimize the safe, reliable, and scalable use of technology across the inpatient enterprise. Her work focuses on clinical communication, health information technology governance, patient safety, system reliability, workflow optimization, and enterprise-wide downtime preparedness. In 2026, she was elected to the Epic Unified Communications Advisory Board, where she collaborates with health system leaders and Epic to guide the optimization and future development of communication tools within the electronic health record. Prior to her current role, she served as the TCH Associate Medical Director of Mission Control, leading initiatives to improve communication, patient flow, and care coordination across a multi-hospital health system.
Her academic and innovation interests center on the integration of emerging technologies into pediatric care. Her work includes digital health, wireless patient monitoring, clinical informatics, medical device development, and electronic health record optimization to improve efficiency, documentation quality, and patient outcomes. She also serves as an advisor to the Texas Medical Center Innovation Accelerator and collaborates with engineers, trainees, and industry partners to translate novel technologies into meaningful clinical applications. Through these efforts, Dr. Petersen strives to advance pediatric healthcare by improving patient, family, and clinician experiences while reducing administrative burden and enhancing operational effectiveness.[