Specialty: Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
Education
Fellowship
- Pediatric Critical Care, UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA (2026)
Internship/residency/Chief Resident
- Pediatrics, UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA (2023)
Medical school
- University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI (2020)
Undergraduate
- B.S. Biochemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (2015)
Professional Interests
- Pediatric Trauma & Outcomes Research
- Medical Education – Simulation
Board Certification
- General Pediatrics
Publications
- McNamara CR, Even KM, Kalinowski A, Horvat CM, Gaines BA, Richardson WM, Simon DW, Kochanek PM, Berger RP, Fink EL. Multiorgan Dysfunction Syndrome in Abusive and Accidental Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury. Neurocrit Care. 2024 Jun;40(3):1099-1108. doi: 10.1007/s12028-023-01887-y
- McNamara CR, Kalinowski A, Horvat CM, Gaines BA, Richardson WM, Simon DW, Kochanek PM, Berger RP, Fink EL. New Functional Impairment After Hospital Discharge by Traumatic Brain Injury Mechanism in Younger Than 3 Years Old Admitted to the PICU in a Single Center Retrospective Study. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2024 Mar 1;25(3):250-258. doi: 10.1097/PCC.0000000000003417
- Kalinowski A, Quint E, Weyand A. The Perfect Balance? Managing Heavy Menstrual Bleeding and Dysmenorrhea in a Patient with Hereditary Hemochromatosis and von Willebrand Disease. J Pediatr Adolesc Gynecol. 2021 Feb;34(1):74-76.doi: 10.1016/j.jpag.2020.10.003
- Kalinowski A, Quint E, Weyand A. The Perfect Balance? Managing Heavy Menstrual Bleeding and Dysmenorrhea in a Patient with Hereditary Hemochromatosis and von Willebrand Disease. J Pediatr Adolesc Gynecol. 2021 Feb;34(1):74-76.doi: 10.1016/j.jpag.2020.10.003
- Verma R, Venkatareddy M, Kalinowski A, Patel SR, Garg P. Integrin Ligation Results in Nephrin Tyrosine Phosphorylation In Vitro. PLoS One. 2016 Feb 5;11(2):e0148906. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0148906
- Venkatareddy M, Verma R, Kalinowski A, Patel SR, Shisheva A, Garg P. Distinct Requirements for Vacuolar Protein Sorting 34 Downstream Effector Phosphatidylinositol 3-Phosphate 5-Kinase in Podocytes Versus Proximal Tubular Cells. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2016 Jan 29; 27(9):2702-19. doi: 10.1681/ASN.2015050555
- Verma R, Venkatareddy M, Kalinowski A, Patel SR, Salant DJ, Garg P. Shp2 Associates with and Enhances Nephrin Tyrosine Phosphorylation and is Necessary for Foot Process Spreading in Mouse Models of Podocyte Injury. Mol Cell Biol.2015 Dec 7;36(4):596-614. doi: 10.1128/MCB.00956-15
Personal Bio
Dr. Kalinowski is a native Midwesterner who grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She completed her Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry at the University of Michigan, followed by her medical degree at the University of Michigan Medical School. She then moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and completed her Pediatrics Residency and Pediatric Critical Care Fellowship at the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. Dr. Kalinowski’s professional interests include pediatric trauma management and outcomes, as well as medical education, particularly curriculum development and simulation-based training. Outside of medicine, she enjoys spending time outdoors exploring the lakes and trails with her dog, spinning, and baking sourdough bread.