Claudia Delgado-Corcoran
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Claudia Delgado-Corcoran, MD, MPH

Languages spoken: English, Spanish

Clinical Locations

Primary Location

Primary Children's Hospital

Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
100 N Mario Capecchi Drive
Salt Lake City , UT 84113
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Claudia Delgado-Corcoran, MD, MPH is a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Utah and works in the Divisions of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine and Palliative Care and Hospice Medicine at Primary Children´s Hospital in Salt Lake City, UT. She is originally from Bogota, Colombia, where she attended medical school and received her medical degree from Escuela Colombiana de Medicina (Universidad El Bosque) in Bogota, Colombia. She received her Master of Public Health from the University of South Carolina. She completed her Pediatric residency and Pediatric Critical Care Medicine fellowship at Wolfson Children’s Hospital / Shands Medical Center at the University of Florida in Jacksonville and did a year-long training in Cardiac Intensive Care at Arkansas Children’s Hospital. She has been working in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit at Primary Children’s since 2009. She completed a fellowship in Hospice and Palliative Care Medicine in 2020 at the University of Utah. She is board-certified in Pediatrics, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, and Palliative Care and Hospice Medicine.

Dr. Delgado-Corcoran provides care to children admitted to the CICU with newly diagnosed congenital heart disease or non-surgical heart disease that requires critical care, and children who have undergone palliative or corrective heart surgery. She also provides inpatient palliative care services at Primary Children's Hospital.

Her research work focuses on increasing the involvement of palliative care in children with heart disease and evaluating the impact of palliative care on families, patients and end-of-life care of children with complex heart disease. Dr. Delgado-Corcoran is actively involved multi-site studies and in quality research to improve processes in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit.

Specialties

Board Certification

American Board of Pediatrics (Sub: Hospice and Palliative Medicine)
American Board of Pediatrics (Pediatrics)
American Board of Pediatrics (Sub: Pediatric Critical Care Medicine)

Claudia Delgado-Corcoran, MD, MPH is a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Utah and works in the Divisions of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine and Palliative Care and Hospice Medicine at Primary Children´s Hospital in Salt Lake City, UT. She is originally from Bogota, Colombia, where she attended medical school and received her medical degree from Escuela Colombiana de Medicina (Universidad El Bosque) in Bogota, Colombia. She received her Master of Public Health from the University of South Carolina. She completed her Pediatric residency and Pediatric Critical Care Medicine fellowship at Wolfson Children’s Hospital / Shands Medical Center at the University of Florida in Jacksonville and did a year-long training in Cardiac Intensive Care at Arkansas Children’s Hospital. She has been working in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit at Primary Children’s since 2009. She completed a fellowship in Hospice and Palliative Care Medicine in 2020 at the University of Utah. She is board-certified in Pediatrics, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, and Palliative Care and Hospice Medicine.

Dr. Delgado-Corcoran provides care to children admitted to the CICU with newly diagnosed congenital heart disease or non-surgical heart disease that requires critical care, and children who have undergone palliative or corrective heart surgery. She also provides inpatient palliative care services at Primary Children's Hospital.

Her research work focuses on increasing the involvement of palliative care in children with heart disease and evaluating the impact of palliative care on families, patients and end-of-life care of children with complex heart disease. Dr. Delgado-Corcoran is actively involved multi-site studies and in quality research to improve processes in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit.

Board Certification and Academic Information

Academic Departments Pediatrics -Professor (Clinical)
Pediatrics -Professor (Clinical)
Academic Divisions Critical Care
Board Certification
American Board of Pediatrics (Sub: Hospice and Palliative Medicine)
American Board of Pediatrics (Pediatrics)
American Board of Pediatrics (Sub: Pediatric Critical Care Medicine)

Education history

Professional Medical Medicine - Escuela Colombiana de Medicina M.D.
Other Training English - University of South Carolina
Graduate Training Public Health - University of South Carolina M.P.H.
Other Training Neonatology - St. Louis Children's Hospital
Other Training Cardiology - St. John's Mercy Medical Center
Other Training General Pediatrics - Cardinal-Glennon Children's Hospital
Residency Pediatrics - Maimonides Medical Center Resident
Residency Pediatrics - University of Florida Health Science Center Resident
Fellowship Pediatric Critical Care Medicine - University of Florida Health Science Center Fellow
Fellowship Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care - University of Arkansas Fellow
Fellowship Palliative Care and Hospice - University of Utah School of Medicine Fellow

Selected Publications

Journal Article

  1. Songer KL, Wawrzynski SE, Olson LM, Harousseau ME, Meeks HD, Moresco BL, Delgado-Corcoran (2025). Association of Palliative Care Timing With End-of-Life Quality in Children With Heart Disease. Journal of pain and symptom management, 69(4), 402-408.
  2. Songer KL, Wawrzynski SE, Olson LM, Harousseau ME, Meeks HD, Moresco BL, Delgado-Corcoran (2025). Timing of Palliative Care Consultation and End-of-Life Care Intensity in Pediatric Patients With Advanced Heart Disease: Single-Center, Retrospective Cohort Study, 2014-2022. Pediatric critical care medicine, 26(1), e23-e32.
  3. Headrick A, Wawrzynski S, Moore J, Winder M, Masih JR, De Leon Jauregui M, Flaherty B, Moresco B, Millar MM, Codden RR, Moore D, Delgado-Corcoran (2025). Increasing Pediatric Palliative Care Consultation for Patients with Heart Disease and Prolonged Cardiac Intensive Care Stay. Pediatric quality & safety, 10(2), e796.
  4. Delgado-Corcoran C, Wawrzynski SE, Mansfield K, Fuchs E, Yeates C, Flaherty BF, Harousseau M, Cook L, Epps J (2024). Grieving Children' Death in an Intensive Care Unit: Implementation of a Standardized Process. Journal of palliative medicine, 27(2), 236-240.
  5. Ames SG, Delaney RK, Delgado-Corcoran C, Houtrow AJ, Alvey J, Watt MH, Murphy (2024). Impact of disability-based discrimination in healthcare on parents of children with medical complexity. Developmental medicine and child neurology, 66(9), 1226-1233.
  6. Delgado-Corcoran C, Wawrzynski SE, Flaherty B, Kirkland B, Bodily S, Moore D, Cook LJ, Olson L (2023). Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation and paediatric palliative care in an ICU. Cardiology in the young, 33(10), 1846-1852.
  7. Ames SG, Delaney RK, Houtrow AJ, Delgado-Corcoran C, Alvey J, Watt MH, Murphy (2023). Perceived Disability-Based Discrimination in Health Care for Children With Medical Complexity. Pediatrics, 152(1),
  8. Bennett E, Delgado-Corcoran C, Pannucci CJ, Wilcox R, Heyrend C, Faustino E (2022). Outcomes of Prophylactic Enoxaparin Against Venous Thromboembolism in Hospitalized Children. Hospital pediatrics, 12(6), 617-625.
  9. Delgado-Corcoran C, Wawrzynski SE, Mansfield KJ, Flaherty B, DeCourcey DD, Moore D, Cook LJ, Ullrich CK, Olson L (2022). An Automatic Pediatric Palliative Care Consultation for Children Supported on Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation: A Survey of Perceived Benefits and Barriers. Journal of palliative medicine, 25(6), 952-957.
  10. Green DJ, Bennett E, Olson LM, Wawrzynski S, Bodily S, Moore D, Mansfield KJ, Wilkins V, Cook L, Delgado-Corcoran (2021). Timing of Pediatric Palliative Care Consults in Hospitalized Patients with Heart Disease. Journal of pediatric intensive care, 12(1), 63-70.
  11. Delgado-Corcoran C, Bennett EE, Bodily SA, Wawrzynski SE, Green D, Moore D, Cook LJ, Olson L (2021). Prevalence of specialised palliative care consultation for eligible children within a paediatric cardiac ICU. Cardiology in the young, 31(9), 1458-1464.
  12. Delgado-Corcoran C, Wawrzynski SE, Bennett EE, Green D, Bodily S, Moore D, Cook LJ, Olson L (2020). Palliative Care in Children With Heart Disease Treated in an ICU. Pediatric critical care medicine, 21(5), 423-429.
  13. Gakenheimer-Smith L, Glotzbach K, Ou Z, Presson AP, Puchalski M, Jones C, Lambert L, Delgado-Corcoran C, Eckhauser A, Miller (2019). The Impact of Neurobehavior on Feeding Outcomes in Neonates with Congenital Heart Disease. The Journal of pediatrics, 214, 71-78.e2.
  14. Delgado-Corcoran C, Blaschke AJ, Ou Z, Presson AP, Burch PT, Pribble CG, Menon S (2019). Respiratory Testing and Hospital Outcomes in Asymptomatic Infants Undergoing Heart Surgery. Pediatric cardiology, 40(2), 339-348.
  15. Nellis ME, Goel R, Karam O, Cushing MM, Davis PJ, Steiner ME, Tucci M, Stanworth SJ, Spinella PC, Pediatric Acute Lung Injury and Sepsis Investigators (PALISI) Network, Pediatric Critical Care Blood Research Network (BloodNet), and the P3T Investigator (2019). Effects of ABO Matching of Platelet Transfusions in Critically Ill Children. Pediatric critical care medicine, 20(2), e61-e69.
  16. Winder MM, Eckhauser AW, Delgado-Corcoran C, Smout RJ, Marietta J, Bailly D (2018). A protocol to decrease postoperative chylous effusion duration in children. Cardiology in the young, 28(6), 816-825.
  17. Furlong-Dillard J*, Neary A, Marietta J, Jones C, Jeffers G, Gakenheimer L, Puchalski M, Eckauser A, Delgado-Corcoran (2018). Evaluating the Impact of a Feeding Protocol in Neonates before and after Biventricular Cardiac Surgery. Pediatric quality & safety, 3(3), e080.
  18. Delgado-Corcoran C, Van Dorn CS, Pribble C, Thorell EA, Pavia AT, Ward C, Smout R, Bratton SL, Burch P (2017). Reducing Pediatric Sternal Wound Infections: A Quality Improvement Project. Pediatric critical care medicine, 18(5), 461-468.
  19. Bodily SA*, Delgado-Corcoran C, Wolpert K, Lucas K, Presson AP, Bratton S (2017). Reducing Blood Testing in Pediatric Patients after Heart Surgery: Proving Sustainability. Pediatric quality & safety, 2(6), e047.
  20. Delgado-Corcoran C, Wolpert KH, Lucas K, Bodily S, Presson AP, Bratton S (2016). Hematocrit Levels, Blood Testing, and Blood Transfusion in Infants After Heart Surgery. Pediatric critical care medicine, 17(11), 1055-1063.
  21. Delgado-Corcoran C, Witte MK, Ampofo K, Castillo R, Bodily S, Bratton S (2014). The impact of human rhinovirus infection in pediatric patients undergoing heart surgery. Pediatric cardiology, 35(8), 1387-94.
  22. Delgado-Corcoran C, Bodily S, Frank DU, Witte MK, Castillo R, Bratton S (2014). Reducing blood testing in pediatric patients after heart surgery: a quality improvement project. Pediatric critical care medicine, 15(8), 756-61.
  23. Delgado-Corcoran C, Kissoon N, Murphy SP, Duckworth L (2004). Exhaled nitric oxide reflects asthma severity and asthma control. Pediatric critical care medicine, 5(1), 48-52.
  24. DeNicola LK, Kissoon N, Abram HS Jr, Sullivan KJ, Delgado-Corcoran C, Taylor (2001). Noninvasive monitoring in the pediatric intensive care unit. Pediatric clinics of North America, 48(3), 573-88.
  25. Delgado-Corcoran (1997). El pediatra y el adolescente homosexual. 16(6), 357-362.

Review

  1. Ting J, Songer K, Bailey V, Rotman C, Lipsitz S, Rosenberg AR, Delgado-Corcoran C, Moynihan K (2024). Impact of Subspecialty Pediatric Palliative Care on Children with Heart Disease; A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. Pediatric cardiology,

Book

  1. Delgado-Corcoran C, Bierer R, Gradick K, Harousseau M, Johnston B, Moore D, Moresco B, Ostrander B, Patterson P, Spraker-Perlman H (2024). SpringerBrief: Specialized Pediatric Palliative Care.

Abstract

  1. Delgado-Corcoran C, Wolpert K, Bodily S et al (2016). World Journal for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery. World journal for pediatric & congenital heart surgery, Jan 2015(Jan 2015), 153-188.
  2. Delgado-Corcoran C, Van Dorn C, Pribble C et al (2016). Reducing sternal wound infections in children after heart surgery: A Quality Improvement Project. 2016,
  3. Delgado-Corcoran C, Bodily S, Lucas K et al (2016). Does Hemoglobin Level At Discharge From Stage 1 Palliation Impact Health Status At Stage 2 In Infants With Single Ventricle Physiology?. 2016,
  4. Delgado-Corcoran C, Bodily S, Lucas K et al (2015). Reducing Blood Testing in Pediatric Patients after Heart Surgery: Proving Sustainability. World journal for pediatric & congenital heart surgery, Jan 2015(6), 153-188.
  5. Delgado-Corcoran C, Bodily S, Frank D et al (2013). Reducing Blood Testing in Pediatric Patients after Heart Surgery. Pediatric critical care medicine, June 2014(14), 5.
  6. Delgado-Corcoran C, Bodily S, Castillo R et a (2013). Rhinovirus Infection in Pediatric Patients Undergoing Heart Surgery. 2013(5),
  7. Delgado-Corcoran C, Kissoon N, Murphy SP, Duckworth L (2001). Exhaled Nitric Oxide as a Marker of Asthma Severity. Pediatric critical care medicine, 2(4), 360.
  8. Delgado-Corcoran C, Kissoon N, Schaeffer DA, Blake KV, Murphy SP, Duckworth L (2001). Exhaled Nitric Oxide and Sputum Metabolites (NO2/NO3) in Children with Cystic Fibrosis. Pediatric critical care medicine, 2(4), 358.

Other

  1. Delgado-Corcoran (2012). American Blood Stream Infections with Central Venous Catheters. 2012(27), 1-10.