Jill Sweney
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Jill Sweney, MD, MBA

Languages spoken: English

Dr. Sweney received her medical degree from the University of Nebraska College of Medicine, completed her Pediatric residency at Creighton-Nebraska Universities Joint residency, and her Pediatric Critical Care Fellowship at the University of Utah. She received her MBA from the Eccles School of Business Executive program in 2016. She has been on the faculty of the University of Utah Department of Pediatrics since 2010.

She is an Associate Professor in Pediatrics at the University of Utah and is in the Division of Pediatric Critical Care. She is the Critical Care Division Chief. She also chairs the Primary Children's Hospital Ethics Committee and Ethics consultation team. Dr. Sweney's clinical interests include pediatric bioethics, disaster preparedness, and care staff models.

Specialties

Dr. Sweney received her medical degree from the University of Nebraska College of Medicine, completed her Pediatric residency at Creighton-Nebraska Universities Joint residency, and her Pediatric Critical Care Fellowship at the University of Utah. She received her MBA from the Eccles School of Business Executive program in 2016. She has been on the faculty of the University of Utah Department of Pediatrics since 2010.

She is an Associate Professor in Pediatrics at the University of Utah and is in the Division of Pediatric Critical Care. She is the Critical Care Division Chief. She also chairs the Primary Children's Hospital Ethics Committee and Ethics consultation team. Dr. Sweney's clinical interests include pediatric bioethics, disaster preparedness, and care staff models.

Board Certification and Academic Information

Academic Departments Pediatrics -Professor (Clinical)
Academic Divisions Critical Care

Education history

Undergraduate Chemistry - Wayne State College B.S.
Professional Medical University of Nebraska Medical Center M.D.
Internship Medicine/Pediatrics Residency Training Program - University of Nebraska Medical Center Intern
Residency Joint Pediatric Residency Training Program - Creighton-Nebraska Universities Resident
Fellowship Pediatric Critical Care Fellowship Program - University of Utah Fellow
Other Training Advanced Training Program - Intermountain Medical Center Certificate
Certification Pediatric Bioethics - Children's Mercy Hospital-University of Missouri-Kansas City Certificate
Graduate Training University of Utah Eccles School of Business M.B.A.

Selected Publications

Journal Article

  1. Boutzoukas AE, Olson R, Sellers MA, Fischer G, Hornik CD, Alibrahim O, Iheagwara K, Abulebda K, Bass AL, Irby K, Subbaswamy A, Zivick EE, Sweney J, Stormorken AG, Barker EE, Lutfi R, McCrory MC, Costello JM, Ackerman KG, Munoz Pareja JC, Dean JM, Abdelsamad N, Hanley DF Jr, Mould WA, Lane K, Stroud M, Feger BJ, Greenberg RG, Smith PB, Benjamin DK Jr, Hornik CP, Zimmerman KO, Becker M (2023). Mechanisms to expedite pediatric clinical trial site activation: The DOSE trial experience. Contemporary clinical trials, 125, 107067.
  2. Sweney J, Bratton S (2021). Protecting the Brain During Pediatric DKA Treatment. Pediatrics, 148(3),
  3. Neumayer KE, Sweney J, Fenton SJ, Keenan HT, Flaherty B (2020). Validation of the "CHIIDA" and application for PICU triage in children with complicated mild traumatic brain injury. Journal of pediatric surgery, 55(7), 1255-1259.
  4. Hamele M, Neumayer K, Sweney J, Poss W (2018). Always ready, always prepared-preparing for the next pandemic. Translational pediatrics, 7(4), 344-355.
  5. Bennett EE, Sweney J, Aguayo C, Myrick C, Antommaria AH, Bratton S (2015). Pediatric Organ Donation Potential at a Children's Hospital. Pediatric critical care medicine, 16(9), 814-20.
  6. Hamele M, Poss WB, Sweney (2014). Disaster preparedness, pediatric considerations in primary blast injury, chemical, and biological terrorism. World journal of critical care medicine, 3(1), 15-23.
  7. Sweney JS, Poss WB, Grissom CK, Keenan H (2012). Comparison of severity of illness scores to physician clinical judgment for potential use in pediatric critical care triage. Disaster medicine and public health preparedness, 6(2), 126-30.

Editorial

  1. Giardino AP, Glasgow T, Sweney J, Chaulk (2021). Pediatric inpatient hospital care. Hospital practice (1995), 49(sup1), 391-392.
  2. Sweney J, Bratton S (2013). Acceptance of circulatory determination of death and donation: what types, limits, and safeguards?. Critical care medicine, 41(3), 933-4.