Renee Matos MD, MPH

Education

2001 Bachelor of Science & Engineering (Civil & Environmental), Honors, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
2005 Doctor of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
2008 Residency in Pediatrics, San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Consortium, Lackland AFB, TX
2012 Fellowship in Pediatric Critical Care, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
2012 Masters in Public Health, University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health, Pittsburgh, PA

Biography

Colonel Renée I. Matos, MD, MPH, FAAP, FCCM is the Chief of Pediatrics, Brooke Army Medical Center (BAMC), Joint Base San Antonio, TX where she oversees state of the art pediatric primary and subspecialty care for over 50,000 beneficiaries. The Pediatric Department provides pediatric and adolescent primary care, inpatient care for newborn, pediatric, and young adult beneficiaries, and 13 pediatric subspecialties. The department also supports the DoD’s largest pediatric residency, a tri-service neonatology fellowship, and the nation’s largest adolescent medicine fellowship program.

Colonel Matos is also a pediatric intensivist, the Pediatric Critical Care Consultant to the Air Force Surgeon General, the Co-Chair of the DHA Critical Care and Trauma Clinical Community, and an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Uniformed Services University. She has served on multiple national committees with interests in resuscitation, quality improvement, patient safety, critical care air transport, and graduate medical education. She has 22 peer-reviewed publications, 3 book chapters, multiple local and national presentations, has developed 2 courses, and been the course director for 4 courses. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she was the lead editor for all 8 editions of the DoD COVID-19 Practice Management Guide, which was had over 200 contributors and was used globally to guide bedside clinicians and commanders across all military services.

Dr. Matos graduated with Honors in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Princeton University, and was commissioned through ROTC. She then received an AF Health Professions Scholarship for medical school and entered active duty in 2005. Colonel Matos completed residency in Pediatrics at San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Consortium and then fellowship in Pediatric Critical Care at the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. As a critical care air transport physician, she has deployed 3 times and transported over 30 critically ill adults and children across the globe, including in the wake of national disasters and terrorist attacks. Dr. Matos is currently enrolled in USU’s Masters of Health Professions Education program with IRB-approved research studies involving pediatric critical care air transport and the relationship between leadership and burnout among military healthcare workers.

Career Highlights: Positions, Projects, Deployements, Awards and Additional Publications

Assistant Dean for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety (QIPS) San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Consortium (SAUSHEC), July 2017-July 2022

Military Health System (MHS) Female Physician Leadership Excellence Award (Senior Air Force Category), 2022

Military Health System (MHS) Department of Defense Advancement toward High Reliability in Healthcare Award, 2015, 2016, 2020, 2021

Co-Chair, Defense Health Agency (DHA) Critical Care and Trauma Clinical Community (CCCC), 2021-present

Deployments: CCATT Physician Team Lead (Ramstein 2017, COVID Transport Isolation 2020, SOTF-EA Djibouti 2021)

Curriculum Development & Course Director: BAMC Code Team Training Course, 2016-present

Curriculum Development & Course Director: Root Cause Analysis W3: A Science of Healthcare Delivery Course, 2018-present

Course Director: MHS Female Physician Leadership Course, 2023

Course Developer: Pediatric Critical Care Air Transport Online Course, 2022

Course Director & Consultant: Society of Critical Care Medicine Pediatric Fundamentals of Critical Care Support Course, 2018-present

Representative Bibliography

Matos RI, Holcomb JB, Callahan CW, Spinella PC. Increased Mortality Rates of Young Children with Traumatic Injuries at a US Army Combat Support Hospital in Baghdad, Iraq, 2004. Pediatrics. 2008;122:e967-e974. (PMID: 18977963)

Borgman MA, Matos RI, Blackbourne LH, Spinella PC. Ten years of military pediatric care in Afghanistan and Iraq. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2012;73:S509-S513. (PMID: 23192078).

Matos RI, Watson RS, Nadkarni VN, Huang HH, Berg, RA, Meaney PA, Carroll CL, Berens RJ, Praestgaard A, Weissfeld L, Spinella PC. Duration of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Illness Category Impact Survival and Neurologic Outcomes for In- Hospital Pediatric Cardiac Arrests. Circulation. 2013;127:442-451. (PMID: 23339874)

Borgman MA, Matos RI, Spinella PC. Isolated Pediatric Burn Injury in Iraq and Afghanistan. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. 2014;16(2):e23-7. (PMID: 25560430)

Hartman ME, Saeed MJ, Bennett T, Typpo, K, Matos R, Olsen MA. Readmission and late mortality after critical illness in childhood. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. 2017;18(3):e112-121. (PMID: 28107264)

True MW, Bell DG, Faux BM, Matos RI, Valdez MM, Bonjour TJ, Morris MJ. The Value of Military Graduate Medical Education. Military Medicine. 2020; (PMID: 32091600)

Keyser EA, Weir LF, Valdez MM, Aden JK, and Matos RI. Extending Peer Support Across the Military Health System to Decrease Clinician Burnout. Military Medicine. 2020 (PMID: 32830273)

Zimmerman JJ, Harmon LA, Smithburger PL, Chaykosky D, Heffner AC, Hravnak M, Kane JM, Kayser JB, Lane-Fall MB, Matos RI, Mauricio RV, Murphy DJ, Nurok M, Ringle E, Seferian EG, Smalls-Mantey NM, To KB, Kaplan LJ. Choosing Wisely for Critical Care: The Next Five. Critical Care Medicine. 2021 (PMID: 33175955).

King MA, Matos RI, Hamele MT, Borgman MA, Zabrocki LA, Gadepalli SK, Maves RC. PICU in the MICU: how adult intensive care units can support pediatric care in public health emergencies, CHEST. 2022. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chest.2021.12.648.

Schall SE, Switaj TL, Parham AT, Aden JA, Matos RI. Creating Patient Safety Team Leaders through a Simulation-Based Interprofessional Root Cause Analysis (RCA) Course. JGME. 2022. (PMID: 35754621) doi: 10.4300/JGME-D-21-00712.1