Faculty and Staff

Our pulmonary critical care program is staffed by a multidisciplinary team drawn from across Rhode Island Hospital, including physicians, consultants, respiratory therapists, bedside intensive care nurses, and others. Among the team leaders:

Christopher Muratore, MD

Christopher Muratore, MD is a pediatric surgeon at Hasbro Children’s Hospital and director of the ECMO Programs at Rhode Island Hospital and its Hasbro Children’s Hospital. He is an assistant professor of surgery at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. He earned his medical degree from Georgetown University, and completed postgraduate training at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and Children’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. Muratore developed the longstanding successful ECMO program for neonatal and pediatric patients at Hasbro Children’s, has expertise in ECMO training simulation, and significant experience in the use of ECMO in both pediatric and adult patients.

Corey Ventetuolo, MD

Corey Ventetuolo, MD is the director of the Adult ECMO program at Rhode Island Hospital and an assistant professor of Medicine and Health Services Policy and Practice at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. She earned her medical degree at Tufts University in Boston and an MS in biostatistics at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University. She completed her postgraduate training at Brown Medical School and Columbia University, New York Presbyterian Hospital. With expertise in pulmonary hypertension and right heart failure, Ventetuolo has extensive experience caring for adults with advanced cardiopulmonary disease and in the use of extracorporeal life support for various indications.

Martin Keszler, MD

Martin Keszler, MD is a professor of pediatrics at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and director of respiratory services and associate director of neonatal intensive care at Women & Infants Hospital. He earned his medical degree from McGill University, and completed postgraduate training at St. Mary’s Hospital in Montreal, Canada, and Children’s Hospital Medical Center in Akron, Ohio. Keszler started the successful ECMO program at Georgetown University in 1985 and served as director until 2010. He is Women & Infants’ ECMO liaison and consultant to the ECMO program at Hasbro Children’s Hospital.

Cyndie Devers, RRT-NPS

ECMO manager Cyndie Devers oversees our team of trained respiratory therapists who manage extracorporeal life support around the clock at the patient’s bedside. ECMO specialists work in collaboration with Medical Intensive Care Unit nursing staff, also trained in ECMO, to provide outstanding patient care.