2021 SKMC Alumni Award Recipients

Dr. Remy is a tenure-track Associate Professor and NIH-funded physician-scientist in the Case Western University Departments of Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, Pathology, and Biochemistry in the Divisions of Pulmonary Critical Care Medicine and Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. He serves as the Director of the Division of Pulmonary Critical Care Medicine, Basic Science, and Translational Critical Care Research, and Co-director for Clinical, Basic Science, and Translational Critical Care Research in the Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. Dr. Remy came to Case Western from Washington University in St. Louis where he was an Associate Professor in the Departments of Pediatrics and Internal Medicine.

As an adult and pediatric critical care physician, his laboratory is focused on two areas: heme-based trafficking and signaling in immune dysregulation in the context of diseases of intravascular hemolysis (COVID, sepsis, malaria, sickle cell disease, thalassemia) and after red blood cell transfusion; and real-time immunophenotyping of pro and hypoinflammatory states to identify timing for immunoadjuvant therapies. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Remy has cared for over 1,500 patients in the adult and pediatric ICU while pivoting his laboratory activities to understanding the evolution of the disease in both a hematologic and immune functional approach. Dr. Remy, in collaboration with Dr. Richard Hotchkiss, was among the first in the world to demonstrate a COVID-19 immunosuppressive phenotype demonstrating significant T cell exhaustion in patients with critical illness.

Dr. Remy’s first authored manuscript on the care of adults in the pediatric ICU was the featured article in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. He has been featured on national and international news programs, including CNN, “CBS Evening News,” BBC News, People Magazine, NBC News, Reuters, USA Today, on his experiences during the pandemic and to speak on the immunologic consequences of disease, pediatric multisystem inflammatory syndrome, public health measures and schools, and potential therapies for SARS-CoV-2 infection. Dr. Remy sits on a number of national and international task forces in sepsis and COVID, including the NIH, BARDA, FDA, and CDC.

Dr. Remy has authored over 75 peer-reviewed manuscripts, textbook chapters, and invited commentaries. He is the chair of the Basic and Translational Science Research Section for the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM). He is the immunology chair for the Pediatric Acute Lung Injury and Sepsis Investigators Blood Network, and holds key leadership positions in many other organizations including the executive committee of the Research Section of SCCM and member-at-large for the Internal Medicine Section of SCCM. He has been honored as a fellow in the American College of Critical Care Medicine and fellow in the Society of Pediatric Research.

He is formally trained in global health, and emergency and disaster preparedness; and has received a certificate of clinical research from the National Institutes of Health. He is also the medical director for Heart Care International’s Medical Missions and global health chair for the Pediatric Acute Lung Injury and Sepsis Investigators Network. Dr. Remy has clinical interests in both adults and children in bioethics, international health, humor therapy, and palliative care.

After receiving her medical degree from Jefferson, Dr. Long completed pediatric residency and fellowship training in Infectious Diseases at St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children in Philadelphia, and one year in research as a National Institutes of Health trainee at Temple University. She took her first job in 1975, as Chief of Infectious Diseases at St. Christopher’s, where she has spent her career. Dr. Long currently serves as Chief Emeritus, Section of Infectious Diseases, at St. Christopher’s, and is Professor of Pediatrics at Drexel University College of Medicine.

She is the founding and current Chief Editor of the textbook “Principles and Practice of Pediatric Infectious Disease” (in its sixth edition) and an Associate Editor of The Journal of Pediatrics. She also was an Associate Editor for five editions of the Red Book Report of the Committee on Infectious Diseases of the American Academy of Pediatrics. She has chaired the program committee for annual scientific meetings of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Infectious Diseases Society of America, and the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society.

Dr. Long has been honored with medical student Golden Apples, house staff teaching awards, the all-university Great Teacher’s Award at Temple University, the Distinguished Service Award, as well as the Distinguished Physician Award of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society, an award for Lifetime Contribution to Infectious Diseases Education by the Section on Infectious Diseases of the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the Clinical Teaching Award from the Infectious Diseases Society of America. In 2015, she received the

Drexel University Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Foundation Award for Distinguished Teaching, and in 2019, was awarded the Drexel University College of Medicine Dean’s Heritage Medal.

To date, Dr. Long has mentored 16 fellows in pediatric infectious diseases, as well as more than 1,000 residents and students in pediatrics. The Philadelphia Mural Arts Program included Dr. Long’s portrait, among storied St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children dignitaries Drs. W.E. Nelson and A. M. DiGeorge, on an edifice near the hospital in recognition of service to north Philadelphia’s children and contribution to the broad field of Pediatrics.

Dr. Long’s principal areas of investigation are vaccine-preventable diseases and the management of common infectious diseases in children. She has played related key roles in U.S. vaccine policy over decades. She has been a member of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee advising on licensure, and currently is a member of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices making national policy for vaccine use. Dr. Long has made more than 400 contributions to the medical literature, has given an average of over 30 lectures nationally and internationally annually for more

than three decades, and has performed more than 85 honorary lectureships and visiting professorships.

Despite national leadership and teaching roles, Dr. Long has prioritized an intensive schedule of clinical consultative care, to bring the best possible medical decisions to underprivileged children in North Philadelphia. She maintains that her most cherished moments are at the bedside of a child—with a parent, medical student, resident, and fellow—all learning together.