Lauren R. Sorce, PhD, RN, CPNP-AC/PC, FCCM, FAAN is the Senior Director Nursing Research and Operations at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago and Stanley Manne Children’s Research Institute where she also holds the Posy and Fred Love Chair in Nursing Research. She is the Senior Scientist in the Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago where she has practiced as a Pediatric Critical Care Nurse Practitioner for 28 years. She is an Assistant Research Professor at Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine.  She received both her Bachelor’s and Master’s of Science in Nursing from Loyola University, followed by her post-Masters Pediatric Nurse Practitioner certificate and her PhD from Rush University. 

Dr. Sorce is Past President of the Society of Critical Care Medicine, the first pediatric nurse serving as President of the multiprofessional Critical Care Society since its inception in 1971. Dr. Sorce had a research interest for years bringing many multicentered trials to the PICU. She has also been funded to study corneal abrasions and worked on numerous research teams to study post-intensive care syndrome, stress hydrocortisone in pediatric septic shock, positioning in PARDS, and criteria for convening family conferences in the ICU. She has reset the clinical research strategy in the PICU over the past several years where she has led monthly research operations meetings and a monthly Think Tank.

Her current work is investigating severity of illnesses associated with the nasopharyngeal microbiome. Dr. Sorce was co-vice chair of the SCCM Taskforce for the development of the PHOENIX pediatric Sepsis score and participated in the development of the Surviving Sepsis Campaign Pediatric Guidelines. She has served in leadership roles on numerous local and international committees as well as participating on editorial boards.