Dr. Peter Mourani headshot.Pete Mourani, M.D. serves as the senior vice president and chief research officer for Arkansas Children’s and president of Arkansas Children’s Research Institute (ACRI). He is the fifth president of ACRI. Additionally, he holds the Ross and Mary Whipple Family Distinguished Research Scientist Endowed Chair.

Dr. Mourani also serves as the site Principal Investigator and Steering Committee member for the prestigious eight-site National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) supported Collaborative Pediatric Critical Care Research Network (CPCCRN), which performs impactful clinical research in the field of pediatric critical illness and injury.

He previously worked at the University of Colorado and Children’s Colorado Hospital as professor of pediatrics in the section of Critical Care Medicine. Dr. Mourani has served as the Medical Director of the Children’s Hospital Clinical Research Organization (CCRO) and most recently the Medical Director of the Children’s Hospital Colorado Research Institute.