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Budi Wiryawan, Clinical Professor of Pediatrics - Critical Care at Stanford University School of Medicine within the field of Medicine, specializes in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. He provides clinical care at Stanford Medicine Children's Health and leads efforts at the Pediatric Critical Care unit at John Muir Walnut Creek Medical Center, including his prior role as Medical Director of the John Muir Health PICU. His expertise supports critical care for pediatric patients in these affiliated institutions, with clinical offices located at 1601 Ygnacio Valley Rd, Walnut Creek, CA 94598.
Dr. Wiryawan earned his MD from Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, Germany, in 1995, followed by an internship at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York, in 1998; a residency at Klinikum Rechts der Isar in Munich, Germany, in 1997; a pediatric residency at Maimonides Medical Center completed in 2000; and a fellowship in pediatric critical care medicine at Women and Children's Hospital of Buffalo, New York, completed in 2003. He holds board certifications from the American Board of Pediatrics in Pediatrics since 2000 and Pediatric Critical Care Medicine since 2004. At Stanford, Dr. Wiryawan contributes to medical education by teaching and supervising courses including PEDS 199: Undergraduate Directed Reading/Research, PEDS 299: Directed Reading in Pediatrics, PEDS 370: Medical Scholars Research, PEDS 280: Early Clinical Experience, and PEDS 399: Graduate Research, offered across Autumn, Winter, Spring, and Summer quarters in the 2025-26 academic year. His publications include co-authorship of "Maintaining Social Distancing: Video and Just-in-Time In Situ Simulation During the COVID-19 Pandemic," published in Simulation in Healthcare in 2022, which details innovative simulation training from Stanford's Division of Critical Care Medicine during the pandemic.