Francois Aspesberro, M.D.

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Francois Aspesberro, M.D.
Pediatrics Intensivist
Clinical Expertise
  • Pediatric Cancers
  • Critical Care
Other Languages Spoken
French
German
Academic Appointments
  • Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Pediatrics

Francois Aspesberro, M.D., is an associate clinical professor in the Department of Pediatrics at City of Hope® Cancer Center Duarte. Inspired by his family’s long history of working in the medical profession, Dr. Aspesberro pursued a career in pediatric critical care and oncology, with a personal and professional mission to treat young patients with compassion and expertise. He specializes in pediatric critical care medicine and has done research in outcomes in the intensive care unit of pediatric patients after bone marrow transplantation.

Dr. Aspesberro attended medical school at the Catholic University of Louvain in Brussels, Belgium. After completing a pediatric residency at a hospital affiliated with the University of Mainz in Germany, he pursued a three-year pediatric training program at the University of Geneva in Switzerland. He then moved to the United States and completed a fellowship in pediatric critical care medicine and a pediatrics residency, both at the University of Washington in Seattle. He has practiced medicine in six countries and speaks four languages.

Location

Education & Experience

Degree

  • 1994, Doctor of Medicine, Catholic University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Brussels

Residency

  • 2007, Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
  • 1999, Pediatrics, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
  • 1996, Pediatrics, University of Mainz — Mutterhaus der Borromäerinnen, Trier, Germany

Fellowship

  • 2002, Pediatric Intensive Care, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

Professional Experience

  • 2024–Present, Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Pediatrics, City of Hope, Duarte, California
  • 2023–2024, Pediatrician, Pediatric Intensive Care, Sunrise Hospital, Las Vegas, Nevada
  • 2022–2023, Pediatrician, Intensive Care Unit, El Paso Children’s Hospital, El Paso, Texas
  • 2019–2022, Pediatrician, Cardiothoracic Intensive Care Unit, Children’s Heart Institute, MemorialCare Miller Children’s & Women’s Hospital, Long Beach, California
  • 2016–2019, Pediatrician, Intensive Care Unit, Providence Medical Center, Anchorage, Alaska
  • 2009–2017, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

Publications

  • Aspesberro F, Siebler T, Van Nieuwenhuyse JP, Panosetti E, Berthet F: Lemierre’s Syndrome in a 5-month-old male infant: Case report and review of the pediatric literature. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2008 Sep; 9(5):e35-7. PMID: 18779698
  • Renaud C, Kuypers J, Aspesberro F, Rosenfeld M, Englund JA. Emergence of Oseltamivir-Resistant Pandemic H1N1 in an Immunocompetent child with severe status asthmaticus. Journal of Asthma. 2011Aug;48(6)572-5. PMID: 21604924
  • Aspesberro F, Guthrie KA, Woolfrey AE, Brogan TV, Robert JS. Outcome of pediatric hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients requiring mechanical ventilation. J Intensive Care Med 2014 Jan-Feb;29(1):31-7. PMID: 22904208
  • Aspesberro F, Milewski LS, Brogan TV. Acute central nervous system complications in pediatric hematopoietic stem cell patients. J Ped Int Care 2014;3(3):169-181. DOI: 10.3233/PIC-14100
  • Aspesberro F, Mangione-Smith R, Zimmerman JJ. Health related quality of life following pediatric critical Illness. Intensive Care Med 2015 July;41(7):1235-1246. PMID: 25851391
  • Aspesberro F, Fesinmeyer M, Chou C, Zimmerman J, Mangione-Smith R. Construct validity and responsiveness of the pediatric quality of life inventory 4.0 generic core scales and infant scales in the pediatric intensive care unit. Pediatr Crit Care 2016 Jun;17(6):e272-9. PMID: 27261668
  • Mitchell L, Adams W, Aspesberro F. Case 6: Episodic stiffness in a 30-month-old girl. Pediatr Rev 2017 Jan;38(10:52-53. PMID: 28044038