Critical Care Medicine Research |Overview
With several faculty funded by theNational Institutes of Health, as well as several other faculty funded with foundation grant support, Critical Care Medicine’s research agenda includes
- Development of a vaccine against bacteria that is a leading cause of death in children
- Elucidating the molecular mechanisms of pulmonary hypertension
- Identifying the genes that predispose healthy infants to develop respiratory syncytial virus bronchiolitis, and
- Investigating novel measures of lung volume
- Investigation of perfluorocarbon-mediated gas exchange in pediatric respiratory failure
- Novel modes of ventilation in pediatric respiratory failure utilizing a large animal model
- Bench work on metabolic and nutritional derangements in the critically pediatric patient
- Efficacy of procedures used in neonatal and pediatric transport
- Use of simulator technology to teach crisis management through observational studies in the field
- Withholding and withdrawal of life-sustaining therapy
- Brain death and organ transplantation
- The ethics of randomized clinical trials
- Advancing innovations in postgraduate medical education
- Applying innovative medical educational technologies globally
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Faculty
- Jeffery P. Burns, MD, MPH
- John H. Arnold, MD
- David W. Casavant, MD
- Melody G. Duvall, MD, PhD
- Chinyere Egbuta, MD
- Robert J. Graham, MD
- David Kantor, MD, PhD
- Monica E. Kleinman, MD
- Daniel S. Kohane, MD, PhD
- Kate Madden, MD
- Thomas J. Mancuso, MD
- Enid Martinez, MD
- Michael L. McManus, MD, MPH
- Nilesh M. Mehta, MD
- Robert C. Pascucci, MD
- Gregory P. Priebe, MD
- Adrienne G. Randolph, MD, MSC
- Jordan Rettig, MD
- Amy L. Sanderson, MD
- Robert C. Tasker, MBBS, MD
- Robert D. Truog, MD
- Meredith G. Van Der Velden, MD
- Sally H. Vitali, MD
- Brian Walsh, PhD
- Peter H. Weinstock, MD, PhD
- Traci A. Wolbrink, MD