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Robert Clark, MD

Job Title Chief, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC

Job Title Professor, Critical Care Medicine and Pediatrics, Critical Care Medicine Department, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

4401 Penn Avenue, Suite Floor 5

Pittsburgh, PA 15224

412-692-5164 Phone

412-692-6076 Fax

Email clarkrs@upmc.edu

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Active Research Projects

Education and Training

Medical School:	1989 Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
Residency:	1992 Primary Children’s Hospital, University of Utah Affiliated Hospitals, Salt Lake City, UT
Fellowship:	1995 Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA

Memberships

American Academy of Pediatrics
Society of Critical Care Medicine
National Neurotrauma Society (Secretary/Treasurer 2007-8; Vice President 2010-11)
Society for Neuroscience
American Academy of Pediatrics, Fellow
Society for Pediatric Research
National Institutes of Health Clinical Neuroscience and Disease study section (2001-4)
National Institutes of Health Developmental Brain Disorders study section (2005-9)
Editorial Board Journal of Neurotrauma
Editorial Board Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Board Certifications

American Board of Pediatrics, Sub board on Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Awards

Fellowship Award, American Heart Association, Pennsylvania Affiliate
Society of Critical Care Medicine Annual Scientific Award
National Institutes of Health Pediatrician/Scientist Development Award
National Institutes of Health Clinical Investigator Award
Society of Critical Care Medicine Young Investigator Award
Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh Michael E. Miller Young Investigator Award
Society of Critical Care Medicine Neuroscience Award
Listed in Best Doctors in America
Listed in America’s Top Pediatricians
Society of Critical Care Medicine Presidential Citation

Publications

Au AK, Carcillo JA, Clark RSB, Bell MJ. Brain injuries and neurological system failure are the most common proximate cause of death in children admitted to a pediatric intensive care unit. Pediatr Crit Care Med in press.
Salonia R, Empey PE, Poloyac SM, Wisniewski SR, Klamerus M, Ozawa H, Wagner AK, Ruppel R, Bell MJ, Feldman K, Adelson PD, Clark RSB, Kochanek PM. Endothelin-1 is increased in cerebrospinal fluid and associated with unfavorable outcome in children after severe traumatic brain injury. J Neurotrauma in press.
Smith CM, Adelson PD, Chang Y-F, Brown SD, Kochanek PM, Clark RSB, Hinchberger J, Bell MJ. Brain-systemic temperature gradient is temperature-dependent in children with traumatic brain injury. Pediatr Crit Care Med in press.
Fink EL, Kochanek PM, Clark RSB, Bell MJ. Fever control and application of hypothermia using intravenous cold saline. Pediatr Crit Care Med in press.
Exo J, Kochanek PM, Adelson PD, Greene S, Clark RSB, Bayir H, Wisniewski SR, Bell MJ. Intracranial pressure monitoring systems in children with traumatic brain injury: Combining therapeutic and diagnostic tools. Pediatr Crit Care Med in press.
Hoh NZ, Wagner AK, Alexander SA, Clark RB, Beers SR, Okonkwo DO, Ren D, Conley YP. BCL2 genotypes, functional and neurocognitive outcomes after severe traumatic brain injury. J Neurotrauma 27:1413-1427, 2010.
Fink EL, Kochanek PM, Clark RSB, Bell MJ. How I cool children in neurocritical care. Neurocrit Care 11:66-74, 2010.
Au AK, Bayir H, Kochanek PM, Clark RSB. Evaluation of autophagy using mouse models of brain injury. Biochim Biophys Acta 1802:918-923, 2010.
Sarnaik AA, Conley YP, Okonkwo DO, Barr TL, Fink EL, Szabo C, Kochanek PM, Clark RSB. Influence of PARP-1 polymorphisms in patients after traumatic brain injury. J Neurotrauma 27:465-471, 2010.

View Dr. Clark's full list of publications from PubMed.

Active Research Projects / Grants

National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke grant: Divergent Pathways of Cell Death after Brain Injury
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development grant: Gender-Specific Treatment of Pediatric Cardiac Arrest
National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke grant: Overcoming Membrane Transporters to Improve CNS Drug Therapy
National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke grant: Poly(ADP-Ribose) Polymerase and Brain Injury
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development grant: Training in Pediatric Neurointensive Care and Resuscitation Research
US Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity grant: "Novel Nitroxide Resuscitation Strategies in Experimental Traumatic Brain Injury"

Last Update
August 31, 2010

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