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Job Title Professor, Critical Care Medicine and Pediatrics

Job Title Staff, Cardiac Intensive Care Division

4401 Penn Avenue, Suite Floor 5

Pittsburgh, PA 15224

412-692-5164 Phone

412-692-6076 Fax

Email orrra@ccm.upmc.edu

Medical School:	1977 West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, WV
Residency:	1980 West Virginia University Hospital, Morgantown, WV
Fellowship:	1981 Pediatric CCM Fellowship, University Health Center of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

Best Paper Award, American Academy of Pediatrics, "Predicting the need for major interventions during pediatric inter-hospital transport using pre-transport variables"
Pediatric Specialty Award, Society of Critical Care Medicine, “Pediatric specialty care teams are associated with reduced morbidity during pediatric inter-facility transport”
Air Medical Physician of the Year Award, Air Medical Physicians Association
Annual Scientific Award, Society of Critical Care Medicine, “Shock Is Under-reported in Children Transported for Respiratory Distress: A Multi-Center Study Session on Epidemiology and Outcomes Research- Pediatrics"
C. Robert Chambliss, MD Best Paper Award, American Academy of Pediatrics, “Incidence, Mortality, and Morbidity of Shock in the Pediatric Interfacility Transport Setting: A Multi-Center Study"
Best In- Training Award, American Academy of Pediatrics, “A Pediatric Severity of Illness Model for Interfacility Transport Systems”
Fellow, American College of Critical Care Medicine (FCCM)

Orr RA, Venkataraman ST, McCloskey KA, Janosky JE, Dragotta M, Bills D, King WD: Measurement of pediatric illness severity using simple pretransport variables, Prehospital Emergency Care 5:127-133, 2001.
Han YY, Carcillo JA, Dragotta MA, Bills DM, Watson RS, Westerman ME, Orr RA: Early reversal of pediatric-neonatal septic shock by community physicians is associated with improved outcome. Pediatrics 2003; 112:793-799.
Han YY, Carcillo JA, Venkataraman ST, Clark RSB, Watson RS, Nguyen TC, Bayir H, Orr, RA: Unexpected increased mortality after implementation of a commercially sold computerized physician order entry system. Pediatrics 2005;116:1506-1512.

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