Pediatric Surgery

Assistant Director, Benedum Pediatric Trauma Center
Assistant Professor of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine


Department of Pediatric Surgery
Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC
3705 Fifth Ave., 4A-485
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

412-692-7282
412-692-8299 Fax
david.rodeberg@chp.edu

Medical School:

1989 University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison, WI

Residency:

1997 University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH

Fellowship:

1999 Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD

• American Academy of Pediatrics, Fellow (FAAP)
• American Association for Cancer Research, Member
• American College of Surgeons, Fellow
• American Pediatric Surgical Association, Member
• Association for Academic Surgery
• Children's Oncology Group
  • Soft Tissue Sarcoma Disease Committee
  • Soft Tissue Sarcoma Steering Committee
  • Surgical PI: Randomized Study of Vincristine, Actinomycin-D, Cyclophosphamide (VAC) versus VAC
    Alternating w/Vincristine and Irinotecan (VI) for Patients
    with Intermediate-Risk Rhabdomyosarcoma
  • Surgical PI: Intensive Multi-Agent Therapy, Including Dose-Compressed Cycles of Ifosfamide/Etoposide (IE) and Vincristine/Doxorubicin/ Cyclophosphamide (VDC) for Patients with High-Risk Rhabdomyosarcoma
  • Surgical Discipline Committee
  • Surgical Education Committee
  • Surgical Steering Committee

• Pennsylvania Bureau of Professional and Occupational Affairs
• Minnesota Bureau of Professional and Occupational Affairs
• The American Board of Surgery, Surgery
• The American Board of Surgery, Pediatric Surgery
• Drug Enforcement Agency
• Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS)
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support Program (PALS)

• Dean's List (8 Semesters), Viterbo College
• Plastocyanin Oxidation Kinetics, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Chemistry
• Research Scholarship
• Who's Who of American College Students
• Science Representative (Jr. and Sr.), Academic Dean's Society
• Oxidative Phosphorylation in the Presence of Acetaminophen, Undergraduate
• Junior/Senior Research, Viterbo College, LaCrosse, WI
• Magna Cum Laude, Viterbo College
• Curriculum Development Committee (Sr)
• Senior Representative (Sr.), Student Representative Assembly
• Representative (Fr.), Medical Student Association Council
• Vinblastine Toxicity in the Presence of Calcium Channel Blockers. American Cancer Society Summer Fellowship, Gundersen Clinic, LaCrosse, WI
• Leadership and Service Award (So.), University of Wisconsin Medical School
• President (So.), Medical Student Association Council
• Bone Marrow Transplant: Graft vs Host Reaction. American Cancer Society Summer Fellowship, University of Wisconsin Hospital, Madison, WI
• Vincent Russo Memorial Award for Leadership and Character (Jr.), University of Wisconsin Medical School
• Neutrophil Function in Burn Patients. JW Alexander, MD; GD Warden, MD; GF Babcock, PhD, research advisors. Shriners Burns Institute, Cincinnati, OH
• Research Fellowship, Shriners Burns Institute
• E.R. Squibb & Sons Research Fellowship, Surgical Infection Society
• Carl A. Moyer Resident Award for Burn Research, American Burn Association
• Research Fellowship, Shriners Burns Institute
• E.R. Squibb & Sons Research Fellowship, Surgical Infection Society
• Best Trauma Research, American College of Surgeons
• Ohio Chapter Resident Essay Contest
• Third Place Basic Science, American College of Surgeons Ohio Chapter
• Resident Essay Contest
• Surgical Residents Research Award, University of Cincinnati
• Traveling Fellowship, American Burn Association
• Research Fellowship, Shriners Burns Institute
• Immunology for the Treatment of Alveolar Rhabdomyosarcoma, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
• Designation as Level 1 Pediatric Trauma Center
• Established ECMO program
  
  

• Soft Tissue Sarcoma Study Protocol ARST0531: Intermediate Risk Rhabdomyosarcoma
• Soft Tissue Sarcoma Study Protocol ARST0431: High Risk Rhabdomyosarcoma
• Optimization of Human Dendritic Cell Function Using B7-DC Cross-linking Antibody
• Identification of Antigenic Epitopes Contained in PAX Proteins
• Immunotherapy Post Surgery in a Murien Model of Rhabdomyosarcoma
• T-Lymphocyte Based Immunotherapy for the Treatment of Alveolar Rhabdomyosarcoma

• Pediatric Trauma
• Rhabdomyosarcoma
• Cancer Biology and Immunotherapy