Intensive Care Services

Director of Research, Pediatric Cardiac Recovery
Pediatric Intensivist and Associate Director, Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
Assistant Professor, Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh
Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh


Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC
3705 Fifth Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

412-692-5164
412-692-6076 Fax
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Medical School:

1993 MD, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
2000 MPH, University of Washington School of Public Health, Seattle, WA

Residency:

1996 University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Fellowship:

2000 University of Washington, Seattle, WA

• Society of Critical Care Medicine
• Pediatric Acute Lung Injury and Sepsis Investigators (PALISI)

• National Board of Medical Examiners
• American Board of Pediatrics
• American Board of Pediatrics, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

• Cum laude, Yale University
• Distinction in Biology, Yale University
• Alpha Omega Alpha, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
• Society of Critical Care Medicine 30th Symposium In-training Award, for highest scoring abstract, first author
• Society of Critical Care Medicine 30th Symposium Specialty Award, Healthcare Industry award, co-author
• Society of Critical Care Medicine 32nd Symposium Specialty Award, Healthcare Industry award, co-author
• 2004-2005 Outstanding Intensivist, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
• Outstanding Critical Care Physician, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh

• Watson RS, Carcillo J, Linde-Zwirble WT, Clermont G, Lidicker J, Angus DC. The epidemiology of severe sepsis in children in the United States. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 167(5): 695-703, 2003.
• Watson RS, Angus DC. Assessing outcomes in critical care. Journal of Intensive Care Medicine. 17(3): 111-119, 2002.
• Watson RS, Hartman ME, Kellum JA, Angus DC. Proving the point: Evidence-based medicine in pediatric critical care. In: Fuhrman BP and Zimmerman JJ (eds), Pediatric Critical Care, 3rd edition, Elsevier, Philadelphia, 2006: 58-64.
  

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

• Consequences of surviving critical illness in childhood
• Critical pertussis in U.S. children: Severe morbidity, sequelae, and mortality
• Sedation management in pediatric patients with acute respiratory failure

• Multi-dimensional outcomes of critical illness in children
  
• Health services research in pediatric critical care
  
• Epidemiology, therapy and outcome of pediatric sepsis
  
• Gene expression in pediatric sepsis
  
• Cost-effectiveness analysis in pediatric critical care
  
• Pediatric end-of-life care
  
• Injury epidemiology