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Job Title Director of Research, Pediatric Cardiac Recovery Program

Job Title Fellowship Director, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Job Title Pediatric Intensivist and Associate Director, Pediatric Intensive Care Unit

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

Job Title Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

4401 Penn Avenue

Pittsburgh, PA 15224

412-692-5164 Phone

412-692-6076 Fax

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

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 of UPMC
Society of Critical Care Medicine Presidential Citation

Watson RS, Angus DC. Assessing outcomes in critical care. Journal of Intensive Care Medicine. 17(3): 111-119, 2002.
Watson RS. Location, location, location: Regionalization and outcome in pediatric critical care. Current Opinion in Critical Care 2002; 8(4): 344-8.
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, Hartman ME. How much is enough? Volume and outcome in pediatric critical care. In: Vincent J-L (ed), Yearbook of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2003: pp 945-52.
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.
Watson RS, Angus DC. Cost-effectiveness of nitric oxide in the hypoxemic newborn. In: Masferrer R (ed), Proceedings from a special symposium on Use of Inhaled Nitric Oxide in the Hypoxic Newborn. American Association for Respiratory Care, Irving, Texas, 2006; pp 39-34.
Watson RS, Hartman ME. Epidemiology of critical illness. In: Wheeler DS, Wong HR, Shanley TP (eds), Pediatric Critical Care Medicine: Basic Science and Clinical Evidence, Springer-Verlag, London, 2007: pp 31-5.

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

Consequences of surviving critical illness in childhood
Costs and post-discharge effects of a sedation protocol in pediatric patients with acute respiratory failure
Prolonged outcomes after nitric oxide
Population-based epidemiology of critical illness
Regionalization of pediatric critical care

September 1, 2009