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Patrick M. Kochanek, MD

Job Title Director, Pediatric Critical Care Research, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC
Job Title Associate Director, Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC
Job Title Vice Chairman, Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Job Title Director, Safar Center for Resuscitation Research
Job Title Professor, Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Job Title Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Job Title Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
4401 Penn Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15224
412-692-5164 Phone
412-692-6076 Fax
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Education and Training

Medical School:

1980 University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Residency:

1983 University of California, San Diego, CA

Fellowship:

1986 Children's Hospital National Medical Center, Washington, DC

Memberships

  • American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • Society of Critical Care Medicine
  • Pennsylvania Society of Critical Care Medicine
  • International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism
  • New York Academy of Sciences
  • Stroke Council, American Heart Association
  • National Neurotrauma Society
  • Society for Neuroscience
  • Society for Pediatric Research
  • Council on Cardiopulmonary and Critical Care, American Heart Association
  • International Neurotrauma Society
  • The American Association of Neurological Surgeons, Associate Member
  • World Association of Medical Editors
  • Society of Neurosurgical Anesthesia and Critical Care

Board Certifications

  • American Board of Pediatrics, Diplomate
  • American Board of Pediatrics Sub-board of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Awards

  • Phi Beta Kappa
  • Alpha Omega Alpha
  • 1977 - 1980 Joseph Collins Foundation Scholar
  • 1984 - 1986 Fellow of the Year, Department of Critical Care Medicine, Children's Hospital National Medical Center
  • Fellow, American College of Critical Care Medicine
  • Cited in Best Doctors in America, Woodward/White, Inc.
  • Named one of "Pittsburgh's Best Doctors", Pittsburgh Magazine
  • Society of Critical Care Medicine Pediatric Award
  • 1993 - 1995 Society of Critical Care Medicine Established Investigator Award
  • Cited in Best Doctors in America, 2nd Edition
  • Neurotrauma Society Poster Award, Research Mentor to Dr. Susan Kaczorowski
  • Educational Scholarship, Society of Critical Care Medicine, Research Mentor to Dr. Susan Kaczorowski
  • Outstanding Faculty, University of Pittsburgh Honors Convocation
  • Scientific Award, Society of Critical Care Medicine, Research Mentor to Dr. Robert Clark
  • Presidential Citation, Society of Critical Care Medicine
  • Poster Award Finalists, Neurotrauma Society of Medicine, Research mentor to Dr. Michael Bell and Dr. Michael Forbes
  • 1996 - 1997, 2002  Cited in Who’s Who in America
  • Educational Scholarship, Society of Critical Care Medicine, Research mentor to Dr. Michael Bell
  • Young Investigator’s Award, Society for Neurosurgical Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Research mentor to Dr. Elizabeth Sinz
  • Poster Award Finalists, Neurotrauma Society of Medicine, Research mentor to Dr. Michael Bell
  • The American Board of Pediatrics, Sub-board in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
  • Taubin Lecture, Children’s National Medical Center, Washington, DC
  • SCCM In-Training Fellow Award, Society of Critical Care Medicine, Research mentor to Dr. Michael Bell
  • Women in Neurotrauma Award, National Neurotrauma Society, Research Mentor to Dr. Kimberly Statler
  • Educational Scholarship, Society of Critical Care Medicine, Research mentor to Dr. Randall Ruppel Educational Scholarship, Society of Critical Care Medicine, Research mentor to Dr. Kimberly Statler
  • Educational Scholarship, Society of Critical Care Medicine, Research co-mentor to Dr. Yong Han
  • Jr. Investigator of the Year, Women in Neurotrauma Award, National Neurotrauma Society, Research Mentor to Dr. Kimberly Statler
  • Nominated, Pittsburgh Men and Women of the Year Award (in Science and Medicine), Vectors of Pittsburgh
  • Educational Scholarship, Society of Critical Care Medicine, Research co-mentor to Dr. Hülya Bayır
  • Editor-in Chief, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
  • Fellow Clinical Research Award, Society for Pediatric Research, Research co-mentor to Dr. Hülya Bayır
  • Ambulatory Pediatric Association Fellows Award, The Ambulatory Pediatric Association, Research co-mentor to Dr. Rachel Berger
  • America’s Top Doctors, 1st Edition, Castle Connolly Medical Ltd.
  • Neuroscience Specialty Award, Society of Critical Care Medicine
  • Distinguished Service Award, Society of Critical Care Medicine
  • Scientific Award, Society of Critical Care Medicine, Research co-mentor to Dr. Hülya Bayır
  • Vice-Chairman of Research, Department of Critical Care Medicine, Safar Center for Resuscitation Research, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA
  • Cited in Pittsburgh Magazine
  • Asmund S. Laerdal Memorial Lecturer
  • Pfizer Professorship, University of Illinois Dept. of Pediatrics
  • Dolph Adams Award Nomination, Five most cited research article 1997-2001, Carols TM, et al. J Leukoc Biol 61, 279-285
  • Scientific Award, 32nd Congress of SCCM, Research co-mentor to Dr. Hülya Bayır
  • Educational Scholarship, 32nd Congress of SCCM, Research mentor to Dr. Paul Shore
  • Young Investigator Award, 4th World Congress on Pediatric Intensive Care (WFPICCS), Research mentor to Dr. Paul Shore
  • America’s Top Doctors, 3rd Edition, Castle Connolly Medical Ltd.
  • America’s Top Doctors, 4th Edition, Castle Connolly Medical Ltd.
  • 2004-2005 Guide to America’s Top Pediatricians, Consumers’ Research Council of America
  • Cited in Who’s Who in the East
  • Young Investigator Award, 34th Critical Care Congress (SCCM), Research mentor to Dr. Xianren Wu
  • Cited in the "Top Doctors" feature article, Pittsburgh Magazine, May 2005 issue
  • First Tomas Vargo Visiting Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Texas, Houston, May 26-27, 2005
  • America’s Top Doctors, 5th Edition, Castle Connolly Medical Ltd.
  • 2002-2006 Cited in Best Doctors in America
  • 2006, 2007 Cited in Marqui’s Who’s Who in American Education
  • Cited in Marqui’s Who’s Who in Medicine and Healthcare
  • Cited in Marqui’s The Who’s Who 60, 60th Anniversary Edition of Who’s Who in America
  • Cited in Guide to America’s Top Pediatricians, Consumers’ Research Council of America 2006 Consumer Guide
  • 3rd Place, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh 2006 Summer Student Research Day, Research mentor to Evan Lebowitz
  • America’s Top Doctors, 6th Edition, Castle Connolly Medical Ltd.
  • American College of Critical Care Medicine Distinguished Investigator Award
  • SCCM In-Training Fellow Award, 36th Critical Care Congress of SCCM, Research mentor to Dr. Alia Dennis
  • Scientific Award, 36th Critical Care Congress of SCCM, Research mentor to student Lee Haselkorn
  • First Visiting Professor, Center of Critical Illness and Health Engineering, Washington University, St. Louis School of Medicine
  • 1st Place, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh 2007 Summer Student Research Day, Research Mentor to student Lauren Bueke
  • 2007-2008 Cited in Best Doctors in America

Publications

  • Sinz EH, Kochanek PM, Dixon CE, Clark RSB, Carcillo JA, Watkins SC, Schiding J, Carlos TM, Billiar TR:  Inducible nitric oxide synthase is an endogenous neuroprotectant after traumatic brain injury in rats and mice. J Clin Invest 104:647-656, 1999.
  • Wu X, Kochanek PM, Drabek T, Henchir J, Stezoski SW, Stezoski J, Cochran K, Garman R, Tisherman SA: Induction of profound hypothermia for emergency preservation and resuscitation allows intact survival from cardiac arrest resulting from prolonged lethal hemorrhage and trauma in dogs. Circulation 113:1974-1982, 2006.
  • Kochanek PM, Vagni VA, Janesko KL, Washington C, Crumrine P, Garman RH, Jenkins LW, Clark RSB, Homanics G, Dixon CE, Schnermann J, Jackson EK:  Adenosine A1 receptor knockout mice develop lethal status epilepticus after experimental traumatic brain injury.  J Cereb Blood Flow Metab 26:565-575, 2006.

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

Active Research Projects / Grants

  • Adenosine and Traumatic Brain Injury
  • Brain Disorders in the Developing World:  Research Across the Lifespan
  • Protein Kinase B and C in Head Injury     
  • Pediatric Critical Care Scientist Development Program (PCCSDP)
  • Metoclopramide prevents PICU nosocomial infection
  • Mechanisms of Chronic Dysfunction after Brain Trauma
  • Gender-Specific Treatment of Pediatric Cardiac Arrest
  • Novel Nitroxide Resuscitation Strategies in Experimental Traumatic Brain Injury
  • Training in Pediatric Neurointensive Care and Resuscitation Research    
  • University of Pittsburgh Brain Trauma Research Center
  • Prevent Blast (Phase 1), Molecular Biology of Blast-Induced Traumatic Brain Injury
  • Role of Cardiolipin Qxidation after Traumatic Brain Injury in Immature Rat
  • Prevent Blast (Phase 2), Molecular Biology of Blast-Induced
  • Traumatic Brain Injury, Dates TBD

    Grants Pending
  • Systemic release of a vasoconstrictor contributes to cerebral hypoperfusion in models of TBI plus systemic hemorrhage
  • Novel approaches to screening for inflicted childhood neurotrauma
  • Emergency Preservation and Resuscitation Clinical Feasability Trial
  • Oxidative Lipidomics in Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury  
  • Progesterone Therapy in the A1KO Controlled Cortical Impact Model of Post Traumatic Seizures
  • Cerebrospinal Fluid Drainage in Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury
  • Expandable Cannula for Rapid Vascular Access
  • Experimental traumatic brain injury plus hemorrhagic shock in mice: Resuscitation with novel optimized recombinant hemoglobins solutions
  • Operation Brain Trauma Therapy
  • The Consortium To Defeat Warfighter Brain Injury
  • Mecial College of Wisconson TBI Consortium

Last Update

October 27, 2008
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