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Hülya Bayir, MD

Job Title Assistant Professor, Critical Care Medicine and Department of Environmental and Occupational Health
4401 Penn Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15224
412-692-5164 Phone
412-692-6076 Fax

Education and Training

Medical School:

1995 Hacettepe University, Ankara, Türkiye

Residency:

1999 State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY

Fellowship:

2002 Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA

Memberships

  • American Academy of Pediatrics 
  • Society for Critical Care Medicine 
  • Society for Neuroscience 
  • Society for Pediatric Research 
  • Radiation Research Society

Board Certifications

  • American Board of Pediatrics, General Pediatrics
  • American Board of Pediatrics, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Awards

  • Michael Miller Young Investigator Award, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC
  • In-Training Award, Society of Critical Care Medicine (Dr. Karen Walson) Mentor for Dr. Karen Walson
  • Fellow Award, American Heart Association 16th Annual Fellow's Research Day Mentor for Dr. Karen Walson

Publications

  • Bayir H, Kagan VE, Tyurina YY, Tyurin VA, Ruppel RA, Adelson PD, Graham SH, Janesko K, Clark RSB, Kochanek PM: Assessment of Antioxidant Reserves and Oxidative Stress in Cerebrospinal Fluid After Severe Traumatic Brain Injury in Infants and Children. Pediatr Res 51(5): 571-578, 2002.
  • Bayir H, Tyurin VA, Tyurina YY, Viner R, Ritov V, Amoscato A, Zhao Q, Zhang X, Janesko-Feldman K,  Alexander H,  Basova LL, Clark RSB, Kochanek PM, Kagan VE. Selective Early Cardiolipin Peroxidation after Traumatic Brain Injury: An Oxidative Lipidomics Analysis. Ann Neurol, 62(2):154-69. 2007.
  • Bayir H, Kagan VE, Clark RSB, Janesko KL, Zhang XJ, Vagni V,  Billiar TR, Kochanek PM. Neuronal NOS-Mediated Nitration and Inactivation of Manganese Superoxide Dismutase in Brain after Experimental and Human Brain Injury. J Neurochem, 101(1):168-181, 2007.
  • Bayir H, Adelson PD, Wisniewski SR, Shore P, Lai Y, Brown D, Feldman K, Kagan VE, Kochanek PM: Therapeutic Hypothermia Preserves Antioxidant Defenses after Severe Traumatic Brain Injury in Infants and Children. Crit Care Med, 37(2):689-695, 2009.

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

Active Research Projects / Grants

  • Oxidative Lipidomics in Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury 
  • Role of Cardiolipin Oxidation after Traumatic Brain Injury in Immature Rat
  • Cardiolipin-cytochrome C Interaction in Neuronal Apoptosis after Cardiopulmonary Arrest
  • Gender-Specific Treatment of Pediatric Cardiac Arrest
  • Novel Nitroxide Resuscitation Strategies in Experimental Traumatic Brain Injury
  • Evaluating the Impact of Neuroendocrine Hormones on Pathophysiology and Outcomes after Traumatic Brain Injury
  • Implications of Hypothermia on Hepatic Drug Metabolism
  • University of Pittsburgh Brain Trauma Research Center Project 5 iNOS and TBI
  • Therapies for Hematopoietic Syndrome, Bone Marrow Stromal Cell Loss, and Vascular Injury Resulting from Acute Exposure to Ionizing Radiation
  • Biochemical, Cellular, and Molecular Mechanisms of Damage in Brain after Blast Injury
  • Novel Multifaceted Colloid Antioxidant Resuscitation in Pediatric Asphyxial Cardiac Arrest

Last Update

March 18, 2009
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