Patrick M. Kochanek, MD, MCCM

Director, Safar Center for Resuscitation Research
UPMC Presbyterian
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Patrick M. Kochanek, MD, is Distinguished Professor of Critical Care Medicine, the Ake N. Grenvik Professor and Vice Chair of Critical Care Medicine; Director of the Safar Center for Resuscitation Research; and Professor of Pediatrics, Anesthesiology, Bioengineering and Clinical and Translational Science at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. As the Safar Center Director for 27 years, he has a long track-record of translational and multi-departmental research studying traumatic and ischemic brain injury and pediatric and adult neurointensive care, funded by the NIH and the US Department of Defense (DoD). He has >590 listings on PubMed and was identified by Thompson Reuters Science Watch as the most prolific author in the field of TBI from 2001 to 2014. He served as the Principal Investigator for Operation Brain Trauma Therapy, the first multi-center preclinical therapy and biomarker screening consortium in the field, funded by the US DoD. He also was lead author of the 2019 Guidelines for the Management of Severe Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury. He has been PI for 21 years of a T-32 titled “Training in Pediatric Neurointensive Care and Resuscitation Research” funded by NICHD. He has mentored numerous trainees, many of whom have gone on to receive independent funding and careers of international prominence. He is emeritus Editor-in-Chief of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine and served as EIC for 21 years, until October 1, 2020. Among many awards, he received the Distinguished Investigator Award from the ACCM in 2007, was named one of the inaugural Masters of Critical Care Medicine in 2012 and received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the SCCM in 2017. He was a distinguished speaker at the 125th anniversary celebration of Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in 2018 and gave a Great Teachers Lecture at the NIH Clinical Center in 2019.

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Presentation(s):

• Association Between Zip-Code-Level Income and Pediatric TBI Mortality in the United States

  Monday, April 18, 2022
  7:00 AM – 8:00 AM US CST

• Divergent Effects of Therapeutic Hypothermia on Cold Stress Hormones After Pediatric Cardiac Arrest

  Monday, April 18, 2022
  7:00 AM – 8:00 AM US CST

• Feasibility of a Music Therapy Intervention in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit

  Monday, April 18, 2022
  7:00 AM – 8:00 AM US CST

• Identifying Causal Relationships Between ICP and Intensity of Medical Therapies in Pediatric TBI

  Monday, April 18, 2022
  7:00 AM – 8:00 AM US CST

• Rare TRMP4 and ABCC8 Variants Associated With Decreased Incidence of CNS Failure in Pediatric Sepsis

  Monday, April 18, 2022
  7:00 AM – 8:00 AM US CST