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7th Annual Safar Symposium and 29th Annual Peter & Eva Safar Lectureship
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Dr. Michael R. Pinsky Elected President of the University Senate
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Dr. Lakshmipathi (Luke) Chelluri Leaving for Prominent Appointment at West Virginia University
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Dr. Mitchell Fink Presents CCM Grand Rounds
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Pitt Makes Big Showing in Bogotá, Colombia
Four faculty from the Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, presented invited lectures in Bogotá, Colombia at the Columbian Society of Critical Medicine and Intensive Care - 7th National Congress of Critical Care (April 28 - May 2, 2009). Michael R. Pinsky, MD gave the opening plenary lecture entitled “Use of functional hemodynamic measures to diagnose and treat cardiovascular insufficiency.” Marie Baldisseri, MD, Director of Magee-Womens Hospital ICU helped with an Obstetrical Issues in Critical Care mini-symposium in which she lectured on “Hemodynamic assessment of a pregnant and peripartum patient," "Peripartum cardiomyopathy,” and “Obstetric-specific medical emergency team.” Robert Clark, MD of Childrens Hospital of Pittsburgh lectured on “Contemporary managemenet if pediatric patients after traumatic brain injury,” “What’s new in pediatric burn injury,” and “Contemporary management of pediatric patients after cardiac arrest.” Juan Ochoa, MD (joint faculty appointment in surgery) lectured on “Use of coagulation factors and blood in the trauma patient” and “The use of arginine in surgery.” These four speakers represented the most physicians from any region and country, let alone any medical center. |
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 Dr. Sten Rubertsson, Professor of Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine at the University of Uppsala in Sweden, is one of our distinguished Critical Care Medicine alumni. After returning to Sweden, he has mentored a large number of postdoctoral trainees in research. Most recently, Dr. Joahnna Nordmark completed her extensive research on hypothermia treatment after cardiac arrest (CA) with cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC). Her official defense with Dr. Kochanek as the opponent took place on March 28, 2009. READ MORE |
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Fascinating 2009 Grenvik Lectures by Dr. Michael Matthay  Michael Matthay, MD, is Professor of Medicine and Anesthesiology and Director of the Critical Care Medicine Fellowship in the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. He was invited this year to deliver the Grenvik lectures. Dr. Matthay has published approximately 500 scientific papers plus over 100 books and book chapters. He has also mentored 50 research fellows at the famous Cardiovascular Research Intsitute (CVRI). He started with an exciting research conference on November 14, entitled "Mesenchymal Stem Cells for the Treatment of Acute Lung Injury." READ MORE |
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Critical Care Medicine Research Conference Thursday, April 30, 2009 |
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Dr. Michael DeVita Appointed Executive Vice President at West Penn Allegheny Health System
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Mission of the Department of Critical Care Medicine is
to provide exemplary care for critically ill patients,
conduct cutting edge research related to life-threatening
acute medical problems, and educate tomorrow’s
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All the hands were on deck on May 2nd, 2009 as Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh moved to its new location in Lawrenceville. The growing inpatient and outpatient services of Children’s Hospital had been literally overflowing the outdated Oakland building they had occupied for nearly a century. The spacious and technologically sophisticated new campus at Lawrenceville reunited the hospital and outpatient clinics, now 25% larger, with a 300,000 square foot John G. Rangos, Sr. Research Center and administrative and faculty office buildings together on a 10 acre site.
The 7th Annual Safar Symposium and the 29th Annual Peter & Eva Safar Lectureship in Medical Sciences and Humanities were held at the University of Pittsburgh on May 6, 2009. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette featured this year’s symposium in an 
Dr. Michael R. Pinsky graduated in 1974 with a MD, CM from McGill University in Montreal. He completed medical residency and pulmonary fellowship at Stanford University in California, followed by an additional fellowship in pulmonary medicine and physiology at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutes in Baltimore. After this extensive clinical and research training, he was recruited to the University of Pittsburgh in 1981 and has been a full professor since 1991. Dr. Pinsky spent a sabbatical year (1997-98) at the famous University of Paris V (La Sorbonne) that resulted in a Doctor Honoris Causa Degree at this same insitution in 2002. He currently serves as Vice Chairman for Academic Affairs in our Department of Critical Care Medicine. He is ABIM certified in both Pulmonary Medicine and Critical Care Medicine. 
A 1976 graduate of Andhra Medical College in India, Dr. Lakshmipathi (Luke) Chelluri completed his Internal Medicine residency in Harrisburg, PA, and his Critical Care Medicine fellowship in Albany, NY, at the Medical College of Union University. He was recruited to our CCM program at Pitt in 1987. He has been on the University of Pittsburgh Critical Care Medicine Faculty for 22 years except for 6 months when he was Director of Specialty Care at the Harry S. Truman Memorial Hospital in Columbia, MO. During Dr. Chelluri's time with the Department of CCM at Pitt, he obtained an MPH Degree in 1984 from the Pitt Graduate School of Public Health. 
Dr. Mitchell Fink has been successful in no less than four careers: surgery, critical care medicine, science and now business. Three years have passed since Dr. Fink, the founding Chairman of our CCM Department, left on an entrepreneurial leave to establish a new pharmaceutical company which he named Logistical Therapeutics. This was based on his very successful scientific studies and numerous patents. Recently, Dr. Fink became President and CEO of another pharmaceutical business, Lycera, Inc. He remains on the University of Pittsburgh's Faculty as an Adjunct Professor in the Deprtments of Critical Care Medicine, Surgery and Pharmacology.
Presented by Rupert Pearse, MD
Michael DeVita, MD, MPH, Professor of CCM and Medicine, is leaving us on April 1 to assume very high and honoring positions elsewhere in town. He has been appointed Executive Vice President for Medical Affairs at the West Penn Allegheny Health System as well as Director for Research Quality and Education, a job for which he is extremely well qualified.