Titles:
Post-Doctorate Scholar, NRSA Fellow, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Degrees:

Positions
2002-2005 Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh Pediatric critical care fellow
1999-2002 Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh Pediatric resident

Honors:
2005 Nancy Caroline Fellowship Award for Research, Safar Center for Resuscitation Research
2005 Fellow of the Year, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
2005 Winner, Fellow’s Research Day, American Heart Association, PA/DE Affiliate
1999 Graduated cum laude, Jefferson Medical College
1997-1999 Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society
1997-1999 Hobart Amory Hare Honors Society
1996 Pathology Honors Society

Professional Memberships:
2002-present Society of Critical Care Medicine
1999-present American Academy of Pediatrics
1995-present Pennsylvania Medical Society

Referred Articles:
1. Fink EL, Alexander HA, Marco CD, Dixon CE, Kochanek PM, Jenkins LW, Lai YC, Donovan HA, Hickey RW & Clark RSB. An experimental model of pediatric asphyxial cardiopulmonary arrest in rats. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine; 5(2): 139-144, 2004.
2. Satchell MA, Lai Y, Kochanek PM, Wisniewski SR, Fink EL, Siedberg NA, Berger RP, Adelson PD & Clark RSB. Cytochrome c, a biomarker of apoptosis, is increased in cerebrospinal fluid from infants with inflicted brain injury associated with child abuse. Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism; 25(7):919-927, 2005.
3. Fink EL, Marco CD, Donovan HA, Alexander HA, Dixon CE, Jenkins LW, Stange CT, Kochanek PM & Clark RSB. Brief induced hypothermia improves outcome after asphyxial cardiopulmonary arrest in juvenile rats. Developmental Neuroscience; 27(2-4):191-199, 2005.

Abstracts:
1. Fink EL, Lai YC, Janesko K, Kochanek PM, Clark RSB. A novel method for the detection of Poly(ADP-Ribose)-modified proteins in cerebrospinal fluid and other biological tissues from patients with traumatic brain injury. Submitted to Neurotrauma 2005.
2. Fink EL, Marco CD, Chen Y, Alexander H, Jenkins LW, Donovan HA, Kochanek PM, Szabo C, Clark RSB. Protracted increase in hippocampal poly-ADP-ribosylation after asphyxial cardiac arrest in juvenile rats. Poster symposium at the American Pediatric Society/Society for Pediatric Research; Washington, D.C., May 2005.
3. Fink EL, Bayir H, Lai Y, Chen Y, Zhang X, Alexander H, Kochanek PM, Clark RSB. Gamma-glutamylcysteine ethyl ester increases brain glutathione after asphyxial cardiac arrest in post-natal day 17 rats. Oral presentation at the 33rd Society for Critical Care Medicine Educational and Scientific Symposium; Phoenix, AZ; January 2005.
4. Fink EL, Marco CD, Alexander HA, Donovan HA, Bao L, Dixon CE, Kochanek PM, Clark RSB. “Regional patterns of neurodegeneration and DNA fragmentation after asphyxial cardiac arrest differ between male and female pediatric-aged rats”, to be presented at the 34th Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting.
5. Fink EL, Marco CD, Donovan HA, Alexander H, Kline AE, Dixon CE, Bao L, Lai Y, Kochanek PM, and Clark RSB. “Gender-dependent Differences in Behavioral Outcome and Rate of Neuronal Cell Death after Asphyxial Cardiac Arrest in Post-natal Day 17 Rats,” presented at the 2004 Pediatric Societies’ Annual Meeting.
6. Fink EL, Marco CD, Donovan HA, Alexander HA, Dixon CE, Kochanek PM, Jenkins LW, and Clark RSB. “Brief Induced Hypothermia Improves Outcome in a Pediatric Model of Asphyxial Cardiopulmonary Arrest in Rats”, presented at the 32nd Society for Critical Care Medicine Educational and Scientific Symposium.
7. Fink EL, Alexander HA, Donovan HA, Marco CD, Dixon CE, Kochanek PM, and Clark RSB. “Therapeutic Hypothermia Improves Neurologic Recovery in a Model of Pediatric Asphyxial Cardiopulmonary Arrest in Rats”, presented at the 33rd Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting.
8. Fink EL, Alexander HA, Marco, CD, Kochanek PM, Jenkins LW, Lai YC, Hickey RW, and Clark RSB. “A Novel Experimental Model of Pediatric Asphyxial Cardiac Arrest that Produces Prolonged Functional Deficits and Neurodegeneration”, presented at the 2003 Pediatric Societies’ Annual Meeting.
9. Fink EL, Satchell MA, Kochanek PM, Jenkins LW, Janesko K, Thomas NJ, Adelson PD and Clark RSB. “Cerebrospinal Fluid Analysis of Hepatocyte Growth Factor Concentration in Infants and Children after Traumatic Brain Injury”, presented at the 30th Society for Critical Care Medicine Educational and Scientific Symposium.

Reviews, Book Chapters, Invited Papers, Letters:
1. Fink EL. Benefits of protocol orders can outweigh drawbacks. Resident Report; 11(1):5.
2. Fink EL, Clark RSB. Don’t forget the single chromosome polymorphism, a need for gender-stratification in pediatric patients? Pediatric Critical Care Medicine; 5(2): 193-194, 2004.
3. Kochanek PM, Hickey RW, Bayir H, Fink EL, Ruppel RA, Clark RSB. Key Issues in Pediatric Neurointensive Care. In: Fink, Abraham, Vincent, Kochanek (eds), Textbook of Critical Care, 5th Edition, Elsevier, Philadelphia, 2005.

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