Titles:
Assistant Professor of Critical Care Medicine and Emergency Medicine

Contact:
Email: huangdt@upmc.edu

Degrees:

Positions and Employment:

• 2004 - Assistant Professor of Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine
• 2004 - Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine (Secondary Appointment)
• 2004 - Attending Physician, Transplant ICU, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
• 2004 - Attending Physician, Emergency Department, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
  

Major Honors/Awards:

• ACEP - Emergency Medicine Foundation Young Investigator Award; October 2006. Research Forum in New Orleans for abstract: Procalcitonin in emergency department patients with suspected community-acquired pneumonia.
• ACEP Critical Care Section Chair Appreciation Award; September 2005.
• Seed Grant, Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh ($10,000); May 2004.
• Inducted, Delta Omega National Public Health Honor Society; April 2004.
  
• First Prize, Master’s Category; March 19, 2004.
  Dr. Herbert Rosenkranz Dean’s Day Student Competition
  University of Pittsburgh, Graduate School of Public Health
  
• Research Citation Finalist, Society of Critical Care Medicine’s February 2004
  33rd Critical Care Congress, Orlando, Florida
  
• Jewish Healthcare Foundation / Coro Pittsburgh Summer 2003
  Health Sciences Fellowship
  
• NIH National Research Service Award (T-32) 2002 – 2004
  NIH 02-T32HL07820-06
  
• American Academy of Emergency Medicine 2002
  Resident/Fellow of the Year
  
• Emergency Medicine Residents Association 2001
  Dedication Award
  

Research Grants:

Current Research Interest:

• Procalcitonin in emergency department patients with respiratory infections
• Safety attitudes and ICU outcomes
• Cost-effectiveness of early goal directed therapy
• Generalizability of early goal directed therapy
• Epidemiology of critical illness in the emergency department
  

Publications:

1. Wood K, Huang DT, Angus DC.  Improving Clinical Design in Acute Lung Injury.  Critical Care Medicine2003 April;31 (4 Suppl):S305-11.
2. Huang DT, Osborn T, Gunnerson K, Gunn S, Trzeciak S, Kimball E, Fink MP, Angus DC, Dellinger RP, Angus DC, Rivers EP.  Critical Care Certification for Emergency Physicians.  Critical Care Medicine 2005 Sep;33(9):2104-2109.
3. Huang DT, Osborn T, Gunnerson K, Gunn S, Trzeciak S, Kimball E, Fink MP, Angus DC, Dellinger RP, Angus DC, Rivers EP.  Critical Care Certification for Emergency Physicians.  Ann Emergency Med 2005 Sep;46(3):217-23.
4. Nguyen HB, Rivers EP, Abrahamian FM, Moran GJ, Abraham E, Trzeciak S, Huang DT, Osborn T. Talan DA; Emergency Department Sepsis Education Program and Strategies to Improve Survival (ED-SEPSIS) Working Group.  Severe sepsis and septic shock: review of the literature and emergency department management guidelines. Ann Emerg Med 2006 Jul;48(1):28-54. Epub 2006 May 2.
5. Otero RM, Nguyen HB, Huang DT, Gaieski DF, Goyal M, Gunnerson KJ, Trzeciak S, Sherwin R, Holthaus CV, Osborn T, Rivers EP.  Early goal-directed therapy in severe sepsis and septic shock revisited: concepts, controversies, and contemporary findings.  Chest 2006 Nov;130(5):1579-95.
6. Huang DT, Hadian M.  Bench-to-bedside review: Human subjects research – are more standards needed?  Critical Care 2006 Dec 15;10(6):244.
7. Huang DT, Clermont G, Sexton JB, Karlo CA, Miller RG, Weissfeld LA, Rowan KM, Angus DC.  Perceptions of safety culture vary between the ICU’s of a single institution. Crit Care Med 2007 Jan;35(1)165-176.
8. Pham JC, Huang DT, McGeorge FT, Rivers EP. Clarification of cyanide's effect on oxygen transport characteristics in a canine model. Emerg Med J. 2007 Mar;24(3):152-6.
9. Huang DT, Angus DC.  Designing Clinical Trials in Acute Lung Injury (ALI)/Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS).  Current Opinion Critical Care 2006 Feb;12(1): 32-37.
10. Huang DT, Angus DC, Dremsizov T, Rivers EP, Clermont G.  Cost-Effectiveness of Early Goal Directed Therapy. Critical Care 2002;7 (Suppl 2):S116.
11. Huang DT, Gunnerson KJ, Kimball EJ, Baez AA, Evans S, Hess EP, Gunn SR. Emergency Medicine Residents' Access To Critical Care Fellowships. Critical Care Medicine 2003 December;31(12).
12. Williams JB, Weingart S, Cohen J, Sherwin R, Huang DT.  Emergency Medicine Training and Practice:  Emergency Residents’ Opinions of Critical Care Medicine Fellowship Training.  3rd American Academy of Emergency Medicine/European Society for Emergency Medicine Mediterranean Emergency Medicine Congress, Nice, France, 2005 September.
13. Huang DT, Clermont G, Sexton J B, Kong L, Weissfeld L, Rowan K, Angus DC.  The Effect of ICU Culture on Patient Outcomes – A US Multicenter Study.  Critical Care Medicine. 2005;33 (Suppl 12): A2 #6.
14. Huang DT, CRISMA Laboratory, Weissfeld LA, Carter M, Kong L, Kellum JA, Yealy DM, Angus DC. Procalcitonin in Emergency Department Patients with Suspected Community-Acquired Pneumonia: Results From the GenIMS (Genetic and Inflammatory Markers of Sepsis) Study.  Annals of Emergency Medicine.  2006 October;48 (Suppl 4):1.
15. Huang DT, Yealy DM. Decision Rules and Pneumonia – What Are We “Predicting” for Whom? Editorial. Amer J Respir Crit Care Med. 2006. 1;174(11):1169-1170.

Presentations at Major Meetings:

Safety Attitudes Vary Across ICUs of a Single Hospital. February 2004
33rd Society of Critical Care Medicine Congress
Orlando, FL

Emergency Medicine Residents' Access To Critical Care Fellowships February 2004
33rd Society of Critical Care Medicine Congress
Orlando, FL

ICUTEAMS – Preliminary Results and Update February 2004
Project Impact Users’ Group
SCCM Scientific Assembly, Orlando, FL

Socioeconomic Impact of Early Goal-Directed Therapy October 2003
ACEP Scientific Assembly
Boston, MA

Cost-Effectiveness of Early Goal Directed Therapy March 2003
23rd International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine
Brussels, Belgium

ICUTEAMS: An Invitation To Enroll
Project Impact Users’ Group January 2003
SCCM Scientific Assembly, San Antonio, TX

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