Titles:
Associates Professor, Critical Care Medicine, Pedatrics, and Surgery

Contact:
Email: munorx@ccm.upmc.edu

Degrees:

Administrative Title
Chief, Cardiac Intensive Care Division
Director, Pediatric Cardiac Recovery Program

Major Honors/Awards:

• Honor List for Academic Achievement, Universidad del Norte (Medical School), Barranquilla, Colombia
• Grant Award for the Minority, Clinical Associate Physician(NIH) General Clinical Research Center
• Ministry of Social Protection
  Medal of Merit for Contributions to the Medical Field of Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care, awarded by the President of the Republic of Colombia, Decree No. 4183, The “Jorge Bejarano” Civic Cross of Health and Social Merit, Bronze Medal, Bogota, D.C.                                                                                    

Current Research Interest:

• Use of Dexmedetomidine in Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Patients
• Magnesium Metabolism in Children with Congenital Heart Disease
• Pediatric Cardiac Recovery Program: Neurologic outcome in children after discharge from the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit

Publications:

• Feingold B, Munoz R, Gandhi SK.  Normal Ventricular Function Six Days After Repair of Anomalous Left Coronary Artery.  Int J Cardiol 108(3):393-94, 2006.
• Chrysostomou C, DiFilippo S, Manrique AM, Schmitt C, Orr R, Casta A,   Suchoza E, Janosky J, Davis P, Munoz R. Use of Dexmedetomidine in Children after Cardiac and Thoracic Surgery. Pediatr Crit Care Med Vol.7, No. 2,   2006.
• Kuch BA, Munoz R, Orr RA, Watson RS.  Unplanned transport events and
  severity of illness: are we conveying the whole picture?  Pediatrics 2007 Mar; 119 (3): 648-50
• Su L, Munoz R. Isn’t It the Right Time to Address the Impact of Pediatric
  Cardiac Intensive Care Units on Medical Education?  Pediatrics Vol.120
  No. 4, October 2007.
• Venkataraman S, Munoz R, Candido C, Witchel S. The hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis in critical illness. Rev Endocr Metab Disord 2007.
• Manrique AM, Feingold B, DiFilippo S, Orr R, Kuch B, Munoz R. Extubation after cardiothoracic surgery in neonates, children and young adults: One year of institutional experience.  Pediatr Crit Care Med Vol.8, No.6, 2007.
• Munoz R, Schmitt C, Roth S, DaCruz E. eds,  Handbook of Pediatric Cardiovascular Drugs, ISBN: 978-1-84628-952-1, Springer-Verlag London Ltd. November, 2007.
• Munoz R, DaCruz E, Palacio G, Maroto C. eds,  Cuidados Criticos en Cardiopatias Congenitas o Adquiridas, ISBN: 978-958-98288-7-8, Distribuna Editorial Medica LTDA. 2008.

Presentations at Major Meetings:

• Plenary Speaker, Heart Transplantation, XIII Annual Course of Pediatric Cardiology, Madrid, Spain, March 7 – 10, 2007
• Plenary Speaker, Perioperative Management of the Neonate with Left Ventricle Outflow Tract Obstruction, XVI Mexican Congress
  Of Cardiac Surgery, Cancun, Mexico, April 11-15, 2007
• Plenary Speaker, Dexmedetomidine: Current Experience in the Management of the Critical Cardiac Child, 42nd Annual Meeting Association for European Pediatric Cardiology, Warsaw, Poland, May 16-19, 2007
• Chair, Precongress Monitoring Session, 5th World Congress of Pediatric Critical Care, Geneva, Switzerland, June 2007
• Chair, Non-Invasive Monitoring in Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care, 5th World Congress of Pediatric Critical Care, Geneva, Switzerland, June 2007
• Chair, Postop Myocardiac Dysfunction, 5th World Congress of Pediatric Critical Care, Geneva, Switzerland, June 2007
• Chair, Monitoring Cardiovascular Function, 5th World Congress of Pediatric Critical Care, Geneva, Switzerland, June 2007
• Chair, The Brain and Cardiac Surgery, 5th World Congress of Pediatric Critical Care, Geneva, Switzerland, June 2007
• Plenary Speaker, Dexmedetomidine, 5th World Congress of Pediatric Critical Care, Geneva, Switzerland, June 2007
• Plenary Speaker, Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care-Postgraduate Course, 5th World Congress of Pediatric Critical Care, Geneva, Switzerland, June 2007
• Plenary Speaker, New Therapies for Pulmonary Hypertension, 1st Neonatal & Pediatric Intensive Care Actualization Congress, Monterrey, Mexico, September 2007
• Plenary Speaker, Perioperative Management of the Neonate with Left Ventricle Outflow Tract Obstruction, 1st Neonatal & Pediatric Intensive Care Actualization Congress, Monterrey, Mexico, September 2007
• Plenary Speaker, Acute Management of Pulmonary Hypertension, Latin American Congress of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery,
  Veracruz, Mexico, November 2007
• Plenary Speaker, 1)Mechanical Ventilation; 2)Pulmonary Hypertension; 3)ECMO, II International Symposium of Neonatology, Cali, Colombia, February 2008
• Plenary Speaker, Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Unit: is it necessary?, XIV Actualization Course in Pediatric Cardiology, Madrid, Spain, March 2008
• Plenary Speaker, Acute Management of the Transplanted Patient, 43rd Annual Meeting of the Association for European Cardiology, Venice, Italy, May 2008
• Chair, Cardiac Surgery and Cardiac Intensive Care: seeking an harmonious interaction, 43rd Annual Meeting of the Association for European Cardiology, Venice, Italy, May 2008