| Titles:
Assistant Professor, CCM & Pediatrics
Contact:
Email: watsonrs@ccm.upmc.edu
Degrees:
PRE & POST GRADUATE EDU.
INSTITUTION AND LOCATION |
DEGREE |
YEAR |
FIELD |
| Yale University, New Haven, CT |
BS |
1988 |
Biology |
| University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Philadelphia,
PA |
MD |
1993 |
Medicine |
| University of Washington School of Public Health Seattle,
WA |
MPH |
2000 |
Epidemiology |
| Residency: |
|
| University of Washington Seatle, WA |
Resident |
1993-1996 |
Pediatric Residency |
Fellowship:
|
|
| University of Washington Seatle, WA |
Fellow |
1997-2000 |
Pediatric Critical Care Medicine |
| Board Certifications: |
Year |
| National Board of Medical Examiners |
1994 |
| American Board of Pediatrics |
1996 |
American Board of Pediatrics, Pediatric Critical
Care Medicine
|
2000 |
Administrative Title:
- Associate Director, Pediatric ICU
Assistant Professor, CCM & Pediatrics
Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
- Core Faculty, Center for Research on Health
Care
- Core Faculty, CRISMA Laboratory
Major Honors/Awards:
- Cum laude, Yale University 1988
- Distinction in Biology, Yale University 1988
- Alpha Omega Alpha, University of Pennsylvania
School of Medicine 1992
- Society of Critical Care Medicine 30th Symposium
In-training Award 2001
Research Grants:
| Title |
Source of Support |
Date |
“Gene expression in children with severe sepsis”
Role: PI |
University of Pittsburgh, Dept. of Anesthesiology & CCM
Seed Grant |
07/01 – 06/02 |
“Epidemiology, healthcare resource use, and cost of infection,
sepsis, and acute organ dysfunction in a tertiary medical center”
Role:
Co-PI (PI: Derek Angus) |
GlaxoSmithKline |
09/01 – 02/02 |
“Prolonged outcomes after nitric oxide for ventilated
premature newborns”
Role: Co-PI (PI: Derek
Angus) |
INO Therapeutics |
01/03– 12/31/07 |
“Long-term outcomes of NO for ventilated premature
babies”
Role: Co-PI (PI: Derek Angus) |
NIH-NHLBI: R01 HL69991-01 |
12/15/02 - 11/30/07 |
“Sedation management in pediatric patients supported
on mechanical ventilation”
Role: Co-I, leading economic analysis (PI: Martha
Curley) |
NIH-NICHD: 1 R21 HD045020-01 |
9/1/03 - 8/31/05
|
“Consequences of surviving critical illness in childhood”
Role: PI |
NIH-NICHD: 1 K23 HD046489-01
|
6/8/04 - 3/31/09
|
Current Research Interest:
- Health services research in pediatric critical
care
- Epidemiology and outcomes of critical illness
- Cost-effectiveness analysis in pediatric critical
care
- Pediatric end-of-life care
Publications:
- Watson RS, Cummings P, Quan L, Bratton S,
Weiss NS. Cervical spine injuries among submersion victims. Journal
of Trauma, 51(4):658-662, 2001.
- Kaplan V, Angus DC, Griffin MF,
Clermont G, Watson RS, Linde-Zwirble WT. Hospitalized community-acquired
pneumonia in the elderly: Age and gender-related patterns of
care and outcome in the U.S. American Journal of Respiratory
and Critical Care Medicine. 165:766-772, 2002.
- Watson RS, Angus
DC. Assessing outcomes in critical care. Journal of Intensive
Care Medicine. 17(3): 111-119, 2002.
- Bratton SL, Roberts JS,
Watson RS, Cabana M. Intensive care of pediatric asthma: Differences
in outcome and Medicaid insurance. Pediatric Critical Care
Medicine. 3: 234-238, 2002.
- Carcillo JA, Fields AI, Task Force
Committee Members (Watson RS, Task Force Committee Member).
Clinical practice parameters for hemodynamic support of pediatric
and neonatal patients in septic shock. Critical Care Medicine.
30(6): 1365-78, 2002.
- Kaplan V, Clermont G, Griffin MF, Kasal
J, Watson RS, Linde-Zwirble WT, Angus DC. Pneumonia – still the old man’s
friend? Archives of Internal Medicine. 163: 317-23, 2003.
- Watson
RS, Carcillo J, Linde-Zwirble WT, Clermont G, Lidicker J, Angus
DC. The epidemiology of severe sepsis in children in the United
States. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.
167: 695-703, 2003.
- Han YY, Carcillo JA, Dragotta MA, Bills
DM, Watson RS, Westerman ME, Orr RA. Early reversal of pediatric/neonatal
septic shock by community physicians is associated with improved
outcome. Pediatrics. 112:793-99, 2003.
- Angus DC, Clermont G,
Watson RS, Linde-Zwirble WT, Clark RH, Roberts MS. Cost-effectiveness
of inhaled nitric oxide in the treatment of neonatal respiratory
failure in the US. Pediatrics. 112: 1351-60, 2003.
- Angus DC,
Barnato AE, Linde-Zwirble WT, Weissfeld LA, Watson
RS, Rickert
T, Rubenfeld GD on behalf of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
ICU End-of-Life Peer Group. The use of intensive care at the
end of life in the United States: An epidemiologic study. CCM.
32(3): 638-43, 2004.
- Kasal J, Jovanovic Z, Clermont G, Weissfeld
LA, Kaplan V, Watson RS, Angus DC. A comparison of Cox and Gray’s
survival models in severe sepsis. CCM. 32(3): 700-7, 2004.
- Thiagarajan
RR, Coleman DM, Bratton SL, Watson RS, Martin LD. Inspiratory
work of breathing is not decreased by flow triggered sensing
during spontaneous breathing in children receiving mechanical
ventilation: A preliminary report. Pediatric Critical Care
Medicine. 5(4), 375-8, 2004.
- Markovitz BP, Goodman DM, Watson
RS, Bertoch D, Zimmerman J. A retrospective cohort study of
prognostic factors associated with outcome in pediatric severe
sepsis: What is the role of steroids? Pediatric Critical
Care Medicine, 6(3): 270-4, 2005.
- Goldstein B, Giroir B, Randolph A
(Watson RS, member of Consensus Conference Panel). International
Pediatric Sepsis Consensus Conference: Definitions for sepsis
and organ dysfunction in pediatrics. Pediatric Critical
Care Medicine. 6(1): 2-8, 2005.
- Carcillo JA, Watson RS. Is the randomized
controlled trial in children an endangered species? Pediatric
Critical Care Medicine, 3(2): 197-9, April 2002.
- Watson RS.
Location, location, location: Regionalization and outcome in
pediatric critical care. Current Opinion in Critical Care,
8(4): 344-348, August 2002.
- Watson RS, Hartman ME. How much is
enough? Volume and outcome in pediatric critical care. In:
Vincent J-L (ed), Yearbook of Intensive Care and Emergency
Medicine,
Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2003:945-52.
- Watson RS. Prematurity-associated
costs – More than
just surfactant. Pediatric
Critical Care Medicine, 4(2):256-7, 2003.
- Watson RS, Hartman ME, Kellum
JA, Angus DC. Proving the Point – Evidence-based
Medicine in Pediatric Critical Care. In: Fuhrman & Zimmerman
(eds), Pediatric Critical Care,
3rd edition, Elsevier, Philadelphia.
In Press.
- Watson RS, Carcillo JA. The scope and epidemiology
of pediatric sepsis. Pediatric
Critical Care Medicine, 6(3)[Suppl]:S3-S5,
2005.
Presentations at Major Meetings:
- “Cost-effectiveness of inhaled nitric
oxide in severe, hypoxemic neonatal respiratory failure”
INO Therapeutics Expert Advisory Panel meeting, Miami, FL; April 27, 2002
- “Outcomes research in pediatric critical
care”
Society of Critical Care Medicine, 32nd Congress, San Antonio, TX; January
31, 2003
- “Sepsis in infants and children - US
outcomes: Defining the denominator”
Society of Critical Care Medicine, 32nd Congress, San Antonio,
TX; February 2, 2003
- “Respiratory crisis in children -
Tutorial”
23rd International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency
Medicine, Brussels, Belgium; March 19, 2003
- “Pediatric respiratory failure – the
outcome”
23rd International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, Brussels,
Belgium; March 20, 2003
- “Regionalization of pediatric intensive
care”
23rd International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency
Medicine, Brussels, Belgium; March 20, 2003
- Round table panel
member: “End-of-life care – Practical issues”
23rd International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency
Medicine, Brussels, Belgium; March 20, 2003
- “The difficulty
of conducting RCTs in children”
23rd International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency
Medicine, Brussels, Belgium; March 21, 2003
- “Epidemiology
of Newborn and Pediatric Sepsis”
Pediatric Academic Societies/Pediatric Infectious Disease Society
State-of-the-Art Plenary Pediatric Academic Societies’ Annual
Meeting
Seattle, WA; May 6, 2003
- “Epidemiology of Pediatric Sepsis in
the USA”
Sepsis Research in Canada - From Bench to Beside Workshop
Canadian Institutes of Health Research-sponsored workshop
Mont-Tremblant, Quebec, Canada; September 27, 2003
- “Future Studies
on Pediatric Sepsis in the USA”
Sepsis Research in Canada - From Bench to Beside
Canadian Institutes of Health Research-sponsored workshop
Mont-Tremblant, Quebec, Canada; September 28, 2003
- “Epidemiology
of Pediatric Sepsis”
Society of Critical Care Medicine, 33rd Critical Care Congress;
Orlando, FL
February 22, 2004
- “The Scope and Epidemiology of Pediatric
Sepsis”
International Sepsis Forum on Sepsis in Infants and Children;
Boston, MA
September 24, 2004
- “Putting Sepsis Guidelines into Action:
How to do it”
Society of Critical Care Medicine, 34th Critical Care Congress;
Phoenix, AZ
January 18, 2005
- “Outcomes, biostatistics, and evidence-based
medicine”
Pediatric Multi-disciplinary Critical Care Review Course, Chicago,
IL; August 16, 2005
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