Titles:
Visiting Researcher, Department of Critical Care Medicine

Home Institution:
Tongji Medical School, Huazhong University of Science & Technology,
Wuhan, China

Contact:
Email: Pengzy5@hotmail.com

Degrees:

Major Honors/Awards:

• Harry M. Vars Research Award (2006)
  
• Promising Investigator Award, American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (2006)

Current Research Interest:

• Sepsis and metabolic function
• Cytokine remove in sepsis

Publications:

• Peng ZY, Critchley LA, and Fok BS. The effects of increasing doses of noradrenaline on systemic and renal circulations in acute bacteraemic dogs.Intensive Care Med. 2005 Nov;31(11):1558-63.
• Peng ZY, Critchley LA, and Fok BS. An investigation to show the effect of lung fluid on impedance cardiac output in the anaesthetized dog. Br J Anaesth. 2005 Oct;95(4):458-64.
• Peng ZY, Critchley LA, Fok BS, et al. Evaluation of impedance based indices of cardiac contractility in dogs. J Clin Monit Comput. 2004 Apr;18(2):103-9.
• Critchley LA, Peng ZY, Fok BS, et al. The effect of peripheral resistance on impedance cardiography measurements in the anesthetized dog. Anesth Analg. 2005 Jun;100(6):1708-12.
• Critchley LA, Peng ZY, Fok BS, et al. Testing the reliability of a new ultrasonic cardiac output monitor, the USCOM, by using aortic flowprobes in anesthetized dogs.Anesth Analg. 2005 Mar;100(3):748-53
• Peng Z, Luo M, Ye S, et al. Antioxidative and anti-endotoxin effects of propofol on endothelial cells. Chin Med J (Engl). 2003 May;116(5):731-5.

Presentations at Major Meetings:

• Peng ZY , Wischmeyer PE, Serkova N, et al. Glutamine-Mediated Attenuation of Cellular Metabolic Dysfunction and Cell Death Following Injury is Dependent on Heat Shock Factor-1 Expression. Clinical Nutrition Week, Dallas, TX, Feb11-15,2006.
• Peng ZY , Wischmeyer PE, Morrison A. Glutamine Attenuation of Cell Death and iNOS Expression Following Inflammatory Cytokine-Induced Injury is Dependent on Heat Shock Factor-1 Expression.Clinical Nutrition Week, Dallas, TX, Feb11-15,2006.
• Peng Z, Critchley L. The effects of five vasopressors on renal blood flow in septic dogs. Critical Care 2004; 8 (Suppl 1):s88-89. Presenting in 24th International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, Brussels, Belgium. March 30 – April 2 2004.
• Peng Z, Critchley L, Benny F, James A. The dose-response effects of noradrenaline on renal blood flow in normal and septic dogs. Presenting in the 13th World Congress of Anaesthesiologists, Paris, France, April 18-23, 2004.
• Peng ZY, Critchley LA, Fok SP,James AE. The effects of phenylephrine on cardiac function as blood pressure increases. European Journal of Anaesthesiology 2003;20(Suppl ):59.Presenting in the Euroanesthesia 2003, Glasgow, UK,June 1-4, 2003.
• Peng Z, Luo M, Ye S. The Protective Effects of Propofol on Vascular Endothelial Cells.Anesthesiology 2002;96:A58. Presenting in the ASA (American Society of Anesthesiologists 2002, Orlando, Florida,Oct 12-16,2002.