Titles:
Pediatric CCM Fellow

Contact:
Email: exojl@upmc.edu

Biography Summary:
Dr. Jennifer Exo joined the Pediatric Critical Care Medicine fellowship program in July 2006, and recently selected the Safar Center for Resuscitation Research to carry out her research. Jennifer did her residency at Advocate Hope Children’s Hospital. Dr. Exo has just begun experiments—and is testing novel resuscitation strategies in a mouse model of combined traumatic brain injury and hemorrhagic shock. Currently, she is comparing polynitroxylated albumin and hypertonic saline to conventional resuscitation fluids such as hetastarch and lactated Ringers solution and is assessing both acute and long-term outcome parameters, along with markers of oxidative stress in this model, which is being mentored by Drs. Kochanek, Bayır, and Dixon, is supported by a program project grant from the United States Army.

Degrees:

Major Honors/Awards:

• Chief Resident

Current Research Interest:

• Inflammatory responses in traumatic brain injury

Future Plans :

"Practice pediatric critical care medicine at a larger, tertiary care center that provides opportunities to teach and continue research."