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The Safar Center for Resuscitation Research of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine addresses "resuscitation medicine" in its broadest sense through programs studying traumatic brain injury, cardiopulmonary arrest, hemorrhagic shock and emergency preservation and resuscitation. [read mission statement] |
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SCRR Associate Director Hülya Bayır, MD accepted the position as Director of Pediatric Critical Care Research. Dr. Bayır is an NIH-funded investigator who will take over this role for Dr. Kochanek- - who served in this capacity for 17 years. Congratulations to Hülya for taking on this important duty.
Kathryn Ehrenberg, who has worked with Dr. Anthony E. Kline (Associate Professor of Physical Medical & Rehabilitation, Psychology, Center for Neuroscience, and Safar Center Associate Director) for over 10 months, was recently awarded a travel fellowship to present her undergraduate directed research at the 2009 Society for Neuroscience meeting in Chicago, IL. Katie was 1 of 15 students nationally to receive this highly competitive award from the Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience (FUN). FUN is an international organization focused on neuroscience education and research at the undergraduate level. Katie’s study, “A rehabilitation-relevant enrichment paradigm facilitates neurobehavioral recovery after experimental traumatic brain injury” has also been accepted into Neuroscience’s 2009 media materials, where her lay language summary will be made available to the press in their "Hot Topics" book and their online media room. Katie previously received “honorable mention” for this work at the University of Pittsburgh’s Institute for Rehabilitation Research Day. Katie will be attending Duke University this Spring.
Amanda Panos, a senior from Lee University in Cleveland, TN was 1 of 13 students nationally to receive a University of Pittsburgh Center for Neuroscience Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship. Mandy worked under the direction of Dr. Anthony E. Kline, co-director of the CNUP summer program, on a research project evaluating a rehabilitation-relevant paradigm combined with the 5-HT1A receptor agonist, buspirone. Her data, which were presented on July 31, 2009 at the culmination of the CNUP program showed that abbreviated enrichment (i.e., 2 or 4 hrs) combined with once daily administrations of buspirone (0.3 mg/kg) was as effective as continuous enrichment without drug therapy, suggesting that the appropriate combination of treatments may provide significant benefits after experimental brain trauma and may have potential implications for clinical rehabilitation. Mandy is currently completing her undergraduate curriculum while preparing for graduate school in clinical neuropsychology.
SCRR Associate Director Samuel Tisherman has been selected to receive the 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award in Trauma Resuscitation Science from the American Heart Association. Dr. Tisherman is an Associate Professor of Surgery with tenure and a reputable Associate Professor of Critical Care Medicine. He has contributed enormously to the field and justly deserves this honor. Congratulations to Dr. Tisherman in this incredible achievement!