Kochanek Patrick M.

Patrick M. Kochanek, MD, is Distinguished Professor of Critical Care Medicine, the Ake N. Grenvik Professor and Vice Chair of Critical Care Medicine; Director of the Safar Center for Resuscitation Research; and Professor of Pediatrics, Anesthesiology, Bioengineering and Clinical and Translational Science at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. As the Safar Center Director for 25 years, he has a long track-record of leading a translational and multi-departmental team studying traumatic and ischemic brain injury and neurointensive care, funded by the NIH, US Department of Defense, and the Laerdal Foundation. He has >540 listings on PubMed and was identified by ISI as the most prolific author in the field of TBI from 2001 to 2014. He was the lead author of the 2019 Guidelines for the Management of Severe Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury sponsored by the Brain Trauma Foundation. He is PI of Operation Brain Trauma Therapy for the U.S. Department of Defense and has been PI for 19 years of a T-32 titled “Training in Pediatric Neurointensive Care and Resuscitation Research” funded by the NICHD. He has mentored numerous trainees, many of whom have gone on to receive independent funding and careers of national prominence. He is Editor-in-Chief of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine and is on the editorial board of numerous journals on acute brain injury. He received the Distinguished Investigator Award from the American College of Critical Care Medicine in 2007, was named one of the inaugural Masters of Critical Care Medicine, and received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of Critical Care Medicine in 2017. He was also one of the distinguished speakers at the 125th anniversary celebration of Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in 2018 and gave a Great Teachers Lecture at the NIH Clinical Center in 2019.