Krisa Van Meurs
Academic Appointments
- Professor - Med Center Line, Pediatrics - Neonatal and Developmental Medicine
- Member, Child Health Research Institute
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Contact Information
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Clinical Offices
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit 725 Welch Rd 2 West Palo Alto, CA 94304 Tel Work (650) 497-8800 Fax (650) 497-8034Practices at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital
- Academic Offices
Personal Information Email Tel (650) 723-5711Alternate Contact Erica Velasco Administrative assistant Email Tel Work 723-5363
Professional Overview
Clinical Focus
- Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine
- neonatal respiratory failure
- persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn
- congenital diaphragmatic hernia
- respiratory distress syndrome, newborn
- Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation
Administrative Appointments
- Mentor, Faculty Fellows Program, Stanford University School of Medicine (2012 - present)
- DSMC member, Tolsurf trial, NHLBI (2010 - 2011)
- Editor, Neonatology section, Pediatric Research (2011 - present)
- Associate Chair, Clinical Research, Department of Pediatrics (2009 - 2012)
- Member, Spectrum Child Health Executive Committee (2010 - present)
- Member, Research Advisory Committee, Dept of Pediatrics (2008 - 2012)
Honors and Awards
- Guest Researcher, National Research Service Award, Lab of Cellular Metabolism, NHLBI, NIH (1985-1987)
- Member, Society for Pediatric Research (1995)
- Alternate Principal investigator, Stanford University, NICHD Neonatal Research Network (2001-2005)
- Recognition of Service Excellence (ROSE) Award, Lucile Salter Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford (2002)
- Member, Cardiology Working Group, Newborn Drug Initiative, Center for Drug Development, NICHD (2003)
- Member, Pediatric Academic Society (2006-)
Professional Education
| Fellowship: | Children's Hospital National Medical Center DC (1990) |
| Residency: | Children's Hospital National Medical Center DC (1985) |
| Fellowship: | National Institutes of Health MD (1987) |
| Board Certification: | Pediatrics, American Board of Pediatrics (1987) |
| Internship: | Children's Hospital National Medical Center DC (1984) |
| Medical Education: | George Washington University Hospital DC (1981) |
Graduate & Fellowship Program Affiliations
Community and International Work
- Community Technical Assistance Program, Cotulla, Texas
- Research Assistant, Dept of Coordination, Geneva, Switzerland
- Amigos de las Americas, Manabi and Bolivar, Ecuador
Internet Links
Scientific Focus
Current Research Interests
My research interests include persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn, hypoxic respiratory failure, inhaled nitric oxide therapy, ECMO, congenital diaphragmatic hernia, neonatal clinical trials, and the use of aEEG and NIRS to detect brain injury.
Clinical Trials
- Not Recruiting Early-Onset Sepsis Surveillance Study
- Not Recruiting Preemie Hypothermia for Neonatal Encephalopathy
- Recruiting Transfusion of Prematures Trial
- Recruiting Donor Milk vs. Formula in Extremely Low Birth Weight (ELBW) Infants
- Recruiting Generic Database of Moderate Preterm Infants
Publications
- Blood stream infection is associated with altered heptavalent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine immune responses in very low birth weight infants. J Perinatol. 2013
- Early sepsis does not increase the risk of late sepsis in very low birth weight neonates. J Pediatr. 2013; (5): 942-8.e1-3
- Efficacy of phototherapy devices and outcomes among extremely low birth weight infants: multi-center observational study. J Perinatol. 2013; (2): 126-33
- Therapeutic hypothermia during neonatal transport: data from the California Perinatal Quality Care Collaborative (CPQCC) and California Perinatal Transport System (CPeTS) for 2010. J Perinatol. 2013; (3): 194-7
- Use of antihypotensive therapies in extremely preterm infants. Pediatrics. 2013; (6): e1865-73
- Brain injury following trial of hypothermia for neonatal hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy. Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed. 2012; (6): F398-404
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