Amery Treble-Barna is an Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. She authored/co-authored 36 publications and has 590 citations and an h-index of 15 (Scopus, December 2023). Her research interests focus on traumatic brain injury, spina bifida myelomeningocele, genetics, neuroimaging, neurobehavioral recovery, and family environmental influences.
Yvette P. Conley is a Distinguished Service Professor at the School of Nursing, University of Pittsburgh. Her research interest is in the field of molecular genetics. She has a fully equipped molecular genomics laboratory located within the School of Nursing, and her lab is involved with several research projects. Her current research focuses on using omics approaches to understand symptom development and patient outcomes after traumatic brain injury, stroke, and therapeutic interventions for cancer.
Ericka L. Fink is a Professor at the Critical Care Medicine, Pediatrics, and Clinical and Translational Science, University of Pittsburgh. She authored/co-authored 172 publications and has 5973 citations and an h-index of 35 (Scopus, December 2023). Her research is in the areas of (1) pediatric critical care outcomes, focusing on neurocritical care; (2) prognostication following pediatric cardiac arrest (Personalizing
Outcomes after Child Cardiac Arrest (POCCA) - POCCA (pitt.edu); (3) the Critical Illness Recovery for ChilLdrEn (CIRCLE) program; (4) and global health in pediatric critical care.
Patrick M. Kochanek is a Distinguished Professor of Critical Care Medicine; the Ake N. Grenvik Professor and Vice Chair of Critical Care Medicine; a Director of the Safar Center for Resuscitation Research; and a Professor of Pediatrics, Anesthesiology, and Clinical & Translational Science at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. As the Safar Center Director for over 29 years, he has a long track record of translational and multi-departmental research studying traumatic and ischemic brain injury and pediatric and adult neurointensive care, funded by the United States National Institutes of Health and the Department of Defense. He has >630 listings on PubMed and was identified by Thompson Reuters Science Watch as the most prolific author in the field of TBI from 2001 to 2014. He served as the Principal Investigator for Operation Brain Trauma Therapy, the first multi-center preclinical therapy and biomarker screening consortium in the field, funded by the United States Department of Defense. He was also the lead author of the 2019 Guidelines for the Management of Severe Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury. He has been principal investigator for 23 years of a T-32 titled “Training in Pediatric Neurointensive Care and Resuscitation Research” funded by the United States National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. He has mentored numerous trainees, many of whom have gone on to receive independent funding and careers of international prominence.
