PABI Plan - The Sarah Jane Brain Project

Principal Investigator/Program Director (Last, First, Middle):
20. Trovato M., Slomine B., Pidcock F., Christensen J. The efficacy of Donepezil Hydrochloride on
memory functioning in three adolescents with severe traumatic brain injury. Brain Injury
2006;20(3):339-43.
21. Slomine B.S., McCarthy, M.L. Ding R, MacKenzie EJ, Jaffe KM, Aitken ME, Durbin DR, Christensen
JR, Dorsch AM, Paidas CN, and the CHAT Study Group. Health Care Utilization and Needs
Following Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury. Pediatrics Electronic Pages, 2006;117:c663-75.
22. Natale JE, Guerguerian AM, Joseph JG, McCarter R, Shao C, Slomine B, Christensen J, Johnston MV,
Shaffner, DH. Pilot study to determine the hemodynamic safety and feasibility of magnesium
sulfate infusion in children with severe traumatic brain injury. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine.
2007;8:1-9.
23. Grados, M.A., Vasa, R.A., Riddle, M.A., Slomine, B.S., Salorio, C., Christensen, J., & Gerring, J. New
onset obsessive-compulsive symptoms in children and adolescents with severe traumatic brain
injury. Depression and Anxiety 2007 Oct 23; [Epub ahead of print]
24. Salorio, C.F., Slomine, B.S., Guerguerian, A.M., Christensen, J.R., White, J.R.M., Natale, J.E.,
Shaffner, D., Grados, M., Vasa, R.A., & Gerring, J.P. Intensive care unit variables and outcome
after pediatric traumatic brain injury: A retrospective study of survivors. Pediatric Critical Care
Medicine. 2008, 9, 47-53.
25. Sesma, H.W., Slomine, B.S., Ding, R., McCarthy, M.L, & the CHAT Study Group (in press). Executive
Functioning in the First Year after Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury. Pediatrics. 2008; 121:e1686-
1695.
26. Aitken ME, McCarthy ML, Slomine BS, Ding R, Durbin DR, Jaffe KM, Paidas CN, Dorsch AM,
Christensen JR, MacKenzie EJ and the CHAT study Group. Family Burden Following Traumatic
Brain Injury in Children. Pediatrics. 2009;123:199-206.
27. Slomine B, Eikenberg J, Salorio C, Suskauer S, Trovato M, Christensen J. Preliminary Evaluation of
the Cognitive and Linguistic Scale: A measure to assess recovery in inpatient rehabilitation
following pediatric brain injury. Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation. 2008;23:286-293.
28. Cole, W.R., Gerring, J.P., Gray, R.M., Vasa, R.A., Salorio, C.F., Grados, M., Christensen, J.R., &
Slomine, B.S. Prevalence of aggressive behaviour after severe paediatric traumatic brain injury.
Brain Injury. 2008;22(12):932-9.
29. Maynard CS, Amari A, Slifer KJ, Wieczorek B, Christensen JR. An Interdisciplinary Behavioral
Rehabilitation Approach to Treating Pediatric Pain-Associated Disability: Clinical Outcomes of an
Inpatient Treatment Protocol. Journal of Pediatric Psychology. 2009 May 22 [Epub ahead of print].
C. RESEARCH SUPPORT
Ongoing Research Support
U01HL094345 Moler (PI) 3/2009 – 8/2010
NIH/NHLBI: Therapeutic Hypothermia After Pediatric Cardiac Arrest
Goal: Randomized control trial, so see if this intervention improved neurobehavioral outcomes.
Role: Co-Investigator. (PI for Kennedy Krieger subcontract, responsible for design and collection of primary
outcome measures for multi-center trials.)
Completed Research Support
Christensen (PI) 2001–2009
NIH/NCRR: Project support through the Johns Hopkins/Kennedy Krieger Institute Neurobehavioral Research
Unit of the General Clinical Research Center
Structural, spectroscopic and functional imaging during coma recovery in children and adolescents after
traumatic or anoxic brain injury
Goal: Identify changes in brain activation and spectroscopy during coma recovery.
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