Ericka L. Fink, MD, MS

  • Professor of Critical Care Medicine, Pediatrics, and Clinical and Translational Science
  • Associate Director, Safar Center for Resuscitation Research
  • Research Director, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Fellowship
  • Director, Critical Illness Recovery for ChiLdrEn (CIRCLE) Program, UPMC Children's

    Education & Training

  • BS, Bioengineering, Syracuse University, 1992
  • MS, Microbiology, Thomas Jefferson University, 1995
  • MD, Jefferson Medical College, 1999
  • MS, Clinical Research, University of Pittsburgh, 2008
  • Residency, Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, 2002
  • Fellowship, Pediatric Critical Care, UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, 2005
Awards
Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society, 1997
Fellow of the Year, UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, 2005
Fellow of the American Heart Association, 2012
Presidential Citation, Neurocritical Care Society, 2020
Fellowship in the American College of Critical Care Medicine (FCCM), 2021
Representative Publications

Association of Blood-Based Brain Injury Biomarker Concentrations With Outcomes After Pediatric Cardiac Arrest.

Fink EL, Kochanek PM, Panigrahy A, Beers SR, Berger RP, Bayir H, Pineda J, Newth C, Topjian AA, Press CA, Maddux AB, Willyerd F, Hunt EA, Siems A, Chung MG, Smith L, Wenger J, Doughty L, Diddle JW, Patregnani J, Piantino J, Walson KH, Balakrishnan B, Meyer MT, Friess S, Maloney D, Rubin P, Haller TL, Treble-Barna A, Wang C, Clark RRSB, Fabio A; Personalizing Outcomes After Child Cardiac Arrest (POCCA) Investigators.JAMA Netw Open. 2022 Sep 1;5(9):e2230518. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.30518.PMID: 36074465

 

A Core Outcome Set for Pediatric Critical Care.

Fink EL, Maddux AB, Pinto N, Sorenson S, Notterman D, Dean JM, Carcillo JA, Berg RA, Zuppa A, Pollack MM, Meert KL, Hall MW, Sapru A, McQuillen PS, Mourani PM, Wessel D, Amey D, Argent A, Brunow de Carvalho W, Butt W, Choong K, Curley MAQ, Del Pilar Arias Lopez M, Demirkol D, Grosskreuz R, Houtrow AJ, Knoester H, Lee JH, Long D, Manning JC, Morrow B, Sankar J, Slomine BS, Smith M, Olson LM, Watson RS; Pediatric Outcomes STudies after PICU (POST-PICU) Investigators of the Pediatric Acute Lung Injury and Sepsis Investigators (PALISI) Network and the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Collaborative Pediatric Critical Care Research Network (CPCCRN).Crit Care Med. 2020 Dec;48(12):1819-1828. doi: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000004660.PMID: 33048905 

 

Serum Biomarkers of Regeneration and Plasticity are Associated with Functional Outcome in Pediatric Neurocritical Illness: An Exploratory Study.

Madurski C, Jarvis JM, Beers SR, Houtrow AJ, Wagner AK, Fabio A, Wang C, Smith CM, Doughty L, Janesko-Feldman K, Rubin P, Pollon D, Treble-Barna A, Kochanek PM, Fink EL; PICU-Rehabilitation Study Group.Neurocrit Care. 2021 Oct;35(2):457-467. doi: 10.1007/s12028-021-01199-z. Epub 2021 Mar 4.PMID: 33665769 

 

Limbic pathway vulnerability associates with neurologic outcome in children after cardiac arrest.

Jarvis JM, Roy J, Schmithorst V, Lee V, Devine D, Meyers B, Munjal N, Clark RSB, Kochanek PM, Panigrahy A, Ceschin R, Fink EL.Resuscitation. 2023 Jan;182:109634. doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2022.10.026. Epub 2022 Nov 3.PMID: 36336196

Research Interests