Alicia K. Au, MD, MS

  • Associate Professor of Critical Care Medicine and Pediatrics
  • Medical Director, Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
  • Associate Director, Biomarkers, Safar Center for Resuscitation Research

    Education & Training

  • MD, Jefferson Medical College, 2004
  • Residency, Pediatric, Children's National Medical Center, 2007
  • Fellowship, Pediatric Critical Care, UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, 2010
  • MS, Clinical Research, Institute for Clinical Research Education, 2016
Awards
McGrevin Post Doctoral Award, 2010
Neurology Specialty Award, Society of Critical Care Medicine, 2010
Nancy Caroline Fellowship Award, 2011
Young Investigator Award, Society of Critical Care Medicine, 2014
Representative Publications

Au AK, Bell MJ, Fink EL, Aneja RK, Kochanek PM, Clark RS. Brain - specific serum biomarkers predict neurological morbidity in diagnostically diverse pediatric intensive care unit patients. Neurocritical care. 2018 Feb 1;28(1):26 - 34.

Au AK, Aneja RK, Bayır H, Bell MJ, Janesko - Feldman K, Kochanek PM, Clark RS. Autophagy biomarkers Beclin 1 and p62 are increased in cerebrospinal fluid after traumatic brain injury. Neurocritical care. 2017 Jun 1;26(3):348 - 55.

Au AK, Chen Y, Du L, Smith CM, Manole MD, Baltagi SA, Chu CT, Aneja RK, Bayır H, Kochanek PM, Clark RS. Ischemia - induced autophagy contributes to neurodegeneration in cerebellar Purkinje cells in the developing rat brain and in primary cortical neurons in vitro. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Basis of Disease. 2015 Sep 1;1852(9) :1902 - 11.

Au AK, Carcillo JA, Clark RS, Bell MJ. Brain injuries and neurological system failure are the most common proximate cause of death in children admitted to a pediatric intensive care unit. Pediatric Critical Care M edicine. 2011 Sep;12(5):566.

► Full listing on Pub Med

Research Interests
  • Biomarkers and prediction of neurological morbidity
  • Traumatic brain injury
  • Asphyxia - induced cardiac arrest
  • Cell autophagy in brain injury