Jerry J. Zimmerman, M.D., Ph.D.

"The fundamental goals of the Seattle Children's Hospital Division of Critical Care Medicine are to deliver the most efficient, highest quality, and safest clinical critical care possible; to optimally educate the next generation of pediatric critical care providers; and to meaningfully contribute to advancing the field through basic, translational, and clinical research."

Dr. Zimmerman is an internationally known expert in septic shock and co-authored Pediatric Critical Care, newly released in its third edition.

Current Positions

• Professor of Pediatrics and Anesthesiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

• Chief, Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle

• Director, Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Children's Hospital & Regional Medical Center, Seattle, WA

• Chair, Scientific Advisory Committee, Children's Hospital & Regional Medical Center, Seattle, WA

Education

Clinical Sciences Center, University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, Madison, WI

Intern and Resident

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Children's Hospital National Medical Center, Washington, DC

Fellow, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Board Certification

Professional Society Memberships

• American Academy of Pediatrics

• Society of Critical Care Medicine

• Society for Pediatric Research

• Shock Society

• American Board of Pediatrics

• Oxygen Society

Selected Publications

1. Connor, N., Williams, C., Cielsielski, W. and Zimmerman J.J. Global Effects of xanthine oxidase stress on alveolar type II cells. Pediatr Crit Care Med, 2002, 3:280-287.

2. Cengiz, P. and Zimmerman, J.J. Prelude to pediatric multiple organ dysfunction syndrome: The golden hours concept revisited. Pediatr Crit Care Med 2003; 4(2): 263-264.

3. Nicholson, C.E., Gans, B., Chang, A., Pollack, M.M., Blackman, J., Giroir, B.P., Wilson, D., Zimmerman, J.J., Whyte, J., Dalton, H.J., Carcilla, J.A., Randolph, A.G., and Kochanek, PM: Pediatric Critical Care Medicine: planning for our research future. Pediatr Crit Care Med 2003; 4:196-202.

4. Curley, M.A.Q., and Zimmerman, J.J.: Highlights of the Fourth World Congress on Pediatric Intensive Care. Pediatr Crit Care Med 2003; 4: 409-411

5. Kincaid, M.S., Vavilala, M.S., Faucher. L., Zimmerman, J.J., Heimbach, D. Feeding intolerance as a result of small intestine intussusceptioin in a child with major burns.  J Burn Care Rehabil 2004: 25: 212-214.

6. Vavilala, M.S., Lee, L.A., Boddu, K., Visco, E., Newell, D.W., Zimmerman, J.J., and Lam, A.M.:  Cerebral autoregulation  in pediatric traumatic brain injury. Pediatr Crit Care Med 2004; 5: 257-263.

7. Goldstein, B., Giroir, B., Randolph, A., and members of the International Consensus Conference Panel (including Zimmerman, J.J.):  International pediatric sepsis consensus conference:  Definitions for sepsis and organ dysfunction in pediatrics.  Pediatr Crit Care Med 2004; 6: 2-8.

8. Markovitz, B.P., Goodman, D.M., Watson, R.S., Bertock, D., and Zimmerman, J.J.:  A retrospective study of prognostic factors associated with outcome in pediatric severe sepsis; What is the role of steroids? Pediatr Crit Care Med 2005; 6: 270-274.

9. Curley, M.A.Q. and Zimmerman, J.J. Alternative outcome measures for pediatric clinical sepsis trials.  Pediatr Crit Care Med 2005; 6: S150-S156.

10. Wilson, D.F., Dean, J.M, Newth, C., Pollack, M, Anand K.S., Meert, K., Carcillo, Zimmerman, J.J., and Nicholson, C. Collaborative Pediatric Critical Care Research Network.  Pediatr Crit Care Med 2006; 7: 301-307.

11. Khilnani, P., Sarma, D., and Zimmerman, J.J.  Epidemiology and Peculiarities of Pediatric MODS in New Dehli, India. Intens Care Med

12. Cengiz, P. Zemlan, F.P., Ellenbogen, R., Hawkins, D. and Zimmerman, J.J. Cleaved tau protein and 9-hydroxyoctadecadienoic acid (9-HODE) levels in pediatric patients with hydrocephalus. (accepted pending revisions to Pediatr Crit Care Med)

1. Oxidative stress, Endothelial injury, and adrenal insufficiency in MODS

2. PCCRN Registry Project
3. PCCRN Bereavement Study, Phase I
4. CPCCRN Bereavement Study, Phase II
5. Functional Status Scale Development
6. Fluid Balance and Outcomes In Children with HPSCT
7. Successes, Failures and Complications with Pediatric Dexmeditomidine Sedation
8. Inflammation and Oxidant Stress in Pediatric Neurological Diseases