Caitlin E. O'Brien, MD, MPH
Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
Highlights
Johns Hopkins Affiliations:
- Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Faculty
About Caitlin E. O'Brien
Professional Titles
- Associate Director, Johns Hopkins Pediatric Neurocritical Care Program
Primary Academic Title
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine
Background
Dr. Caitlin O’Brien is an assistant professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She is an attending physician in the pediatric intensive care unit where she cares for children with neurologic, traumatic, and medical illnesses. She serves as the Associate Director of the Pediatric Neurocritical Care Program and Medical Director of the Hopkins Outreach for Pediatric Education (HOPE) Center.
Dr. O’Brien currently divides her time between clinical practice and research. Her research focuses on improving neurologic outcomes after pediatric cardiac arrest. Current projects include understanding mechanisms of hypoxic-ischemic injury in the developing brain, the use of post-arrest pharmacologic therapy to improve outcomes, and use of physiologic feedback during active resuscitation.
Dr. O’Brien received her undergraduate degree in biology from the University of Notre Dame and her medical degree from Georgetown University School of Medicine. She completed her residency in combined internal medicine-pediatrics at the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, where she also earned a master of public health. Dr. O’Brien completed fellowship training in pediatric critical care medicine at the Johns Hopkins University and completed additional research training while supported on a T32 fellowship. She joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 2017.
Research Interests
brain injury after cardiac arrest, Cardiopulmonary resuscitation
Selected Publications
O’Brien CE, Reyes M, Santos PT, Heitmiller SE, Kulikowicz E, Kudchadkar SR, Lee JK, Hunt EA, Koehler RC, Shaffner DH. A pilot study to compare the use of end-tidal carbon dioxide-guided and diastolic blood pressure-guided chest compression delivery in a swine model of neonatal asphyxial cardiac arrest. J Am Heart Assoc. 2018;7:e009728
O'Brien CE, Santos PT, Kulikowicz E, Lee JK, Koehler RC, Martin LJ. Neurologic effects of short-term treatment with a soluble epoxide hydrolase inhibitor after cardiac arrest in pediatric swine. BMC Neurosci. 2020 Oct 31;21(1):43
O'Brien CE, Santos PT, Kulikowicz E, Reyes M, Koehler RC, Martin LJ, Lee JK. Hypoxia-Ischemia and hypothermia independently and interactively affect neuronal pathology in neonatal piglets with short-term recovery. Dev Neurosci. 2019; 41(1-2): 17-33
O'Brien CE, Santos PT, Reyes M, Adams S, Hopkins CD, Kulikowicz E, Hamrick JL, Hamrick JT, Lee JK, Kudchadkar SR, Hunt EA, Koehler RC, Shaffner DH. Association of diastolic blood pressure with survival during paediatric cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Resuscitation. 2019; 143: 50-56
Memberships
- American Heart Association
- Society for Critical Care Medicine
- Society for Neuroscience
Locations
- The Johns Hopkins Hospital
- 1800 Orleans Street, Baltimore, MD 21287
- phone: 410-955-5000
- fax: 410-955-5001
Expertise
Education
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Fellowship, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, 2017The Mount Sinai Hospital
Residency, Medicine and Pediatrics, 2014Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Graduate School, MPH, 2014Georgetown University School of Medicine
Medical Education, MD, 2010Board Certifications
Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
American Board of Pediatrics, 2018Pediatrics
American Board of Pediatrics, 2015Insurance
- Aetna
- CareFirst
- Cigna
- First Health
- Geisinger Health Plan
- HealthSmart/Accel
- Humana
- Johns Hopkins Health Plans
- MultiPlan
- Pennsylvania's Preferred Health Networks (PPHN)
- Point Comfort Underwriters
- Private Healthcare Systems (PHCS)
- UnitedHealthcare
- Veteran Affairs Community Care Network (Optum-VACCN)