University of Cincinnati Department of Pediatrics

Robert E. Wood, PhD, MD

Title

Director of the Pulmonary Bronchoscopy Department

Appointment

Professor of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine

Email

rewood@cchmc.org

Phone

513-636-2776

Fax

513-636-3845

Bio

Dr. Robert Wood, PhD, MD, is a pediatric pulmonary specialist, with particular interest in bronchoscopy. He has played a major role in the development of instrumentation and techniques for flexible bronchoscopy in pediatric patients. He is recognized as a teacher of endoscopic techniques, and has published many papers and book chapters on the subject. Additionally, he has extensive experience with clinical problems in pediatric pulmonary medicine, especially children with complex airway problems and cystic fibrosis.

Before coming to Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Dr. Wood was on the faculty of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio (1976 to 1983), and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1983 to 1999).

Credentials

PhD: Medical Physiology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 1968.

MD: Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 1970.

Residency: Pediatrics, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, 1970 to 1972.

Fellowship: Pediatric Metabolism, National Institute of Arthritis, Metabolism, and Digestive Diseases, Bethesda, MD, 1972 to 1974; Pediatric Pulmonology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH; Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital, Cleveland, OH, 1974 to 1976.

Certification: Pediatrics, 1976; Pediatric Pulmonology, 1986, 1997.

Awards and Honors

Best Doctors in America, 1997-2009

Research

Bronchology and pumonary alveolar proteinosis

Publications, Most Recent

Muenzer J, Beck M, Eng CM, Escolar ML, Giugliani R, Guffon NH, Harmatz P, Kamin W, Kampmann C, Kosepglu ST, Link B, Martin RA, Molter DW, MuAoz Rojas MV, Ogilvie JW, Parini R, Ramaswami U, Scarpa M, Schwartz IV, Wood RE, Wraith E. Multidisciplinary Management of Hunter Syndrome. Pediatrics 124:e1228-39, 2009

Abman S, Jobe A, Chernick V, Blaisdell C, Castro M, Ramirez MI, Gern JE, Cutting G, Redding G, Hagood JS, Whitsett J, Abman S, Raj JU, Barst R, Kato GJ, Gozal D, Haddad GG, Prabhakar NR, Gauda E, Martinez FD, Tepper R, Wood RE, Accurso F, Teague WG, Venegas j, Cole FS, Wright RJ, Gail D, Hamvas A. Kercsmar C, Kile J, Weinmann G, NHLBI working group report. Strategic plan for pediatric respiratory diseases research: an NHLBI working group report. Pediatr Pulmonol 44:2-13, 2009

Suzuki T, Sakagami T, Rubin BK, Nogee LM, Wood RE, Zimmerman SL, Smokarek T, Dishop MK, Wert SE, Whitsett JA, Grabowski G, Carey BC, Stevens C, Van Der Loo JC, Trapnell BC. Fimilial Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis caused by mutations in CSF2RA. J Exp MEd. 205: 2703-10, 2008

Wood RE, Evaluation of the Upper Airway in Children. Curr Opin Pediatr. 20:266-71, 2008

Daines CL, Wood RE, Boesch RP, Foreign Body Aspiration: An Important Etiology of Respiratory Symptoms in Children.J Allergy Clin Immunol 121: 1297-8, 2008

Boesch RP, Saines C, Willging JP, Kaul A, Cohen AP, Wood RE, Amin RS. Advances in the Diagnosis and Mangement of Chronic Pulmonary Aspiration in Children. Eur Respir J 28: 847-61, 2006

Zur KB, Wood RE, Elluru RG. Pediatric Postcricoid Vascular Malformation: A Diagnositic and Treatment Challenge.Int J Pediatr Otorhinolaryngol. 69:1697-701, 2005

Book Chapters

Wood RE, Interventional Bronchoscopy. In: Operative Endoscopy and Endoscopic Surgery in Infants and Children. Najmaldin A, Rothenbaerg S, Crabbe D, and Beasley S. (Eds). Philadephia, W. B. Saunders, Inc. P. 94-109, 2006

Wood RE, Pediatric Flexible Bronchoscopy for Adult Bronchoscopists. In: Flexible Bronchoscopy (2nd edition). Wang KP, Mehta AC, and Turner JF (Eds.) Malden MA, Blackwell Publishing, P 256-69, 2004

Wood RE, Daines C..Bronchoschopy and Bronchoalveolar Lavage in Pediatric Patients. In: Kendig's Disorders of the Respiratory Tract in Children. 7th edition. Chernick (Eds). Philadelphia, W.B. Saunders, Inc. P. 94-109, 2006

Wood Re, Bronchoscopy in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. In: Wheeler DS, Shanley TP,. Wong HR, (Eds) Pediatirc Critical Care Medicine:Basic Science and Clinical Evidence. Springer-Verlag Publishing, P. 390-4, 2008

Wood, RE. Diagnositc and Therapeutic Procedures. In. Taussig LM. Landau LI, LeSouef PN, et al (Eds). Pediatric Respiratory Medicine. Mosby, P 201-18, 2008

Wood RE, Kercsmar C, Fine KS, Pulmonology. In: Marino BS, Fine KS (Eds). Blueprints in Pediatrics (5th Ed) Wolters Kluwer, P. 297-313, 2009