Pulmonary Medicine

Robert E. Wood, MD, PhD

Title

Pediatric Pulmonary Specialist

Appointment

Professor of Pediatrics

Email

rewood@cchmc.org

Phone

513-636-2775

Fax

513-636-4615

Bio

Dr. Robert Wood 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, 2008
Awarded "2005 Best Doctors"
Awarded "2004 Best Doctors"
Best Doctors in America, 1997, 1998

Research

Bronchology and cystic fibrosis

Publications, Most Recent

Wood RE. Controversy. Pediatric bronchoscopy: Rigid versus flexible bronchoscopy: Pro-flexible bronchoscopy.J Bronchology, 3: 156-60, 1996.

Wood RE. Pediatric Bronchoscopy.Chest Surg Clin NA, 6:237-51, 1996.

Barker PM, Wood RE, Gilligan PH. Lung infection with Burkholderia gladioli in a child with cystic fibrosis: acute clinical and spirometric deterioration.Pediatric Pulmonology, 23: 123-5, 1997.

Wood RE. Pediatric Bronchoscopy: Flexible vs Rigid Instruments?Medicina Thoracalis, 50: 190-4, 1997.

Noah TL, Black HR, Cheng PW, Wood RE, Leigh MW. Nasal and bronchoalveolar lavage fluid cytokines in early cystic fibrosis.J Infect Diseases, 175:638-47, 1997.

Piedimonte G, Wolford ET, Fordham LA, Leigh MW, Wood RE. Mediastinal lymphadenopathy caused by Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare complex in a child with normal immunity: successful treatment with anti-mycobacterial drugs and laser bronchoscopy.Pediatric Pulmonology, 24: 287-91, 1997.

Knowles MR, Robinson JM, Wood RE, Pue CA, Mentz WM, Wager GC, Gatzy JT, Boucher RC. Ion composition of airway surface liquid of patients with cystic fibrosis as compared with normal and disease-control subjects.J Clin Invest, 100: 2588-95, 1997.

McQueen CT, Dudley LS, Smith TL, Wood RE, Minsley M, Drake AF. Bronchoscopic evaluation of pediatric airway pathology.NC Med J, 58: 210-3, 1997.

Book Chapters

Wood RE. Physiology of the larynx, airways, and lungs. In: Pediatric Otolaryngology, CD Bluestone and SE Stool (Eds.), Philadelphia: WB Saunders Co., first edition, 1983, pages 1141-1151; second edition, 1989, pages 1055-1063; third edition, 1996, pages 1212-1219.

Wood RE, Schafer IA, Karlinsky B. Genetic Diseases of the Lung. In: Textbook of Pulmonary Diseases. Baum GL, Crapo JD, Celli BR, Karlinsky JB (Eds). Sixth edition. Philadelphia: Lippincott-Raven Publishers, pages 1451-1468, 1997.

Wood RE. Bronchoscopy. In: Kendig's Disorders of the Respiratory Tract in Children. TF Boat, V Chernick (Eds). Philadelphia, WB Saunders Inc., pages 129-142, 1998.

Wood RE. Diagnostic and therapeutic procedures in pediatric pulmonary patients. In: Pediatric Respiratory Medicine. Taussig LM, Landau LI (Eds); St Louis, Mosby, pages 244-262, 1999.