Raouf S. Amin, MD
Title
Professor, Departartment of Pediatrics; Director, Division of Pulmonary Medicine
Email
raouf.amin@cchmc.org
Phone
513-636-7945
Fax
513-636-4615
Bio
Professor of Pediatrics at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and the director of the division of Pulmonary Medicine. Graduated from the University of Ain Shams in Cairo Egypt in 1977. Received my clinical training in the United Kingdom and the United States. Completed a pulmonary fellowship at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center in 1993. Research focus is on cardiovascular morbidity of sleep disordered breathing in children. Has several funded protocols from the National Institute of Health.
Credentials
MD: Aim Shams University; Cairo Egypt; 1978
Residency: Pediatrics; Michigan State University; Flint, MI
Certification: Pediatrics 1990; Pediatric Pulmonary Medicine 1994; Sleep Medicine 1995
Awards and Honors
Research Grants and Contracts
Mechanisms Mediating C/V Disease in Children with OSA
National Institutes of Health
R01 HL 070907 04/01/03 – 03/31/08
Role: PI
Clinical Research Center M01 RR 08084-08
4/1/03-3/31/08
Role: PI
Pediatric Sleep Research Training Program
National Institutes of Health
K24 HL 078989 08/01/05 – 05/31/10
Role:PI
Randomized Control Study of Adenotonsilectomy for Childhood Sleep Apnea
National Institutes of Health (Case Western Reserve subcontract)
U01 HL 083075 09/15/06 – 07/31/11
Role: Co-PI
Vascular Function in Children with Sleep Disorders
National Institutes of Health
R01 HL 080670 08/15/06 – 06/30/10
Role: PI
Publications, Most Recent
Daftary A, Crisanti M, Kalra M, Wong B, Amin R : Effect of long term steroids on cough efficiency and respiratory muscle strength in patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Pediatrics 2007;119: e320-4
Kalra, M., Pal P., Kaushal R., Amin R., Dolan L., Fitz K., Kumar S., Sheng X., Mallik J., Deka R., Chakrabortry R. Association of ApoE Genetic Variants with Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Children. Sleep Medicine 2007
Fricke BL., Abbott MB., Donnelly LF., Dardzinski BJ., Poe SA., Kalra M., Amin RS., Cotton RT. MR Volume Segmentation Analysis Comparing Cine MRI Data in Children with Tracheotomy Tubes Capped and Uncapped.Korean Journal of Radiology 2007
Virend K. Somers, MD, DPhil, Chair; David P. White, MD, Co-Chair; Raouf Amin, MD, Co-Chair AHA/ACC Scientific Statement Sleep Apnea and cardiovascular Disease (Circulation- in press)
Otto M, Belohlavek M, Romero-Corral A, Gami A, Gilman G, Svatikova A, Amin R, Lopez-Jimenez F, Khandheria B, Somers V. Cardiac Structural and Functional Changes in Obstructive Sleep ApneaAm J Cardio 2007 l; 99:1298-302
Raouf Amin, MD, Virend K. Somers, MD, PhD, Keith McConnell, MS; Paul Willging, MD, Charles Myer, MD, Gary McPhail, MD, Ashley Morgenthal1, Matthew Fenchel, MS, Judy Bean, PhD Thomas Kimball, MD, Stephen Daniels, MD, PhD Activity-Adjusted 24-hour Ambulatory Blood Pressure in Children with Sleep Disordered Breathing and Healthy ControlsJAMA 2007
Karla M, LeMasterG, Bernstein. D, Wilson K, Cohen A. Amin R. Atopy as a risk factor for habitual snoring at age 1 year.CHEST 2006; 129(4):942-6.
Beebe, D., Levin, D., Zeller, M., Daniels, S., Amin, R. Sleep in Pediatric Obesity: Shorter sleep, poorer sleep quality, sleepiness, and sleep-disordered breathing.Journalof Pediatric Psychology, pp.1-11, 2006.
Sally R. Shott, M.D., Raouf Amin, M.D., Barbara Chini, M.D., Christine Heubi, B.S, Stephanie Hotze, B.S., Rachel Akers, M.P.H. Obstructive sleep apnea – Should all children with Down syndrome be tested?Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg/Vol 132, 432-36, Apr 2006
Rashed A. Hasan,; George Y. Zureikat,; Brian M. Nolan,; Jenny L. La Chance,; Julie L. Campe,; Raouf Amin. The Relationship between Asthma and Overweight in Urban Minority Children. Journal of the National Medical Association, Vol. 98, No.2, 138-42; February 2006.
McCarty Statham, Elluru R, Amin R, Buncher R, karla M. Adenotonsillectomy for obstructive sleep apnea syndrome in young children: Prevalence of Pulmonary Complications, Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg/Vol. 132,476-80; May 2006.
Fricke BL, Donnelly LF, Shott SR, Kalra M, Poe SA, Chini BA, Amin RS. Comparision of Lingual Tonsil Size as Depicted on MR Imaging Between Children with Obstructive Sleep Apnea Despite Previous tonsillectomy and Adenoidectomy and Normal Controls. Pediatric Radiology (2006) 36: 518-523.
Maninder Karla, Lane F. Donnelly, James Johnson, Keith McConnell, Kendall O' Brien, Raouf Amin. Determination of Respiratory Phase during Acquisition of Airway Cine MR Images. Pediatric Radiol (2006) 36: 965-969.
Kalra, M., Kumar S., Amin R., Daniels S., Inge T., Garcia V., Chakraborty R., Dardzinski B., Fitz K., Singh N., Sheng, X., Donnelly L. Correlates of Lateral Parapharyngeal Adiposity in Obese Children. Int J Obesity 2006
Amin RS. Kalra M, Kimball T, Bean J, Jefferies, J L. Carroll, Daniels S. Left Ventricular Function in Children with Obstructive Sleep Apnea. Am J. Card 2005 95: 801-804
Kalra M., Kimball TR, Daniels SR, LeMasters G, Willging PJ, Rutter M, Witt SA, Glascock BJ, Amin RS. Structural Cardiac Changes as a Predictor of Respiratory Complications after Adenotonsillectomy for Obstructive Breathing during Sleep in Children. Sleep Medicine 2005 6: 241-245
Kalra M., Buncher R., Amin R. Asthma is a Risk Factor for Postoperative Respiratory Complications after Adenotonsillectomy in Children with Obstructive Breathing during Sleep. Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol 2005 94: 549-552
Amin R., Bean J., Ph.D. Burklow K., Jeffries J. The Relationship between Sleep Disturbance and Pulmonary Function in Stable Pediatric Cystic Fibrosis Patients with Mild to Moderate Pulmonary Disease. Chest 2005 128: 1357-1363
Kalra, M T. Inge, V. Garcia, , S. Daniels, L. Lawson R. Curti A. Cohen, R. Amin. Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Adolescents with severe Obesity Undergoing Bariatric Surgery. Obesity Research 2005 13: 1175-9
Boesch, R. P, Daines, M.Kaul, A.,Cotton, R.,Amin, R. Lymphoproliferative disorder of the airway of an adolescent without immunodeficiencyInt J Pediatr Otorhinolaryngol 2005
Professional Organization Memberships
Special Interests
Chronic respiratory failure, sleep disorders in children
Presentations, Most Recent
Invited featured speaker: Year in review, American Academy of Sleep Medicine meeting 2006
Invited co-chair poster discussion: American Thoracic Society meeting 2006
Invited speaker "Sleep-Disorderd Breathing and Obstructive Sleep Apnea in the Obese Child" 9th World Congress on Sleep Apnea September 2006, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Poster Session "Pulmonary Artery Pressure in Children with Sleep Disordered Breathing" NIH-Evolution of Pulmonary Hypertension: Emerging Diseases and Novel Therapeutics Meeting. December 2006.
Invited Speaker, Postgraduate Course "Mechanisms of Cardiovascular Morbidity Associated with SDB: Lessons from the Study of Children" American Thoracic Society meeting May 2007, San Francisco, California.
Invited discussion facilitator, Thematic Poster Session "Pediatric Sleep and Control of Breathing" American Thoracic Society meeting May 2007, San Francisco, California.
Invited Speaker, Scientific Symposium "Reversibility of Cardiovascular Morbidity in Children with SDB" American Thoracic Society meeting May 2007, San Francisco, California.
Invited Speaker, Symposia "New Findings in Sleep Disordered Breathing(SDB) and Cardiovascular Function in Children" World Sleep 2007 - 5th World Sleep Congress of the WFSRSMS - Cairns, Australia September 2007.
Invited Speaker, Symposium in China, "Sleep Research" The Cincinnati Children's Bang Bao Scholar Program 2008, Sponsored by Pamper, Proctor and Gamble-Cincinnati, Ohio.
Invited Speaker, Long-Term Mechanical Ventilation in Children, American College of Chest Physicians, Chest 2007, October 2007, Chicago, Illinois.
Invited Speaker, Sleep Disorders in Cystic Fibrosis Patients, 2007 North American Cystic Fibrosis Conference, October 2007, Anaheim, California.
Related Areas
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