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Carolyn M. Kercsmar, MD

Title

Co-Director, Pediatric Pulmonology Division; Director, Asthma Center

Appointment

Professor of Pediatrics

Email

carolyn.kercsmar@cchmc.org

Phone

513-803-0359

Credentials

BS: Biology, Baldwin-Wallace College, Cleveland, Ohio, 1972
MD: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, 1978
MS: Anatomy, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, 1978

Awards and Honors

Best Doctors in America, 2008
Golden Stethoscope Award, 2002
Alumni Merit Award for Outstanding Accomplishments in Medicine; Baldwin Wallace College, 2001
Best Doctors in Northeast Ohio, Northern Ohio Live, 2001, 2006
Best Doctors in Cleveland, Cleveland Magazine, 1998; 2002; 2006
The Best Doctors in America, 1998; 2003; 2004
Department of Pediatrics, Teaching Excellence Award, 1989
Ross Laboratories Award, Outstanding Teaching Resident, 1981
Department of Pediatrics Award, Case Western Reserve University, 1978

Publications, Most Recent

Walders N, Kercsmar, CM, Schluchter M, Drotar D, Redline S, Kirchner HL. An interdisciplinary intervention for difficult to manage pediatric asthma.Chest 1129:292-99, 2006.

Vesper SJ, McKinstry C, Yang C, Haugland RA, Kercsmar CM, Yike I, Schluchter MD, Kirchner HL, Sobolewski J, Allan TA, Dearborn DG. Specific molds associated with asthma in water-damage homes.J Occup Environ Med, 48:852-858, 2006.

Kercsmar CM, Dearborn DG, Schluchter M, Xue, L, Kirchner HL, Sobelewski J, Greenberg, SJ, Vesper, SJ, Allan T. Reduction in asthma morbidity in children as a result of home remediation aimed at moisture reduction.Environ Health Perspect. 114:1574-1580,2006.

Lewis, B., Fulton, S., Short, E., Nelson, S., Lombardi, J., Rosenbaum, D., Kercsmar, C., Baley, J., Singer, L.T. A longitudinal case study of a child with mosaic trisomy 22: Language, cognitive, and behavioral outcomes, American Journal of Medical Genetics, 2007, 143(17), 2070-4.

Singer LT, Fulton S, Kirchner HL, Eisengart S, Lewis B, Short E, Min MO, Kercsmar C, Baley JE. Parenting Very Low Birth Weight Children at School Age: Maternal Stress and Coping.J Pediatr. In press, 2007.

Book Chapters

Kercsmar, C.M. Wheezing in the School-Aged Child. In: V. Chernick, TF Boat, and E.I. Kendig (eds), Disorders of the Respiratory Tract in Children, 6th Ed. Philadelphia, W.B. Saunders Co.,2006.

Presentations, Most Recent

Emergency and Critical Care Medicine: The Cutting Edge. Management of Acute Pediatric Asthma; Management of Complicated Pneumonia in Children. CME meeting, St. Maarten, Jan 31-Feb 4, 2005.

Transcending Frontiers in Pediatrics: Management of Acute Asthma; Management of Complicated Pneumonia; Chronic Cough: diagnosis and management; The Persistently Wheezing Infant and Toddler. CME meeting, Quito Ecuador, May 3-6, 2005.

Asthma Educator Course, Asthma Pathophysiology; American Lung Association of Ohio, Cleveland, OH; June 3, 2005.

Update on the management of respiratory viruses in infants and children. Pediatric Grand Rounds. St John Westshore Hospital, Cleveland, OH. January 18, 2006.

Pediatric Grand Rounds: Inner City Asthma: Unique Characteristics. Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital, Cleveland Ohio, February 2, 2006.

Pediatric Pulmonary Grand rounds: New Strategies for Managing Asthma in the Inner City Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Cincinnati, OH. October 16, 2006.

Practical Pediatrics Course, American Academy of Pediatrics: What's New in Asthma Management?; Update on the Diagnosis and Management of Chronic Cough; Management of Complicated Parapneumonic Effusions. Vail, CO. January 11-14, 2007.

Pediatric Grand Rounds: Asthma Heterogeneity: One Size Does Not Fit All. Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital, Cleveland, OH January 18, 2007.

Pediatric Update: University of South Carolina. : Sleeping Through Math: Update on Pediatric Sleep Disorders, What's New in Asthma Management?, Update on the Management of Bronchiolitis, Management of Complicated Pneumonias and Parapneumonic Effusions. July 16-19, 2007, Hilton Head, SC.