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Finding Cures. Saving Children.
Lama Elbahlawan, MD
Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty
Divisions
Critical Care
Contact Information
Lama Elbahlawan, MD
Critical Care
MS 734, Room S-3040
332 N. Lauderdale
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
262 Danny Thomas Place
Memphis, TN 38105-3678
Email: lama.elbahlawan@stjude.org
Phone: (901) 595-5313
Education
BS - American University of Beirut, Lebanon (1992)
MD - American University of Beirut, Lebanon (1996)
Clinical Interests
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Acute lung injury
Research Interests
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Genetic polymorphism of cytokine and their impact on sepsis and acute lung injury
Selected Publications
Avent Y, Dycus P, Henderson N, West N, Elbahlawan L, Cresswell J, Wilder K. Utilizing a performance improvement team to plan and implement a rapid response team for pediatric oncology patients. Pediatric Intensive Care Nursing 8(2):11-16, 2007.
West N, Avent N, Cresswell J, Henderson N, Wilder K, Elbahlawan L. Improving patient care in the pediatric ICU through evidence-based practice. J Health Quality W4:10-18, 2007.
Elbahlawan L, Binaei S, Christensen M, Zhang Q, Quasney MW, Dahmer MK. Beta2-adrenergic receptor polymorphisms in African American children with status asthmaticus. Pediatr Crit Care Med 7(1):15-18, 2006.
Elbahlawan LM, Stidham GL, Bugnitz MC, Storgion SA, Quasney MW. Severe systemic reaction to Loxosceles reclusa spider bites in a pediatric population. Pediatr Emerg Care 21:177-180, 2005.
Waterer GW, Elbahlawan L, Quasney MW, Zhang Q, Kessler LA, Wunderink RG. Heat shock protein 70-2+1267 AA homozygotes have an increased risk of septic shock in adults with community-acquired pneumonia. Crit Care Med 31(5):1367-1372, 2003.
Dabbous IA, Dbouk H, Sibai AM, Bahlawan L. Childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia managed in tertiary care center in a developing country. Med Pediatr Oncol 41(1):83-84, 2003.
Dabbous I, Elbahlawan L. Infantile pyknocytosis: a forgotten or a dead diagnosis. J Pediatr Hematol Oncol 24(6): 507, 2002.
Major S, Badr S, Bahlawan L, Hassan G, Khogaoghlanian T, Khalil R, Melhem A, Richani R, Younes F, Yeretzian J, Khogali M, Sabra R. Drug-related hospitalization at a tertiary teaching center in Lebanon: incidence, associations, and relation to self-medicating behavior. Clin Pharmacol Ther 64 (4):450-461, 1998.
Last update: May 2008
