Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care

Alexis A. Topjian, MD

Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Attending Physician, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Associate Director of PICU Fellowship Program, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Department: Anesthesiology and Critical Care

Contact information

The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine
34th Street and Civic Center Boulevard
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Office: 215-590-3915
Fax: 215-590-4327

Email:
topjian@email.chop.edu

Education:
B.A. (Biology)
Harvard College, 1996.
M.D. (Medicine)
Columbia College of Physicians & Surgeons, 2001.
M.S.C.E. (Masters in Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics)
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 2011.

Post-Graduate Training
Resident in Pediatrics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 2001-2004.
Fellowship, Critical Care Medicine, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 2004-2007.

Certifications
Pediatric Advanced Life Support - Instructor, 2007.
American Board of Pediatrics, 2011.
Advanced Cardiac Life Support, 2013.
Sub-Board of Pediatric Critical Care, 2015.
Pediatric Advanced Life Support, 2015.
Advanced Trauma Life Support, 2016.

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Selected Publications

Topjian AA, Gutierrez-Colina AM, Sanchez SM, Berg RA, Friess SH, Dlugos DJ, Abend NS: Electrographic Status Epilepticus is Associated with Mortality and Worse Short-Term Outcome in Critically Ill Children. Critical Care Medicine 41(1): 215-223, January 2013.

Hasbani DM, Topjian AA, Friess SH, Kilbaugh TJ, Berg RA, Christian CW, Dlugos DJ, Huh JW, Abend NS: Non-convulsive electrographic seizures are common in children with abusive head trauma. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine In Press 2013.

Topjian AA, Clark AE, Casper TC, Berger JT, Schleien CL, Dean JM, Moler FW for the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN): Early lactate elevations following resuscitation from pediatric cardiac arrest are associated with increased mortality. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine In Press 2013.

Abend NS, Sanchez SM, Berg RA, Dlugos DJ, Topjian AA: Current treatment of electrographic seizures and status epilepticus in critically ill children: a Single center experience. Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology In Press 2013.

Pensirkul A, Beslow LA, Kessler SK, Sanchez SM, Topjian AA, Dlugos DJ, Abend NS: Density spectral array for seizure identification in critically ill children. Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology In Press 2013.

Topjian AA, Berg RA, Biernens JJ, Branche CM, Clark RS, Friberg H, Hoedemaekers CWE, Holzer M, Katz LM, Knape JTA, Kochanek PM, Nadkarni VM, van der Hoeven JG, Warner DS: Brain Resuscitation in the drowning victim. Neurocritical Care 17(3): 441-467, December 2012.

Abend NS, Topjian AA, Kessler S, Gutierrez-Colina AM, Berg RA, Nadkarni VM, Dlugos DJ, Clancy RR, Ichord RN: Outcome prediction by motor and pupillary responses in children treated with therapeutic hypothermia after cardiac arrest. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine 13(1): 32-8, January 2012.

Gutierrez-Colina AM, Topjian AA, Dlugos DJ, Abend NS: EEG monitoring in critically ill children: Indications and monitoring strategies. Pediatric Neurology In Press 2012.

Bennett KS, Clark AE, Meert KL, Topjian AA, Schleien CL, Shaffner DH, Dean JM, Moler FW.: Early oxygenation and ventilation measurements after pediatric cardiac arrest: Lack of Association with Outcome. Critical Care Medicine In Press 2012.

Abend NS, Topjian AA, Gutierrrez-Colina AM, Donnelly M, Clancy RR, Dlugos DJ: Impact of continuous EEG monitoring on clinical management in critically ill children. Neurocritical Care 15(1): 70-75, August 2011.