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Lance B. Becker, MD

Professor of Emergency Medicine
Department: Emergency Medicine

Contact information
Center for Resuscitation Science
Translational Research Laboratory
125 South 31st Street
Suite 1200
Philadelphia, PA 19104-3403
Office: 215-746-3625
Fax: 215-746-1224
Education:
BGS (General Studies)
University of Michigan, 1975.
MA (Biochemistry)
University of Illinois, 1977.
MD (Medicine)
University of Illinois School of Medicine, 1981.
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Description of CVI Expertise

Director, Penn Center for Resuscitation Science

CVI Program Unit(s):
Myocyte Biology / Heart Failure
Biotechnology / Nanomedicine / Imaging

CVI Research Description:
Cardiac arrest and resuscitation, reperfusion injury, mitochondrial
dysfunction, cardiomyocyte models of ischemia reperfusion, translational
research.

Selected Publications

Ornato JP, Becker LB, Weisfeldt ML, Wright BA. : Cardiac arrest and resuscitation: an opportunity to align research prioritization and public health need. Circulation 122(18): 1876-9, November 2 2010.

Becker LB: Does cool reperfusion limit myocardial infarction injury? Circ Cardiovasc Interv 3(5): 397-9, October 2010.

Lau B, Kirkpatrick JN, Merchant RM, Perman SM, Abella BS, Gaieski DF, Becker LB, Chiames C, Reitsma AM: Experiences of sudden cardiac arrest survivors regarding prognostication and advance care planning. Resuscitation 81(8): 982-6, August 2010.

Becker LB: Cooling heads and hearts versus cooling our heels. Circulation 122(7): 679-81, August 17 2010.

Boller M, Lampe JW, Katz JM, Barbut D, Becker LB: Feasibility of intra-arrest hypothermia induction: A novel nasopharyngeal approach achieves preferential brain cooling. Resuscitation 81(8): 1025-30, August 2010.

Merchant RM, Abella BS, Abotsi EJ, Smith TM, Long JA, Trudeau ME, Leary M, Groeneveld PW, Becker LB, Asch DA: Cell phone cardiopulmonary resuscitation: audio instructions when needed by lay rescuers: a randomized, controlled trial. Ann Emerg Med 55(6): 538-543, June 2010.

Topjian AA, Localio AR, Berg RA, Alessandrini EA, Meaney PA, Pepe PE, Larkin GL, Peberdy MA, Becker LB, Nadkarni VM; American Heart Association National Registry of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Investigators: Women of child-bearing age have better inhospital cardiac arrest survival outcomes than do equal-aged men. Crit Care Med 38(5): 1254-60, May 2010.

Han F, Boller M, Guo W, Merchant RM, Lampe JW, Smith TM, Becker LB. : A rodent model of emergency cardiopulmonary bypass resuscitation with different temperatures after asphyxial cardiac arrest. Resuscitation 81(1): 93-9, January 2010.

Lampe JW, Becker LB: State of the Art in Therapeutic Hypothermia. Annu Rev Med January 27 2010.

Gaieski DF, Fuchs B, Carr BG, Merchant R, Kolansky DM, Abella BS, Becker LB, Maguire C, Whitehawk M, Levine J, Goyal M: Practical implementation of therapeutic hypothermia after cardiac arrest. Hosp Pract (Minneap) 37(1): 71-83, December 2009.

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Last updated: 11/24/2010
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