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Oscar Henry Mayer, MD

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Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Pulmonary Medicine)
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Pulmonologist, Neuromuscular Disorders Clinic, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
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Center for Thoracic Insufficiency Syndrome, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 1b Lead Pulmonologist
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Department: Pediatrics
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Division of Pulmonary Medicine
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2b Middlebury College, 1990.
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Description of Research Expertise

25 Chest wall mechanics
35 Assessment of chest wall and spinal disorders
3d The pulmonary manifestations of neuromuscular disease
41 Optimal management of patients with neuromuscular disease
2b Pediatric Pulmonary Function Testing
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Description of Clinical Expertise

3d Treatment of chest wall and spinal disorders
35 Assessment of chest wall and spinal disorders
36 Treatment of pediatric neuromuscular disorders
36 Assessment of pediatric neuromuscular disorders
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Selected Publications

14e Hao Y, Udupa JK, Tong Y, Wu C, Gogel S, DM, Mayer OH, McDonough JM, Cahill PJ, Torigian DA, Anari JB: Respiratory volume prediction for pediatric TIS patients with MAGEC rod treatment from pre-operative dynamic MRI and chest radiographs. Proc. SPIE April 2025.

1db Castro D, T Sejersen, L Bello, F Buccella, A Cairns, J Carranza-Del Río, IJM de Groot, L Elman, I Inzani, A Klein, OH Mayer, H Miller, A Onofri, APQC Araújo, U Schara-Schmidt, K Vanden Wyngaert , LM Ward, JM Wilmshurst, R Quinlivan: Transition of patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy from paediatric to adult care: An international Delphi consensus study. Eur J Paediatr Neurol 54, January 2025.

17a Akhtar Y, Udupa JK, Tong Y, Wu C, Liu T, Tong L, Hosseini M, Al-Noury M, Chodvadiya M, McDonough JM, Mayer OH, Biko DM, Anari JB, Cahill P, Torigian DA. : Auto-segmentation of hemi-diaphragms in free-breathing dynamic MRI of pediatric subjects with thoracic insufficiency syndrome. medRxiv September 2024.

16e Hosseini M, JK Udupa, Y Hao, Y Tong, C Wu, Y Akhtar, M Al-Noury, S Shaghaghi, JM McDonough, DM Biko, S Gogel, OH Mayer, PJ Cahill, DA Torigian, JB Anari. : Assessment of 3D hemi-diaphragmatic motion via free-breathing dynamic MRI in pediatric thoracic insufficiency syndrome. medRxiv May 2024.

143 Tong Y, Udupa JK, McDonough JM, Xie L, Wu C, Akhtar Y, Hosseini M, Alnoury M, Shaghaghi S, Gogel S, Biko DM, Mayer OH, Torigian DA, Cahill PJ, Anari JB: Do Rib-Based Anchors Impair Chest Wall Motion in Early Onset Scoliosis (EOS)? medRxiv May 2024.

12c Hao Y, JK Udupa, Y Tong, C Wu, JM McDonough, S Gogel, OH Mayer, M Alnoury, PJ Cahill, JB Anari, DA Torigian. : Quantifying Normal Diaphragmatic Motion and Shape and their Developmental Changes via Dynamic MRI. medRxiv May 2024.

1ad Foley AR, Yun P, Leach ME, Neuhaus SB, Averion GV, Hu Y, Hayes LH, Donkervoort S, Jain MS, Waite M, Parks R, Bharucha-Goebel DX, Mayer OH, Zou Y, Fink M, DeCoster J, Mendoza C, Arévalo C, Hausmann R, Petraki D, Cheung K, Bönnemann CG. : Phase 1 Open-Label Study of Omigapil in Patients With LAMA2- or COL6-Related Dystrophy. Neurol Genet 10(3), May 2024.

1b5 Tong Y, JK Udupa, JM McDonough, L Xie, Y Hao, Y Akhtar, C Wu, CS Rajapakse, S Gogel, OH Mayer, JB Anari, DA Torigian, PJ Cahill. : Virtual Growing Child (VGC): A general normative comparative system via quantitative dynamic MRI for quantifying pediatric regional respiratory anomalies with application in thoracic insufficiency syndrome (TIS). bioRxiv April 2024.

1b5 Tong Y, JK Udupa, JM McDonough, C Wu, L Xie, CS Rajapakse, S Gogel, S Sarkar, OH Mayer, JB Anari, DA Torigian, PJ Cahill.: Characterizing Lung Parenchymal Aeration via Standardized Signal Intensity from Free-breathing 4D Dynamic MRI in Phantoms, Healthy Children, and Pediatric Patients with Thoracic Insufficiency Syndrome. Radiol Cardiothorac Imaging 6(4), 2024.

168 Mayer OH, R Amin, H Sawnani, R Shell, SL Katz. : Respiratory Insufficiency in Neuromuscular Disease (RIND): A Delphi Study to Establish Consensus Criteria to Define and Diagnose Hypoventilation in Pediatric Neuromuscular Disease. Journal of Neuromuscular Disorders 10(6), September 2023.

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