Alexandre T. Rotta, MD, FCCM, FAAP

• Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston.
• Intensivist, Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Driscoll Children’s Hospital.
• Chairman, Institutional Review Board (IRB)
• Medical School: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
• Internship: Children’s Hospital of Michigan (Pediatrics)
• Residency: Children’s Hospital of Michigan (Pediatrics)
• Fellowship: The Women and Children’s Hospital of Buffalo (Pediatric Critical Care)
• Memberships: American Academy of Pediatrics, Society of Critical Care Medicine
• Board Certification: Pediatrics, Pediatric Critical Care
• Elected by his peers for inclusion in Best Doctors in America® from 2003 to 2008

Clinical Interests:

• Mechanical Ventilation
• Acute Lung Injury and ARDS
• High-Frequency Oscillatory Ventilation
• Liquid Ventilation
• Near-Fatal Asthma
• Cardiac Critical Care

Languages Spoken:

• English
• Spanish
• Portuguese

Selected Publications

Click here to view a partial list of Dr. Rotta’s publications through the National Library of Medicine's PubMed online database

Recent publishings

• Pediatric Critical Care Medicine - Basic Science and Clinical Evidence
  By D Wheeler, HR Wong, and TH Shanley (editors)
  Alexandre Rotta, M.D., authored a chapter entitled “Primary and Secondary Immunodeficiencies.”
• Pediatric Critical Care (3rd Edition)
  By BP Fuhrman and JJ Zimmerman (editors)
  Alexandre Rotta, M.D., authored two chapters entitled “Status Asthmaticus” and “Ventilator Induced Lung Injury.”
• Hemodynamic Support
  Edited by pre-eminent Brazilian intensivists AP Barbosa, C Johnston C and WB Carvalho
  Priscilla Joyal, RN, ECMO Coordinator, and Alexandre Rotta, M.D., co-authored a chapter entitled “Extracorporeal Hemodynamic Support.”

Contact Information:

Office Postal Address
Alexandre T. Rotta, MD, FCCM, FAAP
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care
Driscoll Children’s Hospital
3533 S. Alameda
Corpus Christi, Texas 78411
E-mail: alexandre.rotta@dchstx.org
Office Phone: (361) 694-5445
Office Fax: (361) 694-5449

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