Dr. Courtney Robertson returned to the Safar Center for Resuscitation Research University of Pittsburgh to receive their 21st Distinguished Alumna Award and present a lecture to their Department of Critical Care Medicine.

Ericka Fink, MD, MS director of research in the division of pediatric critical care medicine at UPMC CHP (left) presents the award to Dr. Robertson (right).

Safar Center for Resuscitation Research University of Pittsburgh News:

“Courtney Robertson, MD, Associate Professor Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine presented the 21st Distinguished Alumna Award Lecture for our Department of Critical Care Medicine on January 31st, 2024.

Her lecture was titled “Sex Differences in Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI): A Translational Overview.” Dr. Robertson was a graduate of our pediatric critical care medicine training program at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh (CHP) in 1999 and did research training at the Safar Center. She has been a highly successful NIH-funded clinician-scientist studying secondary injury from oxidative stress and mitochondrial failure in the developing brain, along with investigation of the effect of sex differences on outcomes in pediatric TBI models. She also was the President of the National Neurotrauma Society from 2021-2022. Dr. Robertson’s visit also featured a session of presentations to her by our current trainees of their ongoing research.

Congratulations to Dr. Robertson for a well-deserved honor. Pictured, on the left, is Ericka Fink, MD, MS director of research in the division of pediatric critical care medicine at UPMC CHP presenting the award to Dr. Robertson.”