Joan S Roberts, MD

Joan S Roberts, MD

Critical Care, Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU)

On staff since July 1995

Children's Title: Chair, Code Blue/RRT/Risk Program

Academic Title: Professor

Research Center: Center for Respiratory Biology and Therapeutics

  • Biography

    Joan S. Roberts, MD, is attending physician in the PICUs at Seattle Childrens Hospital and Harborview Medical Center and associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Washington School of Medicine. Roberts earned her MD at the University of Nevada. She did her pediatrics residency at Seattle Childrens and served as chief resident; she completed her critical care training at Seattle Childrens.

    Roberts has authored more than two dozen scientific manuscripts and abstracts. She has been a Childrens representative to the national Pediatric Acute Lung Injury and Sepsis Investigators (PALISI) Network. She is interested in clinical outcomes research and in decreasing time needed for mechanical ventilation in sick children with lung disease and asthma. Roberts is director of the Childrens Hospital Mock-Code Team, and also chairs the Hospital Code Committee.

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  • Awards and Honors

    Award Name Award Description Awarded By Award Date
    Seattle's Top Doctor - 2015 Seattle Metropolitan Magazine 2015
    Pediatric Critical Care Fellowship Mentor Award Seattle Children's Hospital, Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine 2009
    Top Doctor Seattle Metropolitan Magazine 2006

  • Publications

    Other Publications

    • Nielsen KR, Migita R, Batra M, Gennaro JL, Roberts JS, Weiss NS
      Identifying High-Risk Children in the Emergency Department.
      25670727 Journal of intensive care medicine, 2015 Feb 10
    • Ma L, Roberts JS, Pihoker C, Richards TL, Shaw DW, Marro KI, Vavilala MS
      Transcranial Doppler-based assessment of cerebral autoregulation in critically ill children during diabetic ketoacidosis treatment.
      25072475 Pediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies, 2014 Oct. : 15(8)742-9
    • Dervan L, Poliakov A, Friedman SD, Shaw D, Pihoker C, Roberts JS, Richards T, Marro K, Vavilala MS
      Change in fractional anisotropy during treatment of diabetic ketoacidosis in children.
      24105411 Pediatric research, 2013 Oct 8
    • von Saint André-von Arnim A, Brogan TV, Hertzig J, Kim K, Wurm G, Roberts J, Fink EL
      Intensive care for infants and children in Haiti in April 2010.
      21478800 Pediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies, 2011 July : 12(4)393-7
    • Vavilala MS, Richards TL, Roberts JS, Chiu H, Pihoker C, Bradford H, Deeter K, Marro KI, Shaw D
      Change in blood-brain barrier permeability during pediatric diabetic ketoacidosis treatment.
      19838141 Pediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies, 2010 May : 332-8
    • Marciniak KE, Thomas IH, Brogan TV, Roberts JS, Czaja A, Mazor SS
      Massive ibuprofen overdose requiring extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for cardiovascular support.
      17273120 Pediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies, 2007 March : 180-2
    • Bratton SL, Roberts JS
      Variation in the use of mechanical ventilation for asthma: how big a gap?
      17353759 Pediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies, 2007 March : 186-7
    • Roberts JS, Vavilala MS, Schenkman KA, Shaw D, Martin LD, Lam AM
      Cerebral hyperemia and impaired cerebral autoregulation associated with diabetic ketoacidosis in critically ill children.
      16763506 Critical care medicine, 2006 Aug. : 2217-23
    • Ejike JC, Schenkman KA, Seidel K, Ramamoorthy C, Roberts JS
      Cerebral oxygenation in neonatal and pediatric patients during veno-arterial extracorporeal life support.
      16446597 Pediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies, 2006 March : 154-8
    • Cengiz P, Seidel K, Rycus PT, Brogan TV, Roberts JS
      Central nervous system complications during pediatric extracorporeal life support: incidence and risk factors.
      16352965 Critical care medicine, 2005 Dec. : 2817-24

  • Presentations

    Presentation Title Event Location Date
    "Limitations of Resuscitation in Pediatric Patients" Pediatric Grand Rounds, Seattle Childrens Hospital Seattle WA 2013
    "Update on Simulation in PALS" Regional Pediatric Grand Rounds Seattle, WA 2011
    "Brain Edema in DKA" Northwest Symposium on Contemporary Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Seattle, WA 2008
    "Sleep in the PICU" ICU Days Seattle, WA 2008

  • Research Funding

    Grant Title Grantor Amount Award Date
    "Cerebral Blood Flow Velocity, Cerebral Autoregulation and Cerebral Oxygenation in Pediatric Diabetic Ketoacidosis," Department of Anesthesiology, University of Washington $8,600 2002
    "Weaning Pediatric Patients from Mechanical Ventilation: A Comparison of Two Weaning Protocols to Standard Practice," Pediatric Acute Lung Injury Clinical Investigators, Ronald McDonald House Charities, Novametrix Medical Systems, Siemens Medical Systems $4100 2001
    "Intravenous Terbutaline versus Inhaled Albuterol in Pediatric Status Asthmaticus," American Lung Association $24,750 2000 - 2002
    "Effects of Altering Inspired Carbon Dioxide and Oxygen Concentrations on Brain Oxygen Saturation in Neonates with Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome," Childrens Hospital Research Endowment $5,100 2000
    "Troponin I: An Indicator of Myocardial Injury During ECMO" Department of Anesthesiology, University of Washington $4,550 1999

Overview

Board Certification(s)

Pediatrics
Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Medical/Professional School

University of Nevada School of Medicine-Reno, Reno, NV

Residency

Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, WA

Fellowship

University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA

Research Focus Area

Translational Research