Chairman, Department of Pediatrics, Northeast Ohio Medical University and Akron Children's Hospital
Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Dr. Norman C. Christopher, MD
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Norman Christopher is an expert in the field of Pediatric Emergency Medicine. He studied medicine at University of Texas Medical School. He over the years received 7 awards: "President, Board of Education, Highland Local School District, Medina, OH", "Member, Board of Directors, Voices for Ohio's Children", "Board Member, Summit County CASA/GAL", "Delegate, Ohio School Board Assocation's Legislative Platform Committee", "Member, Board of Trustees, Highland Local School District Foundation for Educational Excellence", "Liebelt/Wheeler Award for Faculty Excellence" and "Distinguished Alumnus, University of Texas Medical School, Houston". Norman Christopher is also published. He has 24 publications published. The lastest publication: "The influence of family environment on dissociation inpediatric injury patients.'
Publications
- The influence of family environment on dissociation inpediatric injury patients.
- The Impact of Caregiver Distress on the Longitudinal Development of Child Acute Post-traumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms in Pediatric Injury Victims.
- The efficacy of early propranolol administration at reducing PTSD symptoms in pediatric injury patients: a pilot study.
- Pediatric urolithiasis: clinical predictors in the emergency department.
- Prospective multicenter study of bronchiolitis: predicting safe discharges from the emergency department.
- Acute child and mother psychophysiological responses and subsequent PTSD symptoms following a child's traumatic event.
- A randomized clinical trial of oral transmucosal fentanyl citrate versus intravenous morphine sulfate for initial control of pain in children with extremity injuries.
- Brief report: the impact of maternal posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms and child gender on risk for persistent posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms in child tra...
- Parental posttraumatic stress symptoms as a moderator of child's acute biological response and subsequent posttraumatic stress symptoms in pediatric injury patients.
- Ethyl vinyl chloride vapocoolant spray fails to decrease pain associated with intravenous cannulation in children.
- Initial physiological responses and perceived hyperarousal predict subsequent emotional numbing in pediatric injury patients.
- Screening for adolescent depression in a pediatric emergency department.
- Paramedic initiated non-transport of pediatric patients.
- Evaluation of nonpharmacologic methods of pain and anxiety management for laceration repair in the pediatric emergency department.
- A thyroglossal duct cyst causing apnea and cyanosis in a neonate.
- Effect of a standardized pharyngitis treatment protocol on use of antibiotics in a pediatric emergency department.
- Spontaneous reduction of a small bowel intussusception in a patient with Henoch Schonlein purpura.
- The educational experience of pediatric emergency medicine fellows in the use and application of procedural sedation/analgesia.
- Parental knowledge and children's use of bicycle helmets.
- Contamination rates of blood cultures obtained by dedicated phlebotomy vs intravenous catheter.
- Optimal diagnostic testing for urinary tract infection in young children.
- Initial urinary epinephrine and cortisol levels predict acute PTSD symptoms in child trauma victims.
- Emergency medical service and in-hospital vital signs as predictors of subsequent PTSD symptom severity in pediatric injury patients.
Schools
University of Texas At Houston Medical School At Houston
Metrohealth Med Center
University Hospital Of Cleveland
Doctors Specialties
- Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Accepted Insurances
- Great West Healthcare-Cigna PPO
- Cofinity PPO
- Medical Mutual of Ohio
- Medicare MCR
Awards
- President, Board of Education, Highland Local School District, Medina, OH
- Member, Board of Directors, Voices for Ohio's Children
- Board Member, Summit County CASA/GAL
- Delegate, Ohio School Board Assocation's Legislative Platform Committee
- Member, Board of Trustees, Highland Local School District Foundation for Educational Excellence
- Liebelt/Wheeler Award for Faculty Excellence
- Distinguished Alumnus, University of Texas Medical School, Houston
Education
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Case Western Reserve University - University Hospitals -
Case Western Reserve University - MetroHealth -
University of Texas Medical School
Hospital
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Akron General Medical Center
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