Joseph R. Tobin, MD FAAP FCCM

Section Head and Professor, Anesthesiology (Pediatric Anesthesia/ Critical Care)

Director of Malignant Hyperthermia Biopsy Testing Center

Email: jtobin@wfubmc.edu

Education:

SUNY-Health Science Center, Syracuse, New York, MD, 1983

SUNY-Health Science Center, Syracuse, New York (Pediatrics), Residency, 1983-1987

The Johns Hopkins Hospital (Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine), Residency, 1987-1989

The Johns Hopkins Hospital (Pediatric Critical Care and Pediatric Anesthesia), Fellowship, 1989-1991

Board Certification:

The American Board of Anesthesiology

The American Board of Pediatrics Subboard of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

The American Board of Pediatrics

Research Interests:

I have multiple techniques available in our lab and our focus regards spinal analgesic development and gender dimorphism in the spinal cord.

Recent Publications:

Tobin JR, Shafer SL, Davis PJ. Pediatric research and scholarship: another gordian knot? Anesth Analg. 2006 Jul;103(1):43-8.

Bantel C, Eisenach JC, Duflo F, Tobin JR, Childers SR. Spinal nerve ligation increases alpha2-adrenergic receptor G-protein coupling in the spinal cord. Brain Res. 2005 Mar 15,1038(1):76-82.

Sambuughin N, Holley H, Muldoon S, Brandom BW, de Bantel AM, Tobin JR, Nelson TE, Goldfarb LG. Screening of the entire ryanodine receptor type 1 coding region for sequence variants associated with malignant hyperthermia susceptibility in the north american population. Anesthesiology. 2005 Mar;102(3):515-21.

Ririe DG, Barclay D, Prout H, Tong C, Tobin JR, Eisenach JC. Preoperative sciatic nerve block decreases mechanical allodynia more in young rats: is preemptive analgesia developmentally modulated? Anesth Analg. 2004 Jul;99(1):140-5.

Tinkler GP, Tobin JR, Voytko ML. Effects of two years of estrogen loss or replacement on nucleus basalis cholinergic neurons and cholinergic fibers to the dorsolateral prefrontal and inferior parietal cortex of monkeys. J Comp Neurol. 2004 Feb 16;469(4):507-21.

Publications:
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