Tina Slusher
Tina Slusher is an associate professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Global Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Slusher divides her time between doing pediatric sedation in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at Hennepin County Medical Center and patient care at missionary and academic hospitals in Nigeria and Kenya. Dr. Slusher is currently the principal investigator in the study "Validation of a Simplified Instrument For Clinical Assessment of Bilirubin-induced Neurologic Dysfunction (BIND) Among Nigerian Infants: Comparison With Clinical Diagnosis by Pediatric Specialists". She is collaborating with physicians at University of Louisville (Kentucky, USA) and Obafemi Awolowo University (Nigeria). Previously she has been co- or principal investigator in several studies investigating methods and attitudes regarding breast feeding in Ugandan and Kenyan mothers. She earned her B.A. (biology) at Eastern Kentucky University and her M.D. at University of Kentucky. She did residency at Oklahoma Children's Memorial Hospital (Oklahoma City, OK) and a fellowship in pediatric critiical care at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (Dallas, TX).
TEACHING Dr. Slusher regularly lectures for medical trainees (nurses, med students, residents and fellows) in the U.S., Nigeria and Uganda. Courses and lectures she recently has taught are global health for students, neonatal resuscitation, management of head injuries, birth asphyxia, electrolyte disturbances, coma and seizures, pediatric shock/new PALS guidelines, emergencies in children in the tropics, neonatal jaundice and pulmonary hypertension.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS Kaplan M, Slusher T, Renbaum P, Essiet D, Pam S, Hammerman C, Levy-Lahad E. (TA)n UDP-glucuronosyltransferase 1A1 promoter polymorphism in Nigerian neonates. Pediatr Res 63(1):109-111:2008. Kirby A, Mikhailov T, Slusher T, Rao. A pilot study to determine whether midazolam alters the effect on ketamine on intracranial pressure. Submission in progress. Slusher T, Slusher I, Biomdo M, Bode-Thomas F, Curtis B, Meier P. Electric breast pump increases maternal milk volume in African nurseries. J Trop Ped 53:125-130:2007.
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