James R. Christensen
Associate professor
physical medicineÂ
Kennedy Krieger Institute
United States of America
Biography
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: Dr. Christensen attended Nebraska Wesleyan University before attending medical school at the University of Nebraska. He came to Johns Hopkins in 1975 for a residency in pediatrics, and completed a fellowship in developmental pediatrics at KKI. Dr. Christensen also completed the Sinai-Johns Hopkins physical medicine and rehabilitation residency in 1992. Dr. Christensen twice received the Golden Goniometer Award (from the Sinai-Johns Hopkins Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation residents) for recognition of outstanding teaching by a faculty member. Previously, he was vice president of Pediatric Rehabilitation and the director of the Rehabilitation Continuum of Care at Kennedy Krieger Institute. RESEARCH SUMMARY: Dr. Christensen studies the outcome of traumatic and other acquired brain injuries, including clinical predictors of long-term outcome, and the effect of interventions during acute hospitalization. He is currently involved in a multicenter study evaluating the effects of therapeutic hypothermia after pediatric cardiac arrest. To facilitate the measurement of outcome, Dr. Christensen has collaborated with other research scientists and clinicians at Kennedy Krieger Institute to develop scales which measure progress during the rehabilitation process. He also is interested in models of care for the delivery of rehabilitation services to children with acute brain injuries. Under his previous direction, the Kennedy Krieger Institute Rehabilitation Program developed a unique rehabilitation continuum of care, with the ability to provide acute, intense, coordinated rehabilitation services in three settings: the hospital, a day-hospital program set in a education setting and in the community, all under one case management umbrella.
Research Interest
Physical medicine
Publications
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1. Silverstein FS, Slomine BS, Christensen J, Holubkov R, Page K, Dean JM, Moler FW, Therapeutic Hypothermia to Improve Survival After Cardiac Arrest Trial Group. Functional Outcome Trajectories After Out-of-Hospital Pediatric Cardiac Arrest. Crit Care Med (2016) 44: e1165-e1174. 2. Moler FW, Hutchison JS, Nadkarni VM, Silverstein FS, Meert KL, Holubkov R, Page K, Slomine BS, Christensen JR, Dean JM, Therapeutic Hypothermia After Pediatric Cardiac Arrest Out-of-Hospital Trial Investigators (2016). Targeted Temperature Management After Pediatric Cardiac Arrest Due To Drowning: Outcomes and Complications. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 17(8), 712-720. 3. Meert KL, Slomine BS, Christensen JR, Telford R, Holubkov R, Dean JM, Moler FW, Therapeutic Hypothermia after Pediatric Cardiac Arrest Trial Investigators (2016). Family Burden After Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest in Children. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 17(6), 498-507. 4. Slomine BS, Silverstein FS, Christensen JR, Holubkov R, Page K, Dean JM, Moler FW, THAPCA Trial Group (2016). Neurobehavioral Outcomes in Children After Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest. Pediatrics. 137(4), . 5. Holubkov R, Clark AE, Moler FW, Slomine BS, Christensen JR, Silverstein FS, Meert KL, Pollack MM, Dean JM (2015). Efficacy outcome selection in the therapeutic hypothermia after pediatric cardiac arrest trials. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 16(1), 1-10.
