Department of Medicine
University of Pittsburgh
Michael Donahoe, MD
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Associate Professor of Medicine Phone: 412-692-2214 |
Bio
Dr. Donahoe completed medical school training at Hahnemann University in 1983 and residency and fellowship training at the University of Pittsburgh in 1989. He joined the faculty in 1989 as as Assistant Professor of Medicine and was promoted to Associate Professor of Medicine in 1995. He served as the Director of the Medical Intensive Care Unit since 1989. Interim Division Chief from 1996-2000 and Associate Chief for Clinical Affairs since 2001.
During his tenure, he has worked with the leadership of Drs. Rogers and Choi and the faculty leadership, to expand the clinical programs of the Division to remarkable growth including expansion from an 8 bed MICU to the current 32 MICU beds, development of a 23 bed medical stepdown unit, expansion from < 5000 outpatient visits per year to almost 15,000 visits in the past year, and the growth and development of focused clinical programs in asthma and allergy, adult cystic fibrosis, copd, interstitial lung disease, lung transplantation, and sleep medicine.
Dr. Donahoe received two faculty teaching awards from the medicine residents in 1996 and 2005. He also received the Department of Medicine Donald S Fraley award for outstanding clinical faculty in 2003 and the American Thoracic Society Outstanding Clinician Award in 2006.
Clinical Interests
Dr. Donahoe has a broad range of clinical research interests in the critically ill patient population including the management of chronically critically ill patients, ARDS, and hospital quality improvement. Additional clinical research interest in clinical trial design and implementation especially in COPD.
Key Publications
Howrylak JA, Dolinay T, Lucht LA, Wang Z, Christiani DC, Sethi JM, Xing EP, Donahoe MP, Choi AM. Discovery of the Gene Signature for Acute Lung Injury in Patients with Sepsis. Physiol Genomics. 2009 Jan 27. [Epub ahead of print]
Donahoe M, Basic Ventilator Management: Lung Protective Strategies. Surgical Clinics North Am. 2006 Dec; 86 (6):1389-408.
Characteristics associated with discharge to home following prolonged mechanical ventilation: a signal detection analysis. Kim Y, Hoffman LA, Choi J, Miller TH, Kobayashi K, Donahoe MP. Res Nurs Health. 2006 Dec;29(6):510-20.
Hoffman LA, Miller TH, Zullo TG, Donahoe MP. Comparison of 2 models for managing tracheotomized patients in a subacute medical intensive care unit. Respir Care. 2006 Nov;51(11):1230-6.
Hoffman LA, Tasota TA, Zullo TG, Scharfenberg C, Donahoe MP. Outcomes of Care Managed by an Acute Care Nurse Practitioner/Attending Physician Team in a Subacute Medical Intensive Care Unit, Amer J of Critical Care, March 2005, Vol. 14: 2 121-30.
Chelluri L, Im KA, Belle SH, Schulz R, Rotondi AJ, Donahoe MP, Sirio CA, Mendelsohn AB, Pinsky MR. Long-term mortality and quality of life after prolonged mechanical ventilation. Crit Care Med. 2004 Jan;32(1):61-9.
Hoffman LA, Tasota FJ, Scharfenberg C, Zullo TG, Donahoe MP. Management of patients in the intensive care unit: comparison via work sampling analysis of an acute care nurse practitioner and physicians in training. Am J Crit Care. 2003 Sep;12(5):436-43.
Chelluri L, Mendelsohn AB, Belle SH, Rotondi AJ, Angus DC, Donahoe MP, Sirio CA, Schulz R, Pinsky MR. Hospital costs in patients receiving prolonged mechanical ventilation: does age have an impact? Crit Care Med. 2003 Jun;31(6):1746-51.
Erukhimov JA, Tang ZL, Johnson BA, Donahoe MP, Razzack JA, Gibson KF, Lee WM, Wasserloos KJ, Watkins SA, Pitt BR. Actin-containing sera from patients with adult respiratory distress syndrome are toxic to sheep pulmonary endothelial cells.Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2000 Jul;162(1):288-94.
Martin TJ, Hovis JD, Costantino JP, Bierman MI, Donahoe MP, Rogers RM, Kreit JW, Sciurba FC, Stiller RA, Sanders MH. A randomized, prospective evaluation of noninvasive ventilation for acute respiratory failure. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2000 Mar;161(3 Pt 1):807-13
Donahoe M, Rogers R, Wilson DO, Pennock B. Oxygen consumption of the respiratory muscles in normal and malnourished COPD. Am Rev Respir Dis 1989; 140:385-391.
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News
Dr. Donahoe has been chosen as one of Pittsburgh's "Most Distinguished Doctors" (2008) and one of "Pittsburgh's Best Doctors" (2002) by Pittsburgh Magazine.
He has also contributed to the texbook, Acute Respiratory Failure in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Informa HealthCare; 1st edition (April 15, 1996).