Eichacker, Peter Q., M.D.
individual record
Senior Investigator
Positions:
- Senior Investigator, Critical Care Medicine Department
Research Areas:
Food Science & Technology,
General & Internal Medicine,
Endocrinology & Metabolism,
Anesthesiology,
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology,
Cardiovascular System & Cardiology,
Pharmacology & Pharmacy,
Infectious Diseases,
Respiratory System,
Microbiology,
Physiology,
Immunology,
Toxicology
Research Areas:
overview
Dr. Eichacker is a Senior Investigator and Head of the Critical Care Medicine Section in the NIH Clinical Center's Critical Care Medicine Department (CCMD). He earned his undergraduate degree from Boston University and his medical degree from New York University. After he completed a residency and chief residency in internal medicine, he had a fellowship in pulmonary medicine at Bronx Municipal Hospital Center and Hospital of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. He joined NIH in 1986 as a CCMD fellow. In 1990 he was appointed Senior Investigator and Head of the Critical Care Medicine section in CCMD.
selected publications
Academic Articles147
- (2017). Bacillus anthracis Edema Toxin Increases Fractional Free Water and Sodium Reabsorption in an Isolated Perfused Rat Kidney Model. INFECTION AND IMMUNITY. 85(7),
- (2017). Shock and lethality with anthrax edema toxin in rats are associated with reduced arterial responsiveness to phenylephrine and are reversed with adefovir. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-HEART AND CIRCULATORY PHYSIOLOGY. 313(5), H946-H958.
- (2016). Nitric oxide production contributes to Bacillus anthracis edema toxin-associated arterial hypotension and lethality: ex vivo and in vivo studies in the rat. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-HEART AND CIRCULATORY PHYSIOLOGY. 311(3), H781-H793.
Research Areas:
Food Science & Technology,
General & Internal Medicine,
Endocrinology & Metabolism,
Anesthesiology,
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology,
Cardiovascular System & Cardiology,
Pharmacology & Pharmacy,
Infectious Diseases,
Respiratory System,
Microbiology,
Physiology,
Immunology,
Toxicology
Research Areas: