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About the People
Dana Edelson, M.D., M.S.
Dr. Edelson obtained her medical degree from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine in 2001, where she was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society in 2000. She completed her residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Chicago in 2004 as well as a resuscitation science fellowship through the Emergency Resuscitation Center in 2005. She went on to pursue additional research training through the Hospitalist Scholars Training Program, during which time she obtained a Masters Degree in Health Studies 2007, and then joined the faculty of the University of Chicago in 2007 as a Hospitalist researcher.
In addition to her research and clinical responsibilities, Dr Edelson serves as Associate Chair of the CPR Committee, Director of Clinical Research for the Emergency Resuscitation Center, and Chair of the Rapid Response Team Committee. Her research interests include in-hospital cardiac arrest, CPR quality, and resuscitation team training. She is widely published and has received numerous awards for her work in this area, including two Resuscitation Science Symposium Young Investigator Awards. Her research is supported by an American Heart Association Career Development Grant as well as several industry grants.
Selected Representative Publications
Edelson DP, Litzinger B, Arora V, Walsh D, Kim S, Lauderdale DS, Vanden Hoek TL, Becker LB, Abella BS. Improving in-hospital cardiac arrest process and outcomes with performance debriefing. Arch Intern Med. 168(10):1063-9, 2008.
Kramer-Johansen J, Edelson DP, Losert H, Köhler K, Abella BS. Uniform reporting of measured quality of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). Resuscitation. 74(3):406-17, 2007.
Abella BS, Edelson DP, Kim S, Retzer E, Myklebust H, Barry AM, O'Hearn N, Hoek TL, Becker LB. CPR quality improvement during in-hospital cardiac arrest using a real-time audiovisual feedback system. Resuscitation. 73(1):54-61, 2007.
Abella BS, Kim S, Edelson DP, Huang KN, Merchant RM, Myklebust H, Vanden Hoek TL, Becker LB. Difficulty of cardiac arrest rhythm identification does not correlate with length of chest compression pause before defibrillation. Crit Care Med. 34(12 Suppl):S427-31, 2006.
Edelson DP, Abella BS, Kramer-Johansen J, Wik L, Myklebust H, Barry AM, Merchant RM, Hoek TL, Steen PA, Becker LB. Effects of compression depth and pre-shock pauses predict defibrillation failure during cardiac arrest. Resuscitation. 71(2):137-45, 2006.
Link to Dr. Edelson's publications: PubMed Database