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Pamela Joy Okada, MD
Emergency Medicine Physician
Professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center
Interim Division Director at Children's Health
- Languages Spoken:
- English
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Education and Training
- Medical School
- Tulane University School of Medicine (1990)
- Residency
- Harbor General Hospital (1993), Pediatrics
- Fellowship
- Children's Medical Center Dallas (1996), Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Harbor General Hospital (1994), Pediatric Emergency Medicine - Graduate School
- University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (2016)
- Board Certification
- American Board of Pediatrics/Emergency Medicine
Conditions
Departments and Programs
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Research Interests
- Pediatric trauma outcomes research
- Traumatic brain injury
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Publications
- Elevated Cerebrospinal Fluid Levels of Glutamate in Children with Bacterial Meningitis as a Predictor of the Development of Seizures or Other Adverse Outcomes, Ma W, Shang-Feaster G, Okada P, Kernie S Pediatric Critical Care Medicine 2003 4(2) 260-1
- Surgical Emergencies in the Neonate, Okada PJ, Hicks B Clinical Pediatric Emergency Medicine March 2002 3 (1) 3-13
- Drowning and Near Drowning, Okada PJ, Levin D Essentials of Pediatric Intensive Care 1996 Textbook
- The Pneumatic Antishock Garment, Okada PJ, Lewis RJ Illustrated Textbook of Pediatric Emergency and Critical Care Procedures 1996 Textbook
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Professional Activities
- Ambulatory Pediatric Association
- American Academy of Pediatrics
- American College of Emergency Physicians
- Society of Academic Emergency Medicine
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Awards and Honors
- Alpha Omega Alpha - (1989)