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Yosef Levenbrown, DO

Staff Intensivist

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Biography

Dr. Yosef Levenbrown is a pediatric critical care doctor at AI duPont Hospital for Children in Wilmington, Delaware. He has been an attending physician there since 2012. In addition to clinical responsibilities, Dr. Levenbrown teaches pediatric residents and pediatric critical care fellows, and has served as research mentor for a number of pediatric critical care fellows. For the past few years, he has been involved in resuscitation research, and he heads the resuscitation committee at duPont. Dr. Levenbrown also serves as the Medical Director of the duPont apheresis program which he helped establish, in addition to serving on the American Society For Apheresis Physician Committee. Dr. Levenbrown is currently the Medical Director of Baltimore Hatzalah, a position he has held since 2014. Dr. Levenbrown has been a doctor at Camp Simcha since 2013.

Fellowship

  • Pediatric Critical Care - Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children, 2012

Residency

  • Pediatrics - St. Christopher's Hospital for Children, 2009

Education

  • D.O. - UMDNJ Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, 2006

Board Certifications

  • American Board of Pediatrics/Critical Care
  • American Board of Pediatrics/General Pediatrics

  • Utilising pneuRIP device in determining the adequacy of respiratory support when weaning high-flow nasal cannula in paediatric patients with acute respiratory distress: A pilot study; Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health; (2022).

  • Effect of positive end-expiratory pressure on additional passive ventilation generated by CPR compressions in a porcine model; Intensive Care Medicine Experimental; (2021).

  • Use of pulse contour technology for continuous blood pressure monitoring in pediatric patients; Blood Pressure Monitoring; (2020).

  • The effect of positive end-expiratory pressure on cardiac output and oxygen delivery during cardiopulmonary resuscitation; Intensive Care Medicine Experimental; (2020).

  • Impact of Obesity on Outcomes in Critically Ill Children; Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition; (2018).

  • Edema; Nephrology and Fluid/Electrolyte Physiology: Neonatology Questions and Controversies; (2018).

  • 22q11.2 Deletion syndrome is associated with increased perioperative events and more complicated postoperative course in infants undergoing infant operative correction of truncus arteriosus communis or interrupted aortic arch; Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery; (2014).

  • Use of insulin to decrease septic shock-induced myocardial depression in a porcine model; Inflammation; (2013).

  • Edema; Nephrology and Fluid/Electrolyte Physiology: Neonatology Questions and Controversies Expert Consult; (2012).

  • Edema; Nephrology and Fluid/Electrolyte Physiology; (2012).

  • Outcome After Two-Patch Repair of Complete Common Atrioventricular Canal Defects in Patients Weighing Four Kilograms or Less; World Journal for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery; (2012).

  • Granulomatous lung disease as the initial presentation of crohn disease; Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition; (2009).

  • Phosphorylation of caspase-9 in the cytosolic fraction of the cerebral cortex of newborn piglets following hypoxia; Neuroscience Letters; (2008).

  • Surgical repair of interrupted aortic arch with ventricular septal defect; Cardiology in the Young; (1998).