DR. JAMES THOMAS
Medical Director
Global Health - Latin America
Texas Children’s Hospital
Medical Director
ECMO Service
Texas Children’s Hospital
Professor
Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
Baylor College of Medicine
Featured Presentations
ECMO course taught in Medellín, Colombia at the Clínica Cardiovid
Learn more about the program building ECMO capacity in Latin America.
BIPAI Network Meeting
Navigating Ethical Issues in COVID-19
November 2020
PUBLICATIONS
Gleeson EI, Cunningham ME, Burgman C, Musick MA, Thomas JA, Gardner GC, Kukreja KU, Vogel AM. A multidisciplinary approach to VA ECMO cannulation in children. J Pediatr Surg. 2020 Jul; 55(7):1405-1408. PMID: 32234319.
Coleman RD, Goldman J, Moffett B, Guffey D, Loftis L, Thomas J, Shekerdemian LS. Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Mortality in High-Risk Populations: An Analysis of the Pediatric Health Information System Database. ASAIO J. 2020 03; 66(3):327-331. PMID: 31045920.
Russell EA, Daza Atehortua C, Attia SL, Genisca AE, Palomino Rodriguez A, Headrick A, Solano L, Camp EA, Galvis AM, Crouse HL, Thomas JA. Childhood malnutrition within the indigenous Wayuú children of northern Colombia. Glob Public Health. 2020 06; 15(6):905-917. PMID: 31944923.
Anton-Martin P, Thompson MT, Sheeran PD, Fischer A, Taylor D, Thomas JA. “Extubation during Pediatric Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO): a single center experience.” Pediatric Critical Care Medicine 2014 Nov;15:861-9, Accession no. 25251516.
Thomas, JA, “Inflammation and Innate Immunity,” Chapter revision for Rogers’ Textbook of Pediatric Intensive Care, 5th Edition, 2015, Chapter 19, pages 225-39.
Bastero, P and Thomas, JA, “Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation in Pediatrics,” in Rudolph’s Textbook of Pediatrics, 23rd Edition, 2017.
Joffe A, Carcillo J, Anton N, deCaen A, Hong Y, Bell M, Maffei F, Sullivan J, Thomas J, Guerra G. “Donation after cardiac death: a call for a moratorium pending full public disclosure and fully informed consent.” Philos Ethics Humanities in Medicine 2011 Dec;6(1):11. PMID:2220661.
Greely, HT, TE Hamm, R Johnson, CR Price, R Weingarten, TA Raffin, and The Stanford University Medical Center Committee on Ethics, “The Ethical Use of Human Fetal Tissue in Medicine,” The New England Journal of Medicine 1989, 320(16):1093-1096, PMID 2535632.