David Cornfield, MD

Divison Head and Fellowship Director

Undergraduate: University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee 1977-78
Medical School/Graduate School: University of Wisconsin
- MD - 1986
- Graduate School in Philosophy 1982-85
Residency: Pediatrics, Children's Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, MO 1986-89
Chief Resident: Children's Mercy Hospital, 1989
Fellowship:Pediatric Pulmonology and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine 1989-92

1999- Associate Professor - Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota
1993-1999 Assistant Professor - Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota
1992-1993 Instructor - Department of Pediatrics University of Colorado, Denver

Apr 1997-present Division Head - Pediatric Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. University of Minnesota
Nov 1997-present Medical Director - Transitional Care Unit, Fairview-University Medical Center
1997-present Medical Director - Pediatric Lung Transplantation Program
1997-present Medical Director - Pediatric Flexible Bronchoscopy Service
Oct 1996-Mar 1997 Interim Head - Pediatric Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine University of Minnesota
1994-present Fellowship Director - Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, University of Minnesota

Basic Science
- Vascular Reactivity in Pumonary Vasculature
- Developmental Biology of the Lung
Clinical
- Inhaled nitric oxide in children with acute hypoxemic respiratory failure (Multi-center International Trial
- Randomized, controlled trial of inhaled nitric oxide in the treatment of severe respiratory failure in premature neonates (Multi-center National Trial)
- Multi-center randomized controlled trial of inhaled nitric oxide in the treatment of neonatal respiratory failure in near term infants
- Randomized trial comparing bronchodilator therapy delivery systems in mechanically ventilated children
- Randomized trial comparing oxygen and inhaled nitric oxide in the treatment of high altitude pulmonary edema
- Inhalational nitric oxide in lung transplantation recipients with pulmonary hypertension
- Inhalational nitric oxide in heart transplant recipients with pulmonary hypertension.

National Institutes of Health: National Research Service Award 1990-1993
American Heart Association: Clinician-Scientist Award 1993-1998
University of Minnesota Department of Pediatrics: The University Children's Foundation Research Scholar Award 1994-1995
Minnesota Heart Association: Grant-in-Aid Recipient 1994-1996
University of Minnesota Pediatric Residency Program Faculty Teacher of the Year Award 1994
Viking Children's Fund Award 1994-1995
Richard D. Rowe Award: Society for Pediatric Research as the Outstanding Young Investigator in Perinatal Cardiology 1995
University of Minnesota Pediatric Residency Outstanding Faculty Educator Award 1996
National Institutes of Health Child Health Research Center Pediatric Scholar Awardee 1996-1998
Member, The Society for Pediatric Research 1996
University of Minnesota Pediatric Residency Outstanding Faculty Educator Award 1999

1999-2001 American Heart Association, Northland Affiliate "Developmental regulation of oxygen sensing in the lung"
1999-2004 National Institutes of Health: RO1"Developmental regulation of oxygen sensing in the lung,"

To contact Dr. David Cornfield, call the Pediatric Critical Care office at (612) 626-2916, or by e-mail at the following address: