Biosketch

A graduate of Cornell University Medical College, Dr. Frederick P. Ognibene fulfilled internship and residency requirements in internal medicine at New York Hospital/Cornell Medical Center.  In 1982, Dr. Ognibene came to the National Institutes of Health as a clinical fellow, later becoming, and then became a senior investigator in the Clinical Center's Critical Care Medicine Department.

Dr. Ognibene served as director of the Critical Care Medicine Fellowship Training Program and co-chaired the NIH Graduate Medical Education Committee for clinical fellows in accredited training programs until May 2003.  He was then appointed director of the newly established Office of Clinical Research Training and Medical Education.  In this role, Dr. Ognibene is responsible for the clinical research educational programs in the NIH Clinical Center Center.  In addition, he leads the NIH clinical research training program for medical and dental students.

He also is an attending physician in the CC’s Critical Care Medicine Department, an associate clinical professor in the Department of Medicine, George Washington University School of Medicine, and adjunct associate professor, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine.

Selected Honors and Awards

NIH Director’s Award 2007; President-elect/president, Society of Critical Care Medicine, 2006-present; Who’s Who in America, 2004 – present; National Institutes of Health Director’s Award for Mentoring, 2003; NIH Clinical Center Bench-to-Bedside Awards, 2001-–2002 and 1999–2000; NIH Clinical Center Director's Awards, 2000 and 1997; funding ($250,000.00) from the NIH Office of Research on Minority Health for FY 2000 for clinical research on sickle cell disease, 2000; Public Health Service, Outstanding Service Medal, 1993; board of directors, Cornell University Medical College Alumni Association, 1990-1994; fellowship, American College of Physicians, 1990-present; fellowship, American College of Critical Care Medicine, 1989-present

Selected Publications

BOOKS AND BOOK CHAPTERS

Ognibene FP, Pass HI, Roth JA, Shelhamer JH.  "The diagnosis and therapy of respiratory disease in the immunosuppressed host."  IN:  Parrillo JE and Masur H, ed.  The Critically Ill Immunosuppressed Patient:  Diagnosis and Management.  Aspen Press.  1987;39-80.

Ognibene FP.  "An approach to the management of respiratory disease in the immunosuppressed adult."  IN:  Shelhamer JH, Pizzo PA, Parrillo JE, and Masur H, ed. Respiratory Disease in the Immunosuppressed Host.  Philadelphia, PA:  J.B. Lippincott  Company.  1991;728-737.

Susla GM, Masur H, Cunnion RE, Suffredini AF, Ognibene FP, Hoffman WD, Shelhamer J.  Handbook of Critical Care Drug Therapy.  New York, NY:  Churchill Livingstone, Inc.,  1994.

Ognibene FP.  “Bronchoscopy and Lung Biopsy” IN:  Parrillo JE and Bone RC, ed.  Critical Care Medicine:  Principles of Diagnosis and Management.  Philadelphia, PA:  Mosby Yearbook.  1995;139-147.

Susla GM, Masur H, Cunnion RE, Suffredini AF, Ognibene FP, Hoffman WD, Shelhamer JH.  The Handbook of Critical Care Drug Therapy, Second Edition.  Baltimore, MD:  Williams and Wilkins, 1998.

Ognibene FP. Nonspecific interstitial pneumonitis.  IN:  Rosen MJ and Beck JM, ed. Human Immunodeficiency Virus and the Lung.  New York, NY:  Marcel Dekker, Inc. 1998, Volume 119; 457-464.

Ognibene FP.  Resistant strains, isolation and infection control.  IN:  ICU 2010 ICU design for the future.  Center for Innovation in Health Facilities 2000: 103-111.

Gallin JI, Ognibene FP.  Nurturing the next generation of clinical researchers (Viewpoint).  AAMC Reporter, 2005; 14(6):3.

Susla GM, Suffredini  AF, McAreavey D, Solomon MA, Hoffman, WD, Nyguist P, Ognibene FP, Shelhamer JH, Masur H.  The Handbook of Critical Care Drug Therapy, Third Edition. Philadelphia, PA:  Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2006.

Gallin JI and Ognibene FP.  Principles and Practice of Clinical Research, Second Edition, Elsevier, In Press.

 JOURNAL ARTICLES (Selected out of 243)

Ognibene FP, Shelhamer JH, Gill VJ, Macher AM, Loew D, Parker MM, Gelmann E, Fauci AS, Parrillo JE, Masur H.  The diagnosis of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome using subsegmental bronchoalveolar lavage.  American Review of Respiratory Disease.  1984;129:929-932.

Ognibene FP, Steis RG, Macher AM, Liotta L, Gelmann E, Pass HI, Lane HC, Fauci AS, Parrillo JE, Masur H, Shelhamer JH.  Kaposi's sarcoma causing pulmonary infiltrates and respiratory failure in the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.  Annals of Internal Medicine.  1985;102:471-475.

Ognibene FP, Martin SE, Parker MM, Schlesinger T, Roach P, Burch C, Shelhamer JH, Parrillo JE.  Adult respiratory distress syndrome in patients with severe neutropenia.  New England Journal of Medicine.  1986;315:547-551.

Ognibene FP, Masur H, Rogers P, Travis WD, Suffredini AF, Feuerstein I, Gill VJ, Baird BF, Carrasquillo JA, Parrillo JE, Lane HC, Shelhamer JH.  Nonspecific interstitial pneumonitis without evidence of Pneumocystis carinii in asymptomatic patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).  Annals of Internal Medicine.  1988;109:874-879.

Levine SJ, Masur H, Gill VJ, Feuerstein I, Suffredini AF, Brown D, Lane HC, Yarchoan R, Shelhamer JH, Ognibene FP.  The effect of aerosolized pentamidine prophylaxis on the diagnosis of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia by induced sputum examination in patients infected with the human immunodeficiency virus.  American Review of Respiratory Disease.  1991;144:760-764.

Ognibene FP, Shelhamer JH, Hoffman GS, Kerr GS, Reda D, Fauci AS, Leavitt RY.  Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia:  a major complication of immunosuppressive therapy in patients with Wegener's granulomatosis.  American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.  1995;151:795-799.

Mann M, Shelhamer JH, Masur H, Gill VJ, Travis W, Solomon D, Manischewitz J, Stock F, Lane HC, Ognibene FP.  Lack of clinical utility of bronchoalveolar lavage cultures for cytomegalovirus in HIV infection.  American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.  1997;155:1723-1728.

Gladwin MT, Schechter AN, Shelhamer JH, Pannell LK, Conway DA, Hrinczenko BW, Nichols JS, Pease-Fye ME, Noguchi CT, Rodgers GP, Ognibene FP.  Inhaled nitric oxide augments nitric oxide transport on sickle cell hemoglobin without affecting oxygen affinity. Journal of Clinical Investigation.  1999;104: 937-945.

Gladwin MT, Shelhamer JH, Schechter AN, Pease-Fye ME, Waclawiw MA, Panza JA, Ognibene FP, and Cannon R.  Role of circulating nitrite and S-nitrosohemoglobin in the regulation of regional blood flow in humans.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.  2000; 97(21): 11482-11487.

Gladwin MT, Sachdev V, Jison M, Shizukuda Y, Plehn J, Minter K, Brown B, Coles WA, Nichols JS, Ernst I, Hunter LA, Blackwelder W, Schechter AN, Rodgers GP, Castro O, Ognibene FP.  Pulmonary hypertension as a risk factor for death in patients with sickle cell disease.  New England Journal of Medicine. 2004;350:886-895.