DavidBartonJrMD

Emergency Medicine • Pittsburgh, PA

Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, University of Pittsburgh

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Office
Iroquois Building, Suite 400A
3600 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Phone+1 412-647-5327
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Clinical Expertise

Traumatic brain injury, Emergency medicine, Wilderness medicine, Pre-hospital care

Education & Training

UPMC Medical Education (Pittsburgh)Research Fellowship, Emergency Medicine, 2020 - 2022
UPMC Medical Education (Pittsburgh)Residency, Emergency Medicine, 2017 - 2020
University of Pittsburgh School of MedicineClass of 2017, MD
Georgetown UniversityBS, Human Science, Honors with Distinction, Cum Laude, 2009 - 2013

Certifications & Licensure

PA State Medical License 2017 - 2024
American Board of Emergency Medicine Emergency Medicine

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

Fellow of the Academy of Wilderness Medicine (FAWM) Wilderness Medical Society, 2018

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

Parallel CSF and serum temporal profile assessment of axonal injury biomarkers NF-L and pNF-H: Associations with patient outcome in moderate-severe traumatic brain inj...
Kevin K W Wang, Leah McQuillan, Firas Kobeissy, Guangzheng Cai, Haiyan Xu, Zhihui Yang, Erin Trifilio, John B Williamson, Richard Rubenstein, Amy K Wagner M.D, David J...> ;Journal of Neurotrauma. 2024 Apr 8
Open for business: The blood-brain barrier after cardiac arrest.
David J Barton, Jonathan Elmer> ;Resuscitation. 2024 Mar 22
Ocular injury from saltwater coral palytoxin.
Annabelle Croskey, William Trautman, David Barton, Mary Kathleen Ratay, Joshua Shulman> ;The American Journal of Emergency Medicine. 2024 Jan 1
Safe administration of Crotalidae equine immune F(ab')2 antivenom in a patient who suffered anaphylaxis from Crotalidae polyvalent immune Fab antivenom.
William J Trautman, Faiz Ahmed, David J Barton, Michael G Abesamis, Michael J Lynch> ;The American Journal of Emergency Medicine. 2023 Oct 1
Prehospital Electroencephalography to Detect Traumatic Brain Injury during Helicopter Transport: A Pilot Observational Cohort Study.
David J Barton, Patrick J Coppler, Nadine N Talia, Alexi Charalambides, Brian Stancil, Ava M Puccio, David O Okonkwo, Clifton W Callaway, Francis X Guyette, Jonathan E...> ;Prehospital Emergency Care. 2024 Jan 1
7 citations
Acute Cortisol Profile Associations With Cognitive Impairment After Severe Traumatic Brain Injury.
David J. Barton, Raj G. Kumar, Alexandria A. Schuster, Shannon B. Juengst, Byung Mo Oh, Amy K. Wagner> ;Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair. 2021 Oct 23
5 citations
Neutrophil-to-Lymphocyte Ratios and Infections after Traumatic Brain Injury: Associations with Hospital Resource Utilization and Long-Term Outcome.
Marina S. Levochkina, Leah McQuillan, Nabil Awan, David J. Barton, John Maczuzak, Claudia Bianchine, Shannon Trombley, Emma Kotes, Joshua Wiener, Audrey Wagner, Jason ...> ;Journal of Clinical Medicine. 2021 Sep 24
9 citations
Anti-Pituitary and Anti-Hypothalamus Autoantibody Associations with Inflammation and Persistent Hypogonadotropic Hypogonadism in Men with Traumatic Brain Injury
Sushupta M. Vijapur, Zhihui Yang, David J. Barton, Leah E. Vaughan, Nabil Awan, Raj G. Kumar, Byung Mo Oh, Sarah L. Berga, Kevin K.W. Wang, Amy K. Wagner> ;Journal of Neurotrauma. 2020 Jun 22
2 citations
Neurotoxic envenomation by the South African coral snake (Aspidelaps lubricus): A case report.
David J. Barton, Shirley Shao, Ryan T. Marino, Alex Reichmeider, Joseph H. Yanta, Anthony F. Pizon> ;Toxicon. 2019 Mar 1
3 citations
Multimodal analgesia in crotalid snakebite envenomation: A novel use of femoral nerve block.
David J. Barton, Ryan T. Marino, Anthony F. Pizon> ;The American Journal of Emergency Medicine. 2018 Dec 1
84 citations
Apolipoprotein E4 impairs spontaneous blood brain barrier repair following traumatic brain injury
Bevan S. Main, Sonia Villapol, Stephanie S. Sloley, David J. Barton, Maia Parsadanian, Chinyere Agbaegbu, Kathryn Stefos, Mondona S. McCann, Patricia M. Washington, Ol...> ;Molecular Neurodegeneration. 2018 Apr 4
24 citations
Persistent Hypogonadotropic Hypogonadism in Men After Severe Traumatic Brain Injury: Temporal Hormone Profiles and Outcome Prediction.
David J. Barton, Raj G. Kumar, Emily H. McCullough, Gary Noel F. Galang, Patricia M. Arenth, Sarah L. Berga, Amy K. Wagner> ;The Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation. 2016 Jul 1
7 citations
Acute Alcohol Use and Injury Patterns in Young Adult Prehospital Patients
David J. Barton, Frank W Tift, Lauren E Cournoyer, Julie T Vieth, Korin B Hudson> ;Prehospital Emergency Care. 2016 Mar 22
75 citations
Dendritic Spine Loss and Chronic White Matter Inflammation in a Mouse Model of Highly Repetitive Head Trauma
Charisse N. Winston, Anastasia Noël, Aidan L. Neustadtl, Maia Parsadanian, David J. Barton, Deepa Chellappa, Tiffany Wilkins, Andrew D. Alikhani, David N. Zapple, Soni...> ;The American Journal of Pathology. 2016 Mar 1
65 citations
Controlled Cortical Impact Results in an Extensive Loss of Dendritic Spines that Is Not Mediated by Injury-Induced Amyloid-Beta Accumulation
Charisse N. Winston, Deepa Chellappa, Tiffany Wilkins, David J. Barton, Patricia M. Washington, David J. Loane, David N. Zapple, Mark P. Burns> ;Journal of Neurotrauma. 2013 Nov 19
8 citations
Impact of implementing an EMR on physical exam documentation by ambulance personnel
Robert Katzer, David J. Barton, S. Adelman, S. Clark, Elizabeth L. Seaman, Korin B Hudson> ;Applied Clinical Informatics. 2012 Jul 25
15 citations
Conversion of VPg into VPgpUpUOH before and during poliovirus negative-strand RNA synthesis.
Benjamin P. Steil, David J. Barton> ;Journal of Virology. 2009 Dec 15
79 citations
Cis-Active RNA Elements (CREs) and Picornavirus RNA Replication
Benjamin P. Steil, David J. Barton> ;Virus Research. 2009 Feb 1
15 citations
Poliovirus cis-Acting Replication Element-Dependent VPg Uridylylation Lowers the Km of the Initiating Nucleoside Triphosphate for Viral RNA Replication
Benjamin P. Steil, David J. Barton> ;Journal of Virology. 2008 Oct 1
25 citations
A putative loop E motif and an H-H kissing loop interaction are conserved and functional features in a group C enterovirus RNA that inhibits ribonuclease L.
Hannah L. Townsend, Babal K. Jha, Robert H. Silverman, David J. Barton> ;RNA Biology. 2008 Oct 1
21 citations
Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy of azide and cyanate ion pairs in AOT reverse micelles
Jeffrey C. Owrutsky, Michael B. Pomfret, David J. Barton, David A. Kidwell> ;The Journal of Chemical Physics. 2008 Jul 14
16 citations
Poly(rC) binding proteins and the 5' cloverleaf of uncapped poliovirus mRNA function during de novo assembly of polysomes
Brian J. Kempf, David J. Barton> ;Journal of Virology. 2008 Jun 15
32 citations
Poliovirus 2A(Pro) increases viral mRNA and polysome stability coordinately in time with cleavage of eIF4G.
Brian J. Kempf, David J. Barton> ;Journal of Virology. 2008 Jun 15
46 citations
A viral RNA competitively inhibits the antiviral endoribonuclease domain of RNase L
Hannah L. Townsend, Babal K. Jha, Jian Qiu Han, N. Karl Maluf, Robert H. Silverman, David J. Barton> ;RNA. 2008 Jun 1
50 citations
Hepatitis C virus RNA: dinucleotide frequencies and cleavage by RNase L.
Christopher L. Washenberger, Jian Qiu Han, Katherina Kechris, Babal K. Jha, Robert H. Silverman, David J. Barton> ;Virus Research. 2007 Dec 1
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Books/Book Chapters

Traumatic Brain Injury: Science, Practice, Evidence and Ethics
Chapter: Prehospital and Emergency Department Management of TBI
Page 47 - 51Barton DJ, Guyette FXEditors: Honeybul S, Kolias AG.Springer, Cham, Switzerland2021