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Alexander Agthe M.D., FAAP

Academic Title: Assistant Professor
Primary Appointment: Pediatrics
aagthe@peds.umaryland.edu
Location: 29 S. Greene St., GS 110G
Phone: (410) 328-6003

Personal History

EDUCATION

Degrees

1993: M.D., Freie University Berlin, Germany
1997: Dr.med., Freie University Berlin, Germany
2008: Ph.D., Clinical Investigation, Johns Hopkins University, School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland

Residency and Fellowship

1993-1997: Resident, Pediatrics, Kinderklinik, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
1998-1999: Research Fellowship Neonatology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts
1999-2003: Fellow in Neonatology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
2003-2003: Resident, Pediatrics, Sinai Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Academic Appointments

2005-present: Assistant Professor, Division of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Maryland Hospital for Children, Baltimore, Maryland

Research Interests

Clinical Investigation, Research Design, Biostatistics Neonatal Drug Exposure, Prevention and Treatment of Pain in Neonates

Clinical Speciality

Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine


Publications

A.C. Okogbule-Wonodi, G.W. Gross, C.C. Sun, A.G. Agthe, L. Xiao, K.B. Waites, R. Marie Viscardi. Necrotizing Enterocolitis is associated with Ureaplasma Colonization in Preterm Infants. Pediatr Res.:69 442-7, (2011)

H.G. Xie, Y.J. Cao, A.G. Agthe, E.B. Gauda, C.W. Hendrix, H. Lee Population Pharmacokinetics of Clonidine in Newborns with Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome: Evidence That Renal Clearance Matures Rapidly during the Early Postnatal Period. Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, 502-511, (2011)

A.G. Agthe, G. R. Kim, K.B. Mathias, C.W. Hendrix, R.C. Valdez, L. Jansson, M. Yaster, T.R. Roark, E.B. Gauda Clonidine as an Adjunct Therapy to Opioids for Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome:
A Randomized Controlled Trial. Pediatrics;123;e849-e856 (2009)

J.E. Fischer, S Harbarth, A.G. Agthe, A. Benn, S.A. Ringer, D.A. Goldmann, S. Fanconi Quantifying uncertainty: physicians' estimates of infection in critically ill neonates and children. Clin Infect Dis. 38(10):1391-3.(2004)

R. Garg, A.G. Agthe, P.K. Donohue, C.U. Lehmann Hyperglycemia and Retinopathy of Prematurity in Very Low Birth Weight Infants. Journal of Perinatology 23(3):186-94 (2003)

S. Harbarth, A. Agthe, W. Eichelberger, J. Fischer, and C. Huskins Secular changes in Antibiotic Exposure in Neonatal Intensive Care, 1978 through 1998, Clin Infect Dis 31: (1) 297 Jul (2000)

B. Beyermann, A.G. Agthe, HP. Adams, K. Seeger, C. Linderkamp, G. Goetze, W-D. Ludwig, G. Henze, for the BFM relapse study group Clinical features and outcome of children with first marrow relapse of acute lymphoblastic leukemia expressing BCR-ABL fusion transcripts. BLOOD 87(4) 1532-1538 (1996)

W. Siegert, C. Nerl, A. Agthe, M. Engelhard, G. Brittinger, M. Tiemann, K. Lennert, and D. Huhn Angioimmunoblastic lymphadenopathy (aild) type t cell lymphoma: prognostic impact of clinical observations and laboratory findings at presentation. Annals Of Oncology. Sep 6, 659-664 (1995)

W. Siegert, A. Agthe, H. Griesser, R. Schwerdtfeger, G. Brittinger, M. Engelhard, R. Kuse, M. Tiemann, K. Lennert, D. Huhn A multicenter prospective trial a treatment of T-cell lymphoma of angioimmunoblastic lymphadenopathy (AILD)-Type with prednisone and/or COPBLAM/IMVP16 regimen. Ann. Int. Medicine 117, 364 - 370 (1992)