Dr. Thomas A. Nakagawa MD
Pediatrician
505 Parnassus Ave San Francisco CA, 94143About
Dr. Thomas Nakagawa is a pediatrician practicing in Winston Salem, North Carolina. Dr. Nakagawa is a doctor who specializes in the health care of children. As a pedicatrician, Dr. Nakagawa diagnoses and treats infections, injuries, diseases and other disorders in children. Pediatricians typically work with infants, children, teenagers and young adults up to age 21. They practice medical care as well as preventative health care. Dr. Nakagawa can oversee and manage the physical, mental and emotional health of their patients.
Education and Training
Texas Technical University School of Medicine
Tx Tech Univ Hlth Sci Ctr Sch of Med, Lubbock Tx 1986
Board Certification
Pediatrics
Pediatrics Critical Care
PediatricsAmerican Board of PediatricsABP- Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Critical Care Medicine- 2008
PediatricsAmerican Board of PediatricsABP- 2003
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Life-threatening status asthmaticus treated with inhaled nitric oxide.
- Emergency department use of neuromuscular blocking agents in children.
- Improved documentation of retinal hemorrhages using a wide-field digital ophthalmic camera in patients who experienced abusive head trauma.
- Interfacility transport of the critically ill pediatric patient.
- Clinical report—Guidelines for the determination of brain death in infants and children: an update of the 1987 task force recommendations.
- Guidelines for the determination of brain death in infants and children: an update of the 1987 task force recommendations-executive summary.
- Tracheobronchial calcifications in children.
- Pediatric organ donation and transplantation.
- Circulatory death determination in uncontrolled organ donors: a panel viewpoint.
- Developing a standard method for apnea testing in the determination of brain death for patients on venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation: a pediatric case series.
- Organ donation education initiatives: A report of the Donor Management Task Force.
- To See or Not to See: Ultrasound as an Ancillary Study to Determine Brain Death.
- Canadian Guidelines for Controlled Pediatric Donation After Circulatory Determination of Death-Summary Report.
- Severe metabolic alkalosis after bladder reconstruction.
- Aerosolized atropine as an unusual cause of anisocoria in a child with asthma.
Awards
- Outstanding Clinical Instructor, Emergency Medicine Residents, EVMS Gr 1994
- Celebration of Life Award, LifeNet 2000
- Best Doctors in America 2004-2006, 2004
- Best Doctors in North Carolina 2005-2009
- Fellow, American College of Critical Care Medicine, American College 2005
Professional Memberships
- Member International Association of HealthCare Professionals
- Member Am Academy Of Pediatrics
- Member North Carolina Medical Society
- Member Soc Of Critical Care Medicine
- Member American Academy of Pediatrics
- Member Society of Critical Care Medicine
Fellowships
- Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, Pediatric Critical Care, CA, USA 1992
- Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California USA 1992
- Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Childrens Hosp Of L.A. 1992
Internships
- Phoenix Children's Hospital
Fellowships
- Children's Hospital
Professional Society Memberships
- American Academy of Pediatrics, Society of Critical Care Medicine
What do you attribute your success to?
- His Patients and Their Families
Hobbies / Sports
- Sports, Photography
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