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Robert D. Hite, MD

Professor

Alice W. & Mark A. Brown Chair

Internal Medicine | College of Medicine

Education/Credentials
  • Fellowship: University of California, San Diego Medical Center (Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine)
  • Residency: University of Virginia Medical Center (Internal Medicine)
  • MD: University of Texas Medical School
  • BS: Southern Methodist University (Chemistry)
Board Certifications & Licenses

American Board of Internal Medicine (Critical Care Medicine) (Certification Date: 1993-11-03) - (Recertification Date: 2015-09-14)
American Board of Internal Medicine (Certification Date: 1989-09-13)
American Board of Internal Medicine (Pulmonary Disease) (Certification Date: 1992-11-04) - (Recertification Date: 2015-10-20)

Specialties

Critical Care Medicine
Internal Medicine

Contact Information

Clinical Interests

Critical Care Medicine

Lung Disease

Pulmonary Disease

Carbon Monoxide Poisoning

Chronic Cough

Dyspnea

Histoplasmosis

Legionnaires' Disease (Legionellosis)

Pleurisy

Pneumonia

Pulmonary Edema

Respiration Disorders

Respiratory Insufficiency

Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV)

Respiratory Tract Disease

Respiratory Tract Infections

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)

Shortness of Breath

Sin Nombre Virus Infection (Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome)

Thoracic Disease

Tuberculosis

Whooping Cough (Pertussis)

Peer Reviewed Publications

Berger, Jeffrey S; Neal, Matthew D; Kornblith, Lucy Z; Gong, Michelle N; Reynolds, Harmony R; Cushman, Mary; Althouse, Andrew D; Lawler, Patrick R; McVerry, Bryan J; Kim, Keri S; Baumann Kreuziger, Lisa; Solomon, Scott D; Kosiborod, Mikhail N; Berry, Scott M; Bochicchio, Grant V; Contoli, Marco; Farkouh, Michael E; Froess, Joshua D; Gandotra, Sheetal; Greenstein, Yonatan; Hade, Erinn M; Hanna, Nicholas; Hudock, Kristin; Hyzy, Robert C; Ibáñez Estéllez, Fátima; Iovine, Nicole; Khanna, Ashish K; Khatri, Pooja; Kirwan, Bridget-Anne; Kutcher, Matthew E; Leifer, Eric; Lim, George; Lopes, Renato D; Lopez-Sendon, Jose L; Luther, James F; Nigro Maia, Lilia; Quigley, John G; Wahid, Lana; Wilson, Jennifer G; Zarychanski, Ryan; Kindzelski, Andrei; Geraci, Mark W; Hochman, Judith S 2023. Effect of P2Y12 Inhibitors on Organ Support-Free Survival in Critically Ill Patients Hospitalized for COVID-19: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA network open, 6 5, e2314428

Self, Wesley H; Shotwell, Matthew S; Gibbs, Kevin W; de Wit, Marjolein; Files, D Clark; Harkins, Michelle; Hudock, Kristin M; Merck, Lisa H; Moskowitz, Ari; Apodaca, Krystle D; Barksdale, Aaron; Safdar, Basmah; Javaheri, Ali; Sturek, Jeffrey M; Schrager, Harry; Iovine, Nicole; Tiffany, Brian; Douglas, Ivor S; Levitt, Joseph; Busse, Laurence W; Ginde, Adit A; Brown, Samuel M; Hager, David N; Boyle, Katherine; Duggal, Abhijit; Khan, Akram; Lanspa, Michael; Chen, Peter; Puskarich, Michael; Vonderhaar, Derek; Venkateshaiah, Lokesh; Gentile, Nina; Rosenberg, Yves; Troendle, James; Bistran-Hall, Amanda J; DeClercq, Josh; Lavieri, Robert; Joly, Meghan Morrison; Orr, Michael; Pulley, Jill; Rice, Todd W; Schildcrout, Jonathan S; Semler, Matthew W; Wang, Li; Bernard, Gordon R; Collins, Sean P 2023. Renin-Angiotensin System Modulation With Synthetic Angiotensin (1-7) and Angiotensin II Type 1 Receptor-Biased Ligand in Adults With COVID-19: Two Randomized Clinical Trials. JAMA, 329 14, 1170-1182

Williams Roberson, Shawniqua; Nwosu, Samuel; Collar, Erin M; Kiehl, Amy L; Harrison, Fiona E; Bastarache, Julie; Wilson, Jo Ellen; Mart, Matthew F; Sevransky, Jonathan E; Ely, E Wesley; Lindsell, Christopher J; Jackson, James C 2023. Association of Vitamin C, Thiamine, and Hydrocortisone Infusion With Long-term Cognitive, Psychological, and Functional Outcomes in Sepsis Survivors: A Secondary Analysis of the Vitamin C, Thiamine, and Steroids in Sepsis Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA network open, 6 2, e230380

Qiao, Xian; Kashiouris, Markos G; L'Heureux, Michael; Fisher, Bernard J; Leichtle, Stefan W; Truwit, Jonathon D; Nanchal, Rahul; Hite, Robert Duncan; Morris, Peter E; Martin, Greg S; Sevransky, Jonathan; Fowler, Alpha A 2022. Biological Effects of Intravenous Vitamin C on Neutrophil Extracellular Traps and the Endothelial Glycocalyx in Patients with Sepsis-Induced ARDS. Nutrients, 14 20,

, ; Goligher, Ewan C; Bradbury, Charlotte A; McVerry, Bryan J; Lawler, Patrick R; Berger, Jeffrey S; Gong, Michelle N; Carrier, Marc; Reynolds, Harmony R; Kumar, Anand; Turgeon, Alexis F; Kornblith, Lucy Z; Kahn, Susan R; Marshall, John C; Kim, Keri S; Houston, Brett L; Derde, Lennie P G; Cushman, Mary; Tritschler, Tobias; Angus, Derek C; Godoy, Lucas C; McQuilten, Zoe; Kirwan, Bridget-Anne; Farkouh, Michael E; Brooks, Maria M; Lewis, Roger J; Berry, Lindsay R; Lorenzi, Elizabeth; Gordon, Anthony C; Ahuja, Tania; Al-Beidh, Farah; Annane, Djillali; Arabi, Yaseen M; Aryal, Diptesh; Baumann Kreuziger, Lisa; Beane, Abi; Bhimani, Zahra; Bihari, Shailesh; Billett, Henny H; Bond, Lindsay; Bonten, Marc; Brunkhorst, Frank; Buxton, Meredith; Buzgau, Adrian; Castellucci, Lana A; Chekuri, Sweta; Chen, Jen-Ting; Cheng, Allen C; Chkhikvadze, Tamta; Coiffard, Benjamin; Contreras, Aira; Costantini, Todd W; de Brouwer, Sophie; Detry, Michelle A; Duggal, Abhijit; Džavík, Vladimír; Effron, Mark B; Eng, Heather F; Escobedo, Jorge; Estcourt, Lise J; Everett, Brendan M; Fergusson, Dean A; Fitzgerald, Mark; Fowler, Robert A; Froess, Joshua D; Fu, Zhuxuan; Galanaud, Jean P; Galen, Benjamin T; Gandotra, Sheetal; Girard, Timothy D; Goodman, Andrew L; Goossens, Herman; Green, Cameron; Greenstein, Yonatan Y; Gross, Peter L; Haniffa, Rashan; Hegde, Sheila M; Hendrickson, Carolyn M; Higgins, Alisa M; Hindenburg, Alexander A; Hope, Aluko A; Horowitz, James M; Horvat, Christopher M; Huang, David T; Hudock, Kristin; Hunt, Beverley J; Husain, Mansoor; Hyzy, Robert C; Jacobson, Jeffrey R; Jayakumar, Devachandran; Keller, Norma M; Khan, Akram; Kim, Yuri; Kindzelski, Andrei; King, Andrew J; Knudson, M Margaret; Kornblith, Aaron E; Kutcher, Matthew E; Laffan, Michael A; Lamontagne, Francois; Le Gal, Grégoire; Leeper, Christine M; Leifer, Eric S; Lim, George; Gallego Lima, Felipe; Linstrum, Kelsey; Litton, Edward; Lopez-Sendon, Jose; Lother, Sylvain A; Marten, Nicole; Saud Marinez, Andréa; Martinez, Mary; Mateos Garcia, Eduardo; Mavromichalis, Stavroula; McAuley, Daniel F; McDonald, Emily G; McGlothlin, Anna; McGuinness, Shay P; Middeldorp, Saskia; Montgomery, Stephanie K; Mouncey, Paul R; Murthy, Srinivas; Nair, Girish B; Nair, Rahul; Nichol, Alistair D; Nicolau, Jose C; Nunez-Garcia, Brenda; Park, John J; Park, Pauline K; Parke, Rachael L; Parker, Jane C; Parnia, Sam; Paul, Jonathan D; Pompilio, Mauricio; Quigley, John G; Rosenson, Robert S; Rost, Natalia S; Rowan, Kathryn; Santos, Fernanda O; Santos, Marlene; Santos, Mayler O; Satterwhite, Lewis; Saunders, Christina T; Schreiber, Jake; Schutgens, Roger E G; Seymour, Christopher W; Siegal, Deborah M; Silva, Delcio G; Singhal, Aneesh B; Slutsky, Arthur S; Solvason, Dayna; Stanworth, Simon J; Turner, Anne M; van Bentum-Puijk, Wilma; van de Veerdonk, Frank L; van Diepen, Sean; Vazquez-Grande, Gloria; Wahid, Lana; Wareham, Vanessa; Widmer, R Jay; Wilson, Jennifer G; Yuriditsky, Eugene; Zhong, Yongqi; Berry, Scott M; McArthur, Colin J; Neal, Matthew D; Hochman, Judith S; Webb, Steven A; Zarychanski, Ryan 2021. Therapeutic Anticoagulation with Heparin in Critically Ill Patients with Covid-19. The New England journal of medicine, 385 9, 777-789

, ; Lawler, Patrick R; Goligher, Ewan C; Berger, Jeffrey S; Neal, Matthew D; McVerry, Bryan J; Nicolau, Jose C; Gong, Michelle N; Carrier, Marc; Rosenson, Robert S; Reynolds, Harmony R; Turgeon, Alexis F; Escobedo, Jorge; Huang, David T; Bradbury, Charlotte A; Houston, Brett L; Kornblith, Lucy Z; Kumar, Anand; Kahn, Susan R; Cushman, Mary; McQuilten, Zoe; Slutsky, Arthur S; Kim, Keri S; Gordon, Anthony C; Kirwan, Bridget-Anne; Brooks, Maria M; Higgins, Alisa M; Lewis, Roger J; Lorenzi, Elizabeth; Berry, Scott M; Berry, Lindsay R; Aday, Aaron W; Al-Beidh, Farah; Annane, Djillali; Arabi, Yaseen M; Aryal, Diptesh; Baumann Kreuziger, Lisa; Beane, Abi; Bhimani, Zahra; Bihari, Shailesh; Billett, Henny H; Bond, Lindsay; Bonten, Marc; Brunkhorst, Frank; Buxton, Meredith; Buzgau, Adrian; Castellucci, Lana A; Chekuri, Sweta; Chen, Jen-Ting; Cheng, Allen C; Chkhikvadze, Tamta; Coiffard, Benjamin; Costantini, Todd W; de Brouwer, Sophie; Derde, Lennie P G; Detry, Michelle A; Duggal, Abhijit; Džavík, Vladimír; Effron, Mark B; Estcourt, Lise J; Everett, Brendan M; Fergusson, Dean A; Fitzgerald, Mark; Fowler, Robert A; Galanaud, Jean P; Galen, Benjamin T; Gandotra, Sheetal; García-Madrona, Sebastian; Girard, Timothy D; Godoy, Lucas C; Goodman, Andrew L; Goossens, Herman; Green, Cameron; Greenstein, Yonatan Y; Gross, Peter L; Hamburg, Naomi M; Haniffa, Rashan; Hanna, George; Hanna, Nicholas; Hegde, Sheila M; Hendrickson, Carolyn M; Hite, R Duncan; Hindenburg, Alexander A; Hope, Aluko A; Horowitz, James M; Horvat, Christopher M; Hudock, Kristin; Hunt, Beverley J; Husain, Mansoor; Hyzy, Robert C; Iyer, Vivek N; Jacobson, Jeffrey R; Jayakumar, Devachandran; Keller, Norma M; Khan, Akram; Kim, Yuri; Kindzelski, Andrei L; King, Andrew J; Knudson, M Margaret; Kornblith, Aaron E; Krishnan, Vidya; Kutcher, Matthew E; Laffan, Michael A; Lamontagne, Francois; Le Gal, Grégoire; Leeper, Christine M; Leifer, Eric S; Lim, George; Lima, Felipe Gallego; Linstrum, Kelsey; Litton, Edward; Lopez-Sendon, Jose; Lopez-Sendon Moreno, Jose L; Lother, Sylvain A; Malhotra, Saurabh; Marcos, Miguel; Saud Marinez, Andréa; Marshall, John C; Marten, Nicole; Matthay, Michael A; McAuley, Daniel F; McDonald, Emily G; McGlothlin, Anna; McGuinness, Shay P; Middeldorp, Saskia; Montgomery, Stephanie K; Moore, Steven C; Morillo Guerrero, Raquel; Mouncey, Paul R; Murthy, Srinivas; Nair, Girish B; Nair, Rahul; Nichol, Alistair D; Nunez-Garcia, Brenda; Pandey, Ambarish; Park, Pauline K; Parke, Rachael L; Parker, Jane C; Parnia, Sam; Paul, Jonathan D; Pérez González, Yessica S; Pompilio, Mauricio; Prekker, Matthew E; Quigley, John G; Rost, Natalia S; Rowan, Kathryn; Santos, Fernanda O; Santos, Marlene; Olombrada Santos, Mayler; Satterwhite, Lewis; Saunders, Christina T; Schutgens, Roger E G; Seymour, Christopher W; Siegal, Deborah M; Silva, Delcio G; Shankar-Hari, Manu; Sheehan, John P; Singhal, Aneesh B; Solvason, Dayna; Stanworth, Simon J; Tritschler, Tobias; Turner, Anne M; van Bentum-Puijk, Wilma; van de Veerdonk, Frank L; van Diepen, Sean; Vazquez-Grande, Gloria; Wahid, Lana; Wareham, Vanessa; Wells, Bryan J; Widmer, R Jay; Wilson, Jennifer G; Yuriditsky, Eugene; Zampieri, Fernando G; Angus, Derek C; McArthur, Colin J; Webb, Steven A; Farkouh, Michael E; Hochman, Judith S; Zarychanski, Ryan 2021. Therapeutic Anticoagulation with Heparin in Noncritically Ill Patients with Covid-19. The New England journal of medicine, 385 9, 790-802

Hite, R Duncan; Davis, Ian C 2021. You Are What You Eat: Diet-Dependent Changes in Pulmonary Surfactant. American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology, 64 3, 281-282

Lee, Hyunwook; Fei, Qinqin; Streicher, Adam; Zhang, Wenjuan; Isabelle, Colleen; Patel, Pragi; Lam, Hilaire C; Arciniegas-Rubio, Antonio; Pinilla-Vera, Miguel; Amador-Munoz, Diana P; Barragan-Bradford, Diana; Higuera-Moreno, Angelica; Putman, Rachel K; Sholl, Lynette M; Henske, Elizabeth P; Bobba, Christopher M; Higuita-Castro, Natalia; Shalosky, Emily M; Hite, R Duncan; Christman, John W; Ghadiali, Samir N; Baron, Rebecca M; Englert, Joshua A 2021. mTORC1 is a mechanosensor that regulates surfactant function and lung compliance during ventilator-induced lung injury. JCI insight, 6 14,

Murphy, Ryan C; Lai, Ying; Nolin, James D; Aguillon Prada, Robier A; Chakrabarti, Arindam; Novotny, Michael V; Seeds, Michael C; Altemeier, William A; Gelb, Michael H; Hite, Robert Duncan; Hallstrand, Teal S 2021. Exercise-induced alterations in phospholipid hydrolysis, airway surfactant, and eicosanoids and their role in airway hyperresponsiveness in asthma. American journal of physiology. Lung cellular and molecular physiology, 320 5, L705-L714

Rosas, Lucia E; Doolittle, Lauren M; Joseph, Lisa M; El-Musa, Hasan; Novotny, Michael V; Hickman-Davis, Judy M; Hite, R Duncan; Davis, Ian C 2021. Postexposure Liponucleotide Prophylaxis and Treatment Attenuates Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome in Influenza-infected Mice. American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology, 64 6, 677-686

Sevransky, Jonathan E; Rothman, Richard E; Hager, David N; Bernard, Gordon R; Brown, Samuel M; Buchman, Timothy G; Busse, Laurence W; Coopersmith, Craig M; DeWilde, Christine; Ely, E Wesley; Eyzaguirre, Lindsay M; Fowler, Alpha A; Gaieski, David F; Gong, Michelle N; Hall, Alex; Hinson, Jeremiah S; Hooper, Michael H; Kelen, Gabor D; Khan, Akram; Levine, Mark A; Lewis, Roger J; Lindsell, Chris J; Marlin, Jessica S; McGlothlin, Anna; Moore, Brooks L; Nugent, Katherine L; Nwosu, Samuel; Polito, Carmen C; Rice, Todd W; Ricketts, Erin P; Rudolph, Caroline C; Sanfilippo, Fred; Viele, Kert; Martin, Greg S; Wright, David W 2021. Effect of Vitamin C, Thiamine, and Hydrocortisone on Ventilator- and Vasopressor-Free Days in Patients With Sepsis: The VICTAS Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA, 325 8, 742-750

Baron, Rebecca M; Christman, John W; Liu, Kathleen D; Matthay, Michael A; Self, Wesley H; McVerry, Bryan J; Hite, R Duncan; Paine, Robert; Wurfel, Mark M; Shapiro, Nathan I; Adams, Peter W; Schmidt, Eric P; Ringwood, Nancy 2020. Monitoring Research Blood Sampling in Critically Ill Patients: Avoiding Iatrogenic Anemia. American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine, ,

Duggal, Abhijit; Panitchote, Anupol; Siuba, Matthew; Krishnan, Sudhir; Torbic, Heather; Hastings, Andrei; Mehkri, Omar; Hanane, Tarik; Hatipoglu, Umur; Hite, R Duncan; Mireles-Cabodevila, Eduardo 2020. Implementation of Protocolized Care in ARDS Improves Outcomes. Respiratory care, ,

Smith, Bradford J; Roy, Gregory S; Cleveland, Alyx; Mattson, Courtney; Okamura, Kayo; Charlebois, Chantel M; Hamlington, Katharine L; Novotny, Michael V; Knudsen, Lars; Ochs, Matthias; Hite, R Duncan; Bates, Jason H T 2020. Three Alveolar Phenotypes Govern Lung Function in Murine Ventilator-Induced Lung Injury. Frontiers in physiology, 11 , 660