Arup Roy-Burman, MD
Professor
Pediatrics
School of Medicine

Dr. Roy-Burman received his M.D., with Thesis, degree at UCSF and completed a residency in pediatrics at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford. He completed pediatric critical care training in the UCSF-Children’s Hospital Oakland Joint Fellowship Program. He also completed research fellowships at UCSF's Cardiovascular Research Institute and the Department of Anesthesia. He began his clinical career at UCSF, followed by nearly a decade at Children’s Hospital Oakland, and returned to UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital San Francisco in 2011.

From 2011 to 2016, Dr. Roy-Burman was Medical Director of the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (ICU), as well as Director of Pediatric Transport, Access, and Outreach for UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital San Francisco. He continues to provide limited clinical service in both the Pediatric ICU and the Pediatric Cardiac ICU at both BCH SF and Oakland hospitals.

Dr. Roy-Burman is interested in the promotion of both internal and external collaborations between specialties and institutions, standardization of patient care delivery, optimization of outcomes, and the development of regional best practices. He has also long been an advocate of facilitating access to care, for both patients and referring physicians, with a focus on customer relationship management and telehealth.

In 2016, Dr. Roy-Burman founded Elemeno Health, a UCSF-backed company building upon an internal cloud-based prototype to empower frontline staff with institution-specific microlearning. This approach streamlines dissemination of rapidly changing best practices to a large, distributed, and/or asynchronous workforce, driving consistency of practice, and improved safety and outcomes. This first-in-market solution now serves thousands of nurses, doctors, and ancillary staff across 20+ health systems and 70+ hospitals. Dr. Roy-Burman has partnered consultatively with C-suite and middle management to solve critical operational challenges across organizational quality, safety, and efficiency. Through the development of a novel cloud-based inter-institutional knowledge-sharing network, he has helped drive sustainable hospitals, clinics and programs for underserved populations, both domestic and global.

Previously, Dr. Roy-Burman led the re-establishment of the Northern California Pediatric Intensive Care Network and served as its Chair. Roy-Burman has a long history of involvement with international health. He is co-founder and former Director of the Roatan Volunteer Pediatric Clinic in Roatan, Honduras, where he has also established one of the largest pediatric resident international health electives available to US trainees. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the 501(c)3 Global Healing, where he has served as Chair. Roy-Burman has been recognized consistently in Best Doctors in America and Who’s Who in America.

• Evaluation of barriers to sustainable medication access in Honduras.
  American journal of health-system pharmacy : AJHP : official journal of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists 2016 Narayanan N, Stoffella SS, Roy-Burman A, Lynch M, Ifland L, Brock T
• Extended Sedation With Continuous Midazolam or Dexmedetomidine Infusion for Young Children Receiving 131 I-MIBG Radiopharmaceutical Therapy for Advanced Neuroblastoma.
  Pediatric blood & cancer 2015 Lee JS, Wu R, Wong T, DuBois SG, Matthay K, Gustafson C, Hawkins R, Roy-Burman A
• Verapamil-sensitive idiopathic left ventricular tachycardia in a 6-month-old: unique considerations in diagnosis and management in an infant.
  Pediatric emergency care 2015 Hiremath G, Li W, Foltz R, Roy-Burman A, Cocalis M, Tanel RE
• Anti-N-methyl D-aspartate receptor encephalitis mimics viral encephalitis.
  The Pediatric infectious disease journal 2012 Bseikri MR, Barton JR, Kulhanjian JA, Dalmau J, Cohen RA, Glaser CA, Roy-Burman A
• Failure of the Milwaukee protocol in a child with rabies.
  Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 2011 Aramburo A, Willoughby RE, Bollen AW, Glaser CA, Hsieh CJ, Davis SL, Martin KW, Roy-Burman A
• Rhinovirus associated with severe lower respiratory tract infections in children.
  The Pediatric infectious disease journal 2009 Louie JK, Roy-Burman A, Guardia-Labar L, Boston EJ, Kiang D, Padilla T, Yagi S, Messenger S, Petru AM, Glaser CA, Schnurr DP
• Generalised cranial artery spasm in human rabies.
  Developments in biologicals 2008 Willoughby RE, Roy-Burman A, Martin KW, Christensen JC, Westenkirschner DF, Fleck JD, Glaser C, Hyland K, Rupprecht CE
• Phage versus phagemid libraries for generation of human monoclonal antibodies.
  Journal of molecular biology 2002 O'Connell D, Becerril B, Roy-Burman A, Daws M, Marks JD
• Generation and characterization of a protective monoclonal antibody to Pseudomonas aeruginosa PcrV.
  The Journal of infectious diseases 2002 Frank DW, Vallis A, Wiener-Kronish JP, Roy-Burman A, Spack EG, Mullaney BP, Megdoud M, Marks JD, Fritz R, Sawa T
• Resolution of severe Donath-Landsteiner autoimmune hemolytic anemia temporally associated with institution of plasmapheresis.
  Critical care medicine 2002 Roy-Burman A, Glader BE
• Type III protein secretion is associated with death in lower respiratory and systemic Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections.
  The Journal of infectious diseases 2001 Roy-Burman A, Savel RH, Racine S, Swanson BL, Revadigar NS, Fujimoto J, Sawa T, Frank DW, Wiener-Kronish JP
• Novel HPV types present in oral papillomatous lesions from patients with HIV infection.
  International journal of cancer 1996 Völter C, He Y, Delius H, Roy-Burman A, Greenspan JS, Greenspan D, de Villiers EM
• Nucleotide sequence and phylogenetic classification of human papillomavirus type 59.
  Virology 1994 Rho J, Roy-Burman A, Kim H, de Villiers EM, Matsukura T, Choe J