Peter Oishi, MD
Professor
Pediatrics
School of Medicine

He is the Medical Director of the BCH Inpatient Access Center, the Neonatal and Pediatric Critical Care Transport Program, and the Pediatric Extracorporeal Life Support (ECLS) Program. Dr. Oishi's research has been focused on pulmonary vascular disease associated with congenital cardiac defects, and ECLS.

• Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation in Pediatric Pulmonary Hypertension.
  Pediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies 2020 Morell E, Rajagopal SK, Oishi P, Thiagarajan RR, Fineman JR, Steurer MA
• COL4A1 Mutations Cause Neuromuscular Disease with Tissue-Specific Mechanistic Heterogeneity.
  American journal of human genetics 2019 Labelle-Dumais C, Schuitema V, Hayashi G, Hoff K, Gong W, Dao DQ, Ullian EM, Oishi P, Margeta M, Gould DB
• Cloud-Based Implementation of New Frontline Clinical Workflows: Standardizing Practice at Scale to Improve Patient Safety.
  Iproceedings 2018 Jennie Yoo, Mary Han, Gemma Jamena, Phyllis Pei, Hillary Baldocchi, Emilie Menard, Shelley Diane, Peter Oishi, Tam Nguyen
• Enhancing the Development and Retention of Physician-Scientists in Academic Pediatrics: Strategies for Success.
  The Journal of pediatrics 2018 Alvira CM, Steinhorn RH, Balistreri WF, Fineman JR, Oishi PE, Padbury JF, Kinsella JP, Abman SH
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  Critical Care Medicine 2018 Katie Kowalek, Duncan Henry, Peter Oishi, Deborah Franzon
• Extracorporeal life support survival in a pediatric hematopoietic cellular transplant recipient with presumed GvHD-related fulminant myocarditis.
  Bone marrow transplantation 2017 Zinter MS, Barrows BD, Ursell PC, Kowalek K, Kalantar K, Cambronero N, DeRisi JL, Oishi P, Dvorak CC
• Pulmonary Hypertension.
  Pediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies 2016 Oishi P, Fineman JR
• Venovenous Extracorporeal Life Support in Single-Ventricle Patients with Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome.
  Frontiers in pediatrics 2016 Nair AB, Oishi P
• Disrupted NOS signaling in lymphatic endothelial cells exposed to chronically increased pulmonary lymph flow.
  American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology 2016 Datar SA, Gong W, He Y, Johengen M, Kameny RJ, Raff GW, Maltepe E, Oishi PE, Fineman JR
• Glucose metabolism after pediatric cardiac surgery: Too many sweets will ruin your appetite.
  The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery 2015 Karamlou T, Oishi P
• Right ventricular nitric oxide signaling in an ovine model of congenital heart disease: a preserved fetal phenotype.
  American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology 2015 Kameny RJ, He Y, Morris C, Sun C, Johengen M, Gong W, Raff GW, Datar SA, Oishi PE, Fineman JR
• 162.
  Critical Care Medicine 2014 Jun Maki, Rebecca Johnson, Sanjeev Datar, Wenhui Gong, Michael Johengen, Christine Sun, Peter Oishi, Jeffrey Fineman
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  Critical Care Medicine 2014 Rebecca Kameny, Catherine Morris, Youping He, Christine Sun, Jun Maki, Sanjeev Datar, Peter Oishi, Jeffrey Fineman
• Adaptive right ventricular performance in response to acutely increased afterload in a lamb model of congenital heart disease: evidence for enhanced Anrep effect.
  American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology 2014 Johnson RC, Datar SA, Oishi PE, Bennett S, Maki J, Sun C, Johengen M, He Y, Raff GW, Redington AN, Fineman JR
• Altered reactivity and nitric oxide signaling in the isolated thoracic duct from an ovine model of congenital heart disease with increased pulmonary blood flow.
  American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology 2014 Datar SA, Oishi PE, Gong W, Bennett SH, Sun CE, Johengen M, Maki J, Johnson RC, Raff GW, Fineman JR
• Pulmonary Hypertension.
  Pediatric Critical Care Medicine 2014 Peter Oishi, Sanjeev A. Datar, Jeffrey R. Fineman
• Antenatal maternally-administered phosphodiesterase type 5 inhibitors normalize eNOS expression in the fetal lamb model of congenital diaphragmatic hernia.
  Journal of pediatric surgery 2013 Shue EH, Schecter SC, Gong W, Etemadi M, Johengen M, Iqbal C, Derderian SC, Oishi P, Fineman JR, Miniati D
• Preoperative B-type natriuretic peptide levels are associated with outcome after total cavopulmonary connection (Fontan).
  The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery 2013 Radman M, Keller RL, Oishi P, Datar SA, Wellnitz K, Azakie A, Hanley F, Char D, Hsu JH, Amrinovin R, Adatia I, Fineman JR
• Developing physician-scientists in the fields of neonatology and pediatric critical care medicine: an effort to formulate a departmental policy.
  The Journal of pediatrics 2013 Oishi PE, Klein OD, Keller RL, University of California San Francisco Neonatology and Pediatric Critical Care Early Faculty Develop
• Stem cell antigen-1 in skeletal muscle function.
  PLoS currents 2013 Bernstein HS, Samad T, Cholsiripunlert S, Khalifian S, Gong W, Ritner C, Aurigui J, Ling V, Wilschut KJ, Bennett S, Hoffman J, Oishi P
• Reply to the editor.
  The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery 2013 Amirnovin R, Oishi P, Fineman JR, Keller RL
• L-carnitine preserves endothelial function in a lamb model of increased pulmonary blood flow.
  Pediatric research 2013 Sharma S, Aramburo A, Rafikov R, Sun X, Kumar S, Oishi PE, Datar SA, Raff G, Xoinis K, Kalkan G, Fratz S, Fineman JR, Black SM
• The effect of preoperative nutritional status on postoperative outcomes in children undergoing surgery for congenital heart defects in San Francisco (UCSF) and Guatemala City (UNICAR).
  The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery 2013 Radman M, Mack R, Barnoya J, Castañeda A, Rosales M, Azakie A, Mehta N, Keller R, Datar S, Oishi P, Fineman J
• Tezosentan increases nitric oxide signaling via enhanced hydrogen peroxide generation in lambs with surgically induced acute increases in pulmonary blood flow.
  Journal of cellular biochemistry 2013 Kumar S, Oishi PE, Rafikov R, Aggarwal S, Hou Y, Datar SA, Sharma S, Azakie A, Fineman JR, Black SM
• Chronic inhibition of PPAR-γ signaling induces endothelial dysfunction in the juvenile lamb.
  Pulmonary pharmacology & therapeutics 2012 Sharma S, Barton J, Rafikov R, Aggarwal S, Kuo HC, Oishi PE, Datar SA, Fineman JR, Black SM
• Rosiglitazone preserves pulmonary vascular function in lambs with increased pulmonary blood flow.
  Pediatric research 2012 Oishi PE, Sharma S, Datar SA, Kumar S, Aggarwal S, Lu Q, Raff G, Azakie A, Hsu JH, Sajti E, Fratz S, Black SM, Fineman JR
• Endostatin, an inhibitor of angiogenesis, decreases after bidirectional superior cavopulmonary anastamosis.
  Pediatric cardiology 2012 Field-Ridley A, Heljasvaara R, Pihlajaniemi T, Adatia I, Sun C, Keller RL, Gong WH, Datar S, Oishi P, Fineman JR
• PPAR-γ regulates carnitine homeostasis and mitochondrial function in a lamb model of increased pulmonary blood flow.
  PloS one 2012 Sharma S, Sun X, Rafikov R, Kumar S, Hou Y, Oishi PE, Datar SA, Raff G, Fineman JR, Black SM
• The role of prenatal tadalafil in altered relaxation of pulmonary arteries from lambs with surgical diaphragmatic hernia.
  Journal of the American College of Surgeons 2012 Eveline H. Shue, Samuel C. Schecter, Wenhui Gong, Michael Johengen, William Ferrier, Jianfeng Wu, Mozziyar Etemadi, Peter Oishi, Jeff Fineman, Douglas N. Miniati
• B-type natriuretic peptide levels predict outcomes in infants undergoing cardiac surgery in a lesion-dependent fashion.
  The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery 2012 Amirnovin R, Keller RL, Herrera C, Hsu JH, Datar S, Karl TR, Adatia I, Oishi P, Fineman JR
• Pulmonary interstitial glycogenosis: an unrecognized etiology of persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn in congenital heart disease?
  Pediatric cardiology 2012 Radman MR, Goldhoff P, Jones KD, Azakie A, Datar S, Adatia I, Oishi PE, Fineman JR
• When persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn persists.
  Pediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies 2012 Oishi PE, Keller RL
• B-Type Natriuretic Peptide (BNP) in Neonates, Infants and Children Undergoing Cardiac Surgery.
  Front Lines of Thoracic Surgery 2012 Peter E. Oishi, Aida Field-Ridley, Sanjeev A. Datar, Jeffrey R. Fineman
• Altered lymphatics in an ovine model of congenital heart disease with increased pulmonary blood flow.
  American journal of physiology. Lung cellular and molecular physiology 2011 Datar SA, Johnson EG, Oishi PE, Johengen M, Tang E, Aramburo A, Barton J, Kuo HC, Bennett S, Xoinis K, Reel B, Kalkan G, Sajti E, Osorio O, Raff GW, Matthay MA, Fineman JR
• Attenuated vasodilatation in lambs with endogenous and exogenous activation of cGMP signaling: role of protein kinase G nitration.
  Journal of cellular physiology 2011 Aggarwal S, Gross CM, Kumar S, Datar S, Oishi P, Kalkan G, Schreiber C, Fratz S, Fineman JR, Black SM
• Advances in the management of pediatric pulmonary hypertension.
  Respiratory care 2011 Oishi P, Datar SA, Fineman JR
• Early determinants of pulmonary vascular remodeling in animal models of complex congenital heart disease.
  Circulation 2011 Fratz S, Fineman JR, Görlach A, Sharma S, Oishi P, Schreiber C, Kietzmann T, Adatia I, Hess J, Black SM
• Myo-mechanical Analysis of Isolated Skeletal Muscle.
  Journal of Visualized Experiments 2011 Peter E. Oishi, Sompob Cholsiripunlert, Wenhui Gong, Anthony J. Baker, Harold S. Bernstein
• Myo-mechanical analysis of isolated skeletal muscle.
  Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE 2011 Oishi PE, Cholsiripunlert S, Gong W, Baker AJ, Bernstein HS
• Chapter 20 Regional Circulation.
  Pediatric Critical Care 2011 Peter Oishi, Julien I.E. Hoffman, Bradley P. Fuhrman, Jeffrey R. Fineman
• Delineating the angiogenic gene expression profile before pulmonary vascular remodeling in a lamb model of congenital heart disease.
  Physiological genomics 2010 Tian J, Fratz S, Hou Y, Lu Q, Görlach A, Hess J, Schreiber C, Datar SA, Oishi P, Nechtman J, Podolsky R, She JX, Fineman JR, Black SM
• Nitric oxide alterations following acute ductal constriction in the fetal lamb: a role for superoxide.
  American journal of physiology. Lung cellular and molecular physiology 2010 Hsu JH, Oishi P, Wiseman DA, Hou Y, Chikovani O, Datar S, Sajti E, Johengen MJ, Harmon C, Black SM, Fineman JR
• The Rebound Pulmonary Hypertension Associated with the Acute Withdrawal of Inhaled Nitric Oxide involves the Nitration-Mediated Inhibition of Protein Kinase G: Protective Role of Superoxide Dismutase.
  Free Radical Biology and Medicine 2010 Saurabh Aggarwal, Christine M Gross, Sanjiv Kumar, Peter Oishi, Jeffrey R Fineman, Stephen M Black
• Early elevations in B-type natriuretic peptide levels are associated with poor clinical outcomes in pediatric acute lung injury.
  Pediatric pulmonology 2009 Reel B, Oishi PE, Hsu JH, Gildengorin G, Matthay MA, Fineman JR, Flori H
• Effect of PPARgamma inhibition on pulmonary endothelial cell gene expression: gene profiling in pulmonary hypertension.
  Physiological genomics 2009 Tian J, Smith A, Nechtman J, Podolsky R, Aggarwal S, Snead C, Kumar S, Elgaish M, Oishi P, Göerlach A, Fratz S, Hess J, Catravas JD, Verin AD, Fineman JR, She JX, Black SM
• Alterations in lung arginine metabolism in lambs with pulmonary hypertension associated with increased pulmonary blood flow.
  Vascular pharmacology 2009 Sharma S, Kumar S, Sud N, Wiseman DA, Tian J, Rehmani I, Datar S, Oishi P, Fratz S, Venema RC, Fineman JR, Black SM
• Diseases of the Pulmonary Vascular System.
  The Respiratory Tract in Pediatric Critical Illness and Injury 2009 Peter Oishi, Jeffrey R. Fineman
• Pulmonary Endothelial Control of the Pulmonary Microcirculation.
  Congenital Diseases in the Right Heart 2009 Peter Oishi, Jeffrey R. Fineman
• Progressive dysfunction of nitric oxide synthase in a lamb model of chronically increased pulmonary blood flow: a role for oxidative stress.
  American journal of physiology. Lung cellular and molecular physiology 2008 Oishi PE, Wiseman DA, Sharma S, Kumar S, Hou Y, Datar SA, Azakie A, Johengen MJ, Harmon C, Fratz S, Fineman JR, Black SM
• Perioperative B-type natriuretic peptide levels predict outcome after bidirectional cavopulmonary anastomosis and total cavopulmonary connection.
  The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery 2008 Hsu JH, Oishi PE, Keller RL, Chikovani O, Karl TR, Azakie A, Adatia I, Fineman JR
• B-Type Natriuretic Peptide: An Emerging Biomarker in Pediatric Critical Care.
  Intensive Care Medicine 2008 P. E. Oishi, J. -H. Hsu, J. R. Fineman
• B-Type Natriuretic Peptide: An Emerging Biomarker in Pediatric Critical Care.
  Yearbook of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 2008 P. E. Oishi, J. -H. Hsu, J. R. Fineman
• S12-4 B-TYPE NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE LEVELS PREDICT OUTCOMES FOR CHILDREN ON EXTRACORPOREAL LIFE SUPPORT AFTER CARDIAC SURGERY.
  International Journal of Cardiology 2007 Jong-Hau Hsu, Omar Chikovani, Roberta Keller, Tom R. Karl, Anthony Azakie, Ian Adatia, Peter Oishi, Jeffrey R. Fineman
• S27-4 B-TYPE NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE LEVELS PREDICT OUTCOME AFTER NEONATAL CARDIAC SURGERY.
  International Journal of Cardiology 2007 Jong-Hau Hsu, Roberta L. Keller, Omar Chikovani, Henry Cheng, Seth A. Hollander, Tom R. Karl, Anthony Azakie, Ian Adatia, Peter Oishi, Jeffrey R. Fineman
• Altered carnitine homeostasis is associated with decreased mitochondrial function and altered nitric oxide signaling in lambs with pulmonary hypertension.
  American journal of physiology. Lung cellular and molecular physiology 2007 Sharma S, Sud N, Wiseman DA, Carter AL, Kumar S, Hou Y, Rau T, Wilham J, Harmon C, Oishi P, Fineman JR, Black SM
• Alterations in cGMP, soluble guanylate cyclase, phosphodiesterase 5, and B-type natriuretic peptide induced by chronic increased pulmonary blood flow in lambs.
  Pediatric pulmonology 2007 Oishi P, Sharma S, Grobe A, Azakie A, Harmon C, Johengen MJ, Hsu JH, Fratz S, Black SM, Fineman JR
• B-type natriuretic peptide levels predict outcomes for children on extracorporeal life support after cardiac surgery.
  The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery 2007 Chikovani O, Hsu JH, Keller R, Karl TR, Azakie A, Adatia I, Oishi P, Fineman JR
• B-type natriuretic peptide levels predict outcome after neonatal cardiac surgery.
  The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery 2007 Hsu JH, Keller RL, Chikovani O, Cheng H, Hollander SA, Karl TR, Azakie A, Adatia I, Oishi P, Fineman JR
• Lung antioxidant enzymes are regulated by development and increased pulmonary blood flow.
  American journal of physiology. Lung cellular and molecular physiology 2007 Sharma S, Grobe AC, Wiseman DA, Kumar S, Englaish M, Najwer I, Benavidez E, Oishi P, Azakie A, Fineman JR, Black SM
• The role of nitric oxide synthase-derived reactive oxygen species in the altered relaxation of pulmonary arteries from lambs with increased pulmonary blood flow.
  American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology 2007 Lakshminrusimha S, Wiseman D, Black SM, Russell JA, Gugino SF, Oishi P, Steinhorn RH, Fineman JR
• B-TYPE NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE (BNP) LEVELS PREDICT OUTCOMES IN CHILDREN ON EXTRACORPOREAL LIFE SUPPORT (ECLS) AFTER CARDIAC SURGERY.
  Critical Care Medicine 2006 Omar Chikovani, Jong-Hau Hsu, Roberta Keller, Seth Hollander, Henry Cheng, Cynthia Harmon, Anthony Azakie, Tom Karl, Ian Adatia, Peter Oishi, Jeffrey Fineman
• POSTOPERATIVE INCREASES IN B-TYPE NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE (BNP) PREDICT POOR OUTCOME FOLLOWING NEONATAL CARDIAC SURGERY.
  Critical Care Medicine 2006 Jong-Hau Hsu, Omar Chikovani, Roberta Keller, Henry Cheng, Seth Hollander, Cynthia Harmon, Anthony Azakie, Tom Karl, Ian Adatia, Peter Oishi, Jeffrey Fineman
• BNP for pediatrics--not quite ready for primetime.
  Pediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies 2006 Oishi PE, Fineman JR
• Increased oxidative stress in lambs with increased pulmonary blood flow and pulmonary hypertension: role of NADPH oxidase and endothelial NO synthase.
  American journal of physiology. Lung cellular and molecular physiology 2006 Grobe AC, Wells SM, Benavidez E, Oishi P, Azakie A, Fineman JR, Black SM
• Alterations in plasma B-type natriuretic peptide levels after repair of congenital heart defects: a potential perioperative marker.
  The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery 2006 Shih CY, Sapru A, Oishi P, Azakie A, Karl TR, Harmon C, Asija R, Adatia I, Fineman JR
• Chapter 18 Regional Circulation.
  Pediatric Critical Care 2006 Peter Oishi, Julien I. Hoffman, Bradley P. Fuhrman, Jeffrey R. Fineman
• Nitric oxide-endothelin-1 interactions after surgically induced acute increases in pulmonary blood flow in intact lambs.
  American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology 2005 Oishi P, Azakie A, Harmon C, Fitzgerald RK, Grobe A, Xu J, Hendricks-Munoz K, Black SM, Fineman JR
• Inhaled nitric oxide induced NOS inhibition and rebound pulmonary hypertension: a role for superoxide and peroxynitrite in the intact lamb.
  American journal of physiology. Lung cellular and molecular physiology 2005 Oishi P, Grobe A, Benavidez E, Ovadia B, Harmon C, Ross GA, Hendricks-Munoz K, Xu J, Black SM, Fineman JR
• Tezosentan, a combined parenteral endothelin receptor antagonist, produces pulmonary vasodilation in lambs with acute and chronic pulmonary hypertension.
  Pediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies 2004 Fitzgerald RK, Oishi P, Ovadia B, Ross GA, Reinhartz O, Johengen MJ, Fineman JR
• Endothelial alterations during inhaled NO in lambs with pulmonary hypertension: implications for rebound hypertension.
  American journal of physiology. Lung cellular and molecular physiology 2004 Ross GA, Oishi P, Azakie A, Fratz S, Fitzgerald RK, Johengen MJ, Harmon C, Hendricks-Munoz K, Xu J, Black SM, Fineman JR
• Chronic endothelin A receptor blockade in lambs with increased pulmonary blood flow and pressure.
  American journal of physiology. Lung cellular and molecular physiology 2004 Fratz S, Meyrick B, Ovadia B, Johengen MJ, Reinhartz O, Azakie A, Ross G, Fitzgerald R, Oishi P, Hess J, Black SM, Fineman JR
• Phosphodiesterase-3 inhibition prevents the increase in pulmonary vascular resistance following inhaled nitric oxide withdrawal in lambs.
  Pediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies 2004 Thelitz S, Oishi P, Sanchez LS, Bekker JM, Ovadia B, Johengen MJ, Black SM, Fineman JR
• Pharmacologic therapy for persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn: as "poly" as the disease itself.
  Pediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies 2004 Oishi P, Fineman JR