Peter Oishi, MD

Dr. Oishi serves as the Associate Chief Medical Officer (Interim) for UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital (BCH), San Francisco. He is a Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. Clinically, he cares for infants and children in the Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Unit in BCH, San Francisco. 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.
Education
2019 - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training, University of California
2004 - Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, UCSF/Children's Hospital Oakland
Honors and Awards
  • Exceptional Physician Award, UCSF, 2015
Websites
  1. David Blauvelt, Nicholas Higgins, Jarrett Moyer, Francisco Baltazar, Benjamin Chui, Peter Oishi, Shuvo Roy. PEDS4: A Stacked Silicon Membrane Artificial Placenta Oxygenator to Treat Extreme Prematurity. ASAIO Journal 2022. PMID:



  2. Blauvelt DG, Inany HS, Furlong-Dillard JM, Bailly DK, Oishi P, Steurer MA, Mahendra M. Association of Ventilator Settings with Mortality in Pediatric Patients Treated with Extracorporeal Life Support for Respiratory Failure. 2022. PMID: 35671443





  3. Labelle-Dumais C, Schuitema V, Hayashi G, Hoff K, Gong W, Dao DQ, Ullian EM, Oishi P, Margeta M, Gould DB. COL4A1 Mutations Cause Neuromuscular Disease with Tissue-Specific Mechanistic Heterogeneity. American journal of human genetics 2019. PMID: 31051113


  4. Jennie Yoo, Mary Han, Gemma Jamena, Phyllis Pei, Hillary Baldocchi, Emilie Menard, Shelley Diane, Peter Oishi, Tam Nguyen. Cloud-Based Implementation of New Frontline Clinical Workflows: Standardizing Practice at Scale to Improve Patient Safety. Iproceedings 2018. PMID:


  5. Alvira CM, Steinhorn RH, Balistreri WF, Fineman JR, Oishi PE, Padbury JF, Kinsella JP, Abman SH. Enhancing the Development and Retention of Physician-Scientists in Academic Pediatrics: Strategies for Success. The Journal of pediatrics 2018. PMID: 30055815


  6. Katie Kowalek, Duncan Henry, Peter Oishi, Deborah Franzon. 484. Critical care medicine 2018. PMID:


  7. Zinter MS, Barrows BD, Ursell PC, Kowalek K, Kalantar K, Cambronero N, DeRisi JL, Oishi P, Dvorak CC. Extracorporeal life support survival in a pediatric hematopoietic cellular transplant recipient with presumed GvHD-related fulminant myocarditis. Bone marrow transplantation 2017. PMID: 28581474







  8. Jun Maki, Rebecca Johnson, Sanjeev Datar, Wenhui Gong, Michael Johengen, Christine Sun, Peter Oishi, Jeffrey Fineman. 162. Critical care medicine 2014. PMID:


  9. Rebecca Kameny, Catherine Morris, Youping He, Christine Sun, Jun Maki, Sanjeev Datar, Peter Oishi, Jeffrey Fineman. 220. Critical care medicine 2014. PMID:




  10. Peter Oishi, Sanjeev A. Datar, Jeffrey R. Fineman. Pulmonary Hypertension. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine 2014. PMID:


  11. Shue EH, Schecter SC, Gong W, Etemadi M, Johengen M, Iqbal C, Derderian SC, Oishi P, Fineman JR, Miniati D. Antenatal maternally-administered phosphodiesterase type 5 inhibitors normalize eNOS expression in the fetal lamb model of congenital diaphragmatic hernia. Journal of pediatric surgery 2013. PMID: 24439578


  12. Radman M, Keller RL, Oishi P, Datar SA, Wellnitz K, Azakie A, Hanley F, Char D, Hsu JH, Amrinovin R, Adatia I, Fineman JR. Preoperative B-type natriuretic peptide levels are associated with outcome after total cavopulmonary connection (Fontan). The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery 2013. PMID: 24079880


  13. Oishi PE, Klein OD, Keller RL, University of California San Francisco Neonatology and Pediatric Critical Care Early Faculty Develop. 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. PMID: 23973233


  14. Bernstein HS, Samad T, Cholsiripunlert S, Khalifian S, Gong W, Ritner C, Aurigui J, Ling V, Wilschut KJ, Bennett S, Hoffman J, Oishi P. Stem cell antigen-1 in skeletal muscle function. PLoS currents 2013. PMID: 24042315


  15. Amirnovin R, Oishi P, Fineman JR, Keller RL. Reply to the editor. The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery 2013. PMID: 23597627


  16. 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. L-carnitine preserves endothelial function in a lamb model of increased pulmonary blood flow. Pediatric research 2013. PMID: 23628882




  17. Sharma S, Barton J, Rafikov R, Aggarwal S, Kuo HC, Oishi PE, Datar SA, Fineman JR, Black SM. Chronic inhibition of PPAR-? signaling induces endothelial dysfunction in the juvenile lamb. Pulmonary pharmacology & therapeutics 2012. PMID: 23257346


  18. 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. Rosiglitazone preserves pulmonary vascular function in lambs with increased pulmonary blood flow. Pediatric research 2012. PMID: 23128423


  19. Field-Ridley A, Heljasvaara R, Pihlajaniemi T, Adatia I, Sun C, Keller RL, Gong WH, Datar S, Oishi P, Fineman JR. Endostatin, an inhibitor of angiogenesis, decreases after bidirectional superior cavopulmonary anastamosis. Pediatric cardiology 2012. PMID: 22961274


  20. Sharma S, Sun X, Rafikov R, Kumar S, Hou Y, Oishi PE, Datar SA, Raff G, Fineman JR, Black SM. PPAR-? regulates carnitine homeostasis and mitochondrial function in a lamb model of increased pulmonary blood flow. PloS one 2012. PMID: 22962578


  21. Eveline H. Shue, Samuel C. Schecter, Wenhui Gong, Michael Johengen, William Ferrier, Jianfeng Wu, Mozziyar Etemadi, Peter Oishi, Jeff Fineman, Douglas N. Miniati. 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. PMID:


  22. Amirnovin R, Keller RL, Herrera C, Hsu JH, Datar S, Karl TR, Adatia I, Oishi P, Fineman JR. 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. PMID: 22914252


  23. Radman MR, Goldhoff P, Jones KD, Azakie A, Datar S, Adatia I, Oishi PE, Fineman JR. Pulmonary interstitial glycogenosis: an unrecognized etiology of persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn in congenital heart disease? Pediatric cardiology 2012. PMID: 22614905



  24. Peter E. Oishi, Aida Field-Ridley, Sanjeev A. Datar, Jeffrey R. Fineman. B-Type Natriuretic Peptide (BNP) in Neonates, Infants and Children Undergoing Cardiac Surgery. Front Lines of Thoracic Surgery 2012. PMID:


  25. 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. 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. PMID: 22207591


  26. Aggarwal S, Gross CM, Kumar S, Datar S, Oishi P, Kalkan G, Schreiber C, Fratz S, Fineman JR, Black SM. Attenuated vasodilatation in lambs with endogenous and exogenous activation of cGMP signaling: role of protein kinase G nitration. Journal of cellular physiology 2011. PMID: 21351102


  27. Oishi P, Datar SA, Fineman JR. Advances in the management of pediatric pulmonary hypertension. Respiratory care 2011. PMID: 21944683


  28. Fratz S, Fineman JR, Görlach A, Sharma S, Oishi P, Schreiber C, Kietzmann T, Adatia I, Hess J, Black SM. Early determinants of pulmonary vascular remodeling in animal models of complex congenital heart disease. Circulation 2011. PMID: 21357846


  29. Peter E. Oishi, Sompob Cholsiripunlert, Wenhui Gong, Anthony J. Baker, Harold S. Bernstein. Myo-mechanical Analysis of Isolated Skeletal Muscle. Journal of Visualized Experiments 2011. PMID:


  30. Oishi PE, Cholsiripunlert S, Gong W, Baker AJ, Bernstein HS. Myo-mechanical analysis of isolated skeletal muscle. Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE 2011. PMID: 21403622


  31. Peter Oishi, Julien I.E. Hoffman, Bradley P. Fuhrman, Jeffrey R. Fineman. Chapter 20 Regional Circulation. Pediatric Critical Care 2011. PMID:


  32. 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. Delineating the angiogenic gene expression profile before pulmonary vascular remodeling in a lamb model of congenital heart disease. Physiological genomics 2010. PMID: 20978110


  33. Hsu JH, Oishi P, Wiseman DA, Hou Y, Chikovani O, Datar S, Sajti E, Johengen MJ, Harmon C, Black SM, Fineman JR. 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. PMID: 20363848




  34. 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. Effect of PPARgamma inhibition on pulmonary endothelial cell gene expression: gene profiling in pulmonary hypertension. Physiological genomics 2009. PMID: 19825830


  35. Sharma S, Kumar S, Sud N, Wiseman DA, Tian J, Rehmani I, Datar S, Oishi P, Fratz S, Venema RC, Fineman JR, Black SM. Alterations in lung arginine metabolism in lambs with pulmonary hypertension associated with increased pulmonary blood flow. Vascular pharmacology 2009. PMID: 19818875




  36. Oishi PE, Wiseman DA, Sharma S, Kumar S, Hou Y, Datar SA, Azakie A, Johengen MJ, Harmon C, Fratz S, Fineman JR, Black SM. 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. PMID: 18757524





  37. Jong-Hau Hsu, Omar Chikovani, Roberta Keller, Tom R. Karl, Anthony Azakie, Ian Adatia, Peter Oishi, Jeffrey 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. PMID:


  38. 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. S27-4 B-TYPE NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE LEVELS PREDICT OUTCOME AFTER NEONATAL CARDIAC SURGERY. International journal of cardiology 2007. PMID:



  39. Oishi P, Sharma S, Grobe A, Azakie A, Harmon C, Johengen MJ, Hsu JH, Fratz S, Black SM, Fineman JR. 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. PMID: 17902145



  40. Hsu JH, Keller RL, Chikovani O, Cheng H, Hollander SA, 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. PMID: 17903511


  41. Sharma S, Grobe AC, Wiseman DA, Kumar S, Englaish M, Najwer I, Benavidez E, Oishi P, Azakie A, Fineman JR, Black SM. Lung antioxidant enzymes are regulated by development and increased pulmonary blood flow. American journal of physiology. Lung cellular and molecular physiology 2007. PMID: 17631609



  42. Omar Chikovani, Jong-Hau Hsu, Roberta Keller, Seth Hollander, Henry Cheng, Cynthia Harmon, Anthony Azakie, Tom Karl, Ian Adatia, Peter Oishi, Jeffrey Fineman. B-TYPE NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE (BNP) LEVELS PREDICT OUTCOMES IN CHILDREN ON EXTRACORPOREAL LIFE SUPPORT (ECLS) AFTER CARDIAC SURGERY. Critical care medicine 2006. PMID:


  43. Jong-Hau Hsu, Omar Chikovani, Roberta Keller, Henry Cheng, Seth Hollander, 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. PMID:





  44. Peter Oishi, Julien I. Hoffman, Bradley P. Fuhrman, Jeffrey R. Fineman. Chapter 18 Regional Circulation. Pediatric Critical Care 2006. PMID:


  45. Oishi P, Azakie A, Harmon C, Fitzgerald RK, Grobe A, Xu J, Hendricks-Munoz K, Black SM, Fineman JR. 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. PMID: 16339822




  46. Ross GA, Oishi P, Azakie A, Fratz S, Fitzgerald RK, Johengen MJ, Harmon C, Hendricks-Munoz K, Xu J, Black SM, 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. PMID: 15347565


  47. Fratz S, Meyrick B, Ovadia B, Johengen MJ, Reinhartz O, Azakie A, Ross G, Fitzgerald R, Oishi P, Hess 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. PMID: 15155268