Prof. Stephen M. Pastores

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, USA

Email: [email protected]

Qualifications

1982 M.D., Lyceum-Northwestern, Philippines

1978 B.Sc., University of St. Thomas, Philippines

Publications (Selected)

1. Pastores, S. M., & Oropello, J. M. (Eds.). (2026). Organization and Management of Critical Care Services, An Issue of Critical Care Clinics: Organization and Management of Critical Care Services, An Issue of Critical Care Clinics, E-Book (Vol. 42, No. 2). Elsevier Health Sciences.
2. Fowler, C., & Pastores, S. M. (2025). Venous Thromboembolic Events in Cancer Immunotherapy: A Narrative Review. Journal of Clinical Medicine, 14(14), 4926.
3. Shankar-Hari, M., Francois, B., Remy, K. E., Gutierrez, C., Pastores, S., Daix, T., ... & Hotchkiss, R. (2025). A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of IL-7 in critically ill patients with COVID-19. JCI insight, 10(6), e189150.
4. Lichtenthal, W. G., Lief, L., Rogers, M., Russell, D., Viola, M., Winoker, H., ... & Prigerson, H. G. (2024). EMPOWER: a multi-site pilot trial to reduce distress in surrogate decision-makers in the ICU. Journal of pain and symptom management, 67(6), 512-524.
5. Chaudhuri, D., Nei, A. M., Rochwerg, B., Balk, R. A., Asehnoune, K., Cadena, R., ... & Pastores, S. M. (2024). 2024 focused update: guidelines on use of corticosteroids in sepsis, acute respiratory distress syndrome, and community-acquired pneumonia. Critical care medicine, 52(5), e219-e233.
6. Chaudhuri, D., Nei, A. M., Rochwerg, B., Balk, R. A., Asehnoune, K., Cadena, R. S., ... & Pastores, S. M. (2024). Executive summary: guidelines on use of corticosteroids in critically ill patients with sepsis, acute respiratory distress syndrome, and community-acquired pneumonia focused update 2024. Critical care medicine, 52(5), 833-836.
7. Pitre, T., Drover, K., Chaudhuri, D., Zeraaktkar, D., Menon, K., Gershengorn, H. B., ... & Rochwerg, B. (2024). Corticosteroids in sepsis and septic shock: a systematic review, pairwise, and dose-response meta-analysis. Critical care explorations, 6(1), e1000.
8. Chen, L. L., Dulu, A. O., & Pastores, S. M. (2024). Elevated brain natriuretic peptide in a patient with metastatic cancer without heart failure: A case study. Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, 36(1), 73-76.
9. O’Grady, N. P., Alexander, E., Alhazzani, W., Alshamsi, F., Cuellar-Rodriguez, J., Jefferson, B. K., ... & Deresinski, S. (2023). Society of Critical Care Medicine and the Infectious Diseases Society of America guidelines for evaluating new fever in adult patients in the ICU. Critical care medicine, 51(11), 1570-1586.
10. Fowler, C., Raoof, N., & Pastores, S. M. (2023). Sepsis and adrenal insufficiency. Journal of intensive care medicine, 38(11), 987-996.
11. Kumar, S., Thota, A. K., Fowler, C., Huang, K., Tayban, K. D., & Pastores, S. M. (2023). Tracheostomy in cancer patients admitted to the ICU: Experience from a comprehensive cancer center. Chest, 164(4), A1812.
12. Gómez, H., Zarbock, A., Pastores, S. M., Frendl, G., Bercker, S., Asfar, P., ... & Kellum, J. A. (2023). Feasibility assessment of a biomarker-guided kidney-sparing sepsis bundle: the limiting acute kidney injury progression in sepsis trial. Critical Care Explorations, 5(8), e0961.
13. Pitre, T., Abdali, D., Chaudhuri, D., Pastores, S. M., Nei, A. M., Annane, D., ... & Zeraatkar, D. (2023). Corticosteroids in community-acquired bacterial pneumonia: a systematic review, pairwise and dose-response meta-analysis. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 38(11), 2593-2606.
14. Dumas, G., Pastores, S. M., & Munshi, L. (2023). Five new realities in critical care for patients with cancer. Intensive Care Medicine, 49(3), 345-348.
15. Tollinche, L. E., Seier, K. P., Yang, G., Tan, K. S., Tayban, Y. D., Pastores, S. M., ... & Karamchandani, K. (2022). Discharge prescribing of enteral opioids in opioid naïve patients following non-surgical intensive care: a retrospective cohort study. Journal of critical care, 68, 16-21.
16. Leung, S., Pastores, S. M., Oropello, J. M., Lilly, C. M., Galvagno Jr, S. M., Badjatia, N., ... & Oliveira, J. D. (2022). Regionalization of critical care in the United States: Current state and proposed framework from the academic leaders in critical care medicine task force of the Society of Critical Care Medicine. Critical care medicine, 50(1), 37-49.

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