Peter M. Mourani

High Impact

Professor

UAMS

Last publication 2025 Last refreshed 2026-04-11

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46 h-index 252 pubs 9,430 cited

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Peter M. Mourani's research focuses on critical care in pediatric populations, with a particular emphasis on infectious diseases, neurological outcomes, and resuscitation science. He has investigated the characteristics and outcomes of children and adolescents with Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C) and severe acute COVID-19, as well as neurologic involvement in these conditions. His work also includes evaluating the effectiveness of maternal vaccination with mRNA COVID-19 vaccines during pregnancy against COVID-19-associated hospitalization in infants.

Mourani's research extends to improving survival rates and neurological outcomes in pediatric intensive care units through interventions such as physiologic point-of-care cardiopulmonary resuscitation training. He has also studied vaccine effectiveness against life-threatening influenza illness in children. His publications include work on lower respiratory tract infections in mechanically ventilated children, utilizing airway metagenomics for diagnosis, and exploring the impact of diastolic blood pressure thresholds during pediatric cardiopulmonary resuscitation on survival outcomes.

A highly cited researcher, Mourani has published over 250 papers and has a citation count exceeding 9,000. He collaborates extensively with colleagues at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, including Kathleen L. Meert, Todd C. Carpenter, Robert Bishop, and Katherine Irby, with whom he shares numerous publications. Mourani leads a research group and remains actively involved in research.

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h-index: 46
Publications: 252
Citations: 9,430

Selected Publications

Simultaneous detection of pathogens and antimicrobial resistance genes with the open source, cloud-based, CZ ID platform (2025)

7 citations DOI OpenAlex
Laboratory validation of a clinical metagenomic next-generation sequencing assay for respiratory virus detection and discovery (2024)

38 citations DOI OpenAlex
Early bolus epinephrine administration during pediatric cardiopulmonary resuscitation for bradycardia with poor perfusion: an ICU-resuscitation study (2024)

7 citations DOI OpenAlex
Racial and skin color mediated disparities in pulse oximetry in infants and young children (2024)

21 citations DOI OpenAlex
Identification of post-cardiac arrest blood pressure thresholds associated with outcomes in children: an ICU-Resuscitation study (2023)

21 citations DOI OpenAlex
Endothelial Glycocalyx Degradation Patterns in Sepsis-Associated Pediatric Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome: A Single Center Retrospective Observational Study (2023)

12 citations DOI OpenAlex
Association of CPR simulation program characteristics with simulated and actual performance during paediatric in-hospital cardiac arrest (2023)

10 citations DOI OpenAlex
Transcriptomic profiles of multiple organ dysfunction syndrome phenotypes in pediatric critical influenza (2023)

14 citations DOI OpenAlex
Outcomes and characteristics of cardiac arrest in children with pulmonary hypertension: A secondary analysis of the ICU-RESUS clinical trial (2023)

12 citations DOI OpenAlex
Integrated host/microbe metagenomics enables accurate lower respiratory tract infection diagnosis in critically ill children (2023)

54 citations DOI OpenAlex
Tobacco smoke exposure, the lower airways microbiome and outcomes of ventilated children (2023)

8 citations DOI OpenAlex
Calcium use during paediatric in-hospital cardiac arrest is associated with worse outcomes (2022)

18 citations DOI OpenAlex
<i>DDX58</i> Is Associated With Susceptibility to Severe Influenza Virus Infection in Children and Adolescents (2022)

11 citations DOI OpenAlex
Mortality among infants of diabetic mothers with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (2022)

8 citations DOI OpenAlex
Lower respiratory tract infections in children requiring mechanical ventilation: a multicentre prospective surveillance study incorporating airway metagenomics (2022)

59 citations DOI OpenAlex