Peter F. Ehrlich, M.D.
Associate Professor of Surgery

Practicing at:
C.S. Mott Children's Hospital
St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center

Peer Reviewed (since 2002)

  1. Ehrlich PF, Rockwell S, Kincaid S, Mucha P: American College of Surgeons, Committee on Trauma Verification Review: Does it Really Make a Difference? J Trauma 53: 811-816, 2002
  2. Ehrlich PF, Newman KD, and Holcomb G: Lesson learned from a failed multi-institutional randomized controlled trial. J Pediatr Surg. Vol 37, No 3, 431-436, 2002
  3. Ehrlich PF, Ortega J, and Vaughan RA, Mucha P: The need for a statewide trauma system. W Vir Med J, Vol. 98 No 2, 66-68 2002.
  4. Ehrlich PF, J Renton. Should Helical CT scanning of the thoracic cavity replace the conventional chest x-ray as a primary assessment tool in pediatric trauma? An efficacy and cost analysis. J Pediatr Surg 2003, Vol38, No 5 793-797.
  5. J Fowler, B Ducatman, Ehrlich P. Pathologic Quiz Case: A 10 Year-Old Girl with a Pelvic Mass. Arch Pathol Lab Med, Vol 127 633-635 May 2003.
  6. Ehrlich PF, G Vidulla, P Seidman. Monitoring Intraoperative Effectiveness of Caudal Analgesia through Skin Temperature Variation. J Pediatr Surg Vol 38, No 3 March 2003 pp 386-89
  7. Haque A, Helmkamp J, Swisher-Mcclure S, Williams J, Ehrlich PF, Furbee P, Manley W.Characteristics of individuals with risk for alcohol problems in a rural university emergency department identified by AUDIT-C. Ann Epidemiol (Short paper/Abstract). 2003 Sep;13(8):573.
  8. Haque A, Helmkamp J, Hungerford D, Williams J, Ehrlich PF, Swisher-Mcclure S, Furbee P, Manley W. Brief intervention for alcohol problems in a university hospital emergency department: a randomized controlled trial. Ann Epidemiol (Short paper/Abstract). 2003 Sep;13(8):573-4.
  9. Ehrlich PF, J C Helmkamp, J Williams, A Haque, PM Furbee. Matched Analysis of ParentÕs and ChildrenÕs Attitudes and Practices towards Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Safety: An Important Information Gap. Inj Control Saf Promot 2004 Mar;11(1):23-8. (this paper attracted national and international new attention, reports appeared in 24 newspapers and 16 TV stations)
  10. Ehrlich PF, W T McClellan, A Ducatman, J C Helmkamp, and S Islam , Understanding work Related injuries in children ; A perspective in West Virginia using the State managed Workers compensation System. J Pediatr Surg Vol 39/5 pp 768-772 2004, 2004
  11. Ehrlich PF, S Attllah, P Seidman and JC Helmkamp. Endotracheal intubations in rural pediatric trauma patients. J Pediatr Surg Vol 39, No 9 1376-1380, 2004
  12. Helmkamp Swisher-McClure, Manley, Horn, Leontieva, Ehrlich PF . A Brief Summary of Alcohol Intervention Research at West Virginia University: 1998-2003. WV Med J: 100 (4), 143-146, 2004
  13. Ehrlich PF, M Ritchey, TE Hamilton et al. Quality Assessment for Wilms tumor: A Report from the NWTS-5. J Pediatr Surg 2005 Vol 40 208-213
  14. Ehrlich PF, W. T. McClellan M.D. and DE Wesson M.D. Monitoring Performance: Long Term Impact of Trauma Verification and Review. 2005Vol200 No 1 166-172 J Am Col Surg (This paper was selected to be part of the CME program by the journal editors)
  15. Luba Leontieva, Arshadul Haque, James Helmkamp, Samuel Swisher-McClure, Peter Ehrlich, Janet Williams, Kimberly Horn Stages of Change is Predictive of Response to aBrief Intervention for Alcohol Problems in Young Adult Emergency Department Patients. Crit Care Med Accepted 2005

Text Book Chapters

  1. Ehrlich PF and G Murray: Esophageal Atresia and Tracheal Esophageal Fistula. Current Problems in Surgery, Cameron, ed., 2000, pages 72 -77.
  2. Ehrlich PF( Editor) : Child and Adult Safetybelts. Safe USA Handbook Center for Disease Control Atlanta Georgia, US government , December 2001
  3. Ehrlich PF Trauma Scoring and Systems. Long term Outcomes in Pediatric Surgery and Urology in press Springer London England
  4. Ehrlich PF Wilms Tumor. Masters of Surgery. 5th Edition Little Brown,Philadelphia, J Fischer Ed, In press
  5. Ehrlich PF Coran AG. Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia. 101.9 Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics 18th Edition Elsevier/ Saunders, Philadelphia, RM Kleigman Ed.
  6. Ehrlich PF Coran AG. Foramen of Morgagni Hernia 101.10 Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics 18th Edition Elsevier/ Saunders, Philadelphia, RM Kleigman Ed.
  7. Ehrlich PF Coran AG. Paraesophageal Hernia 101.11 Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics 18th Edition Elsevier/ Saunders, Philadelphia, RM Kleigman Ed.
  8. Ehrlich PF Coran Eventration of the Diaphragm, Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics 18th
  9. Edition Elsevier/ Saunders, Philadelphia, RM Kleigman Ed.
  10. Ehrlich PF Approach to the multi injured pediatric patient. Pediatric Critical Care, Springer London England

Published Abstracts (since 2003)

  1. Ehrlich, PF Helmkamp J, Swisher-McClure S, Williams J, A Prospective Alcohol Intervention Study with Adolescents at a Level I Pediatric Trauma Center: Implications for Injury Prevention. Canadian Association of Pediatric Surgeons September 2003
  2. Ehrlich PF, McClellan WT, Ducatman A, Helmkamp JC, and Islam S, Understanding work Related injuries in children ; A perspective in West Virginia using the State managed Workers compensation System. Canadian Association of Pediatric Surgeons September 2003
  3. Haque A, Helmkamp J, Swisher-Mcclure S, Williams J, Ehrlich P, Furbee P, Manley W.Characteristics of individuals with risk for alcohol problems in a rural university emergency department identified by AUDIT-C. American Public Health Association San Francisco 2003
  4. Haque A, Helmkamp J, Hungerford D, Williams J, Ehrlich P, Swisher-Mcclure S, Furbee P, Manley W. Brief intervention for alcohol problems in a university hospital emergency department: a randomized controlled trial. Annals of Epidemiology. 2003 Sep;13(8):573-4
  5. A Haque, J Helmakam, S Swishwe-MClure, Ehrlich PF.Screening and Brief Intervention for Alcohol Problems in a University Student Health Clinic. A Haque, J Helmakam, S Swishwe-MClure, PF Ehrlich.The U.S. Departmentof Education's 17th Annual National Meeting on Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse and Violence Prevention in Higher Education. October 16-19, 2003.Austin, Texas
  6. How stages of change can predict screening and brief intervention outcome for alcohol problems in young adult emergency department patients" A Haque, J Helmkamp, D Hungerford, J Williams, Ehrlich PF, S Swisher-McClure, P Furbee, and W Manley. Center for Rural Emergency Medicine, West Virginia University.American Public Health Association, 131st Annual Meeting. November, 2003
  7. Ehrlich PF, MD; Robert C Shamberger, MD; Michael L Ritchey, MD; Tomas E Hamilton, MD; Gerald M Haase, MD; Paul Grundy, MD; Daniel Green, MD; Quality Assessment of Surgery for Wilms tumor: Report of NWTS-5 American Pediatric Surgical Association meeting May 2004
  8. Ehrlich PF,Hazard H, and Seidman PA. Deconstructing Surgical Education: The Student evaluation. Canadian Association of Pediatric Surgeons Winnipeg Canada Oct 2004.
  9. Ehrlich PF, Drongowski A, Swisher ÐMcClure.Prevention after the fact- Feasibility of Selected Intervention Programs at Pediatric Trauma Centers. Society of University Surgeons Nashville 2005
  10. Hamilton TE, Ehrlich PF ( Senior Author) Robert C Shamberger, MD; Michael L Ritchey, MD; Tomas E Hamilton, MD; Gerald M Haase, MD; Paul Grundy, MD;. Value of Surgery in Directing Therapy of Wilms Tumor Patients with Pulmonary
  11. Disease. A Report from National Wilms Tumor Study (NWTS) Ð 5
  12. Brown J, Ehrlich PF (Senior Author), Sochor MS, Wang S, Eichelberger MR Factors Influencing Pediatric Injury Severity Score (ISS) and Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) in Pediatric Automobile Crashes: Results from the Crash Injury Research Engineering Network (CIREN) . American Pediatric Surgical Society . Phoenix, 2005
  13. Ehrlich PF,Hazard H, and Seidman PA. The Quality of the Teacher Really Does Matter. British Association of Pediatric Surgeons , Dublin Ireland July 2005
  14. JK Brwon, Y Jing Ehrlich PF. Patterns of Severe Injury in Paediatric Car Crash Victims: Crash Injury Research Engineering Network (CIREN) Database. British Association of Pediatric Surgeons , Dublin Ireland July 2005