Update Your ProfileAcademic Title:
Clinical Assistant Professor
Primary Appointment:
Anesthesiology
Secondary Appointment(s):
Pediatrics
Administrative Title:
Chair of the Education Committee; Medical Director of the Maryland Proton Treatment Center
Location:
UMMC, S11C00
Phone (Primary):
(410) 328-3899
Fax:
(410) 328-5531
Education and Training
Undergraduate
1972-1974: College Bois-de-Boulogne, Montreal, Canada, Health Sciences - D.E.C.
Graduate
1974-1979: Montreal University, Montreal, Canada, M.D.
Postgraduate
1979-1980: Saint-Luc Hospital (Montreal University), Montreal, Canada , Multidisciplinary Internship
1980-1982: Montreal Children's Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, Pediatric Residency
1982-1983: Sainte-Justine Hospital (Montreal University), Montreal, Canada, Pediatric Residency
1983-1984: Montreal Children's Hospital (McGill University), Montreal, Canada, Pediatric Chief Resident
1984-3/86: Department of Anesthesiology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, Fellowship in Pediatric Critical Care
04/86-11/86: Department of Anesthesiology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, Anesthesia Residency
12/86-03/88: Department of Anesthesiology, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, Anesthesia Residency
09/98-05/00: Executive MBA, Loyola College, Baltimore, Maryland
CERTIFICATIONS
1984: Quebec Physicians Professional Corporation, Specialist Certificate in Pediatrics
1984: The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, Specialist Certificate in Pediatrics
1986: Diplomate, American Board of Pediatrics
1989: Diplomate, American Board of Anesthesiology
1993: Diplomate, American Board of Anesthesiology - Critical Care Medicine
1994: Diplomate, American Board of Pediatrics - Critical Care Medicine
2000: MBA
Highlighted Publications
Rousseau T, Jenicek M, Bellefleur M: Physical, mental and social health and handicaps of senior citizens in the city of Saint-Laurent: 1. Physical and mental health. Can J Public Health. 1977 May-Jun;68(3):210-8.
Jenicek M, Rousseau T, Bellefleur M: Physical, mental and social fitness and handicaps of senior citizens in the town of St. Laurent: II. General health, disability and dependency. Can J Public Health. 1977 Jul-Aug;68(4):323-9.
Bernstein ML, Salusinsky-Sternbach M, Bellefleur M, Esseltine DW: Thrombotic and hemorrhagic complications in children with lupus anticoagulant. Am J Diseases in Children 138:1132-1135, 1984
Simard JM, Bellefleur M: Neurosurgical considerations of systemic arterial hypertension. Am J Cardiol 63:32C-35C, 1989
Goodwin SR, Friedman WA, Bellefleur M: Is it time to use evoked potentials to predict outcome in comatose children and adults? Crit Care Med 19:518, 1991
Levin, HS, Aldrich F, Saydjari C, Eisenberg HM, Foulkes MA: Bellefleur M, Jane JA, Marmarou A, Marshall LF, Young HF: Severe head injury in children: Experience of the Traumatic Coma Data Bank. Neurosurgery 31:435-444, 1992
Modell JH, Bellefleur M, Davis JH. Drowning without aspiration: is this an appropriate diagnosis? J Forensic Sci. 1999 Nov;44(6):1119-23 Review.
Research Interests
Gas entrainment with high-frequency jet ventilation; in collaboration with Dr. L.S. Berman, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida. (1984-1985)
Auditory and somatosensorial evoked potentials in comatose pediatric patients; in collaboration with Drs. S.R. Goodwin and W.A. Friedman, Departments of Anesthesiology and Neurosurgery, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida. (1984-1986)
High-frequency ventilation and intracranial pressure; in collaboration with Drs. A.J. Layon and T.J. Gallagher, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida. (1985-1986)