George Lister, MD

Associate Dean for Education
Professor
Endowed Title: Robert L. Moore Chair in Pediatrics
Office of the Dean - Southwestern Medical School, Pediatrics

Contact Information

UT Southwestern Medical Center
5323 Harry Hines Boulevard
Dallas, Texas 75390

george.lister@utsouthwestern.edu

To make an appointment, call 214-645-8300.

Biography

George Lister was born in Miami, FL, received his primary education there, and then obtained a B.A. from Brown University (1969), and M.D. (cum laude) from Yale University (1973), where he was elected to AOA Medical Honor Society in his junior year. He was a pediatric resident at Yale-New Haven Hospital (1973-1975), and fellow at UCSF and the Cardiovascular Research Institute (1975-1978), where he began his research interest in post-natal adaptation to hypoxia. His clinical training was in Cardiology and Neonatology, with the eventual intent of practicing Critical Care Medicine, a field in its nascent stages at the time. He joined the Faculty in the Departments of Anesthesia and Pediatrics at UCSF before assuming a position at Yale, where he remained from the end of 1978 until September 2003. He rose from Assistant Professor to Professor of Pediatrics and Anesthesiology, and Section Chief of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, and Director of the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. Dr. Lister’s research has focused on oxygen transport during postnatal development, which has been supported by continuous extramural funding since 1978. In 1992 the NICHD appointed him Chair of The Collaborative Home Infant Monitoring Evaluation, a multi-center program to study efficacy of home monitoring for SIDS. These studies have become a major research commitment, and he was recently given a special award for leadership by the NICHD Director. Dr. Lister also has a particular interest in academic development. Towards this end he has directed an NIH funded training grant for 27 years and fellowship program in Critical Care Medicine, helped initiate the SPR Student Summer Research Program, and participated actively in teaching programs in Eastern Europe through both the IPRF and other organizations. He also has a major role in teaching at Yale Medical School and was the Associate Director for Clinical Science of the MD-PhD Program. He has been elected to a number of national offices including President of the Society for Pediatric Research, National Council and President elect of the American Pediatric Society, and Chair of the Board of Directors of the American Board of Pediatrics. He has served as Editor-in-Chief of Pediatric Research, a Senior Editor of Rudolph’s Pediatrics and Editor for the new Rudolph’s Pediatrics Online. He has received recognition of his interests through receipt of an Established Investigator Award of the American Heart Association, Fulbright Fellowship, the Distinguished Career Award of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Francis Gilman Blake Award for Teaching by the Senior Class of 1995 and the Charles W. Bohmfalk Teaching Prize for the Most Outstanding Teacher of Clinical Sciences at Yale Medical School in 2000, the Society for Pediatric Research Maureen Andrew Mentor Award, listing in The Best Doctors in America since 1992, and elected to the Institute of Medicine in 2006. Dr. Lister moved from Yale in the fall of 2003 to become the Professor and Chairman of Pediatrics at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.

Education

FellowshipUniversity of California San Francisco Medical Cen, Research (1977)
ResidencyYale-New Haven Hospital, Pediatrics (1975)
Medical SchoolYale University School of Medicine (1973)

Publications

Featured
Society for Pediatric Research Presidential Address 1993: Development of the academic pediatrician

Lister G , Pediatric Research , 1993; (34):397-402

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Oxygen transport during anemic hypoxia in pigs: Effects of digoxin on metabolism

Saltiel A, Sanfilippo DJ, Hendler R, Lister G , Am J Physiol , 1992; (263 (Heart Circ Phys 32)):H208-H217

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Pulmonary metabolic function in the awake lamb: Effect of development, hypoxia

Pitt BR, Lister G , J Appl Physiol , 1983; (55(2)):383-391

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Physiologic effects of increasing hemoglobin concentration in left-to-right shunting in infants with ventricular septal defects

Lister G, Hellenbrand WE, Kleinman CS, Talner NS , N Engl J Med , 1982; (306):502-506

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Oxygen delivery in lambs: Cardiovascular and hematologic development

Lister G, Walter TK, Versmold HT, Dallman PR, Rudolph AM , Am J Physiol , 1979; (237 (Heart Circ Phys 6)):H668-H675

RUDOLPHS Pediatrics 22nd Edition

Rudolph CD, Rudolph AM, Lister G, First LR, Gershon AA (eds): , McGraw Hill, New York, NY , 2011;

American Pediatric Society 2009 Presidential Address-The Complexity of Pediatric Education in the 21st Century: What Can We Do?

Lister G , Pediatr Res , 2011; (69):567-572

Can Resuscitation Jeopardize Survival?

Lister G, Perez Fontan JJ , N Engl J Med , 2004; (350(17)):1708-9

Mentorship: Lessons I Wish I Learned the First Time.

Lister G , Curr Opin Pediatr , 2004; (16(5)):579-84

Cardiorespiratory events recorded on home monitors: comparison of healthy infants with those at increased risk for SIDS.

Ramanathan R, Corwin MJ, Hunt CE, Lister G, Tinsley LR, Baird T, Silvestri JM, Crowell DH, Hufford D, Martin RJ, Neuman MR, Weese-Mayer DE, Cupples LA, Peucker M, Willinger M, Keens TG, and CHIME. , JAMA , 2001; (285):2199-2207

Honors/Awards

Joseph W. St Geme, Jr, Leadership Award

(2011)

Elected to the Institute of Medicine

National Academy of Sciences (2006)

Maureen Andrew Mentor Award

Society for Pediatric Research (2004)

Fulbright Fellowship

(1990)

Established Investigator Award

American Heart Association (1985)

Professional Associations/Affiliations

American Academy of Pediatrics

American Board of Pediatrics, Chair of Board of Directors, 2004

American Pediatric Society, President, 2008-2009

Society for Pediatric Research, President, 1993-1994