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Santa Bartholomew, MD, Pediatrics, Greenville, NC

SantaJBartholomewMDFAAP, FCCM (Formerly Santa J Johnston)

Pediatrics Greenville, NC

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care, Child Abuse Pediatrics, Hospitalist

Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatric Intensivist, Expert Witness

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  • Office

    2100 Stantonsburg Rd
    Greenville, NC 27834
    Phone+1 252-744-5871
    Fax+1 252-744-5759

Summary

  • Dr. Santa J. Bartholomew (formerly Santa J. Johnston, M.D.) is an award-winning Pediatrician with more than 30 years of clinical experience, and is a distinguished medical educator serving as a Professor of Pediatrics at two esteemed medical universities. She is double-boarded by the American Board of Pediatrics in both Pediatrics and Pediatric Critical Care medicine.

    Her primary specialty has been Pediatric Critical Care medicine since 1990, and Dr. Bartholomew has practiced for decades in nearly every conceivable setting from state-of-the-art quaternary care centers, to large academic centers and level I trauma centers with very busy Pediatric Emergency Departments and Pediatric Intensive Care Units (PICUs). She has worked in many small and medium-sized community hospitals throughout the nation including Alaska, and has traveled around the world to serve patients in remote areas.

    Practice roles have consisted of Pediatric Intensivist, Pediatric Hospitalist, Pediatric Emergency Consultant, and Emergency Transport of critically ill children, including helicopter flight time. She has managed congenital heart patients who require open heart surgery, renal and all manner of transplant patients, pediatric trauma patients, ECMO support of cardiac patients, and a wide variety of common to rare medical and general pediatric surgical diseases.

    She holds unrestricted licenses with 17 state medical boards with no history of disciplinary actions. While performing legal review and court services since 1993, she has successfully delivered testimony for both plaintiff and defense clients across an array of complex pediatric, critical care, custody and criminal cases. Her opinions are highly sought after and are based on a solid educational foundation and developed over 32 years of rigorous clinical practice in a myriad of settings around the world.

    Dr. Bartholomew's unwavering ethical center has reliably yielded the delivery of "Expert Opinions with Integrity since 1993".

Education & Training

  • New York Presbyterian Hospital (Cornell Campus)
    New York Presbyterian Hospital (Cornell Campus)Fellowship, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, 1991 - 1993
  • University of Maryland
    University of MarylandResidency, Pediatrics, 1986 - 1990
  • MCP-Hahnemann College of Medicine
    MCP-Hahnemann College of MedicineClass of 1986
  • Villanova University
    Villanova UniversityBS, Biology, 1978 - 1982

Certifications & Licensure

  • FL State Medical License
    FL State Medical License 2019 - 2026
  • IL State Medical License
    IL State Medical License 2007 - 2026
  • VA State Medical License
    VA State Medical License 1993 - 2026
  • ME State Medical License
    ME State Medical License 2023 - 2026
  • MT State Medical License
    MT State Medical License 2020 - 2026
  • NY State Medical License
    NY State Medical License 1990 - 2026
  • CT State Medical License
    CT State Medical License 2007 - 2025
  • American Board of Pediatrics Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
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Awards, Honors, & Recognition

  • Fellow Critical Care Medicine (FCCM) Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM)
  • Top Doctor Washington DC 2017-2018
  • Top Doctor Washington DC Top Doctor, 2016-2017
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Publications & Presentations

PubMed

Journal Articles

  • Life-Threatening status asthmaticus treated with inhaled nitric oxide  
    Nakagawa T, Falkos S, Johnston SJ, Crit Care Med, 1/1/1998
  • Occurrence of renal tubule dysfunction following cardiopulmonary bypass in children  
    Miles MV, Li L,Henshell BL, Alia S, Agbuya PE, Adelman RD, McGinnis PJ, Zaritsky AL, Johnston SJ, Nakagawa TA, Gomez RJ, Crit Care Med, 1/1/1997
  • Calculated creatinine clearance fails to predict measured creatinine clearance in critically ill children  
    Fong,J, Notterman D, Valentino J, Johnston SJ, Clin Pharmacol Ther, 1/1/1995
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Abstracts/Posters

  • Comparison of rectal vs. intravenous Fentanyl in pediatric patients.
    Johnston SJ, Annual Meeting of Society of Pediatric Research, 1/1/1996
  • Inhaled nitric oxide as a treatment for pulmonary hypertension in ARDS patients.
    Nakagawa TA, Morris AD, Gomez RJ, Zaritsky AL, Johnston SJ, Research Symposium, Department of Pediatrics, Eastern Virginia Medical School, 1/1/1995
  • Pharmacokinetics of Midazolam in critically ill children.
    Johnston S, Notterman D, Fong J, Society of Pediatric Research Annual Meeting, 1/1/1993

Lectures

  • Blood gas interpretation. 
    1/1/2017
  • "Status asthmaticus" 
    1/1/2017
  • "Respiratory failure." 
    1/1/2017
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Other

  • Scald Burns. 
    Johnston SJ, WAVY 10 Parenting Segment
    Norfolk, VA - 1/22/2002
  • Burn Prevention. 
    Johnston SJ, WVEC Parenting Segment
    Norfolk, VA - 1/8/2001

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