Divisions & Faculty

Background

Research Interests

Honors and Awards

• Teaching Excellence Award, UTMSH, 1984-85
• Teaching Excellence Award, UTMSH, 1986-87
• Dean's List for Teaching Excellence, UTMSH, 1987-88
• Dean's List for Teaching Excellence, UTMSH, 1988-89
• 2nd highest rated Teacher, 2nd year Medical Students, EVMS , 1994
• Nomimated for Faculty Achievement Award for Teaching in the Clinical Sciences, EVMS, 1995
• Faculty Achievement Award for Teaching in the Basic Sciences, EVMS, 1996
• Invited Speaker, 8th International Conference “Bioactive Substances in Human Milk”, ISRHML, Plymouth, Mass, October, 1997
• Invited Speaker, Milk Club National Meeting, May, 1998
• Invited Speaker, 9th Pan-American Congress on Infectious Diseases, Guatemala City, Guatemala, May, 1999
• Invited Speaker, European Society for Pediatric Hematology and Immunology, Washington, D.C., May, 1999
• Nominee, James W. Hayes Faculty Teaching Award, Department of Pediatrics, EVMS, 1999
• Inducted into EVMS Chapter of Alpha Omega Alpha National Medical Honor Society, May 2000
• James W. Hayes Faculty Teaching Award, Department of Pediatrics, EVMS, 2000
• Invited Speaker, ElectroMed 2001 Conference, Portsmouth, VA, May, 2001
• Invited Speaker (“Meet the Experts” session), 42nd ICAAC, San Diego, CA, September, 2002
• Invited Speaker, 12th Annual Wake AHEC “Art of Breastfeeding” Conference: “The mother with mastitis”, Chapel Hill, NC
• Invited Speaker, 2002 IEEE CEIDP meeting, Workshop on Dielectric Properties and Electrical Breakdown of Biological Membranes, “Intracellular Electromanipulation of mammalian cells with submicrosecond pulsed electric fields”, Cancun, Mexico, October, 2002
• Invited Speaker, ElectroMed 2003 Conference, San Antonio, TX, June, 2003
• Invited Speaker, 8th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine; “The anti-infective properties of human milk: basic mechanisms”; “Breastfeeding and Maternal Infection/Immunization”, Chicago, IL, October 2003
• Invited Speaker, Association of Woman’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN) National Convention, "The Amazing Evidence
  About Human Milk: Its Not Just Food", Tampa, FL; June 28, 2004
• Invited Speaker, 2nd Annual Lactation Conference, Amarillo, Texas: "Anti-infectious Characteristics of Human Milk, with Special Reference to the Pre-term Infant."
• Invited Speaker, 33rd Annual Seminar for Physicians on Breastfeeding, LaLeche League International, July, 2005, Washington, D.C. "Anti-inflammatory Characteristics of Human Milk", "Anti-Infective Characteristics of Human Milk".
• Award of Recognition, LaLeche League International, July, 2005, Washington, D.C.; "Human Milk, Its not just Food".

Professional Affiliations

• American Federation for Clinical Research
• Pediatric Infectious Disease Society
• Society for Pediatric Research
• American Association for the Advancement of Science
• International Society for Research in Human Milk and Lactation
• European Society for Pediatric Hematology and Immunology

Selected Publicatins

1. Xarli VP, Steel AA, Davis PJ, Buescher ES, Rios CN, Garcia-Bunuel R. Adrenal hemorrhage in the adult. Medicine 57:211-23, 1978.
2. Buescher ES, Winkelstein JA. The ability of bacteria to activate the terminal complement components of patients with cystic fibrosis. J Pediatr 493:530-1, 1978.
3. Longfield R, Buescher ES. Streptococcus bovis meningitis following a dental procedure. JAMA 247:2663, 1982.
4. Buescher ES, Gallin JI. Leukocyte transfusions in chronic granulomatous disease: Persistence of transfused leukocytes in sputum. N Engl J Med 307:800-3, 1982.
5. Buescher ES, Gallin JI. A simple micromethod for leukocyte rosetting without cell purification. J Immunol Methods 61:141-4, 1983.
6. Buescher ES, Gallin JI. Disorders of phagocyte function in current therapy in allergy and immunology. AS Fauci, LM Lichtenstein, Eds, Montreal, BC Decker, Inc, pp 287-93, 1983.
7. Gallin, Buescher ES. Abnormal regulation of inflammatory skin responses in male patients with chronic granulomatous disease. Inflammation 7: 227-32, 1983.
8. Gallin JI, Buescher ES, Seligmann BE, Nath J, Gaither TA, Katz P. Recent advances in chronic granulomatous disease. Ann Intern Med 99:657-74, 1983.
9. Foon KA, Harley J, Buescher ES, Kimball ES, Huang L, Stevenson HC, Clarke G, Gregorio T, Gallin JI, Fauci AS, Ginsburg V. Monoclonal antibodies to human eosinophils. Hybridoma 2:393-402, 1983.
10. Buescher ES, Gallin JI. Radiation effects on monocytes and monocyte derived macrophages. Blood 63:1402-7, 1984.
11. Buescher ES, Gallin JI. Stature and weight in chronic granulomatous disease. J Pediatr 104:911-3, 1984.
12. Stevenson HC, Kimball ES, Schroff RW, Buescher ES, Clarke G, Gregorio T, Wilburn S, Foon KA. Two new monoclonal antibodies to human monocytes an granulocytes: Isolation of membrane antigens and lack of effects of antibodies on leukocyte functions in vitro. Hybridoma 3:247-61, 1984.
13. Volkman DJ, Buescher ES, Gallin JI, Fauci AS. B-cell lines as models for inherited phagocytic disorders: Abnormal superoxide generation in chronic granulomatous disease and giant granules in the Chediak-Higashi Syndrome. J Immunol 133:3006-9, 1984.
14. Buescher ES, Gaither T, Nath J, Gallin JI. Abnormal adherence related functions of neutrophils, monocytes, and E?B virus transformed B cells in a patient with C3Bi receptor deficiency. Blood 65:1382-90, 1985.
15. Buescher ES, Alling DW, Gallin JI. Use of an X-linked human neutrophil marker to estimate timing of lyonization and size of the dividing stem cell pool. J Clin Invest 76:1581-4, 1985.
16. Pickering LK, Buescher ES. Polysaccharide vaccines against Hemophilus influenzae, Neisseria meningitidis and Streptococcus pneumoniae. Infect Dis Newsltr 4:84-7, 1985.
17. Ohno Y, Buescher ES, Roberts R, Gallin JI. A reevaluation of cytochrome B and flavin adenine dinucleotide in neutrophils from patients with chronic granulomatous disease and description of a family with probable autosomal recessive inheritance of cytochrome B deficiency. Blood 67:1132-8, 1986.
18. Buescher ES, McIlheran SM, Johnston DA, Tang KS. Polymorphonuclear leukocyte (PMN) chemotaxis under agarose: Quantitation of population movement using image analysis. National Computer Graphics Association Conference Proceedings: Technical Sessions VIII. 1986.
19. Buescher ES, Gallin JI. Effects of storage and radiation on human neutrophil function in vitro. Inflammation 11:401-6, 1987.
20. Buescher ES, McIlheran SM. Antioxidant properties of human colostrum. Pediatr Res 24:14-9, 1988.
21. Buescher ES, Hebert AA, Rapini RR. Staphylococcal botryomycosis in a patient with the hyperimmunoglobulin E-recurrent infection syndrome. Pediatr Infect Dis J 7:431-3, 1988.
22. Vadhan S, Buescher S, LeMaistre A, Keating M, Walters R, Ventura C, Hittelman W, Broxmeyer HE, Gutterman JU. Stimulation of hematopoiesis in patients with bone marrow failure and in patients with malignancy by recombinant human granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor. Blood 72:134-41, 1988.
23. Buescher ES, McIlheran SM, Vadhan S. Effects of in vivo administration of recombinant, human granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor on human neutrophil chemotaxis and oxygen metabolism. J Infect Dis 158:1140-42, 1988.
24. Vadan S, Hittelman WN, Ventura G, Buescher ES, Keating M, Gutterman JU. Granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor and myelodysplastic syndromes (Letter). N Engl J Med 319:51-3, 1988.
25. Vadhan-Raj S, Buescher S, Broxmeyer HE, LeMaistre A, Lepe-Zuniga J, Ventura G, Jeha S, Horowitz L, Trujillo JM, Hittelman WN, Gillis S, Gutterman JU. Stimulation of myelopoiesis in patients with aplastic anemia by recombinant human granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor. N Engl J Med 319:1628-34, 1988.
26. Buescher ES, McIlheran SM, Livesey SA, Skubtiz KM. Human granulocyte CD-15 antigens: structural and functional studies, In Leukocyte typing IV. W Knapp, et al, eds., pp 807-10, Oxford University Press, 1989.
27. Skubitz K, Balke J, Ball E, Bridges R, Buescher S, Campos L, Harvath L, Kerr M, Kniep B, Spitalnik B, Skubitz A, Thompson J, Wick M, Williams L. M4.1 report on the CD15 cluster workshop, In Leukocyte typing IV. Knapp W, et al, eds, pp 800-5, Oxford University Press, 1989
28. Buescher ES. Phagocytic cell disorders that predispose to infection. Infect Dis Newsltr 6:51-3, 1987.
29. Buescher ES, McIlheran SM, Frenck Jr RW. Further characterization of colostral antioxidants: Identification of an ascorbate-like element as an antioxidant component and demonstration of antioxidant heterogeneity. Pediatr Res 25:266-70, 1989.
30. Frenck Jr, RW, Buescher ES, Vadhan-Raj S. The effects of recombinant human granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (rhGM-CSF) on in vitro cord blood granulocyte function. Pediatr Res 26:43-8, 1989.
31. Livesey SA, Buescher ES, Krannig GL, Harrison DS, Chiovetti R. Human neutrophil granule heterogeneity: immunolocalization studies using cryofixed, dried and embedded specimens. Scan Microscop, suppl 3, 231-240, 1989.
32. Kimura H, Buescher ES, Ball ED, Marcus DM. Restricted use of VH and VK genes by murine monoclonal antibodies against 3-fucosyllactosamine. Eur J Immunol 19:1741-6, 1989.
33. Vadhan-Raj S, Jeha SS, Buescher ES, LeMaistre A, Yee G, Lu L, Hoots WK, Hittelman WN, Gutterman JU, Broxmeyer HE. Stimulation of myelopoiesis in a patient with congenital neutropenia: Biology and nature of response to recombinant human granulocyte?macrophage colony stimulating factor. Blood 75:858-64, 1990.
34. Jesaitis AJ, Buescher ES, Harrison D, Quinn MT, Parkos CA, Livesey S, Linner J. Ultrastructural organization of cytochrome b in the membranes of resting and phagocytosing human granulocytes. J Clin Invest 85:821-35, 1990.
35. Frenck RW, Sarman G, Harper TE, Buescher ES. The ability of recombinant murine granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor to protect neonatal rats from septic death due to Staphylococcus aureus. J Infect Dis 162:109-114, 1990.
36. Buescher ES, Livesey SA, Skubitz KM, McIlheran SM. Functional, physical and ultrastructural localization of CD15 antigens to the human polymorphonuclear leukocyte secondary granule. Anat Record 228:306-14, 1990.
37. Ventura GJ, Hester JP, Buescher ES, Vadhan-Raj S, Durrett A, Reading CL. Hematopoiesis in limiting dilution cultures: Influence of cytokines on human hematopoietic progenitor cells. Exp Hematol 18:878-82, 1990.
38. Buescher ES, McIlheran SM, Banks SM, Vadhan-Raj S. Reversal of the functional effects of granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor on polymorphonuclear leukocytes by membrane fluidizing agents. Infect Immun 58:3002-3008, 1990.
39. Buescher ES, McIlheran SM. Separation and characterization of two antioxidants in human colostrum. J Pediatr Gastro Nutr 14:47-56, 1991.
40. Vadhan Raj S, Buescher ES, Hittelman WN, Broxmeyer HE, Gutterman JV. In vivo biologic effects of recombinant human granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor in patients with malignancy or bone marrow failure; Ch20. In Peters WP, ed, Hematopoietic growth factors, Futura Publishing Co, Mount Kisco, NY, 1990, pp .
41. Frenck, RW, Ventura GJ, Krannig G, Felix EA, Zipf TF, VanWinkle WB, Buescher ES. Studies of the function and structure of in vitro propagated human granulocytes. Pediatr Res 30:135-140, 1991.
42. Conley SB, O'Ryan M, Buescher ES, Portman RJ, Lemire JM, Corrierre JN. Letter to the editor: Treatment of an infant with Candida cystitis. Pediatr Nephrol 5:270, 1991.
43. Buescher ES. The effects of colostrum on neutrophil function: decreased deformability with increased cytoskeleton-associated actin, in Mestecky J, ed, The Immunology of Milk and the Neonate, Adv Exp Med Biol 310: 131-136, 1991.
44. Vadhan-Raj S, Broxmeyer HE, Hittelman WS, Papadopoulos NE, Chawla SP, Fenoglio C, Cooper S, Buescher ES, Frenck RW, Holian A, Perkins R, Scheule R, Gutterman JU, Plager C, Salem P, Benjamin RS. Abrogating chemotherapy induced myelosuppression by GM CSF in patients with sarcoma: protection at the progenitor cell level. J Clin Oncol 10: 1266-1277, 1992.
45. Tersteppen LWMM, Buescher S, Nguyen M, Reading C. Differentiation and maturation of growth factor expanded early human hematopoietic progenitors assessed by multidimensional flow cytometry. Leukemia 6:1001-1010, 1992.
46. Linner JG, Buescher ES, Siemsen D, Dratz EA, Quinn MT, Jesaitis AJ. Electronmicroscopic immunocytochemical localization of lipid peroxidation products in phagocytosing human neutrophils, in Molecular Basis of Oxidative Damage by Leukocytes: Proceedings of the first Montana State University Keystone Symposium at Big Sky, Montana, A. Jesaitis, E. Dratz, Eds. CRC Press, 1991, pp 277-281.
47. Buescher ES, McIlheran SM, Banks SM, Kavanagh JJ, Kudelka AP, Vadhan-Raj S. The effects of interleukin-1 therapy on peripheral blood granulocyte function in humans. Cancer Immunol Immunother 37: 26-30, 1993.
48. Buescher ES, McIlheran SM, Banks SM, Vadhan-Raj S. The effects of treatment with PIXY321 (GM-CSF/IL-3 fusion protein) on human polymorphonuclear leukocyte function. Exp Hematol 21: 1467?1472, 1993.
49. Murphey DK, Buescher ES. Human colostrum has anti-inflammatory activity in a rat subcutaneous air pouch model of inflammation. Pediatr Res 34: 208-212, 1993.
50. Buescher ES, McIlheran SM. Polymorphonuclear leukocytes and human colostrum: effects of in vivo and in vitro exposure. Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr 17: 424-433, 1993.
51. Buescher ES. Host defense mechanisms of human milk and their relations to enteric infections and necrotizing enterocolitis. Clinics Perinatol 21: 247-262, 1994.
52. Moore DF, Buescher S, Vadhan-Raj S. Interleukin-1 administration increases oral granulocytes and epithelial cells. (letter) J Infect Dis 169: 1419-1420, 1994.
53. Quinn MT, Linner JG, Siemsen D, Dratz EA, Buescher ES, Jesaitis AJ. Immunocytochemical detection of lipid peroxidation in phagosomes of human neutrophils: correlation with expression of cytochrome b in X-linked Chronic Granulomatous Disease. J Leukocyte Biol 57: 415-421, 1995.
54. Malinowska I, Buescher ES. The effects of myeloid blind panel antibodies on PMN phagocytosis, in Leukocyte Typing V: White Cell Differentiation Antigens; eds S. Schlossman, L. Boumsell, W. Gilks, J. Harlan, T. Kishimoto, C. Morimoto, J. Ritz, S. Shaw, R. Silverstein, T. Springer, T. Tedder, R. Todd; pp1001-1004, Oxford Univerity Press, 1995.
55. Rosenthal MD, Gordon MN, Buescher ES, Slusser JH, Harris LK, Franson RC. Human neutrophils store type II 14-kDa phospholipase A2 in granules and secrete active enzyme in response to soluble stimuli. Biochem Biophys Res Com 208: 650-656, 1995.
56. Vadhan-Raj S, Broxmeyer HE, Andreeff M, Bandres JC, Buescher S, Benjamin RS, Papadapoulos NE, Burgess A, Linke K, Patel S, Plager C, Hittelman WN, McAlister I, Garrison L, Williams DE. In vivo biologic effects of PIXY321, a synthetic hybrid protein of recombinant human granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) and interleukin-3 (IL-3) in cancer patients with normal hematopoiesis: phase I study. Blood 86:2098-2105, 1995.
57. Grazioso CF, Buescher ES. The effects of mature milk and human colostrum on in vitro polymorphonuclear leukocyte function. Clin Immunol 168:125-132, 1996.
58. Buescher ES, Malinowska I. Soluble receptors and cytokine antagonists in human milk. Pediatr Res 40:839-844, 1996.
59. Grazioso CF Werner AL, Alling DA, Bishop PR, Buescher ES. Antiinflammatory effects of human milk on chemically-induced colitis Pediatr Res 42: 639-643, 1997.
60. Grazioso CF, Malinowska I, Buescher ES. Effects of human milk on neutrophil adherence, aggegation, deformability and cytoskeleton assembly. (pending).
61. Buescher ES, Koeppen PM. Effects of myeloid blind panel antibodies on human polymorphonuclear leukocyte phagocytosis. (submitted, 6th International Workshop on Human Leukocyte Differentiation Antigens).
62. Buescher ES, Koeppen PM. Effects of monoclonal antibodies of the cytokine receptor section on human polymorphonuclear leukocyte apoptosis. (submitted, 6th International Workshop on Human Leukocyte Differentiation Antigens).
63. Gomez R, Buescher ES. Meningococcemia. Images in Clinical Medicine. N Engl J Med 336:707, 1997.
64. Parvathenani LK, Buescher ES, Chacon-Cruz E, Beebe SJ. Type-I cAMP-dependent protein kinase delays apoptosis in human neutrophils at a site up-stream of Caspase-3. J Biol Chem 273: 6736-6743, 1998.
65. Buescher ES, McWilliams-Koeppen P. Soluble TNF receptors in human colostrum bind to TNF and neutralize TNF bioactivity. Pediatr Res 44:37-42, 1998.
66. Kossoff EH, Buescher ES, Karlowicz MG. Candidemia in a neonatal intensive care unit: clinical features of 109 cases and time trend over 15 years (1981-95). Pediatr Infect Dis J 17:504-508, 1998.
67. Chacon-Cruz E, Oelberg DG, Davis P, Buescher ES. Membrane depolarization and depletion of intracellular calcium stores are associated with delay of apoptosis in human neutrophils. J Leuk Biol 64:579-766, 1998.
68. Kossoff EH, Buescher ES, LiPuma JJ, Karlowicz MG. Comparison of Burkholderia (formerly Pseudomonas) cepacia and Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteremia in a neonatal intensive care unit. (pending).
69. Rowen JA, Tate JM, Neonatal Candidiasis Group. Management of neonatal candidiasis. Pediatr Infect Dis J 17:1007-1011, 1998.
70. Chacon-Cruz E, Oelberg DG, Buescher ES. Human milk effects on neutrophil calcium metabolism: blockade of calcium influx following agonist stimulation. Pediatr Res 46:200-207, 1999.
71. Buescher E, Chacon-Cruz E, Mantych KB. Human milk exposure alters intracellular Ca++ balance, causes cellular activation and suppresses function of polymorphonuclear leukocytes. (pending).
72. Chacon-Cruz E, Buescher ES, Oelberg DG. Surfactant modulates the calcium response of neutrophils to physiologic stimulation via cell membrane depolarization. Pediatr Res 47:405-413, 2000.
73. Chacon-Cruz E, Oelberg DG, Buescher ES. Human milk effects on neutrophil Ca++ metabolism: release and depletion on internal Ca++ stores and blockade of agonist-stimulated Ca++ influx (submitted, J Leuk Biol).
74. Karlowicz MG, Buescher ES, Surka AE. Fulminant late-onset sepsis in a neonatal intensive care unit: 1988-1997. Pediatrics 106:1387-1390, 2000.
75. Karlowicz MG, Hashimoto, LN, Kelly RE, Buescher ES. Should central venous catheters be removed as soon as candidemia is detected in neonates? Pediatrics 106:E63, 2000.
76. Duane TM, Kelly RE, Buescher ES, Croitoru DP, Nuss D. Unilateral inguinal hernia in children: use of laparoscopy to evaluate for a contralateral hernia at the time of repair. Abdominal Surgery, Fall 2000.
77. Bass WT, Buescher ES, Burke BL, White LE, Jones MA, Lawson ML. Pro-inflammatory cytokines and their soluble receptor concentrations in plasma and cerebrospinal fluid of premature very-low-birth-weight infants developing cerebral white matter lesions. (pending)
78. Buescher ES, Hair PS. Human Milk Anti-inflammatory Component Contents During Acute Mastitis. Clin Immunol 210:87-95, 2001.
79. Karlowicz MG, Furigay PJ, Croitoru DP, Buescher ES. Central venous catheter removal versus in situ treatment in neonates with coagulase negative staphylococcal bacteremia. Pediatr Infect Dis J 21:22-27, 2002.
80. Boston M, Dobratz EJ, Buescher ES, Darrow DH. Effects of nasal saline spray on human neutrophils. (pending).
81. Schoenbach KH, Beebe SJ, Buescher ES. Intracellular effect of ultrashort electrical pulses. Bioelectromagnetics 22:440-448, 2001.
82. Malinowska I, Obitko-Pludowska A, Buescher ES, Wasik M, Rokicka-Milewska R. Release of cytokines and soluble cytokine receptors after intravenous anti-D treatment in children with chronic thrombocytopenic purpura. Hematol J 2:242-249, 2001.
83. Schoenbach KH, Katsuki S, Stark RH, Buescher ES, Beebe SJ. Bioelectrics - New applications for pulsed power technology. IEEE Trans Plasma Sci 30:293-300, 2002.
84. Nazemi KJ, Buescher ES, Kelly RE, Karlowicz MG. Central venous catheter removal versus in situ treatment in neonates with Enterobacteriaceae bacteremia. J Pediatr 111:e269-e274, 2003.
85. Darrow DH, Buescher ES. Group A streptococcal pharyngitis. Curr Op Otolaryn Head Neck Surg 10:449-454, 2002.
86. Deng J, Beebe SJ, Fox P, Hair PS, Schoenbach KH, Buescher ES. The effects of intense, submicrosecond electrical pulses in cells. Biophys J 84:2709-2714, 2003.
87. Moylett EH, Pacheco SE, Brown-Elliott BA, Perry TR, Buescher ES, Birmingham MC, Schentag JJ, Gimbel JF, Apodaca A, Schwartz MA, Rakita RM, Wallace RJ, Jr. Clinical experience with linezolid for treatment of Nocardia infection. Clin Infect Dis 36:313-318, 2003.
88. Buescher ES, Schoenbach KH. The effects of submicrosecond, high intensity pulsed electric fields on living cells - Intracellular Electromanipulation. IEEE Trans Dielelect Electr Insul 10:788-794, 2003.
89. Boston M, Dobratz EJ, Buescher ES, Darrow DH. Effects of nasal saline spray on human neutrophils. Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 129:660-664, 2003.
90. Hair PS, Schoenbach KH, Buescher ES. Sub-microsecond, intense pulsed electric field applications to cells show specificity of effects. Bioelectrochemistry 61:65-72, 2003.
91. Heritage J, Chambers PA, Tyndall C, Buescher ES. SHV-34: and extended spectrum ß-lactamase encoded by an epidemic plasmid. J Antimicrob Chemother 52:1015-1017, 2003.
92. Stacey M, Stickley J, Fox P, Statler V, Schoenbach K, Beebe SJ, Buescher ES. Differential effects in cells exposed to ultra-short, high intensity electric fields: cell survival, DNA damage and cell cycle analysis. Mutation Res 542:65-75, 2003.
93. Boston ME, Frech GC, Chacon-Cruz E, Buescher ES, Oelberg DG. Surfactant releases internal calcium stores in neutrophils by G-protein activated pathway. Exp Biol Med 229:99-107, 2004.
94. Cunnion KM, Hair PS, Buescher ES. Cleavage of complement C3 to iC3B on the surface of Staphylococcus aureus is mediated by serum complement factor I. Infect Immun 72:2858-2863, 2004.
95. Schoenbach KH, Joshi RP, Kolb J, Chen N, Stacey M, Blackmore PF, Buescher ES, Beebe SJ. Ultrashort electrical pulses open a new gateway into biological cells. Proc IEEE 93:1122-1137, 2004.
96. Buescher ES, Smith RR, Schoenbach KH. Submicrosecond intense pulsed electric field effects on intracellular free calcium: mechanisms and effects. IEEE Trans Plas Sci 32:1563-1572, 2004
97. Buescher ES. Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in pediatrics. Curr Op Pediatr 17:67-70, 2005.
98. Coates EW, Karlowicz MG, Croitoru DP, Buescher ES. Distinctive distribution of pathogens associated with peritonitis in neonates with focal intestinal perforation compared with necrotizing enterocolitis. Pediatrics 116:e241-246, 2005.
99. Cunnion KM, Buescher ES, Hair PS. Serum complement factor I decreases Staphylococcus aureus phagocytosis. J Lab Clin Med 146:279-286, 2005.

Books

1. Hughes WT, Buescher ES. Pediatric Procedures, 2nd edition, Philadelphia, WB Saunders, 1980.
2. Taeusch HW, Christiansen RO, Buescher ES. Pediatric and Neonatal Tests and Procedures, Philadelphia, W.B. Saunders, 1995.

Book Chapters

1. Buescher ES, Pickering LK. Polymorphonuclear leukocytes in human colostrum and milk In Human Milk in Infant Nutrition and Health, pp 160-73, RR Howell, FH Morriss and LK Pickering, eds. Charles C Thomas Publishing Co, Springfield, IL 1986.

2. Buescher ES, Ch 261, Phagocytic cells, In Textbook of Internal Medicine VII, WN Kelley, ed. Lippincott Publishers, pp 1484-9, Philadelphia, 1989.

3. Bertha E, Buescher ES. Toxicology Procedures and Tests, Ch 32 in Pediatric and Neonatal Tests and Procedures, HW Taeusch, R Christianson, ES Buescher, Eds, W.B. Saunders Company, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., pp 344-352, 1995.

4. Frenck RW Jr, Buescher ES. Musculoskeletal and Trauma Procedures and Tests, in Pediatric and Neonatal Tests and Procedures, HW Taeusch, R Christianson, ES Buescher, Eds, W.B. Saunders Company, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., pp 313-337, 1995.

5. Derkay CS, Buescher ES. Ear, Nose and Throat Tests and Procedures, Ch 40 in Pediatric and Neonatal Tests and Procedures, HW Taeusch, R Christianson, ES Buescher, Eds, W.B. Saunders Company, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., pp 426-446, 1995.

6. Ferriero D, Buescher ES. Central Nervous System, Ch 38 in Pediatric and Neonatal Tests and Procedures, HW Taeusch, R Christianson, ES Buescher, Eds, W.B. Saunders Company, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., pp 409-418, 1995.

7. Buescher ES. Infectious Disease Procedures and Tests, in Pediatric and Neonatal Tests and Procedures, HW Taeusch, R Christianson, ES Buescher, Eds, W.B. Saunders Company, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., pp 623-636, 1995.

8. Buescher ES. Evaluation of the patient with suspected immunodeficiency. Ch 107 in Principles and Practice of Pediatric Infectious Disease, SS Long, CG Prober and LK Pickering, eds, Churchill Livingstone, 1997, pp 699-705.

9. Buescher ES. Infectious complications of dysfunction/deficiency of granulocytic phagocytes. Ch 110 in Principles and Practice of Pediatric Infectious Disease, SS Long, CG Prober and LK Pickering, eds, Churchill Livingstone, 1997, pp 715-724.

10. Buescher ES. Infections associated with pediatric sport participation. Pediatr Clin N Am 49:1-9, 2002.

11. Buescher ES. Evaluation of the patient with suspected immunodeficiency. Ch 107 in Principles and Practice of Pediatric Infectious Disease, SS Long, LK Pickering and CG Prober, eds, Churchill Livingstone, 2002, pp 619-625.

12. Buescher ES. Infectious complications of dysfunction or deficiency of polymorphonuclear and mononuclear phagocytes. Ch 110 in Principles and Practice of Pediatric Infectious Disease, SS Long, LK Pickering and CG Prober, eds, Churchill Livingstone, 2002, pp 635-642.

13. Buescher ES. Neutrophil function and disorders of neutrophils in the newborn. Ch 11 in Neonatal Hematology, P de Alarcon, E Werner, eds, Cambridge University Press, 2005, pp 254-279.

1. Illustrator, The Harriet Lane Handbook, Ed 8, KC Schuberth, BJ Zitelli, Eds, Chicago, Year Book Medical Publishers, 1978.

2. Illustrator, The Harriet Lane Handbook, Ed 9, JA Biller, A Yeager, Eds, Chicago, Year Book Medical Publishers, 1981.

3. Hughes WT, Buescher ES. Pediatric Procedures, 2nd edition, Philadelphia, WB Saunders, 1980.

4. Principles and Practice of Pediatric Infectious Disease, SS Long, CG Prober and LK Pickering, eds, Churchill Livingstone, 1997.

Web Sites

• http://www.jointinjury.com - An experimental website created as an educational tool for athletes with joint injuries.
  http://www.jointinjury.com/ID_FLWSP/index.htm - Web page for the Pediatric Infectious Disease Fellowship Training Program at Eastern Virginia Medical School

• http://www.jointinjury.com/GME/SLEEPY/INDEX.HTM - Web page for online instruction of Professional staff on the signs of sleep deprivation and fatigue in humans. Created to comply with ACGME mandate for education in the signs of sleep deprivation and fatigue in resident physicians.

• http://www.jointinjury.com/GME/scholars/index.htm - Web page containing "scholarly activity" lecture series addressing various aspects of biomedical research in Pediatrics presented to CHKD Pediatric residents 2004-2005