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Dr. Jayshil Patel is an associate professor at the Medical College of Wisconsin and a board certified physician in internal medicine, pulmonary medicine, and critical care medicine. His particularly research […]
Dr. Leah Tatebe is an associate professor of surgery at Northwestern University in Chicago. In her talk, she discusses various ways that physicians can become advocates, using examples from her […]
Laurah Turner PhD is an assistant dean for assessment and education at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. Her lecture discusses the applications of AI to advance medical education.
Dr. Christa O'Hana Nobleza is practicing neurointensivisit and an associate professor of neurology at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis. Her lecture discusses the importance of mentorship […]
Dr. Alain Combes has is a professor of intensive care medicine at Sorbonne Université in Paris. Dr. Combes' research focuses on the care of critically ill cardiac patients, mechanical circulatory […]
Dr. Randal O. Dull is a professor of anesthesiology with joint appointments in the departments of pathology, physiology, and surgery at the University of Arizona College of Medicine. With a […]
Dr. Imad Khan is an assistant professor in the Division of NeuroCritical Care at the University of Rochester. His research focuses on monitoring cerebral perfusion and pathophysiology in patients with […]
Dr. Colin Grissom is professor of medicine at Intermountain Healthcare as well as University of Utah. He discusses his experience with implementing best practices, specifically low tidal volume ventilation, across […]
Dr. Lane Smith is a critical care medicine specialist at Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center located in Charlotte, North Carolina and serving as the Charlotte academic branch of Wake Forest […]
Dr. Joseph Mailman is an intensive care physician at New York-Presbyterian Weill Cornell with a keen interest in technological innovation. In this lecture, he discusses the field of medical informatics and […]
Jen Ginestra, MD, MSHP is an instructor of medicine in the department of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. She is interested in the organization of healthcare delivery and in optimizing the delivery of evidence-based interventions for critically ill patients. Her current research focuses on improving ...
Elizabeth Munroe, MD, MSc is a clinical instructor and post-doctoral research fellow in the dvision of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Michigan. Hayley Gershengorn, MD, FCCM, ATSF is a professor of clinical medicine in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine at the University ...
Eddy Fan, MD, PhD is a professor of medicine in the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto. His research is focused on advanced life support for acute respiratory failure and patient outcomes from critical illness. These include investigations on the epidemiology and use of mechanical ventilation and extracorporeal ...
Jacqueline Kruser, MD MS is an assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Allergy, Pulmonary & Critical Care at the University of Wisconsin. In her lecture today, she talks about the role of the language in the intensive care unit, using examples of specific phrases such as “goals of ...
Jonathan Elmer, MD, MS is an associate professor of emergency medicine, critical care medicine, and neurology at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. He received his Batchelor's degree in biochemistry from Swarthmore and his medical degree from Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He completed his residency in emergency medicine at ...
Tamar Schiff, MD is an internal medicine trained physician who is completing a postdoctoral fellowship in medical ethics at NYU. In her lecture, she presents key ethical and logistical considerations in implementation of combined eCPR (ECMO-assisted CPR) and NRP (normothermic regional perfusion) protocols in the United States. Also leading the ...
Dr. Sarah Wahlster is an associate professor of neurology at University of Washington in Seattle. The focus of her lecture is on mechanical ventilation in patients with neurologic disease.
Dr. David Roh is an Assistant Professor of Neurology at Columbia University where he is an attending neurointensivist. In this lecture, Dr. Roh reviews the currently implemented diagnostic and treatment approaches for hemorrhage control in intracerebral hemorrhage and discusses novel approaches being investigated.
Nick Bosch, MD, MSc is an assistant professor in the pulmonary division at the Boston University School of Medicine. In his lecture, he reviews the results of prior studies of transfusion hemoglobin thresholds during critical illness and discusses the use of regression discontinuity study design to help answer this important ...
Matt Siuba, DO, MS is an assistant professor of medicine in the department of critical care medicine at Cleveland Clinic. He is one of the authors of a recent review article on RV therapies in ARDS published in Critical Care. This is the topic of his lecture today. Ganeriwal S, ...
Dr. John Marini is a professor of medicine at the University of Minnesota. He trained at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine as well as the University of Washington in Seattle. He is the author and editor of numerous articles and textbooks and has published more than 400 scientific and ...
Dr. Christopher Cox discusses palliative care in the ICU.
Janhavi Athale, MD is an assistant professor in the critical care medicine department as well as the hematology and oncology department at Mayo Clinic in Phoenix, Arizona. Her lecture focuses on the most common bleeding and clotting disorders seen in the ICU.
Elizabeth Marie Viglianti, MD, MPH, MSc is an assistant professor of pulmonary and critical care at the University of Michigan. Her topic today is #MeToo in medicine and the current state of gender bias in academic medicine.
Nick Villalobos, MD is the medical director of the MICU and critical care ultrasound at the San Antonio Military Medical Center. His lecture focuses on renal ultrasound techniques and how renal ultrasound can be used in critically ill patients to assess kidney function.
Mehrdad Ghoreishi, MD is an assistant professor of cardiac surgery at the University of Maryland. He currently serves as the director of the Aortic Center. His lecture focuses on novel endovascular techniques in aortic surgery.
Alison Grazioli, MD is an assistant professor at the University of Maryland. She completed fellowships in both critical care and nephrology and currently serves as the medical director of the cardiac surgery intensive care unit at the University of Maryland. Her lecture focuses on the common challenges of renal replacement ...
R. Carolina Garcia Santibanez, MD is an assistant professor of neurology at Emory University. Her lecture focuses on the most common primary neuromuscular disorders seen in the intensive care unit.
Dr. Willard Applefeld attended the University of Maryland School of Medicine and did his internal medicine residency at Johns Hopkins. He completed a fellowship in critical care at the National Institutes of Health. He is currently a cardiology fellow at Duke University Medical Center. His talk focuses on right ventricle ...
Dr. Frank Rasulo is an associate professor of anesthesiology and intensive care at University Hospital in Brescia, Italy, where he heads the neurocritical care department. The topic of his presentation is intracranial hypertension which is his research focus. He was a principal investigator on the IMPRESSIT-2 trial published in Critical ...
Dr. Allison Lankford is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Services at the University of Maryland. She is a Maternal Fetal Medicine and Critical Care physician at the University of Maryland Medical Center. Dr. Lankford presents a lecture entitled "Gas Exchange and Pulmonary Ventilation in the Critically- Ill Obstetric Patient" as part of the DC5 Lecture series.
Dr. Allison Lankford is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Services at the University of Maryland. She is a Maternal Fetal Medicine and Critical Care physician at the University of Maryland Medical Center. Dr. Lankford presents a lecture on the "Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy" as part of the DC5 Lecture series.
Dr. Tyson Suljin is Deputy Chief of Critical Care Medicine and APD of the Internal Medicine Residency Program at Brook Army Medical Center. He presents a lecture entitled "Massive Transfusion" from the Critical Care perspective as part of the DC5 lecture series.
Anica Law, MD, MS, Assistant Professor of Medicine/Pulmonary Center at the Boston University School of Medicine presents Critical Care Grand Rounds with a lecture entitled "After Our Work Here is Done: Survivorship After the ICU."
Dr. Paul Marino, Critical Care Specialist at Cayuga Medical Center, and esteemed author of "The ICU Book", the largest-selling textbook on Critical Care medicine in the United States, presents a lecture entitled Oxygen: Creating a New Paradigm Part II. This lecture is based on his new book that challenges the traditional notion that the human body thrives on oxygen and that promoting tissue oxygenation is necessary for promoting life.
Dr. Michael Keller is a Staff Clinician in the Critical Care Medicine Department at the NIH Clinical Center and Instructor of Medicine in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He presents a lecture entitled "Heart-Lung Interactions in Spontaneous and Mechanical Ventilation" as part of the DC5 lecture series.
Dr. Glenn W. Wortmann, FIDSA, FACP is the Section Director of Infectious Diseases at MedStar Washington Hospital Center and the Medical Director of Infection Prevention at the MedStar Institute of Quality and Safety. He maintains academic appointments at Georgetown University Hospital as a Professor of Clinical Medicine and at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences as Professor of Medicine. He presents a lecture entitled "Healthcare Associated Infections in the ICU" as part of the DC5 lecture series
Disease/Critical Care Medicine at MedStar Washington Hospital Center presents a talk entitled "Ethical Issues in the ICU" as part of the DC5 lecture series.
David Northrop Hager, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Medicine, Director of the Medical Intensive Care Unit, and Director of the Medical Intermediate Care Unit at Johns Hopkins SOM/Medicine presents our Critical Care Curriculum with a lecture entitled, "A Better Understanding of Intermediate Care."
Jeffrey Zilberstein, MD, FCCP, Medical Director of Peconic Bay Medical Center and President of Peconic Bay Medical Group presents during our Critical Care Curriculum with a lecture entitled, Compassion in HealthCARE
Robert C. Hyzy, MD, Professor of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and Medical Director of the Critical Care Medicine Unit at the University of Michigan Hospital presents at Critical Care Grand Rounds with a lecture entitled, "Electrical Impedance Tomography Use in ARDS."
Dr. John P. Kress is a Professor of Medicine and Director of the Medical Intensive Care Unit at the University of Chicago Medicine. He presents a lecture entitled "Optimal Sedation Protocols in Mechanically Ventilated Patients" as part of the DC5 lecture series.
Stephanie Taylor, MD, Associate Professor of Internal Medicine at Carolinas Medical Center presents at Critical Care Grand Rounds, a lecture entitled, "Clinical Subtypes of Sepsis Survivors Predicts Readmission and Mortality After Hospital Discharge.”
Dr. Chadi Abouassaly, Assistant Program Director of General Surgery at Medstar Washington Hospital Center and Associate Medical Director of the Trauma and Burn ICU presents a lecture on Pancreatitis as part of the DC5 lecture series.