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 the quality and timeliness of early sepsis care.

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 of Miami. The topic of their lecture today is their recently published article in CHEST: “Use and Outcomes of Peripheral Vasopressors in Early Sepsis-Induced...

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 life support in patients with ARDS. In this lecture, he discusses the role of driving pressure and mechanical power in patients with ARDS.

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 care”.  What does that mean when we say it to each other as providers and how does our meaning differ when we say it to families?

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 Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Woman’s Hospital, followed by fellowship in critical care medicine and neurocritical care at the University of...

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 discussion is her faculty mentor at NYU, Dr. Stephen Wall, a tenured associate professor of emergency medicine and population health.

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 clinical question.

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, Alves Dos Anjos G, Schleicher M, et al. Right ventricle-specific therapies in acute respiratory distress syndrome: a scoping review. Crit Care. 2023;27(1):104.

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 educational articles. In this lecture, he talks about practical assessment of ventilator induced lung injury risk from ventilating power.

Dr. Christopher Cox discusses palliative care 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 therapy in critically ill patients.

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 structure and ultrasound imaging.

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 Care in 2022. This was a prospective multicenter international trial that looked at transcranial doppler as a screening tool to exclude intracranial...

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.