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 Pittsburgh. He has been at University of Pittsburgh ever since, where he got his Masters in Clinical research and has been funded with two K awards, one from NHLBI and one from NIND. The topic of his talk today is dangers of prognostication in the ICU, specifically in cases of cardiac arrest.