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...

Dr. Matthew Schreiber, the associate director of the Medical ICU and an attending physician in Pulmonary 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.

 Jason J. Rose, MD, MBA, Associate Professor of Medicine, Interim Chair of the Department of Dermatology, and Associate Dean of Innovation & Physician Science Development at the University of Maryland SOM and Director of Faculty Entrepreneurship at the University of Maryland Baltimore presents our Critical Care Grand Rounds with a lecture entitled, “Developing heme proteins as therapeutics for countermeasures and resuscitation.” 

Darryl Abrams, MD is an Associate Professor of Medicine and a medical intensivist and ECMO attending at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center. He is the Associate Medical Director and Director of Research of the Medical ECMO Program at the Center for Acute Respiratory Failure, as well as the Medical Director of Intermediate Care and Pre-Critical Care Services. He presents a lecture during Critical Care Grand Rounds entitled “ECMO for Respiratory Pandemics”.

Dr. Van Holden is an Associate Professor and Program Director of the Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship Program at the University of Maryland, School of Medicine. She presents a lecture entitled “Pleural Disorders” as part of the DC5 lecture series.

Dr. Jan Fouad is a recent graduate of the Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine Fellowship at the Yale School of Medicine and is currently an Interventional Pulmonology Fellow at the University of Maryland. He presents a lecture entitled “Managing Massive Hemoptysis” as part of the DC5 lecture series.

Pratik Sinha, MBChB, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Dr. Sinha’s current research interests are in using big data analytics to identify biologically-driven homogeneous subgroups within heterogeneous critical-illness syndromes, with applications in precision medicine. For our Critical Care Grand Rounds, Dr.Sinha presents a lecture entitled “Personalized Treatments in ARDS: Can Phenotyping Help?”

Dr. Emil S. Oweis is a board-certified pulmonary and critical care attending physician and is an Associate Medical Director of Respiratory Therapy at MedStar Washington Hospital Center. Dr. Oweis provides a lecture as part of the DC5 lecture series entitled “Mechanical Ventilation in Obstructive Lung Disease”.

James Manning, MD, the Co-Founder, and Chief Medical Officer at Resusitech, Inc, and Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Medicine, presents a lecture entitled “Selective Aortic Arch Perfusion in Trauma and Medical Cardiac Arrest”.

Ian J. Barbash M.D, M.S, Assistant Professor of Medicine in Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh and Medical Director of UPMC TeleICU, presents on Critical Care Grand Rounds, a lecture entitled “ICU Telemedicine: the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond”.

Vaani Panse Garg, MD, is a Cardiologist at MedStar Washington Hospital Center. She is board certified in internal medicine, cardiovascular disease, nuclear cardiology, and adult comprehensive echocardiography. Dr.Garg presents a lecture entitled “Endocarditis and the Critical Care Setting” as part of the DC5 Lecture Series.

Dr. Bosslet is an Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine in the Department of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep and Occupational Medicine at Indiana University and Fellowship Director for Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. Dr. Bosslet presents a lecture entitled “Public Health and Our “Lane”: Lessons I Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic”.

Dr. Narayana Sarma V. Singham, a Critical Care Cardiologist at Washington Hospital Center Heart & Vascular Institute presents a lecture entitled “Temporary Mechanical Circulatory Devices in the CICU” as part of the DC5 lecture series.

Dr. Catherine Albin, Assistant Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery in the Division of Neurocritical Care at the Emory University School of Medicine presents on Critical Care Grand grounds, a lecture entitled “You are What you Tweet: Using Social Media in Medicine”

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. 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. Samuel M. Galvagno, D.O, PhD, FCCM, Professor of Anesthesiology, Executive Vice Chair of Anesthesiology at the University of Maryland, School of Medicine, and Medical Director of the Statewide Critical Care Coordination Center presents as part of the Critical Care Curriculum. His lecture is entitled “Full Spectrum Sedation for Critically Ill Patients: Science vs Mythology”.

Dr. Surbi Leekha, MBBS, MPh, Associate Professor of Epidemiology & Public Health, Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, and Medical Director of Infection Prevention and Hospital Epidemiology at UMMC presents at Critical Care Grand Rounds. Her lecture is entitled, “Updates on CLABSI Prevention”.

Dr. Matthieu Schmidt, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Intensive Care Medicine at the University of Paris, Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris 6 and senior intensivist in the Medical intensive care, Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital in Paris presents our Critical Care Grand Rounds. His research interests span the fields of cardiogenic shock and mechanical circulatory assistance, for severe acute respiratory distress syndrome, including ECMO, and mechanical ventilation. His lecture is entitled “ECMO for...