Maryland CC Project

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

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 t

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 lec

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

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 Bri

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 mento

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