Maryland CC Project

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 […]

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, a critical care clinician, discusses heart-lung interactions in ventilation. Topics include effects of ventilation on hemodynamics, relationships between heart, lungs, and ventilation, and implications for diseases like COPD and heart failure. Understanding these concepts is crucial for optimal patient care.

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."