Maryland CC Project

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."

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.”