Maryland CC Project

Dr. Lakhmir S. Chawla is the Chief Medical Officer of Silver Creek Pharmaceuticals and previously was CMO at La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company (LJPC). Prior to joining LJPC, Dr. Chawla was a Professor of Medicine at the George Washington University, where he has dual appointments in the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine as well as in the Department of Medicine, Division of Rena...

Dr. Nicholas Bosch MD, Msc, Assistant Professor of Pulmonary, Allergy, Sleep & Critical Care Medicine at Boston University School of Medicine presents a lecture on the "Implementation of a Phenobarbital pathway for Severe Alcohol Withdrawal Syndrome" as part of the Critical Care Grand Rounds.

Dr. Panagis Galiatsatos, Assistant Professor in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Johns Hopkins Hospital School of Medicine and Director of the Tobacco Treatment Clinic at John Hopkins Bayview and Co-Director of Medicine for the Greater Good, presents a lecture as part of the Critical Care curriculum on VTE/PE and understanding the current disparities

Dr. Michael Knight, the Associate Chief Quality and Population Health Officer and Head of Healthcare Delivery Transformation at the George Washington University presents on Health Disparities 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 "Physiologic Changes of Pregnancy" with a maternal and fetal Case-based approach as part of the DC5 Lectu...

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 "Physiologic Changes of Pregnancy" with a maternal and fetal Case-based approach as part of the DC5 Lectu...

Dr. Deepshikha C Ashana, MBA, MS, an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care at Duke University School of Medicine presents during our Critical Care DEI series on "Interpersonal and Structural Racism in Critical Care".

Dr. Kevin Chung, Professor and Chair of the Department of Medicine, and professor of Surgery, at the F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences presents on Environmental Injuries including burns, electrical, altitude and heat stroke.

Dr. Elana Smith is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine who presents on the Top 10 Radiology Diagnoses in Trauma.

Dr. Eduardo Leite Vieira Costa MD, PhD, Professor of Pulmonary and Critical Care at the University of Sao Paulo School of Medicine, Brazil and Researcher at Hospital Sirio Libanes, Brazil presents Critical Care Grand Rounds with a lecture entitled "Mechanical Power and Lung Protection."

Dr. Ryan Maves, a Professor of Medicine and Anesthesiology at the Wake Forest School of Medicine presents on Meningitis and Encephalitis as part of the DC5 lecture series.

Thomas Valley MD, MSc is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan. He presents at the Critical Care Grand DEI rounds on "Risk, Race, and Structural Racism"

Captain Daniel S. Chertow MD, MPH is an investigator in the Critical Care Medicine Department at the NIH Clinical Center and in the Laboratory of Immunoregulation, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. He serves as a senior officer in the United States Public Health Service (USPHS). He presents an interactive lecture on viral illness in the ICU with current and emerging threats as...

Dr. Andrew Shorr, MD, MPH, MBA, the Director of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and Professor of Medicine at Georgetown Medstar Hospital presents a lecture on issues in nosocomial and ventilator associated pneumonia as part of the DC5 lecture series

Dr. William Grier, a fellow in the Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine program at the University of Maryland provides an update on new COVID-19 literature including the new Omicron variant and novel therapeutics.

Dr. Jonathan Chow, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Program Director of the Critical Care Anesthesia Fellowship, and Director of Transplant Anesthesiology at the George Washington University presents a lecture on "Examining the Evidence For and Against Antiplatelet Therapy in COVID-19"

Dr. Daniel Jamieson is an Associate Professor in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine at Georgetown University Medical Center. Dr. Jamieson presents a lecture on poisonings and toxidromes as part of the DC5 lecture series.

Dr. Dustin Krutsinger is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. Dr. Krutsinger presents a lecture on "Nudging Critical Care Research Enrollment in the Setting of Historic Abuses, Present Disparities, and Systemic Racism" as part of the DEI lecture series.

Dr. George Kitsios, Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh presents during critical care grand rounds on the Lung Microbiome in pneumonia and ARDS.

Dr. John Sherner, board-certified pulmonary and critical care physician at MedStar Washington Hospital Center, where he is currently Chairman of the Department of Medicine presents on management of massive pulmonary embolism as part of the DC5 lecture series.

Dr. Valeria Valbuena, a general surgery resident at Michigan Medicine presents a lecture on measurement bias and the implications of racialized medicine as part of our DEI lecture series.

Dr. Jenelle Badulak, an emergency physician and intensivist at the University of Washington Medical Center presents a lecture on ECMO indications and complications as part of the DC5 lecture series.

Dr. Rajiv Sonti, Assistant Professor and Assistant Program Director of the Pulmonary Critical Care Fellowship at Medstar Georgetown University Hospital presents a discussion on current research and guidelines for ARDS.

Dr. Constantine Karvellas, MD, MsC, FRCPC, FCCM Professor of Medicine (Critical Care Medicine and Gastroenterology/Hepatology) at the University of Alberta and Adjunct Professor in the School of Public Health Sciences presents on Critical Care Grand Rounds on "Current Evidence for extracorporeal liver support in acute and acute-on-chronic liver failure"

Dr. Nirav Shah, an Associate Professor of Medicine and Assistant Dean for Curriculum at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, takes us back to the basics to review the mechanism of hypoxemia as part of the DC-Baltimore Critical Care Educational Consortium.