Maryland CC Project

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

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 Medical Director of Intermediate Care and Pre-Critical Care Services. He presents a le...

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. Emil 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. He gives 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. She 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.

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 lecture is entitled "ECMO for Severe Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Associated with COVID-19". 

Dr. Catherine D. Sassoon, Professor in Residicine in Medicine, School of Medicine at the University of California, Irvine, and Chief of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine at the VA Medical Center, Long Beach presents Critical Care Grand Rounds, a lecture entitled "Reverse Triggering: Impact on the Lungs and Diaphragm".

Dr. Tasha R. Wyatt PhD, Associate Director, Center for Health Professions Education (CHPE) and Associate Professor, Department of Medicine at the F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences presents a lecture titled "Systems are Divisive..Especially in Research" as part of the DEI lecture series.

Dr. Ryan Rivosecchi, Pharm D Unit Based Clinical Pharmacist at UPMC and Dr. Pablo Sanchez, MD, PhD, FACS, Associate Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Vice Chairmen, Benign Lung Diseases, Chief, Division of Lung Transplant and Lung Failure, Surgical Director of Lung Transplantation and ECMO, Director of Lung Transplant Research, and Director of Ex Vivo Lung Perfusion Program all within the Depar...

search in the Department of anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine, presents a lecture entitled "Feeding in the ICU: Macronutrients, Micronutrients, and Nutraceutical Immunomodlators" as part of the Critical Care Grand Rounds

Dr. Steven Reynolds, Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of British Columbia, presents at Critical Care Grand Rounds in a lecture entitled "A Breath of Fresh Air: Diaphragm Pacing and the Re-Emergence of Negative Pressure Ventilation".

Dr. Janhavi Athale is a Critical Care physician and Hematologist/Oncologist at Mayo Clinic in Phoenix, Arizona. She presents a lecture on important "Hematologic and Oncologic Emergencies" as part of the DC5 lecture series.

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.