Dr. Jayshil Patel is an associate professor at the Medical College of Wisconsin and a board certified physician in internal medicine, pulmonary medicine, and critical care medicine. His particularly research interest and the topic of this presentation is the use of high-dose B12 in vasoplegia and septic shock.

Dr. Leah Tatebe is an associate professor of surgery at Northwestern University in Chicago. In her talk, she discusses various ways that physicians can become advocates, using examples from her own work in trauma surgery and critical care.

Laurah Turner PhD is an assistant dean for assessment and education at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. Her lecture discusses the applications of AI to advance medical education.

Dr. Christa O’Hana Nobleza is practicing neurointensivisit and an associate professor of neurology at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis. Her lecture discusses the importance of mentorship for women in critical care careers.

Dr. Alain Combes has is a professor of intensive care medicine at Sorbonne Université in Paris. Dr. Combes’ research focuses on the care of critically ill cardiac patients, mechanical circulatory assistance and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, rescue therapies for severe respiratory failure, and infections in critically ill patients.

Dr. Randal O. Dull is a professor of anesthesiology with joint appointments in the departments of pathology, physiology, and surgery at the University of Arizona College of Medicine. With a background in research on capillary and endothelial permeability, he has been collaborating more recently on fluid kinetics and dysregulation of fluid leaking from the vascular system. In his lecture today, he discusses an article he co-authored of the same name: Hypovolemia with Peripheral Edema: What is Wrong? (Link to PDF: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10225095/#)

Dr. Imad Khan is an assistant professor in the Division of NeuroCritical Care at the University of Rochester. His research focuses on monitoring cerebral perfusion and pathophysiology in patients with anoxic brain injury in cardiac arrest and cardiogenic shock. In collaboration with several other specialists (cardiac surgeon, cardiac intensivist, optical engineer, epileptologist), he developed a paradigm for multimodal monitoring in patients undergoing VA ECMO.

Dr. Colin Grissom is professor of medicine at Intermountain Healthcare as well as University of Utah. He discusses his experience with implementing best practices, specifically low tidal volume ventilation, across multiple hospitals and states.

Dr. Lane Smith is a critical care medicine specialist at Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center located in Charlotte, North Carolina and serving as the Charlotte academic branch of Wake Forest School of Medicine. In this talk, he discusses the management of refractory distributive shock with a focus one of the novel therapeutics, angiotensin II (trade name Giapreza).

Dr. Chad Hochberg is an assistant professor in pulmonary and critical care medicine at Johns Hopkins University. In his lecture today, he will discuss his work on prone positioning in ARDS.

Dr. Joseph Mailman is an intensive care physician at New York-Presbyterian Weill Cornell with a keen interest in technological innovation. In this lecture, he discusses the field of medical informatics and several projects designed to facilitate smoother end-user experiences and capture high quality data.

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 sepsis care.

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 their recently published article in CHEST: “Use and Outcomes of Peripheral Vasopressors in Early Sepsis-Induced Hypotension Across Michigan Hospitals: A Retrospective Cohort Study”. Their article can be found here: https://journal.chestnet.org/article/S0012-3692(23)05672-6/fulltext

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 lecture, he discusses the role of driving pressure and mechanical power in patients with ARDS.