Sammy Zakaria, M.D., M.P.H., Associate Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Assistant Director of the Johns Hopkins Bayview Cardiac Intensive Care Unit presents on ventricular arrhythmias in the ICU.
Dr. Ramani, associate professor of medicine at the division of cardiology presents the pulmonary core curriculum lecture with the topic being pulmonary hypertension.
Dr. Ashish Khanna, Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Section on Critical Care Medicine at Wake Forest School of Medicine, presents on “Perioperative Cardiorespiratory Compromise – Connecting the operating room, the ICU, and the hospital wards.”
Erik Osborn, MD, COL, MC USA, Director Adult Extracorporeal Service, Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit at Inova Fairfax Hospital, presents the weekly multi-departmental critical care fellows’ lecture on “ECMO and the Brain”.
Dr. Seth J Koenig, Professor, Dept of Medicine and Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery; Professor of Medicine, Donald and Barbara Zucker SOM at Hofstra/Northwell; Director, Acute Lung Injury Center, Northwell Health; and Director, MICU at the Long Island Jewish Medical Center, presents on “Transesophageal Echocardiography in the Intensive Care Unit”.
Today we welcome Zachary Kon, M.D., Assistant Professor in the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at NYU. In addition to acting as the Surgical Director of Pulmonary Hypertension/Pulmonary Thromboendarterectomy Program, Dr. Kon also acts as the Surgical Director of the NYU Lung Transplantation Program. In addition to > 70 peer-reviewed publications, he has been invited all over the world as an expert speaker in the field pulmonary embolism therapy. We are fortunate to have him in-house to share his knowledge of what to do when the PE is starting to become overwhelming!
Today we welcome back one of our favorite graduates of the EM/IM/CCM residency/fellowship here at University of Maryland, Michael C. Scott, MD. Luckily he stayed local and has been paving his own path across town at St. Agnes Hospital of Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Scott originally hails from San Antonio Texas, where he graduated from the University of Texas Medical School Medical School before heading up to the North East. Since his arrival to Baltimore, Mike has demonstrated a wide knowledge of modern academic literature and has continued to challenge the status quo in medicine! Dr. Scott has proved time and time again that there are no definitives in medicine and today he tackles a very polarizing topic: what to do with a submassive PE?
Today it is a privilege to welcome Kenneth Palmér, MD, Director of the Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Center (ECMO) at Karolinska Hospital located in Stockholm, Sweden. In his tenure at Karolinska he started the world’s first ECMO center in 1986, has perfected the use of awake ECMO support, and has assisted in creating one of the three biggest ECMO centers in the world! In addition, Dr. Palmér has been invited to give over 200 international lectures on the topic of ECMO. In addition to perfecting ECMO use for inpatients, Dr. Palmér has also perfected the use of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in transport.
Welcome back to MCCP! To kick things off we welcome in Dr. Michael Mazzeffi, Associate Professor of Anesthesia at the UMMC, where he additionally acts as the Director for Resident Research Education and Adult Cardiothoracic Fellowship Program Director. He has fast become one of the foremost experts in the field of mechanical circulatory support, publishing numerous papers on the topic. Additionally, his academic prowess has yielded invitations to speak at many prestigious locations around the world. Dr. Mazzeffi was recently a key speaker at the 2016 International Anesthesia Research Society and today he has graciously offered to give us the talk that was the talk of the symposium!
