Associate Professor
University of Wisconsin
I have focused my career in three arenas: clinical expertise, medical education and focused clinical research. Clinically, I have maintained a busy intensive care practice in medical, surgical/trauma, and cardiothoracic intensive care units. I also work as a general academic anesthesiologist. I am passionate about high-acuity clinical care and caring for patients in extremis.
My educational work has concentrated on developing educational programs geared towards the decompensating patient. I have created two medical student clerkships, several bi-annual simulation-based emergency airway courses, and am a core echocardiography instructor. I am the critical care anesthesiology fellowship program director and have expanded our fellowship while increasing educational and mentorship offerings. My educational efforts have been recognized with several prestigious department, medical school, hospital and system-wide teaching awards.
My research expertise has focused on the monitoring and management of dysglycemia in the ICU & OR and am a member of SCCM’s Insulin Guideline Committee. My other research efforts mirror my clinical interests in high-acuity intensive care. I am the co-PI of a study assessing antioxidant use for liver transplant recipients, the site co-PI for the PREOXI trial assessing preoxygenation approach in emergent intubation, and the PI for the SimCheck airway trial, assessing airway checklist use amongst trainees. I am the site co-PI for the SMART-BP trial, assessing a protocolized, software guided approach to intraoperative hemodynamic management and the PI of several research works looking at cardiac arrest management. I am currently developing infrastructure at UW to have physician-presence at rapid responses and developing assessment and referral programs for those suffering from post-intensive care syndrome. Finally, I have several research efforts assessing code-management and cardiac arrest outcomes.