Associate Professor
Intermountain Medical Center
Ithan D. Peltan, MD, MSc is Associate Professor at Intermountain Healthcare, Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Utah. Dr. Peltan is also the medical director for Acute Care (including pulmonary/critical care) research for the Intermountain Health system. Dr. Peltan provides clinical care in the Shock Trauma Intensive Care unit at Intermountain Medical Center and within Intermountain Health’s ICU telemedicine program.
Dr. Peltan’s research focuses on the prevention, early identification, and management of critical illness, including methods to improve diagnosis and treatment of sepsis, respiratory failure, COVID-19, and cardiac arrest. He is a member of the NIH-funded Prevention and Early Treatment of Acute Lung Injury (PETAL), CDC-funded Influenza and COVID-19 Vaccine (IVY), and ARDS, Pneumonia and Sepsis networks and has contributed to numerous multicenter trials. Dr. Peltan is particularly interested in understanding the causes and implications of practice variation in the delivery of critical care and how such variation can be harnessed to inform causal inference via well-designed observational studies and pragmatic trials.
Dr. Peltan graduated from Dartmouth College and earned his medical degree from Harvard Medical School. He completed internal medicine residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital followed by fellowship training in pulmonary and critical care medicine at the University of Washington, where he also earned a Master of Science in epidemiology.