Adult Critical Care Clinical Specialist
MedStar Washington Hospital Center
Eric Kriner BS, RRT is the Adult Critical Care Clinical Specialist at MedStar Washington Hospital Center in Washington, DC. He oversees the management of mechanically ventilated patients and the clinical practice of the Respiratory Care department while also sitting on the ECMO, ARDS management, emergency airway, critical care governance, and organ donation committees. He implemented esophageal manometry and transpulmonary pressure monitoring to guide mechanical ventilation as well as inhaled pulmonary vasodilators and ARDS and ECMO management pathways.
Additionally he is responsible for the pulmonary and mechanical ventilation education of respiratory care staff, advanced practitioners as well as the residents. He is faculty for the pulmonary critical care fellowship and Mid-Atlantic critical care fellowship education collaboration. He wrote and implemented a live lecture and simulation-based curriculum for advanced mechanical ventilation which is now used in part by the pulmonary critical care fellowship, medical resident and emergency medicine programs.
Eric has been speaking at conferences, locally and nationally, to many different audiences for the past 12 years. He consults and authors a mechanical ventilation clinical simulation curriculum for IngMar Medical and is the chair of the Medical Advisory Committee for the Respiratory Therapy program at Prince George’s Community College. He was also a content developer and presenter for a DC Department of Health grant focused on respiratory wellness in the community.
In 2012, he was awarded the Acute Care Specialty Practitioner of the Year by the American Association of Respiratory Care and in 2022 was inducted as a Fellow of the American Association of Respiratory Car