Critical Care Organizations KEG

Hi everyone! 

My name is Stephen M. Pastores, and I am the program director of critical care medicine and vice-chair of education in the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. I will be cochairing this Critical Care Organizations Knowledge Education Group (CCO KEG) with John M. Oropello, who is the program director of critical care medicine and director of the transplant ICU at Mount Sinai Medical Center. Before forming this KEG, John and I were cochairs of the Academic Leaders in Critical Care Medicine (ALCCM), commissioned by SCCM using the expertise of successful leaders of advanced governance CCOs in North America to write a series of consensus papers and provide toolkits to advance the development and growth of CCOs.

We are both delighted to welcome you to this KEG and look forward to advancing and sharing knowledge about CCOs with the goal of fostering their development in academic and community hospitals and hospital networks.

Since we are such a diverse group, I thought we might take some time to introduce ourselves so that our future posts have a bit more context and color. Feel free to share who you are, what you do, what you are currently working on, your areas of interest, or something about you that your fellow critical care clinicians might find interesting or surprising.

John M. Oropello, MD, FACP, FCCP, FCCM
Stephen M. Pastores, MD, MACP, FCCP, FCCM

Hi everyone! 

My name is Stephen M. Pastores, and I am the program director of critical care medicine and vice-chair of education in the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. I will be cochairing this Critical Care Organizations Knowledge Education Group (CCO KEG) with John M. Oropello, who is the program director of critical care medicine and director of the transplant ICU at Mount Sinai Medical Center. Before forming this KEG, John and I were cochairs of the Academic Leaders in Critical Care Medicine (ALCCM), commissioned by SCCM using the expertise of successful leaders of advanced governance CCOs in North America to write a series of consensus papers and provide toolkits to advance the development and growth of CCOs.

We are both delighted to welcome you to this KEG and look forward to advancing and sharing knowledge about CCOs with the goal of fostering their development in academic and community hospitals and hospital networks.

Since we are such a diverse group, I thought we might take some time to introduce ourselves so that our future posts have a bit more context and color. Feel free to share who you are, what you do, what you are currently working on, your areas of interest, or something about you that your fellow critical care clinicians might find interesting or surprising.

John M. Oropello, MD, FACP, FCCP, FCCM
Stephen M. Pastores, MD, MACP, FCCP, FCCM

Hi everyone! 

My name is Stephen M. Pastores, and I am the program director of critical care medicine and vice-chair of education in the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. I will be cochairing this Critical Care Organizations Knowledge Education Group (CCO KEG) with John M. Oropello, who is the program director of critical care medicine and director of the transplant ICU at Mount Sinai Medical Center. Before forming this KEG, John and I were cochairs of the Academic Leaders in Critical Care Medicine (ALCCM), commissioned by SCCM using the expertise of successful leaders of advanced governance CCOs in North America to write a series of consensus papers and provide toolkits to advance the development and growth of CCOs.

We are both delighted to welcome you to this KEG and look forward to advancing and sharing knowledge about CCOs with the goal of fostering their development in academic and community hospitals and hospital networks.

Since we are such a diverse group, I thought we might take some time to introduce ourselves so that our future posts have a bit more context and color. Feel free to share who you are, what you do, what you are currently working on, your areas of interest, or something about you that your fellow critical care clinicians might find interesting or surprising.

John M. Oropello, MD, FACP, FCCP, FCCM
Stephen M. Pastores, MD, MACP, FCCP, FCCM

Hi everyone! 

My name is Stephen M. Pastores, and I am the program director of critical care medicine and vice-chair of education in the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. I will be cochairing this Critical Care Organizations Knowledge Education Group (CCO KEG) with John M. Oropello, who is the program director of critical care medicine and director of the transplant ICU at Mount Sinai Medical Center. Before forming this KEG, John and I were cochairs of the Academic Leaders in Critical Care Medicine (ALCCM), commissioned by SCCM using the expertise of successful leaders of advanced governance CCOs in North America to write a series of consensus papers and provide toolkits to advance the development and growth of CCOs.

We are both delighted to welcome you to this KEG and look forward to advancing and sharing knowledge about CCOs with the goal of fostering their development in academic and community hospitals and hospital networks.

Since we are such a diverse group, I thought we might take some time to introduce ourselves so that our future posts have a bit more context and color. Feel free to share who you are, what you do, what you are currently working on, your areas of interest, or something about you that your fellow critical care clinicians might find interesting or surprising.

John M. Oropello, MD, FACP, FCCP, FCCM
Stephen M. Pastores, MD, MACP, FCCP, FCCM

Hi everyone, I'm Alex Pratt and I am the Physician Executive for the Critical Care Medicine service line within the Medstar Medical Group. MedStar Health is a 10-hospital system in the DC and Maryland area. Our Critical Care teams were only recently organized into a service line, so I am the first service line chief for critical care. I am currently focused on aligning staffing, work expectations, privileging, and compensation across our groups, and also addressing burnout and professional fulfillment within the organization, identifying opportunities for academic and clinical collaboration to reduce redundancy, and finding creative ways to leverage telehealth. One of my passions is family- and patient-centered care. 

Look forward to interesting discussions!

Hi everyone! 

My name is Stephen M. Pastores, and I am the program director of critical care medicine and vice-chair of education in the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. I will be cochairing this Critical Care Organizations Knowledge Education Group (CCO KEG) with John M. Oropello, who is the program director of critical care medicine and director of the transplant ICU at Mount Sinai Medical Center. Before forming this KEG, John and I were cochairs of the Academic Leaders in Critical Care Medicine (ALCCM), commissioned by SCCM using the expertise of successful leaders of advanced governance CCOs in North America to write a series of consensus papers and provide toolkits to advance the development and growth of CCOs.

We are both delighted to welcome you to this KEG and look forward to advancing and sharing knowledge about CCOs with the goal of fostering their development in academic and community hospitals and hospital networks.

Since we are such a diverse group, I thought we might take some time to introduce ourselves so that our future posts have a bit more context and color. Feel free to share who you are, what you do, what you are currently working on, your areas of interest, or something about you that your fellow critical care clinicians might find interesting or surprising.

John M. Oropello, MD, FACP, FCCP, FCCM
Stephen M. Pastores, MD, MACP, FCCP, FCCM

Hi everyone,

Greetings and thank you for the invite.
My name is Keith Killu. I have been a part of  SCCM for many years, and have been lucky to meet so many wonderful individuals through the society. 
I was privileged to serve on many committees over the years and am very excited to join the group. Currently I work as associate professor at Keck School of Medicine at University of Southern California, Los Angles, CA. My main work is in the ICUs, and I have a great interest in hemodynamics as well as the use and advancement of bedside and point of care ultrasound. I have had the pleasure to working with some of you in the past and some in the present and hope to work with all soon.

Hi everyone, I'm Alex Pratt and I am the Physician Executive for the Critical Care Medicine service line within the Medstar Medical Group. MedStar Health is a 10-hospital system in the DC and Maryland area. Our Critical Care teams were only recently organized into a service line, so I am the first service line chief for critical care. I am currently focused on aligning staffing, work expectations, privileging, and compensation across our groups, and also addressing burnout and professional fulfillment within the organization, identifying opportunities for academic and clinical collaboration to reduce redundancy, and finding creative ways to leverage telehealth. One of my passions is family- and patient-centered care. 

Look forward to interesting discussions!

Hi everyone! 

My name is Stephen M. Pastores, and I am the program director of critical care medicine and vice-chair of education in the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. I will be cochairing this Critical Care Organizations Knowledge Education Group (CCO KEG) with John M. Oropello, who is the program director of critical care medicine and director of the transplant ICU at Mount Sinai Medical Center. Before forming this KEG, John and I were cochairs of the Academic Leaders in Critical Care Medicine (ALCCM), commissioned by SCCM using the expertise of successful leaders of advanced governance CCOs in North America to write a series of consensus papers and provide toolkits to advance the development and growth of CCOs.

We are both delighted to welcome you to this KEG and look forward to advancing and sharing knowledge about CCOs with the goal of fostering their development in academic and community hospitals and hospital networks.

Since we are such a diverse group, I thought we might take some time to introduce ourselves so that our future posts have a bit more context and color. Feel free to share who you are, what you do, what you are currently working on, your areas of interest, or something about you that your fellow critical care clinicians might find interesting or surprising.

John M. Oropello, MD, FACP, FCCP, FCCM
Stephen M. Pastores, MD, MACP, FCCP, FCCM

Hello everyone!,

My name is Jason Moore and I am the program director for the Critical Care Medicine fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in Pittsburgh.  I was privileged to be part of the ALCCM group and have already learned so much from that group.  I am very much looking forward to promoting integrated Critical Care Organizations as part of this KEG and learning so much more from all of you!

Jason Moore

Hi everyone,

Greetings and thank you for the invite.
My name is Keith Killu. I have been a part of  SCCM for many years, and have been lucky to meet so many wonderful individuals through the society. 
I was privileged to serve on many committees over the years and am very excited to join the group. Currently I work as associate professor at Keck School of Medicine at University of Southern California, Los Angles, CA. My main work is in the ICUs, and I have a great interest in hemodynamics as well as the use and advancement of bedside and point of care ultrasound. I have had the pleasure to working with some of you in the past and some in the present and hope to work with all soon.

Hi everyone, I'm Alex Pratt and I am the Physician Executive for the Critical Care Medicine service line within the Medstar Medical Group. MedStar Health is a 10-hospital system in the DC and Maryland area. Our Critical Care teams were only recently organized into a service line, so I am the first service line chief for critical care. I am currently focused on aligning staffing, work expectations, privileging, and compensation across our groups, and also addressing burnout and professional fulfillment within the organization, identifying opportunities for academic and clinical collaboration to reduce redundancy, and finding creative ways to leverage telehealth. One of my passions is family- and patient-centered care. 

Look forward to interesting discussions!

Hi everyone! 

My name is Stephen M. Pastores, and I am the program director of critical care medicine and vice-chair of education in the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. I will be cochairing this Critical Care Organizations Knowledge Education Group (CCO KEG) with John M. Oropello, who is the program director of critical care medicine and director of the transplant ICU at Mount Sinai Medical Center. Before forming this KEG, John and I were cochairs of the Academic Leaders in Critical Care Medicine (ALCCM), commissioned by SCCM using the expertise of successful leaders of advanced governance CCOs in North America to write a series of consensus papers and provide toolkits to advance the development and growth of CCOs.

We are both delighted to welcome you to this KEG and look forward to advancing and sharing knowledge about CCOs with the goal of fostering their development in academic and community hospitals and hospital networks.

Since we are such a diverse group, I thought we might take some time to introduce ourselves so that our future posts have a bit more context and color. Feel free to share who you are, what you do, what you are currently working on, your areas of interest, or something about you that your fellow critical care clinicians might find interesting or surprising.

John M. Oropello, MD, FACP, FCCP, FCCM
Stephen M. Pastores, MD, MACP, FCCP, FCCM

My name is Craig Coopersmith and I am the director of the Emory Critical Care Center where we have over 300 faculty and APPs managing patients in an integrated academic CCO in 6 hospitals.  I was privileged to be part of the ALCCM group and am looking forward to working with each of you in this exciting new KEG.

Hello everyone!,

My name is Jason Moore and I am the program director for the Critical Care Medicine fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in Pittsburgh.  I was privileged to be part of the ALCCM group and have already learned so much from that group.  I am very much looking forward to promoting integrated Critical Care Organizations as part of this KEG and learning so much more from all of you!

Jason Moore

Hi everyone,

Greetings and thank you for the invite.
My name is Keith Killu. I have been a part of  SCCM for many years, and have been lucky to meet so many wonderful individuals through the society. 
I was privileged to serve on many committees over the years and am very excited to join the group. Currently I work as associate professor at Keck School of Medicine at University of Southern California, Los Angles, CA. My main work is in the ICUs, and I have a great interest in hemodynamics as well as the use and advancement of bedside and point of care ultrasound. I have had the pleasure to working with some of you in the past and some in the present and hope to work with all soon.

Hi everyone, I'm Alex Pratt and I am the Physician Executive for the Critical Care Medicine service line within the Medstar Medical Group. MedStar Health is a 10-hospital system in the DC and Maryland area. Our Critical Care teams were only recently organized into a service line, so I am the first service line chief for critical care. I am currently focused on aligning staffing, work expectations, privileging, and compensation across our groups, and also addressing burnout and professional fulfillment within the organization, identifying opportunities for academic and clinical collaboration to reduce redundancy, and finding creative ways to leverage telehealth. One of my passions is family- and patient-centered care. 

Look forward to interesting discussions!

Hi everyone! 

My name is Stephen M. Pastores, and I am the program director of critical care medicine and vice-chair of education in the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. I will be cochairing this Critical Care Organizations Knowledge Education Group (CCO KEG) with John M. Oropello, who is the program director of critical care medicine and director of the transplant ICU at Mount Sinai Medical Center. Before forming this KEG, John and I were cochairs of the Academic Leaders in Critical Care Medicine (ALCCM), commissioned by SCCM using the expertise of successful leaders of advanced governance CCOs in North America to write a series of consensus papers and provide toolkits to advance the development and growth of CCOs.

We are both delighted to welcome you to this KEG and look forward to advancing and sharing knowledge about CCOs with the goal of fostering their development in academic and community hospitals and hospital networks.

Since we are such a diverse group, I thought we might take some time to introduce ourselves so that our future posts have a bit more context and color. Feel free to share who you are, what you do, what you are currently working on, your areas of interest, or something about you that your fellow critical care clinicians might find interesting or surprising.

John M. Oropello, MD, FACP, FCCP, FCCM
Stephen M. Pastores, MD, MACP, FCCP, FCCM

Hi everyone! 

My name is Stephen M. Pastores, and I am the program director of critical care medicine and vice-chair of education in the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. I will be cochairing this Critical Care Organizations Knowledge Education Group (CCO KEG) with John M. Oropello, who is the program director of critical care medicine and director of the transplant ICU at Mount Sinai Medical Center. Before forming this KEG, John and I were cochairs of the Academic Leaders in Critical Care Medicine (ALCCM), commissioned by SCCM using the expertise of successful leaders of advanced governance CCOs in North America to write a series of consensus papers and provide toolkits to advance the development and growth of CCOs.

We are both delighted to welcome you to this KEG and look forward to advancing and sharing knowledge about CCOs with the goal of fostering their development in academic and community hospitals and hospital networks.

Since we are such a diverse group, I thought we might take some time to introduce ourselves so that our future posts have a bit more context and color. Feel free to share who you are, what you do, what you are currently working on, your areas of interest, or something about you that your fellow critical care clinicians might find interesting or surprising.

John M. Oropello, MD, FACP, FCCP, FCCM
Stephen M. Pastores, MD, MACP, FCCP, FCCM

Hi everyone! 

My name is Stephen M. Pastores, and I am the program director of critical care medicine and vice-chair of education in the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. I will be cochairing this Critical Care Organizations Knowledge Education Group (CCO KEG) with John M. Oropello, who is the program director of critical care medicine and director of the transplant ICU at Mount Sinai Medical Center. Before forming this KEG, John and I were cochairs of the Academic Leaders in Critical Care Medicine (ALCCM), commissioned by SCCM using the expertise of successful leaders of advanced governance CCOs in North America to write a series of consensus papers and provide toolkits to advance the development and growth of CCOs.

We are both delighted to welcome you to this KEG and look forward to advancing and sharing knowledge about CCOs with the goal of fostering their development in academic and community hospitals and hospital networks.

Since we are such a diverse group, I thought we might take some time to introduce ourselves so that our future posts have a bit more context and color. Feel free to share who you are, what you do, what you are currently working on, your areas of interest, or something about you that your fellow critical care clinicians might find interesting or surprising.

John M. Oropello, MD, FACP, FCCP, FCCM
Stephen M. Pastores, MD, MACP, FCCP, FCCM

Hi everyone! 

My name is Stephen M. Pastores, and I am the program director of critical care medicine and vice-chair of education in the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. I will be cochairing this Critical Care Organizations Knowledge Education Group (CCO KEG) with John M. Oropello, who is the program director of critical care medicine and director of the transplant ICU at Mount Sinai Medical Center. Before forming this KEG, John and I were cochairs of the Academic Leaders in Critical Care Medicine (ALCCM), commissioned by SCCM using the expertise of successful leaders of advanced governance CCOs in North America to write a series of consensus papers and provide toolkits to advance the development and growth of CCOs.

We are both delighted to welcome you to this KEG and look forward to advancing and sharing knowledge about CCOs with the goal of fostering their development in academic and community hospitals and hospital networks.

Since we are such a diverse group, I thought we might take some time to introduce ourselves so that our future posts have a bit more context and color. Feel free to share who you are, what you do, what you are currently working on, your areas of interest, or something about you that your fellow critical care clinicians might find interesting or surprising.

John M. Oropello, MD, FACP, FCCP, FCCM
Stephen M. Pastores, MD, MACP, FCCP, FCCM