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Presentations on CCM Organization:

  • Defining an Intensivist: A historical review and contemporary analysis. 2024 Critical Care Congress. Phoenix, AZ  January 2024

  • Is It Possible to Define an Intensivist? Should Be Easy: It’s Not! Critical Care Oncology Symposium, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, NY  April 11, 2022

  • Lessons from the perspective of a critical care physician leader. The Leadership Academy, SCCM 49th Annual Symposium, Orlando, FL  February 18, 2020

  • National Critical Care Costs: Real news, fake news or both. Guest faculty at Intensive Care Unit Design, Cost and Staffing, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH  February 12, 2020

  • ICU Metrics: the good, the bad and the ugly. 2018 Critical Care Symposium, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY  March 27, 2018

  • Traditional vs Personalized ICU Metrics. CHEST Annual Meeting 2017, Toronto, Canada  October 30, 2017

  • Insights into ICU Beds, Occupancy Rates and Costs: The View from 40,000 feet. Pulmonary and CCM Grand Rounds, Mount Sinai West, New York, NY  March 13, 2017

  • Insights into ICU Beds, Occupancy Rates and Costs: The View from 40,000 feet. Grand Rounds, Montefiore Medical Center, Department of Medicine, Bronx, NY  March 10, 2016

  • Insights into ICU Beds, Occupancy Rates and Costs: The View from 40,000 feet. Grand Rounds, Montefiore Jack D. Weiler Hospital, Bronx, NY  March 10, 2016

  • Insights into ICU Beds, Occupancy Rates and Costs: The View from 40,000 feet. Grand Rounds, New York Presbyterian Queens Hospital, Flushing, NY  February 10, 2016

  • Insights into ICU Beds, Occupancy Rates and Costs: The View from 40,000 feet. Grand Rounds, Institute for Critical Care Medicine, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY  October 1, 2015

  • Insights into ICU Beds, Occupancy Rates and Costs: The View from 40,000 feet. Grand Rounds, Department of Anesthesiology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY  June 22, 2015

  • ICU beds and cost: Do we really know where they are and what they cost? 44th Critical Care Congress, Phoenix, AZ  January 19, 2015

  • Advanced informatics in the intensive care unit: Possibilities and challenges. IEEE and Intelligent Hospital Association at HIMSS 2014, Orlando, FL  February 2014

  • Advanced informatics in critical care: The primary challenge inherent in future ICU design. 43nd Critical Care Congress, San Francisco, CA  January 2014

  • Families should be permitted to be present during CPR: Con. Symposium on Critical Care Controversies. Greater New York Hospital Association, New York, NY  November 7, 2013

  • Transforming ICU data and devices into real value. Institutional Layering and Management of Big Data. Data Intelligence for Health Care (World Health and Technology Executive Summit), Tyson’s Corner, VA  November 7, 2013

  • Solutions to address the intensivist shortfall and enhancements of the critical care medicine workplace and infrastructure. CHEST 2013, Chicago, IL  October 30, 2013

  • Hospitalists will solve the critical care workforce shortage: Con. Symposium on Critical Care Controversies. Greater New York Hospital Association, New York, NY  February 22, 2013

  • Innovations in ICU design: Making order out of disorder. Healthcare Facilities Symposium & Expo, Chicago, IL  October 1, 2013

  • Getting out from under alarm fatigue: Managing data overload. 42nd Critical Care Congress, San Juan, Puerto Rico  January 2013

  • ICU administration and management. CCM Grand Rounds, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY  May 29, 2012

  • Optimizing family visiting in the ICU: Con: We should have 24/7 visitation policies. Critical Care Congress, Houston, TX  February 2012

  • Patients with advanced malignancies should be cared for in the ICU: Pro. Symposium on Critical Care Controversies. Greater New York Hospital Association, New York, NY  November 4, 2011

  • Families should be present in the ICU 24/7: Con. Symposium on Critical Care Controversies. Greater New York Hospital Association, New York, NY  November 12, 2010

  • Nurse practitioners in critical care: The MSKCC experience. CCM Grand Rounds, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, New York, NY  March 4, 2010

  • Nurse practitioners in critical care: The MSKCC experience. Pulmonary and CCM Grand Rounds, Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, NY  December 3, 2009

  • Nurse practitioners in critical care. Greater New York Hospital Association, New York, NY  October 2009

  • Critical care utilization. Critical care leadership networks program. Greater New York Hospital Association, New York, NY  January 16, 2008

  • To err is the norm! 36th Annual SCCM Critical Care Congress, Orlando, FL  February 2007

  • Overview of critical care needs and resources. CHEST 2006, Salt Lake City, UT

  • How many CCM beds do you need for your size hospital? 35th Annual SCCM Critical Care Congress, San Francisco CA  January 2006

  • Critical care medicine: Do small and big hospitals see it the same way? CHEST 2005, Montreal, Canada

  • Utilization of ICUs in America. 33rd Annual SCCM Educational and Scientific Symposium, Orlando, FL  February 2004

  • Improving Quality of Care in Intensive Care Units, Health Research and Educational Trust of the New Jersey Hospital Association, Princeton, NJ  November 2002

  • Acquiring new technology in the ICU: Strategies for success. The assessment and integration of new technology into clinical practice. ACCP, Chicago, IL  August 2002

  • Critical care utilization and cost 1985-1999: The data, as real as it’s gonna get! CHEST 2002, San Diego, CA  November 2002

  • ICU physician staffing: A surreal insight: Medical quality conference II: Leapfrog, Will it make a difference? Somerset Medical Center, Somerville, NJ  November 14, 2001

  • Cost and utilization in critical care. Challenges 2000, American Association of Critical Care Nurses, NYC Chapter, New York, NY  October 2000

  • Leapfrog: How big business is helping to advance critical care. CHEST 2002, San Diego, CA  November 2002

  • The inpatient environment — Transitions to the new millennium: Point of care testing in the critical care unit. Beyond 2000 — An international conference on architecture for health. American Institute of Architects, Vancouver, Canada  October 2000

  • Acquiring new technology in the ICU: Strategies for success. CHEST 2000, San Francisco, CA  November 2000

  • Databases at War. The 20th International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine. Brussels Congress Center, Brussels, Belgium  March 2000

  • Critical care utilization and cost: The past, present and future: 1972-2005. CHEST 1999. The 65th Annual International Scientific Assembly, Chicago, IL  November 1999

  • The macroeconomics and global utilization of critical care in the USA: Using national databases. 28th Annual SCCM Educational and Scientific Symposium, San Francisco, CA  January 1999

  • Open versus closed units: Choosing a model for your facility; Intensivists: Reducing cost and improving outcomes through utilization of intensive care specialists conference. ACCP, Chicago, IL  March 30-31, 1998

  • Hospitalists and intensivists: Who is on first and who is on second? CHEST 1998. The 64th Annual International Scientific Assembly, Toronto, Canada  November 1998