Maryland CC Project

Dr. Allison Lankford is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Services at the University of Maryland. She is a Maternal Fetal Medicine and Critical Care physician at the University of Maryland Medical Center. Dr. Lankford presents a lecture on the "Physiologic Changes of Pregnancy" with a maternal and fetal Case-based approach as part of the DC5 Lecture series.

Dr. Deepshikha C Ashana, MBA, MS, an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care at Duke University School of Medicine presents during our Critical Care DEI series on "Interpersonal and Structural Racism in Critical Care".

Dr. Kevin Chung, Professor and Chair of the Department of Medicine, and professor of Surgery, at the F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences presents on Environmental Injuries including burns, electrical, altitude and heat stroke.

Dr. Elana Smith is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine who presents on the Top 10 Radiology Diagnoses in Trauma.

Dr. Eduardo Leite Vieira Costa MD, PhD, Professor of Pulmonary and Critical Care at the University of Sao Paulo School of Medicine, Brazil and Researcher at Hospital Sirio Libanes, Brazil presents Critical Care Grand Rounds with a lecture entitled "Mechanical Power and Lung Protection."

Dr. Ryan Maves, a Professor of Medicine and Anesthesiology at the Wake Forest School of Medicine presents on Meningitis and Encephalitis as part of the DC5 lecture series.

Thomas Valley MD, MSc is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan. He presents at the Critical Care Grand DEI rounds on "Risk, Race, and Structural Racism"

Captain Daniel S. Chertow MD, MPH is an investigator in the Critical Care Medicine Department at the NIH Clinical Center and in the Laboratory of Immunoregulation, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. He serves as a senior officer in the United States Public Health Service (USPHS). He presents an interactive lecture on viral illness in the ICU with current and emerging threats as part of DC5 lecture series.

Dr. Andrew Shorr, MD, MPH, MBA, the Director of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and Professor of Medicine at Georgetown Medstar Hospital presents a lecture on issues in nosocomial and ventilator associated pneumonia as part of the DC5 lecture series

Dr. William Grier, a fellow in the Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine program at the University of Maryland provides an update on new COVID-19 literature including the new Omicron variant and novel therapeutics.