Critical Care Quarterly Forum

The Center for Excellence in Critical Care sponsors quarterly dinner programs in critical care. The Critical Care Quarterly Forum, under the direction of Dr. David Dries and with generous outside support, joins local practitioners with leading thought leaders from around the country. Together they explore latest research findings and best practice. Information about the next meeting is listed below:

2008 - 2009 schedule to be determined

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If you have questions, please call 612-626-8419.

Past Programs

April 17, 2008	Scott Micek, PharmD, Clinical Pharmacist, Medicine Critical Care, Barnes-Jewish Hospital/Washington University Medical Center, St. Louis, MO. He is widely published on sepsis and pneumonia. "Economic implications of implementing a surviving sepsis bundle"
March 6, 2008	Rolf Hubmayr, MD, Professor of Physiology and Medicine at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN. Dr. Hubmayr has published extensively on lung damage and mechanical ventilation and is known internationally for his research. “Prevention of Hospital Acquired ARDS”
December 6, 2007	Philip Barie, MD, Professor of Surgery and Public health at Weiill Medical Ceollege of Cornell University, Chief of the Division of Critical Care and Trauma, and Director of the Surgical Intensive Care Unit at New York-Presbyterian Hospital - Weill Cornell Medical Center in New Your City. "Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome"
May 8, 2007	Ivor Douglas, MD, M.R.C.P.(UK) Assistant Professor in the Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Health Medical Center and the Univerity of Colorado Health Sciences Center; Director of the Medical Intensive Care Unit at DHMC and the co-chair of the Center's Critical Care Committee. "Creating the Colorado Critical Care Cooperative"
February 1, 2007	Emanuel Rivers, MD, MPH, IOM, Vice Chairman and Director of Research, Department of Emergency Medicine, Senior Staff Attending, Emergency Medicine and Critical Care, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit Michigan and Institute of Medicine, National Academies. "Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock: From the ED to the ICU"
December 14, 200	Scott Davis, MD, Medical Director of Critical Care, St. Cloud Hospital, St. Cloud, MN Outcomes of Protocolized Treatment- St. Cloud Linda Chmielewski, MS, RN, CNAA, BC, Vice-President - Hospital Operations/CNO Financial Impact of Protocolized Treatment in St. Cloud Ognjen Gajic MD, MSc, Assistant Professor of medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN Outcomes and Process of Treating Septic Shock in Rochester
November 2, 2006	Dr. Perron Cobb, Professor of Surgery and Genetics at Washington University, St. Louis, MO and serves as the director of the Critical Illness and Health Engineering Center and the Cellular Injury and Adaptation Laboratory. "Injury in the genomic era"
May 10, 2006	Dr. John Marshall, Professor of Surgery in the Department of Surgery and a member of the Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine at the University of Toronto."Decision-making in critical care: Integrating evidence, inference, and experience"
March 23, 2006	Dr. Scott Davis, intensivist at St. Cloud Hospital and medical director for critical care. “Bundles, Quality and Outcomes in Severe Sepsis”
December 1, 2005	Dr. Robert Bonello, Co-Director of the MICU and Director of Critical Care for Cardiothoracic Surgery at the Minneapolis VA Medical Center, "Quality Improvement and ICU Safety Initiatives"
May 24, 2005	George Karam, MD, Louisiana State University, Earl Long Medical Center, "Emerging issues of resistance in gram negative bacteria: the unintended consequences of collateral damage"
March 10, 2005	Henry Mann, PharmD, Univeristy of Minnesota, "Surviving Sepsis Campaign Guidelines" David Dries, MD, Regions Hospital and University of Minnesota, "Update on Abdominal Compartment Syndrome"
March 11, 2004	Robert Hyzy, MD, University of Michigan “Demanding Medical Excellence: Improving ICU Quality”
January 29, 2004	John Marini, MD, Regions Hospital, St. Paul, MN “Ventilator-Induced Lung Injury: Pulling it all Together”
June 5, 2003	Emanuel Rivers, MD, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI “Early Goal-Directed Therapy in Severe Sepsis”
February 19, 2003	Wesley Ely, MD, Vanderbilt University “Xigris: Long Term Safety and Efficacy”
October 24, 2002	Derek Angus, MD, MPH, University of Pittsburgh “Sepsis New Thoughts on Definition, Incidence and Outcomes"
January 17, 2002	Wesley Ely, MD, Vanderbilt University “Critical Care in the Elderly: ARDS and Cognitive Impairment”