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Speaker Information

Division Head, Division of Anesthesiology & Critical Care
Thomas W. Feeley, MD Vice President, Medical Operations Professor, Department of Anesthesiology Helen Shafer Fly Distinguished Professor in Anesthesiology
Program Chair	Program Co-Chair
Kristen J. Price, MD Professor & Chair, Critical Care Medical Director, Respiratory Care	Clarence G. Finch, MBA, RRT, RCP Director, Respiratory Care
Planning Committee
Patricia A. Auerbach, OCN, RN Nursing Education Specialist Nursing Extramural Programs Tarina Burdette-Charles, RCP, RRT Clinical Specialist Respiratory Care Karen Chen, MD Associate Professor Critical Care Susan Gaeta, MD Assistant Professor Critical Care RaShaundra E. Jacobs, MBA Program Coordinator Critical Care Hollie Lampton Secretary Respiratory Care Rizalina V. Mauricio, RN, CCRN, CPNP Advanced Practice Nurse Pediatrics – Patient Care	Joseph L. Nates, MD Deputy Chair & Professor Critical Care Quan M. Nguyen, RRT Clinical Specialist, ICU Respiratory Care Nancy A. Ramirez Sr. Administrative Assistant Respiratory Care Constance C. Tierney, CMP Logistics Planner CME/Conference Management Mary Lou Warren, RN, CNS-CC Advanced Practice Nurse Nursing Service – ICU Laura G. Withers, MBA, RRT, CPFT Clinical Specialist Respiratory Care, ICU
MD Anderson Cancer Center Faculty
Dave Balachandran, MD Assistant Professor Pulmonary Medicine Eduardo Bruera, MD Professor & Chair Palliative Care & Rehab Medicine Jeffrey J. Bruno, PharmD, BCPS Clinical Pharmacy Specialist Pharmacy Clinical Programs John W. Crommett, MD Assistant Professor Critical Care Brian Michael Dee, PharmD, BCPS Specialist, Critical Care Nutrition Support Clinical Pharmacy Pharmacy Clinical Programs Colleen M. Gallagher, PhD, FACHE Executive Director, Clinical Ethics Critical Care Sajid Haque, MD Assistant Professor Critical Care	Ewan D. Johnson, MD, PhD Hematology-Medical Oncology Fellow Division of Cancer Medicine Rodrigo Mejia, MD Associate Professor Pediatrics – Patient Care Joseph L. Nates, MD, MBA Deputy Chair & Professor Critical Care Regina Okhuysen-Cawley, MD Associate Professor Pediatrics – Patient Care Cheryl Perego Supervisor Infection Control Kristen J. Price, MD Professor & Chair Critical Care Nisha Rathi, MD Assistant Professor Critical Care
Guest Faculty
Michael Ackerman, RN, DNS Associate Director for Advance Practice Nursing Nursing Practice Administration/SMH University of Rochester Rochester, New York Tom Ahrens, RN, DNS, CCRN, CS Research Scientist Barnes-Jewish Hospital St. Louis, Missouri Forrest Bird, MD, PhD, ScD Professor of Medicine Percussionaire Corporation Sandpoint, Idaho Richard Branson, MSc, RRT Professor & Chief, Clinical Services University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, Ohio Brian M. Daniel, RRT Adult Clinical Specialist University of California San Francisco, California Patrick Dunne, MEd, RRT, FAARC President/CEO HealthCare Productions, Inc. Fullerton, California Bruce Friedman, MD Professor of Medicine Director of Critical Care Acute Care Consultants, Inc. Augusta, Georgia Dean Hess, PhD, RRT, FAARC Assistant Director of Respiratory Care Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, Massachusetts Nicholas Hill, MD Chief of Pulmonary and Critical Care Tufts Medical Center Boston, Massachusetts Vickie S. Jordan, CRNA, DNP Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology & Allied Health Sciences Associate Director Nurse Anesthesia Program Baylor College of Medicine Houston, Texas	Joel C. Ledbetter, MD Pediatric Subspecialists TC Thompson Children’s Hospital Chattanooga, Tennessee Barbara Leeper, MN, RN, CCRN Clinical Nurse Specialist Cardiovascular Services Baylor University Medical Center Dallas, Texas Jonathan Marinaro, MD, DABSM, FCCP Co-Director Trauma Surgical ICU Section Chief Surgical Critical Care The University of New Mexico School of Medicine Albuquerque, New Mexico Barbara McLean, MN, RN, CCRN,CCNS-NP, FCCM Nurse Intensivist and Critical Care Specialist Consultant in Critical Care Atlanta, Georgia Pratik Pandharipande, MD, MSCI, FCCM Assistant Professor Department of Anesthesiology Vanderbilt University Medical Center Nashville, Tennessee Bela Patel, MD, DABSM, FCCP Associate Professor of Medicine Memorial Hermann Hospital Houston, Texas Claudia S. Robertson, MD Professor of Neurosurgery Baylor College of Medicine Houston, Texas Alexandre T. Rotta, MD, FCCM, FAAP Director, Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care Indiana University School of Medicine Indianapolis, Indiana Kathleen M. Vollman, MSN, RN, CCNS, FCCM Clinical Nurse Specialist Educator, Consultant Advancing Nursing, LLC Northville, Michigan

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