Participating Members in Alphabetical Order

• Bashar Staitieh, MD, Emory University

  Dr. Staitieh is an assistant professor in the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine at Emory University in Atlanta. When he isn't taking pictures of ventilator waveforms in the ICU, he studies alveolar macrophage biology in the setting of HIV and alcohol use disorders.

• Brian J. Clark, MD, Yale University

  I am an assistant professor in the section of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine. I am a clinical educator and currently associate program director of the pulmonary and critical care fellowship. My interests include severe asthma, lung function testing, cardiopulmonary exercise testing, and mechanical ventilation. I hope to use my experience to help enhance education in respiratory physiology as it applies to all of these topics.

• Burton W. Lee, MD, National Institutes of Health

  Dr. Lee is the Head of Medical Education and the Head of Global Critical Care in the Critical Care Medicine Department at the National Institutes of Health. He studies how physicians develop (and potentially lose) mastery of medical knowledge and skills, especially for complex concepts such as mechanical ventilation and scientific numeracy.

• Chandra Patel, DO, Keck Medicine of USC

  Chandra Patel is an assistant professor at Keck USC as well as VA Long Beach where she works as an intensivist and pulmonologist. She is involved in various projects involving medical education, the effects of behavioral modifications on pulmonary disease processes like asthma, pulmonary physiology, ILD and has an interest in global health.

• Christian J. Woods, MD, MedStar Health/Georgetown-Washington Hospital Center

  Dr. Woods is the Program Director for the Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine Fellowship at MedStar Health Georgetown-Washington Hospital Cetner, and he also serves as an Associate Program Director for the internal medicine residency. Hs is board certified in internal medicine, infectious diseases, pulmonary medicine, and critical care medicine and is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Georgetown University School of Medicine. He has an interest in mechanical ventilation, medical education, and infectious pulmonary diseases.

• David C. Chu, MD, Penn State College of Medicine

  Dr. Chu is an associate professor of medicine in the Department of Medicine at the Penn State University College of Medicine, where he services as the pulmonary/critical care fellowship program director, the co-director for point of care ultrasound in the department, and as a coach for the internal medicine residency. He specializes in the management of pulmonary vascular disease and runs point of care ultrasound curricula for the internal medicine residency and pulmonary/critical care fellowship.

• Deepa Patel, MD, Emory University

  Dr. Patel is an assistant professor in the Departments of Emergency Medicine and Anesthesiology Critical Care at Emory University. Her interests include critical care education and improving the care of critically ill patients in the Emergency Department.

• Jonathan Kalehoff, MD, University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)

  Dr. Kalehoff is an assistant professor in the Department of Medicine under the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). He received his medical degree from the University of Florida and then completed both his Internal Medicine residency and Pulmonary/Critical Care fellowship at UAB. He now serves as a clinician educator at UAB, with interests in medical education, curriculum development, and global health. He is passionate about joining his interests in medical education and global health through his work with the Global Critical Care Collaboration.

• Katrina Hawkins, MD, George Washington University

  Dr. Hawkins is an Associate Professor in the departments of Anesthesia/Critical Care Medicine and Medicine. She is the program director for the critical care fellowship and has an interest in graduate medical education and critical care education research.

• Nitin Seam, MD ATSF, FACP, National Institutes of Health

  Dr. Seam is is the Associate Chief, Senior Research Physician and Fellowship Director of the NIH Critical Care Medicine Department as well as a Clinical Professor of Medicine at George Washington University Medical Center and the Uniformed Services University. Dr. Seam's areas of academic expertise and publication include mechanical ventilation, ARDS and innovation in health professions education, including e-learning, artificial intelligence and simulation. He is Editor in Chief of ATS Scholar, a health professions education journal published by the American Thoracic Society. He was a member of the NIH COVID-19 Clinical Guidelines panel, providing recommendations for clinicians related to management of critically ill patients with COVID-19 disease. He is a past Associate Editor of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Medicine and prior editor of thoracic.org. He is also the former Chair of the Critical Care Section for the Society for Simulation in Healthcare.

• Sami Safadi, MD, University of Minnesota

  Dr. Safadi is an assistant professor in Department of Medicine at the University of Minnesota. His background is in nephrology and critical care medicine having completed fellowships in both specialties. He has an interest in mechanical ventilation, and he runs the mechanical ventilation training courses at the University of Minnesota. He built an online mechanical ventilator simulator https://ventsim.cc.

• Van Holden, MD, FCCP, University of Maryland School of Medicine

  Dr. Holden is an Associate Professor of Medicine within the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine at the University of Maryland. She has been the Director of the PCCM Fellowship Program since July 2019 and specializes in interventional pulmonology. Dr. Holden has strong interests in procedural education and teaches at several local courses and national conferences, such as ATS, Chest, and AABIP.