Pitt Critical Care Medicine

💬 Editorial by JAMA Senior Editor Derek Angus, MD, MPH: The ImmunoSep RCT demonstrates the feasibility of biomarker-guided treatment, while highlighting ongoing challenges in immune classification and broader clinical application. ja.ma/4rMoQnC

We are officially accepting submissions for the 24th Annual #RichardLSimmons Lecture in Surgical Science and @PittSurgery Research Day! 🔬 Join us in celebrating a legacy of #innovation and sharing the latest in #surgicalscience. Please refer to the flyer for submission details

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Thank you to our very own Shoshana Rudin, MD for presenting at our Adult Journal Club. Shoshana is a Second-Year Adult Internal Medicine Critical Care Fellow. She presented: Optimal Vasopressin Initiation in Septic Shock: The OVISS Reinforcement Learning Study

Excited to announce that our very own Dr. Alexis Steinberg, MD, MS presented at the Department of Neurology's Grand Rounds on November 13, 2025! #NeurologyGrandRounds #CriticalCare #MedicalExcellence  #InnovativeLeadership

He presented: Hyperprocalcitonemia and Endothelial and Microcirculatory Dysfunction in Children With Sepsis and Septic Shock: Single-Center Observational Cohort Study in Colombia, 2021–2024.

Thank you to our very own Hugues Yver, MD for presenting at our Pediatric Journal Club. Hugues is a Safar Center Post-Doctoral Scholar. #Pediatrics #pccm #pittccm #upmc #journalclub #ccm #universityofpittsburgh #pittccm #criticalcaremedicine #pittschoolofmedicine #ccmmd

Dr. Zarbock, a leading Clinician Scientist and Director of Anesthesiology & Critical Care Medicine at the University of Münster, has authored 400+ scientific works and continues to advance critical care nephrology worldwide.

On Nov 12, he presented at Grand Rounds on the state of the art in renal replacement therapy for critically ill patients. On Nov 13, he delivered the keynote at our 15th Annual Acute Kidney Injury Symposium, discussing AKI biomarkers and the path to personalized medicine.

This week, CCM was honored to welcome Alexander Zarbock, MD, PhD to Pittsburgh! 🎉 #pittccm #upmc #grandrounds #ccm #universityofpittsburgh #criticalcaremedicine #pittschoolofmedicine #welcome #ccmmd #intensivist #criticalcare #pittsburghccm

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Thank you to our very own Max Richardson, MD for presenting at our Adult Journal Club. Max is a Second-Year Adult Internal Medicine Critical Care Fellow. He presented: Electronic Sepsis Screening Among Patients Admitted to Hospital Wards: A Stepped-Wedge Cluster Randomized Trial

Today’s session: intro into cardiac physiology and R sided heart cath/ SG. By our own CCM fellow: Dr. Morales and Dr. Malik. @PittCCM @UPMCMercyIM @PittEMProgram

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Pittsburgh made @NatGeo “The best places in the world to travel to in 2026” list!! nationalgeographic.com/travel/article…

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Thank you to our very own Yuksel Aydin, MD for presenting at our Pediatric Journal Club. Yuksel is a Second-Year Pediatric Critical Care Fellow. He presented: Predicting pediatric cardiac arrest outcomes using early quantitative EEG.

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Thank you to our very own Dr. Sneha Kannan, MD, MS, Assistant Professor, Critical Care Medicine, who presented at our CRISMA Research Conference yesterday. She presented: Patient and Financial Outcomes Related to Changes in Hospital Ownership.

Another academic year with a fantastic class of IM, EM, Anesthesia, Surgery, cardiology, nephrology, Infectious disease, Neurology and pediatrics critical care fellows attending our program’s basic ultrasound workshop @PittCCM @UPMC