Choose from a variety of quality improvement topics with significant financial impact
- Change Management in the ICU
- Care of the Mechanically Ventilated Patient
- Pain, Agitation, and Delirium
- ICU Mobility
- Early Recognition and Treatment of Sepsis
- Hospital Acquired Infections
- Cardiopulmonary Arrest: Beyond ACLS
- Optimizing ICU Nutrition
- Palliative and End-of-Life Care
- Nursing Sensitive Quality Indicators
Meet our Team
Dee W. Ford, MD, MSCR
Division Director and Professor of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Dr. Ford is a physician scientist and leader in critical care medicine with expertise in health services research, health professional education, and quality improvement. Her clinical and research interests are focused on different aspects of critical care, with an emphasis on telemedicine, health disparities, and implementation of best practices.
Charles Terry, MD, MSCR
Assistant Professor and Clinical Researcher in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Dr. Terry is a physician scientist in critical care with expertise in clinical research design, ventilator-dependent acute respiratory failure, and pragmatic clinical effectiveness research. His clinical and research interests focus on integrating clinical and research activities in the intensive care unit to facilitate embedded clinical effectiveness research and reduce clinical heterogeneity in existing critical illness syndromes.
Andrew J. Goodwin, MD, MSCR
Section Chief of Critical Care and a Professor of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Dr. Goodwin is a physician scientist with expertise in clinical and translational research, graduate medical education and clinical leadership. He is a practicing intensivist whose research interests include clinical trials and pragmatic strategies for using electronic health data to improve discoveries, care and outcomes.
Michelle Spiegel, MD
Adult Pulmonary and Critical Care Physician
Dr. Spiegel's clinical interests include management of critical illness (e.g. septic shock, acute respiratory distress syndrome, multi-organ failure) and quality improvement/patient safety. Her research also focuses on quality and safety, as she seeks to identify and address "systems" issues that may contribute to adverse patient events and to innovate and implement large-scale interventions aimed at standardizing care and translating new research findings into bedside practice.
Carolyn Magee Bell, PharmD, BCCCP, FCCM
Medical−Surgical ICU Clinical Pharmacy Specialist
Dr. Bell is a critical care clinician with interests in quality improvement and pharmacy student/resident education. Her research focuses on critically ill patients namely management of shock including work on vasopressors and medication diluents and analgesia/sedation.
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