Mitchell M. Levy MD is Chief, Division of Critical Care, Pulmonary, and Sleep Medicine and Professor of Medicine at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. He is also Medical Director of the Medical Intensive Care Unit at Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island. Dr. Levy is a founding member (2002) and a member of the Executive Committee of the Surviving Sepsis Campaign, a global initiative to improve the care of patients with severe sepsis. He is the lead investigator for Phase III of the campaign, the goal of which is to facilitate adoption of evidence-based guidelines for sepsis management into clinical practice and reduce mortality in severe sepsis by 25% by 2009. Dr. Levy is Past-President of the Society of Critical Care Medicine (2009). Dr. Levy’s current research interests include biomarkers in sepsis, end-of-life care in the ICU, and knowledge translation. He has authored over 130 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. He is the co-director of the Ocean State Clinical Coordinating Center, which manages large, international, multi-center clinical trials in sepsis. Dr. Levy is very active in the field of quality and safety. He continues to serve as the representative to the National Quality Forum for SCCM and also serves on the advisory committees on Quality for the Blue Distinction program of Blue Cross Blue Shield of America. Dr. Levy has worked on several state-wide initiatives on quality, including Rhode Island and New Jersey, and has led a similar initiative for the New York City Health and Hospital Corporation in their quality initiative in catheter-related bloodstream infection and sepsis. He was recently appointed a content expert and voting member of the Hospital Workgroup of the Measure Applications Partnership (MAP) of the National Quality Forum and serves as a technical expert for the project Closing the Quality Gap: Prevention of Healthcare-associated Infections, which is part of the Evidence-Based Practice Center (EPC) program of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).

Dr. Fan is the Director of Clinical Chemistry at Boston Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts. She received her doctoral degree in Clinical/Bioanalytical Chemistry in Cleveland, Ohio, and then completed her clinical fellowship at Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions in Baltimore, Maryland. She was the Assistant Director of Chemistry at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and also held an academic appointment at Harvard Medical School. Her research interest is focused on biomarkers in disease diagnosis.

Patti is Clinical Director of Respiratory Care Services at Northwestern Medicine, Central DuPage Hospital, Winfield, Illinois. She has 34 years of experience in Respiratory Care. Patti has been involved in projects and clinical work in all patient care areas. She has developed and implemented several protocols, including ventilator-acquired pneumonia prevention in the NICU, PICU and in two adult ICUs. Additional protocols include age-specific respiratory assessment protocols, oxygen titration protocol and ventilator weaning protocol that includes mobility. She has published and presented her work on both ventilator-acquired pneumonia reduction and ventilator weaning with early mobility. She has also presented her work on multidisciplinary collaborations which have led to improved patient outcomes.

Alex is a board certified clinical nurse specialist and acute care nurse practitioner with a master’s degree from Rush University. He has 18 years of critical care experience, including time as an ICU staff nurse, clinical nurse specialist, CV surgery APN, and currently serves as a critical care clinical nurse specialist at Northwestern Medicine, Central DuPage Hospital, a unit with an AACN Beacon Award for Excellence - Gold designation. He is the 2004 and 2005 winner of AACN’s educational advancement scholarship, has been published in journals such as Critical Care Nurse, the Journal of Radiology Nursing, Nursing 2011 – Critical Care, Critical Care Connections, Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America, Critical Care Medicine, Annals of the Academy of Medicine - Singapore, and is a contributing author for a number of critical care nursing certification textbooks. Alex’s work on stroke volume optimization was featured in the November 2010 issue of Advance for Nurses and in the February 2015 cover issue of Critical Care Nurse. His sepsis program implementation work, which has been replicated in multiple organizations, has resulted in dramatic improvements in bundle compliance (> 50% reductions in mortality).

Alex is a national speaker and an annual speaker at the AACN National Teaching Institute where he addresses topics such as stroke volume optimization, drip titration, the Clinical Nurse Specialist role, and sepsis.

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