McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine Affiliated Faculty Received Society of Critical Care Medicine’s Highest Honor

Untitled2115McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine affiliated faculty members Derek C. Angus, M.D., M.P.H. [http://mirm-pitt.net/staff/derek-c-angus-md-mph-frcp-fccm-fccp/], professor and Mitchell P. Fink Endowed Chair, and Michael R. Pinsky, M.D. [http://mirm-pitt.net/staff/michael-r-pinsky-md/], professor and vice chair for academic affairs, are among 20 world-renowned intensivists who are the first to be selected to receive the Society of Critical Care Medicine’s highest honorific, Master Critical Care Medicine (MCCM) Fellow. Honors were bestowed at its annual congress in Houston, Texas.

Other University of Pittsburgh current critical care faculty who will receive the MCCM Fellow title are Patrick M. Kochanek, M.D., professor and vice chairman, and director, Safar Center for Resuscitation Research, and Ann Thompson, M.D., professor and vice chair for faculty development, and associate dean, faculty affairs, School of Medicine. Founding chair of the critical care medicine department Mitchell Fink, M.D., and emeritus professor Ake Grenvik, M.D., Ph.D., also will be honored. Dr. Safar, who established Pitt’s Department of Anesthesiology in 1971, died in 2003.

Pitt established the nation’s first Department of Critical Care Medicine in 2002, building on a long history of achievement in the field, noted Arthur S. Levine, M.D., senior vice chancellor for the health sciences and dean, School of Medicine.

“The legacy of Peter Safar, who is being awarded this prestigious honorific posthumously, lives on in the exceptional physician-researchers who make up this inaugural class of inductees,” Dr. Levine said. “Their contributions to medicine have saved countless lives, and they and those they mentor continue to break new ground in understanding and treating the most life-threatening conditions, including sepsis, brain injury and organ dysfunction, as well as gaining insight into the long-term outcomes of critical illness.”

According to the Society for Critical Care Medicine, the MCCM Fellow designation recognizes members who have been Fellows of Critical Care Medicine for at least 5 years and have achieved national and international professional prominence due to personal character, leadership, eminence in clinical practice, outstanding contributions to research and education in critical care medicine, or years of exemplary service to the Society of Critical Care Medicine, the American College of Critical Care Medicine, and the field of critical care.

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