|
|
ACCM Names Distinguished Investigator
Listen to SCCM Pod-98 Congress Preview: Angus Discusses Critical Care Research
Derek C. Angus, MD, MPH, FCCM, will receive the American College of Critical Care Medicine’s highest honor, the Distinguished Investigator Award, Monday, February 2, 2009, during the 38th Critical Care Congress.
The Distinguished Investigator Award honors clinical researchers for meritorious and pioneering work in critical care and for significantly contributing to the understanding of the diseases and treatments of critically ill and injured patients. Angus is professor of critical care medicine and health policy and management at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania. He also serves as chair of the department of critical care medicine and director of the Clinical Research, Investigation, and Systems Modeling of Acute Illness (CRISMA) Laboratory.
Since the mid-1990s, Angus has devoted much of his career to the conduct of clinical, epidemiologic and health services research in critical care, focusing on two broad areas: the inter-related syndromes of pneumonia, sepsis and acute lung injury, as well as the organization and delivery of critical care services. He has approached these areas with multidisciplinary, multiprofessional collaborations that span from molecular biology and genetics to social and economic sciences. The work of Angus and his colleagues has helped define the public health scale of severe sepsis, delineate many of the long-term consequences of critical illness, and determine national and international patterns of acute care delivery. Angus’ laboratory has garnered considerable funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to conduct this work. Most recently, he and his colleagues launched a multi-center NIH-funded clinical trial of protocolized early resuscitation for septic shock.
Angus is an active teacher, mentoring multiple junior faculty and fellows while also lecturing regularly around the world. As department chair, he remains clinically active in the intensive care unit, while also building adult and pediatric critical care and hospitalist services across a 20- hospital healthcare system. He also publishes 40 to 50 papers each year.
Angus obtained his medical degree in 1984 from the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom and completed internal medicine training in Glasgow. He then studied in the United States, obtaining a master’s degree in public health and a fellowship in critical care medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. He has worked for Doctors without Borders in Southeast Asia and recently returned from a sabbatical at the Rene Descartes University of Paris. In 2007, he assumed responsibility as editor for the Caring for the Critically Ill section of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
