David W. Crippen, MD, FCCM is Professor Emeritus (RET) of Critical Care Medicine, Neurologic Surgery and Emergency Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in Pittsburgh, PA and former Co-Medical Director of the Neuro-Intensive Care Unit at Presbyterian University Hospital (retired, 2018) Dr. Crippen is a member of the Society for Critical Care Medicine, the European Society for Intensive Care Medicine, and the American College of Emergency Physicians until retirement. He is a Fellow of the American College of Critical Care Medicine and holds the European Diploma in Intensive Care Medicine. To date, Dr. Crippen has developed and delivered over 470 formal lectures on clinical topics in critical care and emergency medicine for National and International medical educational meetings.In addition, Dr. Crippen has presented Multiple abstracts for medical meetings, manuscripts for peer-reviewed journals, popular media, critical care medicine textbook chapters and Four books as the primary editor. In 1993, Dr. Crippen discovered the newly emerging Internet, which at that time was limited to a few participants who understood the unix language. After gaining some experience with the Anesthesiology site Gasnet, Dr. Crippen developed and implemented an International clinical and academic resource for critical care providers. The site, CCM-L (Critical Care Medicine-List) offers multiple academic and clinical consultation services for a group of over 800 multinational participants.

• Generation Z” in Medical Education: Not your Parent’s Doctors Anymore.- Evolution of Resident House Staff in the Age of Libby Zion.- Implications of the cost of medical education.- Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare.- Futuristic concepts- innovative medical education.- The future of critical care medicine.- Simulation” in housestaff training.- Critical Care Physicians and Retirement.- Private equity and healthcare.- Medical Malpractice: personal notes and a prediction.- Consequences of “Anti-vaxxers” in a Pandemic Era.- Emergency responder teams" in hospital patient care.- Metabolic investigations at point-of-care.- Algorithms that might replace clinical intuition in critical care.- The emerging risk v. benefit of “artificial Intelligence.- Prognostication, code status, palliative care.- The rise of “physician extenders” in hospital patient care.- What is death & why is death.- Death by Neurologic Criteria.-  The Biology of Life and Death.

David W. Crippen, MD, FCCM is Professor Emeritus (RET) of Critical Care Medicine, Neurologic Surgery and Emergency Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in Pittsburgh, PA and former Co-Medical Director of the Neuro-Intensive Care Unit at Presbyterian University Hospital (retired, 2018) Dr. Crippen is a member of the Society for Critical Care Medicine, the European Society for Intensive Care Medicine, and the American College of Emergency Physicians until retirement. He is a Fellow of the American College of Critical Care Medicine and holds the European Diploma in Intensive Care Medicine. To date, Dr. Crippen has developed and delivered over 470 formal lectures on clinical topics in critical care and emergency medicine for National and International medical educational meetings.In addition, Dr. Crippen has presented Multiple abstracts for medical meetings, manuscripts for peer-reviewed journals, popular media, critical care medicine textbook chapters and Four books as the primary editor. In 1993, Dr. Crippen discovered the newly emerging Internet, which at that time was limited to a few participants who understood the unix language. After gaining some experience with the Anesthesiology site Gasnet, Dr. Crippen developed and implemented an International clinical and academic resource for critical care providers. The site, CCM-L (Critical Care Medicine-List) offers multiple academic and clinical consultation services for a group of over 800 multinational participants.

• Generation Z” in Medical Education: Not your Parent’s Doctors Anymore.- Evolution of Resident House Staff in the Age of Libby Zion.- Implications of the cost of medical education.- Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare.- Futuristic concepts- innovative medical education.- The future of critical care medicine.- Simulation” in housestaff training.- Critical Care Physicians and Retirement.- Private equity and healthcare.- Medical Malpractice: personal notes and a prediction.- Consequences of “Anti-vaxxers” in a Pandemic Era.- Emergency responder teams" in hospital patient care.- Metabolic investigations at point-of-care.- Algorithms that might replace clinical intuition in critical care.- The emerging risk v. benefit of “artificial Intelligence.- Prognostication, code status, palliative care.- The rise of “physician extenders” in hospital patient care.- What is death & why is death.- Death by Neurologic Criteria.-  The Biology of Life and Death.

David W. Crippen, MD, FCCM is Professor Emeritus (RET) of Critical Care Medicine, Neurologic Surgery and Emergency Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in Pittsburgh, PA and former Co-Medical Director of the Neuro-Intensive Care Unit at Presbyterian University Hospital (retired, 2018) Dr. Crippen is a member of the Society for Critical Care Medicine, the European Society for Intensive Care Medicine, and the American College of Emergency Physicians until retirement. He is a Fellow of the American College of Critical Care Medicine and holds the European Diploma in Intensive Care Medicine. To date, Dr. Crippen has developed and delivered over 470 formal lectures on clinical topics in critical care and emergency medicine for National and International medical educational meetings.In addition, Dr. Crippen has presented Multiple abstracts for medical meetings, manuscripts for peer-reviewed journals, popular media, critical care medicine textbook chapters and Four books as the primary editor. In 1993, Dr. Crippen discovered the newly emerging Internet, which at that time was limited to a few participants who understood the unix language. After gaining some experience with the Anesthesiology site Gasnet, Dr. Crippen developed and implemented an International clinical and academic resource for critical care providers. The site, CCM-L (Critical Care Medicine-List) offers multiple academic and clinical consultation services for a group of over 800 multinational participants.

• Generation Z” in Medical Education: Not your Parent’s Doctors Anymore.- Evolution of Resident House Staff in the Age of Libby Zion.- Implications of the cost of medical education.- Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare.- Futuristic concepts- innovative medical education.- The future of critical care medicine.- Simulation” in housestaff training.- Critical Care Physicians and Retirement.- Private equity and healthcare.- Medical Malpractice: personal notes and a prediction.- Consequences of “Anti-vaxxers” in a Pandemic Era.- Emergency responder teams" in hospital patient care.- Metabolic investigations at point-of-care.- Algorithms that might replace clinical intuition in critical care.- The emerging risk v. benefit of “artificial Intelligence.- Prognostication, code status, palliative care.- The rise of “physician extenders” in hospital patient care.- What is death & why is death.- Death by Neurologic Criteria.-  The Biology of Life and Death.