Clay Marsh, MD, Director
Ohio State’s Center for Critical Care further integrated team-oriented gains in the clinical, research and education missions. The Center’s burn program achieved burn center verification by the American Burn Association, and the trauma program achieved reverification as a level 1 trauma center. The wound program continues as a leader in translational research for wound repair and has furthered its association with National Wound Healing as an academic partner for developing new treatments. The respiratory program was ranked 27th in the nation by U.S.News & World Report. The Allergy/Immunology program found a leader in Bryan Martin, DO, former director of Allergy/Immunology at Walter Reed Army Hospital and current national director of the Residency Review Committee for Allergy/Immunology training programs. Both Allergy/Immunology and Sleep Medicine achieved their first-ever certified programs for fellowship training. Critical Care members also provided national leadership in such organizations as the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma, the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the American Burn Association, to name a few.
Program Highlights of 2008
- The Center for Critical Care improved metrics for compliance with sepsis bundle and ventilator bundles and saw a 50-percent reduction in ventilator-associated pneumonia.
Simulation-based training for fellows and plans for team training and mock intensive care unit environment training are ongoing, and more than 300 people have taken the Fundamentals of Critical Care Support course, about 15 percent of whom are outside trainees.
- The Center is planning its first MATCH (Multidisciplinary Advances in the Treatment of the Critically ill Hospitalized patient) conference, a multidisciplinary event focused on evidence-based practices in treating patients with critical care disease. It also is establishing strategic collaborations with external organizations – including Battelle Memorial Institute, the Institute for Systems Biology and National Wound Healing – to develop innovative treatments.
- The Center saw strong growth in clinical research, conducting 52 active clinical trials that enrolled more than 500 people in 2008 and 2,500 over the past five years. John Mastronarde, MD, led a national study in the role of proton pump inhibitors for the treatment of asthma (SARA) that was published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
- Center members received several teaching awards. James Allen, MD, won the Earl Metz Distinguished Clinician Award from the Department of Internal Medicine, which also gave its Teacher of the Year Award to Roy Essig, MD, and its Robert Fass Fellow of the Year Award to Jarrod Bruce, MD. Heather Ratliff, CNP, received the Surgical Nurse of the Year Award from the Department of Surgery; David Lindsey, MD, received the Department of Surgery Resident Teaching Award; and Melissa Whitmill, MD, earned the Department of Emergency Medicine’s Outstanding Teaching Award.
- The Center invested in key internal collaborations, including relationships with the Mathematical Biosciences Institute, Institute for Behavioral Medicine Research, College of Dentistry, College of Pharmacy, College of Nursing, Center for Microbial Interface Biology, Comprehensive Wound Center, Comprehensive Cancer Center, Davis Heart and Lung Research Institute, College of Veterinary Medicine, College of Engineering, College of Public Health, Center for Biostatistics, Clinical Cancer Genetics, and the Department of Pharmacology, Department of Molecular Biochemistry, Department of Molecular Genetics, and Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics, as well as Nationwide Children’s Hospital. Key external collaborators include Battelle Memorial Institute, the Institute for Systems Biology, Sepsis Alliance and National Wound Healing.
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