Our multidisciplinary, comprehensive critical care medicine curriculum trains well-rounded intensivists capable of treating the critically ill and injured patient with any variety of pathophysiology.
Overview
Our EM/CCM curriculum is standard for both fellowship tracts, with our fellows being placed in ACGME-approved Anesthesia Critical Care Medicine (ACCM) or Internal Medicine/Critical Care Medicine (IM/CCM) ACGME-approved training slots. The Divisions of Critical Care Medicine within the Departments of Anesthesiology, Internal Medicine, and Surgery all support this multidisciplinary fellowship training curriculum.
Our fellowship offers a plethora of clinical, didactic and research educational opportunities.
Attendings from our various ICUs are world-renowned educators and researchers in an assortment of CCM fields. They offer bedside teaching pearls on shock, mechanical ventilation, disease pathophysiology, acute stabilization and resuscitation optimization, antimicrobial therapy, and ethical considerations, to name a few.
Our required didactic lecture series has five hours of lectures each week, and our novel Multi-Disciplinary Critical Care Lecture Series (MDCCLS) draws in attending experts from pulmonary, anesthesiology, acute care surgery, emergency medicine, toxicology, ultrasound and more to provide evidence-based education for fellows.
Fellows are also involved in creating mini lectures to provide daily educational opportunities for the rotating house staff. Fellows are required to take the annual Multi-Disciplinary Critical Care Knowledge Assessment in-training exam to help identify any knowledge gaps and prepare for board examination. This overall experience allows our fellows to complete their fellowship with a deep breadth of knowledge regarding the critical care medicine specialty. Our goal is to make you an excellent, well-educated intensivist.
Our 24-month curriculum conforms to ACGME Critical Care Medicine Fellowship training requirements of anesthesiology and internal medicine and includes:
- Total clinical ICU Blocks (multi-disciplinary mix) = 18-20 blocks
- MICU: 6-8 blocks
- SICU: 5-7 blocks
- CTICU: 4-6 blocks
- CCU: 1 block
- Neuro ICU: 1 block
- Selectives = 3 blocks (Mix of required electives: interventional pulmonary/bronchoscopy, nutrition, palliative care, ultrasound, surgical airway, etc.)
- Electives = 3-7 blocks (tailored to individual interests)
- Required educational / research / administrative / QI responsibilities
- Required completion of a scholarly activity
- If in the CCM tract, you will also complete the prerequisite/required medicine time not obtained during EM residency training
People
Program Director
Brian Wessman, MD
Division Chief for Critical Care Medicine; Program Director, Critical Care Medicine Fellowship; Professor, Anesthesiology; Emergency Medicine
Administrative support: Sang Nguyen
Program Manager
Brandon Chaffay, MD
Fellow (Critical Care), Anesthesiology; Emergency Medicine
- Email: chaffay@wustl.edu
Brittney Gordon, MD
Fellow (Critical Care), Anesthesiology; Emergency Medicine
- Email: bgordon@wustl.edu
Raelyn Lorson, MD
Fellow (Critical Care), Anesthesiology; Emergency Medicine
- Email: lorson@wustl.edu
Aunaly Palmer, MD
Fellow (Critical Care), Anesthesiology; Emergency Medicine
- Email: aunaly@wustl.edu
William Spinosi, DO
Fellow (Critical Care), Anesthesiology; Emergency Medicine
- Email: spinosi@wustl.edu
Craig Sweeney, MD
Fellow (Critical Care), Anesthesiology; Emergency Medicine
- Email: csweeney@wustl.edu
2021
Danny VanValkinburgh, MD (ABA/Anesthesiology)
Maura Walsh, MD (ABA/Anesthesiology)
Shaynnna Mann, MD (ABA/Anesthesiology)
Jonathon Thorndike, MD (ABIM/Medicine)
Robert Klemisch, MD (ABIM/Medicine)
2020
Stephanie Charshafian, MD (ABA/Anesthesiology)
Andrew DeMars, MD (ABA/Anesthesiology)
Avi Ruderman, MD (ABA/Anesthesiology)
Daniel (Zach) Adams, MD (ABIM/ Medicine)
2019
Anton (Travis) Manasco, MD (ABA/Anesthesiology)
Amjad Musleh, MD (ABA/Anesthesiology)
Christina Thomas, MD (ABA/Anesthesiology)
2018
Keith Azevedo, MD (ABA/Anesthesiology)
Matthew Greer, MD (ABA/Anesthesiology)
Thomas Lynch, MD (ABA/Anesthesiology)
David Page, MD (ABIM/Medicine)
Kate Pollard, MD (ABIM/Medicine)
2017
Julianne Dean, DO (ABA/Anesthesiology)
Ann Tsung, MD (ABA/Anesthesiology)
Aimee Wendelsdorf, MD (ABA/Anesthesiology)
2016
James Hall, MD (ABA/Anesthesiology)
Jesse Mecham, MD (ABA/Anesthesiology)
Trent Wray, MD (ABA/Anesthesiology)
Robert Cambridge, DO (ABIM/Medicine)
Matthew Mitchell, MD (ABIM/Medicine)
2015
Diego Casali, MD (ABIM/Medicine)
2014
Tom Cooper, MD (ABA/Anesthesiology)
Hanh Truong, MD (ABA/Anesthesiology)
Christopher Palmer, MD (ABIM/Medicine)
Kelly Smith, MD (ABIM/Medicine)
2013
Enyo Ablordeppey, MD (ABIM/Medicine)
2012
Jake Keeperman, MD (ABA/Anesthesiology)
2011
Nick Mohr, MD (ABIM/Medicine)
Brian Wessman, MD (ABIM/Medicine)