Brian George Lee, MD, FCCP

Brian George Lee, MD, FCCP is a Surgical Intensivist in the Department of Surgery.  He directs patient care responsibilities along with teaching and supervision of residents and critical care medicine fellows from Washington Hospital Center, Georgetown University Hospital, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Bethesda Naval Hospital, and National Institutes of Health. Dr. Lee has also been an Instructor in Emergency Medicine at the University of Rochester, Strong Memorial Hospital, Rochester, N.Y. and an attending in Emergency Medicine at Sinai Hospital in Baltimore, Md.

Education:

• BS , Queen's University, Kingston, Canada, Engineering Physics, Faculty of Applied Science 1984-1988
• Graduate student, Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass., 1984-1988
• MD, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn., 1990-1994

Residency

• Internal medicine, The  Johns Hopkins University Medical Center, Baltimore, Md.,  1997-1999
• Residency, emergency medicine, Johns Hopkins ,Baltimore, Md., 1994-1997

Fellowship

• Fellowship, Critical Care Medicine, University of Rochester, Rochester, N.Y., 2000-2002

Credentialed Areas

• United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE)
  Step I June 1992, Step II March 1994, Step III June 1995
• American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM)
• American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM), Diplomat, Critical Care Medicine       
• American Heart Association
• Fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians (FCCP) October, 2005

Additional Training, Education & Research:

• MBA , Medical Services Management, Carey Business School, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md., 2006-current

Current research interests

• Endocrine dysfunction in shock
• Adult respiratory distress syndrome
• Sepsis and fluid resuscitation
• Focused ultrasound in critical care
• Clinical process improvement

GEORGE A. SAMPLE, MD, FCCP

Residency

• Oregon Health Sciences University (OHSU)

Fellowship

• Oregon Health Sciences University (OHSU), Pulmonary Fellowship
• University of Southern California Center for the Critically Ill (Los Angeles) Critical Care Fellowship

Credentialed Areas

• Board certified, internal medicine
• Board certified, pulmonary medicine
• Special competency in critical care medicine
• Diplomat, Critical Care Medicine

Honors, Awards & Society Memberships

• Division of Nursing Award - Nurses Choice: Physician Collaboration 2008
• Service Line Recipient for Critical Care / Neurosurgical Services Award
• 4G Surgical ICU Recipient Award
• Shubin- Weil Award for Excellence ('…outstanding clinician/teacher/leader/role model…')
  Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM), 2003
• Commander's Award for Public Service - Washington, D.C.
• (Commendation for Outstanding Care and Patriotic Service on September 11, 2001)
  (4Th highest civilian award)
• Department of the Army, March 2002
• Distinguished Service Award - Exceptional Leadership Contributions
• Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM): January 2000 (1st year of award)
• Exceptional Leadership Award - March 2000
• NAMDRC (National Association of Medical Direction of Respiratory Care)
• Presidential Citation - ('members who have made extraordinary contributions')
• Society of Critical Care Medicine: 1995 (1st year of award), 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007
• Fellow, American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP): 1982-current

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES AND APPOINTMENTS:

• American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP)
• Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM)
• Advocacy Committee- 2000 - current
• Public Policy Committee, Member: 1992 - 2000
• Reimbursement Policy Committee, Member: 1992 - 2000
• Reimbursement & Managed Care Committee, Chair: 1994 - 1998
• Medicare Liaison Physician Group, Founder/Chairman: 1993 - 1998
• Leadership Conference, Member, Anaheim, CA: Sept, 1992, 1995
• Coalition for American Trauma Care, Liaison: 1993 - 1997
• National Association of Medical Direction of Respiratory Care (NAMDRC),
  Board Member, - 2001 - 2007
• Medicare/Carrier Advisory Committee (Trailblazer Health System),  1990 - current
• AMA/CPT Advisory Committee (for SCCM) ,  1994 - current
• Workgroup on e-ICU's (2004)
• National Medicare Work Group on Critical Care Medicine, 1998 - current
• Chairman, 1999 - 2001
• Vice-Chair, 2001-current
• AMA/OMSS (Organized Medical Staff Section) Advisory Comm.(for WHC), 2002-2005
• MCAC(Medicare Coverage Advisory Committee), member, 2002-2006

Additional Training, Education & Research

• Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, The George Washington University School of Medicine, 1993 - present