Description
This month, tune into the all new Perspectives Series: Dr. Tom Bleck, Professor of Neurology at Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine and founding president of the Neurocritical Care Society. The NCS Podcast is the official podcast of the Neurocritical Care Society.
Contributors
Thomas P Bleck, MD, MCCM
Thomas P Bleck ,MD, MCCM is
professor of neurology at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of
Medicine, where he directs the neurocritical care fellowship. In 2018 he
retired as professor emeritus of neurological sciences, neurosurgery,
internal medicine, and anesthesiology at Rush Medical College, where he was a
neurointensivist and the director of clinical neurophysiology.
From 2009 – 2015, he was the
associate chief medical officer for critical care. He was the founding
president of the Neurocritical Care Society. From 1992 – 2015 he was the
neuroscience section editor of Critical
Care Medicine , and is currently an associate editor. He also serves on the
editorial boards of Annals of Intensive
Care , Current Opinion in Critical
Care , and Epilepsy Currents. For
12 years, he was a member of the Council of the Society of Critical Care
Medicine. In 2015, the American College of Critical Care Medicine and the SCCM
elected him a Master of Critical Care Medicine; there are 87 masters out of
18,000 members. He previously served on the board of the American Board of
Clinical Neurophysiology, the writing committee of the American Board of
Psychiatry and Neurology, and the American Board of Internal Medicine
sub-specialty exam committee in critical care medicine. In 2018, he was
appointed to the ABPN neurocritical care examination development committee.
He is an elected fellow of 11 professional societies. In 2017, he was elected
to the board of directors of the American Neurological Association. In 2018, he
received the SCCM lifetime achievement award.
From 1990 – 2006, he directed
the neuroscience intensive care unit at the University of Virginia as the
Louise Nerancy eminent scholar in neurology. From 2006 – 2009, he chaired the
neurology department of Evanston Northwestern Healthcare, and was professor and
vice-chair for academic programs at Northwestern, where he also directed the
division of neurocritical care. In 2009, he moved to Rush as the associate
chief medical officer for critical care. In 2017, he was the interim neurology residency program director. His research
interests include subarachnoid hemorrhage, intracerebral hemorrhage, head
injury, status epilepticus, infections, neuromuscular respiratory failure,
and the ICU management of the organ donor. He has published 213 papers, 135
abstracts, 22 editorials, and 200 books and book chapters; and conducted more
than 580 national and international visiting appointments and lectureships in
30 countries.
Dr. Bleck is board certified by
the American Board of Internal Medicine in internal medicine, with subspecialty
certification in critical care medicine; the American Board of Psychiatry and
Neurology in neurology, with subspecialty certifications in vascular
neurology, epilepsy, and neurocritical care; clinical neurophysiology; and in
neurocritical care by both the United Council on Neurological Subspecialties
and the Committee on Advanced Surgical Training of the Society of Neurological
Surgeons.
Nicholas A. Morris, MD
Assistant Professor and Fellowship Director Division of Neurocritical Care and Emergency Neurology Department of Neurology University of Maryland School of Medicine Medicine