Critical Care Section in Action

June 2026

• Chandni Ravi, MD, is invited to present at the 2026 Coastal Emergency Medicine Conference where she will be lecturing and running an ultrasound workshop

Febraury 2026

• The EMCC section launches the critical care consult service in the Emergency Department at Emory University Midtown Hospital, under the leadership of Jonathan Ratcliff, MD, Deepa Patel, MD and Samantha Strickler, DO
• Sagar Dave, MD, and Chris Creel-Bulos, MD, publish their work examining the use of a developed decision tool support tool, rECMOender, to aid clinicians in decision making and management of patients on ECMO:
  • Song J, Dave SB, Yang Y, et al. rECMOmender: Reinforcement Learning for Decision Support in Venovenous Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Management. Crit Care Explor. 2026;8(2):e1369. Published 2026 Feb 6
• Chris Creel, MD, and Sagar Dave, MD, discuss ECMO, ECLS and pre-hospital activation at the Metro Atlanta EMS Conference
• Sam Kahn, MD, is invited as a guest lecturer to the University of Michigan, where he discusses, "Impellas for the Intenstivist"
• Samantha Strickler, DO, along with critical care experts throughout the US, publish the results of the Society of Critical Care Medicine Critical Care As a Specialty Task Force in Critical Care Medicine

January 2026

• Deepa Patel, MD, delivers Grand Rounds, “Mechanical Ventilation,” at Medical College of Georgia
• Under the direction of Chris Creel-Belos, MD, and Sagar Dave, MD, the ECMO service augments its capacity and becomes a 24/7 staffed team, offering cannulation, initiation, consult assistance, and ECMO related procedures
• Sagar Dave, MD, is named as the new Medical Director of the CVICU at Emory University Hospital
• Chandni Ravi, MD, is appointed to the SCCM Item Writing Committee

December 2025  

• Chris Zalesky, MD, the site director at Emory for the POSTICAP, enrolls the first patient from Emory Healthcare
• Donnie Mayberry, MD, and Sammie Strickler, MD, EMRA articles are recognized as 2 of the Top 10 Resident Articles of 2025

November 2025  

• Sagar Dave, MD, joins the Editorial Board of Critical Care Explorations
• Sagar Dave, MD, Donnie Maberry, MD, and Chris Creel-Bulos, MD, publish their work analyzing VV ECMO cannulation by intensivists and surgeons in Critical Care Medicine Dave SB, Chan JL, Maberry DR, et al. Venovenous Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Cannulation by Intensivists and Surgeons: A Single-Center Retrospective Noninferiority Analysis of Complications and Outcomes From 2018 to 2023. Crit Care Med. 2025;53(11):e2233-e2245

October 2025  

• Sam Kahn, MD, delivers Grand Rounds at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (NY) and discusses, "Impellas for the Intensivist"
• Sagar Dave, MD, presents, “ECMO in Trauma” at the Rozycki/Feliciano Trauma Symposium

September 2025  

• Chris Zalensky, MD, Sagar Dave, MD, and Chris Creel, MD published in Critical Care Explorations evaluating the frequency of physical therapy in patients being supported by ECMO
• Samantha Strickler, DO, is promoted to Associate Professor in the departments of Emergency Medicine and Anesthesia
• Sam Kahn, MD, is appointed as the director of the Peachtree ICU at Emory University Hospital Midtown

July 2025  

• Chris Zalensky, MD graduates from the Emory Anesthesia Critical Care Program and becomes a faculty member in the Departments of Emergency Medicine and Anesthesia, Division of Critical Care Medicine. Chris will be practicing in the CVICU at Emory University Hospital and in the Emergency Department at Emory Midtown University Hospital

• Chandni Ravi, MD joins the Emory Emergency Medicine and Pulmonary Critical Care Medicine Departments from the Medical College of Georgia at August University. She will be practicing in the Grady CVICU, Grady Emergency Department, and Emory University Hospital

• Deep Patel, MD instructs more than 250 learners in a Multi-Institutional Mechanical Ventilator Course  

June 2025 

• The Critical Care Section holds its 2nd Annual EM-CC Section Social bringing residents, fellows, and attending staff together to enjoy a night of fellowship

May 2025 

• Sam Kahn, MD presents, "Refractory Shock - Beyond the Basics" at the Southeastern Critical Care Summit.

April 2025  

• Chris Creel-Bulos, MD provides her expert opinion as an invited panelist to discuss “Double Trouble: Management of BiV MCS” at the Society of Critical Care Anesthesia’s annual meeting

• Chris Creel-Bulos, MD, Sagar Dave, MD, and Chris Zalensky, MD present multiple abstracts at the Society of Critical Care Anesthesia’s annual meeting in Honolulu, HI  

March 2025 

• Kate Nugent, MD is named as the Medical Director of the Emory Healthcare Capacity Command Center

• Donnie Maberry, MD joined faculty instructors for ECMO cannulation courses 

February 2025   

• Sam Khan, MD is announced as the new medical director of the Peachtree ICU at Emory University Midtown Hospital, effective September 2025 

• Samantha Strickler, DO presents data at the Society of Critical Care Medicine Annual Assembly for the SCCM Critical Care as a Specialty Task Force, in which she is a member

January 2025  

• Under the direction of Chris Creel-Bulos, MD and Sagar Dave, MD the Emory ECMO team expands to a flight team
• Sam Kahn, MD is appointed the Associate Chief Health Informatics Officer, Emory Healthcare (January 2025-Present)

December 2024

• Randi Connor-Schuler named as the new the medical director of the CVICU at Grady Memorial Hospital 

• Chris Creel-Bulos provides education on ECMO in the United Arab Emirates for Emirates Health Services

October 2024

• Emory ECMO program, under the leadership of Chris Creel and Sagar Dave, awarded the ELSO Gold Center of Excellence Award

September 2024

• Kate Nugent is elected to be the Vice Chair of the SCCM MCCR Adult Committee 
• Jonathan Ratcliff in collaboration with others at Emory awarded $25.9M grant from The Marcus Foundation to study the effectiveness of minimally invasive parafascicular surgery on deep ICH
• Chris Creel, Sagar Dave, Donnie Maberry and others from the Emory ECMO Program host a Getinge ECMO Cannulation Simulation Program

August 2024

• Dr. Sam Khan's work with the PRECISE trial is accepted for publication in JAMA Network Open. Bhavani SV, Holder A, Kamaleswaran R, Khan S, Easley K, Murphy D, Franks N, Wright D, Kraft C, Semler M, Churpek MM, Martin G, Coopersmith C. Study Protocol for Precision Resuscitation with Crystalloids in Sepsis (PRECISE) Trial: A Randomized Controlled Trial 

July 2024

• Dr. Donnie Maberry takes over as the Director of the Multidisciplinary Critical Care Lecture Series at Emory
• Dr. Deepa Patel speaks at the virtual Multi-Institutional Fundamentals of Mechanical Ventilation Course

June 2024

• Dr. Sam Khan receives the  "Teacher of the Year" award  from the Emory Anesthesia Critical Care Fellowship Program
• Dr. Sam Khan presents, "An Intensivist's Guide to Impellas," at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital (Park Ridge, IL)

May 2024

• Dr. Sagar Dave and Dr. Christina Creel-Bulos publish "Outcomes following additional drainage during veno-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation: a single-center retrospective study" in Perfusion

April 2024

• Jonathan Ratcliff MD MPH, Alex Hall D.H.Sc, and David Wright MD, publish their work from the ENRICH trial showing better functional outcomes and mortality for patients with early surgical evacuation of lobar hematomas for patients with intracranial hemorrhage in the New England Journal of https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2308440

March 2024

• Dr. Deepa Patel selected as one of two fellows for the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Educational Leadership Fellowship

February 2024 

• Dr. Deepa Patel speaks at the Rocky Mountain Winter Conference about Mechanical Ventilation

January 2024 

• Dr. Samantha Strickler collaborates with members of EMRA (Emergency Medicine Resident Association) to publish an article on post-sedation intubation in the Emergency Department https://www.emra.org/emresident/issue-page-folder/latest-articles/233911
• Dr. Deepa Patel speaks at the Learning to be Better Teachers Conference at Emory

October 2023 

• The Emory Emergency Medicine Critical Care Section is established

• Dr. Sagar Dave receives the Excellence in Critical Care Medicine Teaching Award
• Dr. Sagar Dave is an invited panelist at American College of Emergency Physicians, Critical Care Annual section meeting and discusses, "E-CPR – Where Do We Go From Here?"
• Dr. Samantha Strickler and Dr. Sagar Dave publish chapters in Critical Care Emergencies edited by Dr. Lillian Emlet

September 2023 

• Dr Donnie Maberry is named the Co-Director and Faculty Advisor for the Emergency Medicine Critical Care Pathway
• Dr Sagar Dave and Dr Christina Creel-Bulos provide life-saving ECMO treatment to a veteran. Read more about it in this Emory news story: https://news.emory.edu/stories/2023/09/hs-patient-success-michael-roberts-ecmo-cardio3/story.html

• Dr Christina Creel-Bulos presents internationally in Cairo, Egypt on ECMO 

August 2023 

• Dr Sagar Dave presents "Veno-Arterial Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation - Prepare for Takeoff!"  at the Southeastern Critical Care Summit 

June 2023

• Dr Sagar Dave presents "Lessons I learned as an Intensivist who Cannulates for ECMO" at the Association of Physician Assistants in Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery