Transformations of Medical Education and Practice Impacting Critical Care in the New Millennium

David W. Crippen, MD, FCCM is Professor Emeritus (RET) of Critical Care Medicine, Neurologic Surgery and Emergency Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in Pittsburgh, PA and former Co-Medical Director of the Neuro-Intensive Care Unit at Presbyterian University Hospital (retired, 2018) Dr. Crippen is a member of the Society for Critical Care Medicine, the European Society for Intensive Care Medicine, and the American College of Emergency Physicians until retirement. He is a Fellow of the American College of Critical Care Medicine and holds the European Diploma in Intensive Care Medicine. To date, Dr. Crippen has developed and delivered over 470 formal lectures on clinical topics in critical care and emergency medicine for National and International medical educational meetings.



In addition, Dr. Crippen has presented Multiple abstracts for medical meetings, manuscripts for peer-reviewed journals, popular media, critical care medicine textbook chapters and Four books as the primary editor. In 1993, Dr. Crippen discovered the newly emerging Internet, which at that time was limited to a few participants who understood the unix language. After gaining some experience with the Anesthesiology site Gasnet, Dr. Crippen developed and implemented an International clinical and academic resource for critical care providers. The site, CCM-L (Critical Care Medicine-List) offers multiple academic and clinical consultation services for a group of over 800 multinational participants.