Dr. Blum is the Chief of Anesthesiology at the Atlanta VA Medical Center, Chief of Critical Care and Chief of Informatics and Health Services Research for the Emory University Department of Anesthesiology, and Vice Chair for Clinical Research in the Emory University Department of Biomedical Informatics. He graduated from Alma College with a degree in Computer Science in 1998 and received his MD from Johns Hopkins University in 2003.  He completed his residency in Anesthesiology and fellowship in Critical Care Medicine at the University of Michigan in 2007 and 2008 respectively.  After completing his clinical training, he joined the faculty at the University of Michigan where he remained until he was recruited to Emory where in addition to his leadership roles, he founded Emory Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Center which has rapidly become the leading academic center ECMO in the southeastern United States.

He has been funded by NIH and FDA awards focusing on biomedical informatics and machine learning in critically ill patients.  Dr. Blum’s research focuses on perioperative management of critical illness and high volume data analysis for critical illness prediction and intervention.  His work is done in collaboration with colleagues in the Emory Departments of Anesthesiology, Surgery, and Biomedical Informatics, and the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Department of Computer Science.  His work has appeared in several publications including the Anesthesia & Analgesia, Anesthesiology, ASAIO, Critical Care Medicine, ASAIO, and the Journal of Critical Care and has resulted in 2 patents and 2 PhD dissertations.

Dr. Blum currently is on the steering committee for the United States Critical Illness and Injury Trials Group and he was inducted as a member of the American College of Critical Care Medicine.  He has been invited to lecture at multiple institutions, national, and international conferences on critical care and biomedical informatics.  He reviews manuscripts for numerous journals including Anesthesiology, Critical Care Medicine, and The American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.  Additionally, he is an active member of the American Society of Anesthesiologists, the Society for Critical Care Medicine, and the American Society of Critical Care Anesthesiologists to which he was recently elected to the Board of Directors. 

Dr. Gershengorn is an Associate Professor of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine. She received her medical degree from Harvard Medical School and completed a residency in Internal Medicine at New York Presbyterian Hospital-Cornell and a fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at New York Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia. Dr. Gershengorn’s research program focuses on the allocation of ICU resources and the impact such allocation has on the outcomes of critically ill patients. In particular, she is interested in understanding how (1) ICU staffing and (2) practices which may be tied to staffing affect patient morbidity and mortality.

Professor Gordon is the Chair of Anaesthesia and Critical Care Medicine at Imperial College London. He trained in anaesthesia and intensive care medicine in the North West Thames region and obtained his MD at St Bartholomew’s. He has also worked at the Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney, Australia and St Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, Canada.

Prof Gordon has been an NIHR Clinician Scientist and is a Director of Research for the Intensive Care Foundation. He has been the Chief Investigator for two UK multi-centre septic shock trials (VANISH and LeoPARDS) and is part of the UK Critical Care Genomics group. He is now an NIHR Research Professor, investigating personalised medicine in sepsis.

Vince completed undergraduate training from Monash University in 1990 and completed training as a Physician and Intensive Care Specialist in 1999. He was awarded the Matt Spence Prize for research. Vince is currently employed as a Senior Intensive Care Specialist at The Alfred Hospital, is Head of the ECMO Clinical Service and holds a Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor appointment in the Monash University School of Public Health & Preventative Medicine. He has had a lead role in the development of ECMO services at The Alfred since 2003 and has provided ECMO training programs nationally and internationally. He is on the Executive Committee for ECMOne and the Education Committee of APELSO. He is active in clinical and animal research in ECMO, circulatory physiology and control of the circulation.