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Professor of Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Chicago, IL, United States
Richard Wunderink is a Professor of Medicine in the Pulmonary and Critical Care Division of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and Medical Director of the MICU, Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Dr Wunderink has been active in research and education regarding on pulmonary infections, especially community-acquired pneumonia and ventilator-associated pneumonia, and sepsis. His research interests include prevention, diagnosis, risk stratification, and treatment, both antibiotic and adjunctive therapies, for these serious infectious diseases. He was Principal Investigator on a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention U-18 grant on the epidemiology and etiology of community-acquired pneumonia and currently PI of an NIH/NIAID U-19 Systems Biology grant on successful clinical outcomes of pneumonia treatment. He co-chaired the 2007 IDSA/ATS Consensus Guidelines Committee on the management of community-acquired pneumonia. He was a member of previous American Thoracic Society (ATS) and the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) guidelines committee on hospital-acquired and healthcare-associated pneumonia and the ERS/ESCIM/ESCMID/ALAT International Guidelines for the Management of Hospital-acquired Pneumonia and Ventilator-associated Pneumonia. He also chaired an ATS Workshop on Antibiotic Stewardship in the Intensive Care Unit.
I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Friday, October 21, 2022
1:45 PM – 3:00 PM US ET
Friday, October 21, 2022
2:35 PM – 3:00 PM US ET