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Professor and Co-Director, CVSICU, Director of Quality and Safety, Cardiac Surgery
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Glenn J.R. Whitman, M.D. is a Professor of Surgery and currently the Co-Director of the Cardiovascular Surgical Intensive Care Unit at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Head of Quality for the Division of Cardiac Surgery..
He trained under Dr. Alden Harken at the University of Colorado and, in the past, has been the Chief of Cardiac Surgery at the Denver VAH, The Medical College of Pennsylvania and the University of Maryland.
He was a member of the STS Workforce on Critical Care for several years, which he chaired before stepping down to be more ably replaced by Rakesh Arora, Director of Critical Care, Case Western.
He has been fascinated by critical care and periop physiology throughout his career, and more recently AKI as well as extracorporeal life support and the physiology that it involves. Through his relationship with Dr. Sung-Min Cho, a neurocritical care physician and Director of ECMO research at Johns Hopkins, he has learned a tremendous amount about the neurologic vulnerability of ECMO patients and the possibility of minimizing acute brain injury that results from that therapy.
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