Below, you will find some of the top minds in resuscitation and acute critical care. These are the folks you will be hanging out with every month. If you are interested, then why don’t you…
Dr. Weingart received his medical degree and completed a residency in Emergency Medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He then went on to fellowships in Trauma, Surgical Critical Care, and ECMO at the Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore.
He is currently an attending in and chief of the Division of Emergency Critical Care at Stony Brook Hospital. He is a clinical associate professor of emergency medicine at Stony Brook Medicine and an adjunct associate professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
He is best known for his podcast on Resuscitation and ED Critical Care called the EMCrit Podcast; it currently is downloaded > 300,000 times per month.
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Critical Care
ICU Medical Director, Memorial Hermann Southwest Hospital
Dr. Vishal Demla is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Critical Care with dual board certifications in Emergency Medicine and Critical Care.
He currently serves as the ICU Medical Director at Memorial Hermann Southwest Hospital, having previously led as the ICU Medical Director at Memorial Hermann Pearland Hospital and as the Assistant Program Director for Emergency Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, based at Ben Taub Hospital.
Dedicated to advancing quality and patient safety, Dr. Demla has completed certifications in Clinical Safety & Efficacy, Physician Leadership & Management, and Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy. Under his leadership, the ICU at Memorial Hermann Pearland achieved the #1 ranking across all Memorial Hermann hospitals in key metrics, including ICU length of stay, Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections (CLABSI), and Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections (CAUTI).
Known for his inclusive and energetic leadership style, Dr. Demla fosters a collaborative, high-performing environment where team members feel recognized and valued. He leads by example, working alongside his teams with approachability, respect, and a passion for excellence.
Committed to continuous improvement and professional growth, Dr. Demla remains deeply engaged in education, simulation, advancing patient care, driving quality improvement, and developing future healthcare leaders in the fields of Emergency Medicine and Critical Care.
Hobbies
All sports, especially soccer, running, basketball, tennis, pickleball. Reading now scifi books. Watching movies. Wish I had more time for gaming.
Niches
Vascular access, sepsis, cardiogenic shock.
Schedule
100% ICU. PRN ED shifts
Dr. Haney Mallemat is Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Maryland. After his EM-IM residency at SUNY Downstate/Kings County Hospital, he completed a critical care fellowship at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. His obsession with all things bedside ultrasound and critical care may have something to do with his selection for the University of Maryland’s Emergency Medicine Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award in both 2012 and 2013.
Dr. Mallemat has taken and passed the American Society of Echocardiography Board examination and his real passion lies in critical care ultrasound and bedside echo.
Bio
Sean Rees is passionate about all things resuscitation and emergency critical care.
Dr. Sean Rees is as a highly accomplished emergency room physician with an impressive career spanning over 25 years. Raised in Moscow, Idaho, where his father was a philosophy professor at the University of Idaho, Dr. Rees developed a love for learning early on. He attended the University of Oregon and earned his medical degree from Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) in Portland. Following medical school, he completed his Emergency Medicine residency at New York University (NYU) in New York City, graduating in 1998.
Dr. Rees has been board certified in Emergency Medicine since 1998 and is a Fellow of both the American College of Emergency Physicians and the American Academy of Emergency Medicine. Before coming to Idaho, he spent 21 years practicing in the Portland area. An esteemed educator and author, Dr. Rees has published numerous articles and book chapters in core emergency medicine textbooks. He is a professor at the Resuscitation Leadership Academy and a contributing author for EMCrit, an internationally renowned podcast focusing on emergency medicine and critical care. Dr. Rees has also completed advanced training, including a year-long course for emergency department directors and a resuscitation/critical care fellowship.
Outside of medicine, Dr. Rees is a physician partner with the Lost Trail Ski Patrol and an avid outdoorsman. His hobbies include alpine, cross-country, and backcountry skiing, fly fishing, and road, mountain, and gravel biking. A devoted father of three daughters, he humorously describes his garage as an “REI annex,” equipped for any outdoor adventure—though he wishes he had more time to enjoy them all.
Dr. Rees is director of Emergency Medicine/Critical Care, director of Trauma and medical director of Pharmacy/Therapeutics and Infection Control at the Steele Memorial Medical Center
Interaction Ninja
Sean follows the discussions on RLA’s forum and provides insightful commentary and guidance to all of the fellows current and past.
Hobbies
What are your favorite resus/critical care niches?
What does an average month look like in terms of the shifts you work?
Dr Victoria Stephen is a Specialist Emergency Physician and Intensivist, board certified in South Africa and Europe through the European Diploma in Intensive Care Medicine (EDIC). Dr Stephen is dedicated to advancing patient-focused, compassionate, high quality critical care and enjoys working in a multi-disciplinary team. Her interests in critical care include mechanical ventilation, ultrasound, resuscitation, diagnostics, toxicology, trauma and infectious diseases.
Hobbies
Functional fitness, running, playing tennis. Traveling – visited all continents apart from South America and Antarctica- Peru, Argentina and Chile are countries next on my bucket list. Die-hard Arsenal Football Club fan (English Premier League) – I recently flew my husband, son and I to the trophy parade after they won the league for the first time in 22 years. Being a mom is my other full-time job.
My favorite niches
Toxicology, ECGs, lab interpretation, mechanical ventilation
Work
Now full-time in Critical Care – 7 days MICU, 7 days transplant ICU (Liver and kidney) and 3 days Surgical ICU. Was an attending in ED for 8.5 years before transitioning to full-time critical care., until last year, where my split was about 80:20 ED:ICU.
I am a medical intensivist at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, OH. My interests include circulatory shock as well as severe forms of respiratory failure, especially Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS). Additionally, I’m interested in ICU procedures, particularly point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) and difficult vascular access.
I’m a passionate medical educator. In my current role, I serve as the associate program director for the Critical Care Medicine fellowship. I’m also a senior editor and regular content contributor at CriticalCareNow.com, focused on mechanical ventilation, respiratory care, and airway management. Other educational content can be found at the social media links on this page.
An aspiring clinician-scientist, I am enrolled in the M.S. in Clinical Research program at Case Western Reserve University. My research interests are focused on two main areas: (1) better identification of patients who will benefit from specific therapies in ARDS and shock, and (2) implementation (and de-implementation) of critical care practices. For completed projects, please see the google scholar link on this page.
Obviously, viewpoints presented here are mine, and nothing here is medical advice.
Niches
Zentensivism, mechanical ventilation, ARDS, shock
Anesthesiology CCM + EM, full-time ICU at Mount Sinai South Nassau + per diem ED at Mount Sinai Brooklyn. Director of the Rapid Response Team.
She also created and directs her own airway course (The Physiologically Difficult Airway at Protected Airway Collaborative)
Dr. Brian Wright is an Emergency and Critical Care Medicine Physician from Long Island, NY. Dr. Wright attended medical school and Emergency Medicine residency at SUNY-Downstate and Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, NY. After residency, he completed a multi-disciplinary CCM fellowship at North Shore University Hospital in Long Island. Dr. Wright splits his time between EM Critical Care, Neurocritical Care, and Surgical Intensive Care in Stony Brook, NY. Dr. Wright has had the privilege of being honored by his fellows and residents with multiple teaching awards. He is currently the program director of the Advanced Resuscitation Training Program at Stony Brook University School of Medicine and is faculty for the Emergency Medicine residency and Surgical Critical Care fellowship at Stony Brook.
He is happy to talk about any Critical Care topic and is especially interested in Neurological Emergencies and in Invasive and Non-Invasive Ventilation strategies.
Philippe Rola, a McGill University product circa 2000, has been the Medical Director of Intensive Care at Santa Cabrini Hospital in Montreal, Canada for the better part of a decade and caught the teaching bug in 2008 after organizing the first Critical Care Ultrasound Institute Symposium. He is a proud #FOAMed supporter by blogging atthingkingcriticalcare.com and tweeting from @ThingkingCC.
His fields of focus are integrating bedside ultrasound to routine clinical assessment, shock and resuscitation, bedside procedures, and hunting down dogmatic practice to replace it by a blend of evidence, physiology and common sense.
As a Montrealer, he is fluent in french and welcomes those fellows who would prefer a hangout ‘en français’!
Mike is the assistant director of critical care at a busy urban hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. His ICU is a multidisciplinary unit, caring for patients with medical, surgical, neurological, and cardiac diseases. Known for his skills at the bedside and the whiteboard, he has been recognized with awards for both his clinical care and teaching ability.
He completed a training program in Emergency Medicine, Internal Medicine, and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Maryland Medical Center. During his residency and fellowship years he developed an interest in point-of-care ultrasound education.
Some of his clinical interests include noninvasive assessment of volume status, mechanical ventilation, noninvasive ventilation, and ultrasound use in cardiac arrest.
Dr. Christopher “Kit” Tainter is an Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of California, San Diego, in both the Department of Emergency Medicine and the Department of Anesthesiology, Division of Critical Care. His training includes an Emergency Medicine residency at the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, with specialty training in ultrasound as a Registered Diagnostic Medical Sonographer, as well as a fellowship in Anesthesia Critical Care at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He also has experience in education as the Assistant Residency Program Director and Medical Student Clerkship Director at the University of Oklahoma and completed a Harvard Macy Education Program. He currently splits his time between the Emergency Department and various ICUs at the University of California in San Diego, and is the Director for Advanced Resuscitation Training for the Emergency Department.
He is happy to discuss any topic related to critical care or emergency medicine, especially cardiac arrest resuscitation, education, or point-of-care ultrasound/echocardiography.