Laura E. Evans, MD, MSc, Chair
Dr. Evans is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Washington and the Medical Director of Critical Care at the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle. She is board certified in Critical Care Medicine, Internal Medicine, Hospice and Palliative Medicine and Pulmonary Disease. Her interests focus on education, patient safety and quality improvement in the intensive care unit, particularly around sepsis.
She joined the Critical Care Medicine Board of the American Board of Internal Medicine in 2014. She has served as the Chair of the Internal Medicine Section of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and served on the Guidelines Oversight Committee of the American College of Chest Physicians. She currently serves as the Surviving Sepsis Campaign Guidelines co-Chair on the Council of the Society of Critical Care Medicine.
Dr. Evans earned her medical degree at the University of Michigan and completed her internal medicine residency at Columbia University. She completed pulmonary and critical care medicine fellowship training and earned a master of science degree in epidemiology at the University of Washington.
As of May 2024, Dr. Evans reported the following external relationships:
Dr. Evans serves in significant roles with the following organization, receiving reimbursement or compensation as listed:
- The Society of Critical Care Medicine, Surviving Sepsis Campaign Guidelines, co-Chair, COVID-19 Management Guidelines, co-Chair; Council, Member, without compensation
Grant funding for salary support, research expenses and staff, paid to the University of Washington Medical Center, from the following organizations:
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, serving as an investigator on a project to strengthen approaches to infection prevention and control, funding for salary support, research expenses and staff
- National Emerging Special Pathogens Training and Education Center, receiving funding for salary support
- The National Institutes of Health, serving as an investigator on a study of the impact of sepsis bundle implementation on patients presenting to the emergency department with sepsis, receiving funding for salary support
Kimberly Bird, MD
Dr. Kimberly Bird is a board-certified Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine physician and Internal Medicine Residency Program Director working at Sovah Health Danville in Danville, Virginia. She has served as the Medical Director of the Critical Care Unit and the Sleep Lab at Sovah Health Danville since 2005. She has also served as the Internal Medicine Residency Program Director at Sovah Health Danville since 2016.
In 2016 and 2019, Dr. Bird received the Michael Moore Excellence in Education Award for the education of medical residents. In addition, Dr. Bird speaks to medical students, medical residents, and physicians at conferences and lectures for educational purposes and professional development.
Dr. Bird completed her undergraduate work at Wake Forest University where she graduated with honors. She completed her medical degree, her residency in Internal Medicine, and her fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
As of July 2023, Dr. Bird reported no ongoing external relationships.
Angel O. Coz Yataco, MD
Dr. Angel O. Coz Yataco is a pulmonologist in Cleveland, Ohio and is affiliated with Lexington Veterans Affairs Medical Center. He was previously the Medical Director of the Intensive Care Unit at the Lexington Veterans Affairs Medical Center and an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Kentucky. He served as the Director of the Medical Intensive Care Unit at the Central California Veterans Affairs Health Care System until June 2017. He is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Diseases and Critical Care Medicine.
Dr. Coz Yataco has a strong interest in critical care, mechanical ventilation, sepsis resuscitation and medical education. He has led multiple quality improvement initiatives including efforts improve early detection and aggressive management of sepsis and is currently a member of the Advisory Board of the Sepsis Alliance. He is also a member of the Surviving Sepsis Campaign Guidelines update panel.
Dr. Coz Yataco holds multiple leadership positions at the American College of Chest Physicians (CHEST): He is a member of the Guidelines Oversight Committee, the Vice-Chair of the Council of Networks, and a member of the Board of Regents. Moreover, he has been awarded the Distinguished CHEST Educator (DCE) designation. He has given multiple talks on critical care, sepsis and pulmonary topics at the national and international level. Dr. Coz Yataco has published several peer reviewed articles and serves as ad hoc reviewer for several Journals including CHEST, Journal of Critical Care, Critical Care Medicine and Annals of Pharmacotherapy. Moreover, he is the section editor of the Critical Care Commentary of the CHEST Physician Newsletter.
Dr. Coz Yataco received his medical degree from Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia in Lima, Peru. He completed residency training in Internal Medicine at Henry Ford Hospital in 2009 and fellowship training in pulmonary and critical care medicine at Henry Ford Hospital in 2012.
As of August 2023, Dr. Coz Yataco reported the following external relationships.
Dr. Coz Yataco serves in significant roles with the following organizations, receiving reimbursement or compensation as listed:
- The American College of Chest Physicians, board member, receiving reimbursement for travel expenses
- Sepsis Alliance, Advisory Board, member, without compensation
Allison Greco, MD
Dr. Greco is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine within the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine at the New York University (NYU) Grossman School of Medicine. She completed her internal medicine residency at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, where she served as Chief Resident for Quality Improvement before completing fellowship at NYU Grossman School of Medicine and joining the faculty in 2020. She currently serves as an Assistant Program Director for the Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship Program. Her clinical time is spent as an attending physician in the intensive care unit at Bellevue Hospital. Her interests include medical education with a focus on social media and quality improvement, intensive care unit quality improvement and patient safety, pulmonary embolism, and cardiopulmonary arrest and resuscitation.
As of April 2024, Dr. Greco reported no ongoing external relationships.
Sandra Kane-Gill, Pharm.D., MSc, FCCP, FCCM
Dr. Kane-Gill is a tenured professor and Interim Chair of Pharmacy and Therapeutics at the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy. In addition to her academic appointments, Dr. Kane-Gill is a critical care medication safety pharmacist in the Department of Pharmacy at UPMC. Her research focuses on effective approaches for the prevention, detection and management of medication errors and adverse drug events with emphasis on drug-associated acute kidney injury. She has successfully incorporated health information technology (clinical decision support, telemedicine) into practice to advance health care systems, leading to safer and higher-quality patient care. She also applies implementation science strategies to ensure the adoption of medication safety practices and other clinical practice guidelines.
Dr. Kane-Gill has been invited to present her work at over 200 national and international professional meetings. She has published over 250 articles and book chapters related to critical care and patient safety. Dr. Kane-Gill was recognized on World Patient Safety Day 2021 as being in the top one percent of scholars in the world writing about medication errors. She has been a principal investigator for federally funded research from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. She has received several prestigious awards for her accomplishments such as the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) Literature Award for Sustained Contributions, the ASHP Residency Preceptor Excellence Award and the American College of Clinical Pharmacy Therapeutics Frontier Award. Dr. Kane-Gill is a Past President (2022) of the Society of Critical Care Medicine.
As of April 2024, Dr. Kane-Gill reported the following ongoing external relationships:
Dr. Kane-Gill serves in significant roles with the following organizations, receiving reimbursement or compensation as listed:
- The American College of Chest Physicians, Board of Regents, receiving reimbursement for travel expenses.
- The Society of Critical Care Medicine, Past President, receiving reimbursement for travel expenses.
Funding for expenses, staff and salary support, paid to the University of Pittsburgh, from the following nonprofit health care organizations:
- The National Institutes of Health, for a Research Project Grant (R01) and a Research Project Cooperative Agreement (U01), and the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health.
Dr. Kane-Gill also reported receiving honoraria for speaking at meetings for the American College of Chest Physicians, the American Society of Nephrology, the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the American College of Physicians.
Leonard Stallings, MD, FCCP
Dr. Stallings is a community and academic intensivist with Advocate Health based in Charlotte, North Carolina, and Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He practices in a myriad of areas in critical care including clinically in cardiothoracic ICU and medical/surgical ICU and as a tele-intensivist. He is a fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians, the American College of Emergency Physicians and the American Academy of Emergency Medicine.
Dr. Stallings is on the faculty at Wake Forest University School of Medicine as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine, Section on Pulmonary, Critical Care, Allergy and Immunologic Diseases and as an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology, Section of Critical Care Medicine.
Dr. Stallings currently serves as a member of the American Board of Internal Medicine Critical Care Medicine Board. His additional previous committee work has included projects with the American Board of Emergency Medicine and service as a member of the Review Committee – Emergency Medicine and the Council for Review Committee Residents for the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. He has published scholarly articles in the realms of critical care, emergency medicine and medical education. His clinical interests include sepsis, cardiovascular critical care, medical education and health disparities.
Dr. Stallings received his medical degree from the Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine in Maywood, Illinois, and completed a six-year combined training program in Emergency Medicine – Internal Medicine – Critical Care Medicine at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. He is board certified in internal medicine and critical care medicine by the American Board of Internal Medicine and in emergency medicine by the American Board of Emergency Medicine.
As of April 2024, Dr. Stallings reported no ongoing external relationships.
Alexander Sy, MD
Dr. Sy is a Professor of Medicine and Associate Program Director of the Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship at the Loma Linda University School of Medicine, and Director of Pulmonary Function Testing at the Jerry L. Pettis Memorial Veterans’ Hospital. He is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine, and by the American Board of Sleep Medicine as a Sleep Specialist. He previously served as Professor at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and Director of Pulmonary Function Testing, Respiratory Care and Pulmonary Rehabilitation at Atrium Wake Forest Baptist Health. He also served as President of the North Carolina Chapter of the American Thoracic Society. Prior to this, he was a Professor at Duke University School of Medicine and Director of Community Critical Care Services for the Duke Health System in Durham, North Carolina.
Dr. Sy has been consistently and actively involved in the pulmonary, critical care and sleep education and training of house staff, advanced practice providers and students. He served as Chairperson of the Graduate Resident Education Committee and for multiple years held membership in the Fundamentals in Critical Care Support Committee of the Society of Critical Care Medicine.
He received his medical degree from the University of the Philippines in Manila and completed his critical care fellowship at St. Louis University after internal medicine residency at St. Agnes Hospital in Baltimore. He then completed his pulmonary fellowship at Western Pennsylvania Hospital in Pittsburgh after completion of his critical care fellowship.
As of April 2024, Dr. Sy reported the following ongoing external relationships:
Dr. Sy serves in significant roles with the following organizations, receiving reimbursement or compensation as listed:
- The American College of Chest Physicians, Pulmonary Function and Physiology Steering Committee, vice chair, without compensation