Northwestern University
Chicago
ILUSA
60611
Biographical Sketch: 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 ventilator-associated pneumonia and community-acquired pneumonia, and sepsis. He is a member of the last two committees of the American Thoracic Society (ATS) and the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) which developed guideline statements on hospital-acquired and healthcare-associated pneumonia. He co-chaired the most recent IDSA/ATS Consensus Guidelines Committee on the management of community-acquired pneumonia. He has a grant from the CDC to study the incidence and etiology of community-acquired pneumonia in hospitalized patients and from NIAID for ventilator-associated pneumonia treatment.