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- Center for Acute Respiratory Failure
- Contact Us
- Contraindications to ECMO
- ECMO Program
- For Physicians
- Indications for ECMO
- Patient Stories
- Pulmonary Embolectomy and Pulmonary Thromboendarterectomy Program
- Surviving Pneumonia
- The Road to Recovery: Just Over a Year Later, ECMO Patient Completes Bike-A-Thon
- Transfers to the Center
- Transfers to the Center
- Ways to Give
- What is ECMO
- Who We Treat
Center for Acute Respiratory Failure
Our Team
Senior Leaders
- Neil Schluger, M.D.
Chief of the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine - Joshua Sonett, M.D.
Chief of General Thoracic Surgery - Byron Thomashow, M.D.
Senior Clinical Advisor - Jahar Bhattacharya, M.D., Ph.D.
Research Director
Co-Directors of the Center
- Daniel Brodie, M.D.
Director, Medical ECMO Program - Matthew Bacchetta, M.D.
Director, Adult ECMO Program
ECMO Surgeons
Medical ECMO Program Attendings
- Cara Agerstrand, M.D.
Medical ECMO Program Attending
Perfusion Team
- Linda Mongero, C.C.P.
Director of Perfusion - James Beck, C.C.P. Chief Perfusionist
Director of Nursing for Med-Surg
- Vinni Schek, RN, BSN, MPH
Patient Care Director, Medical ICU
- Patty Rychcik, R.N., B.S.N., M.S.N.
Chief Nurse Practitioner
- Paul Boerem, A.C.N.P.
Critical Care Pharmacist
- Amy Dzierba, PharmD
Medical Critical Care Attendings
- William Bulman, M.D.
- Kristin Burkart, M.D., M.Sc.
- Subani Chandra, M.D.
- David Chong, M.D. Director of Medical Critical Care and Hospital Critical Care
- Jennifer Cunningham, M.D.
- Sanja Jelic, M.D.
- Nina Patel, M.D.
- Natalie Yip, M.D.
ECMO Fellow
- Darryl Abrams, M.D.
Additional ECMO Research Team Members
- Robert Basner, M.D.
- Raphael Clynes, M.D., Ph.D.
- Jeffrey Javidfar, M.D.
- Vivek Moitra, M.D.
ECMO Study Coordinators
- Patricia Jellen, R.N.
- Julie Porcelli, R.N., B.S.N.



