The Surgical Critical Care Fellowship is an ACGME/RRC approved training program, whose goal is to educate fellows in the advanced care of critically ill and injured patients. Rotational experience includes trauma, cardiac, burn and pediatric, as well as general surgical critical care. The broad experience gained through diverse faculty and programmatic elements should prepare the fellow for board examinations as well as a career in either academic or private practice.
The fellowship is designed to provide the critical care resident (CCR) with an education in the principles and practice of state-of-the art surgical critical care. This is accomplished by exposing the CCR to a broad array of surgical illnesses through teaching rounds, primary patient care, educational conferences, and specialized rotations. Upon completion of training, the CCR is expected to demonstrate proficiency in surgical critical care decision making, specific organ system support, evaluation of new technology and treatment techniques, ICU administration, outcomes assessment, research design, and interaction with patients, families and health care personnel. These clinical goals will be accomplished by providing the CCR with a position dedicated to the intensive care units at Denver Health Medical Center (DHMC), The Children’s Hospital of Denver (TCH), and the University of Colorado Hospital (UCHSC).
The fellowship is devoted to patient care, with didactic, clinical and research components. CCR training will consist of 12 months: eight months dedicated to general surgical critical care, one month in pediatric critical care, one month in burn critical care, one month in cardiothoracic critical care, and one month in research. The clinical component includes experience gained by direct patient responsibility under supervision of teaching faculty, and independent study on relevant topics.
The didactic component includes taking part in multidisciplinary critical care rounds with the DHMC surgical attendings, surgical housestaff, trauma coordinators, social workers and attending physicians in Neurosurgery and Infectious Disease three times a week. Additionally, daily teaching rounds on all surgical ICU patients are conducted by a general surgery/trauma/critical care attending. There is a monthly multidisciplinary critical care conference, which includes lectures by outside experts on a wide range of critical care topics. Other didactic elements include Morbidity and Mortality Conference, Surgical Grand Rounds, and Ethics Conference.
Research may be conducted on a variety of critical care projects, and the opportunity to take master’s level classes at the UCHSC in biostatistics and research methods exists. There is a weekly multidisciplinary research conference, which focuses on basic science and critical care research.
Conference Schedule
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Conference
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Frequency
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Responsible Individual
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Denver Health
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| SICU Attending Rounds |
Weekly
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DHMC Faculty |
| Multidisciplinary Critical Care Conference |
Weekly
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Jeffrey L. Johnson, M.D. |
| Pulmonary Rounds |
Weekly
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Jeffrey L. Johnson, MD |
| SICU Checkout Rounds |
Daily
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Critical Care Fellow |
| Perioperative Conference |
Weekly
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DHMC Faculty |
| Morbidity and Mortality Conference |
Weekly
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DHMC Faculty |
| DHMC Surgical Research Conference |
Weekly
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Ernest E. Moore, MD |
| Trauma & Critical Care Teaching Conference |
Weekly
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C. Clay Cothren, MD |
| Acute Care Surgery Teaching Conference |
Weekly
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Walter L. Biffli, MD |
| Multidisciplinary Trauma Conference |
Monthly
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Debra Carpenter, RN |
| Critical Care Teaching Conference |
Weekly
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Critical Care Fellow |
| Trauma Service Line |
Monthly
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Ernest E. Moore, MD |
| Injury Prevention Committee |
Quarterly
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Chris Urbina, MD |
| Ethics Committee Meeting |
Monthly
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Sharon Langendoerfer, MD |
| Disaster Management |
Monthly
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Chrisopher Colwell, MD |
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University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
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| SICU Attending Rounds |
Daily |
Critical Care Faculty |
| Grand Rounds |
Weekly |
Frederick L. Grover, MD |
| Morbidity and Mortality Conference |
Weekly |
General Surgery Faculty |
| Dept. of Surgery Research Conference |
Weekly |
Frederick L. Grover, MD
Ernest E. Moore, MD
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| Surgery Teaching Conference |
Weekly |
Gordon Lindberg, MD |
| Basic Science Conference |
Weekly |
Robert C. McIntyre, MD |
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The Children's Hospital
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| SICU Attending Rounds |
Daily |
Critical Care Faculty |
| Radiology Rounds |
Daily |
Critical Care and Radiology Faculty |
| Morbidity and Mortality Conference |
Weekly |
Pediatric Surgery Faculty |
| Pediatric Grand Rounds |
Monthly |
TCH Faculty |
| Surgery Teaching Conference |
Weekly |
Mortiz Ziegler, MD |
| Trauma Conference |
Weekly |
Dave PAtrick, MD |
Clay Cothren Burlew, MD FACS
Program Director, Surgical Critical Care
Program Director, TACS Fellowship
SICU Director, DHMC
Assistant Professor of Surgery, UCHSC
Undergraduate Education: Amherst College
Medical School: UT Southwestern
Residency: University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
Fellowships: Surgical Critical Care, University of Colorado
Board Certifications: Surgery, Surgical Critical Care
Research Interests: blunt cerebrovascular injuries, penetrating and blunt abdominal trauma, resuscitative thoracotomy, and abdominal compartment syndrome
Contact Information:
Department of Surgery
Denver Health Medical Center
777 Bannock Street, MC 0206
Denver, CO 80204
Phone: 303-436-6558
Fax: 303-436-6572
E-Mail: Clay Cothren Burlew, MD
Ernest E. Moore, MD FACS
Associate Program Director, TACS Fellowship
Chief of Surgery, DHMC
Professor of Surgery, UCHSC
Undergraduate Education: Alllegheny College
Medical School: University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Residency: University of Vermont School of Medicine
Board Certifications: Surgery, Surgical Critical Care
Research Interests: descending torn aortas, penetrating trauma, resuscitative thoracotomy, postinjury inflamation
Contact Information:
Department of Surgery
Denver Health Medical Center
777 Bannock Street, MC 0206
Denver, CO 80204
Phone: 303-436-6558
Fax: 303-436-6572
E-Mail: Ernest E. Moore, MD
Robert C. McIntyre, MD FACS
Associate Program Director, Surgical Critical Care
Co-Director of SICU, UCHSC
Associate Professor of Surgery, UCHSC
Undergraduate Education: Vanderbilt University
Medical School: Tulane University School of Medicine
Residency: University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
Fellowships: University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
Board Certifications: Surgery, Surgical Critical Care
Research Interests: ALI/ARDS, shock, cell signaling
Contact Information: Department of Surgery
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
4200 East Ninth Avenue, C-313
Denver, CO 80262
Phone: 303-315-5526
Fax: 303-315-5527
Frederick Karrer, MD
Professor of Surgery, The Children's Hospital
Dr. David R. & Kiku Akers Chair in Pediatric Surgery
Undergraduate Education: University of Nebraska
Medical School: University of Nebraska Medical School
Residency: University of Arizona Health Sciences Center
Fellowships: Pediatric Surgery Residency, Northwestern University; Fellow in Transplant Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Board Certifications: Surgery, Pediatric Surgery, Surgical Critical Care
Contact Information: The Children's Hospital
13123 E. 16th Ave.
Aurora, CO 80045
Phone: 720-777-6571
Fax: 720-777-7271
Gordon Lindberg, MD PhD
Director of Burn Center, UCHSC
Assistant Professor of Surgery, UCHSC
Undergraduate Education: Haverford College
Graduate Education: PhD in Biochemistry at University of Chicago
Medical School: University of Illinois
Residency: UC-San Francisco and Maricopa Medical Center
Fellowships: Burn Fellowship at UC-San Diego
Board Certifications: Surgery
Denver Health Medical Center
Jeffrey L. Johnson, MD FACS
Assistant Professor of Surgery, UCHSC
Walter L. Biffl, MD FACS
Associate Professor of Surgery, UCHSC
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
Joshua Goldberg, MD
Department of Surgery
Assistant Professor of Surgery, UCHSC
Marty Zamora, MD
Lung Transplant Program Director
Associate Professor, UCHSC
Fareed Azam, MD
Department of Anesthesia
Assistant Professor, UCHSC
Pierre Moine, MD
Department of Anesthesia
Assistant Professor, UCHSC
Paul Wischmeyer, MD
Department of Anesthesia
Assistant Professor, UCHSC
The Children’s Hospital
Frederick Karrer, MD
Chairman, Department of Pediatric Surgery
Professor of Surgery, UCHSC
Mortiz Ziegler, MD
Surgeon-in-Chief, TCH
Professor of Surgery, UCHSC
David Partrick, MD
Director of Surgical Endoscopy
Assistant Professor of Surgery, UCHSC
Residents in our program must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, refugee, asylee, or possess the apporpriate documentation to allow Resident to legally train at the University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine.