About our Practice

We provide comprehensive critical care services for over 1,500 patients each year who suffer from life-threatening illnesses such as pneumonia, Acute Lung Injury, Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome, liver failure, gastrointestinal bleeding, acute kidney failure, and shock. Our critical care teams are supervised by physicians who specialize in critical care medicine and pulmonary disease. Other physicians on our team include nephrologists, gastroenterologists, psychiatrists, cardiologists, physiatrists, endocrinologists, surgeons, radiologists, and consultants in infectious disease. Members of the physician teams are available continuously in the Medical Intensive Care Unit 365 days/year.

Our Medical Intensive Care Units (MICUs) are equipped with state-of-the-art equipment for managing all medical emergencies. Our Nursing Staff is a highly skilled and motivated group that delivers the best possible bedside care to our patients. They are also very concerned with our patients’ comfort, and they are attentive to our patients’ families, who frequently need information and guidance. Our teams are complemented by strong support from Respiratory Therapists, Pharmacists, Nutritionists, Physical and Occupational Therapists, and Social Workers.

Our areas of special focus include management of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS). We have conducted research on this condition for over 30 years and have led and collaborated on many multicenter clinical trials of promising new treatments for ARDS. Our therapeutic approaches include conventional lung-protective mechanical ventilation, high frequency oscillatory ventilation (HFOV), Airway Pressure Release Ventilation (APRV), inhaled Nitric Oxide (iNO), and extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO). Another of our areas of special focus is Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation in the Intensive Care Unit. We have a specialized program with dedicated physical therapists who use an array of specialized equipment and therapeutic approaches to prevent weakness, depression, and functional loss while our patients remain on life support.

Referrals to our MICU

Physicians at referring hospitals – please call the Hopkins Access Line (HAL, 410-955-9444 or 800-765-5447) and ask to speak to the MICU attending physician.

Locations

Johns Hopkins Hospital
600 North Broadway
Baltimore, Maryland  21205

Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
4940 Eastern Ave
Baltimore, MD 21224

Our Physicians

Roy G. Brower, M.D.
Professor of Medicine
Medical Director, MICU at Johns Hopkins Hospital
Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
Mechanical ventilation, high frequency ventilation
Lung-protective ventilation
Extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO); extra-corporeal gas exchange

David Pearse, M.D.
Professor of Medicine
Medical Director, MICU at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
Endothelial barrier function regulation, pulmonary thromboembolism

Neil Aggarwal, M.D.
Instructor of Medicine
Acute lung injury, mechanisms of resolution

William Checkley, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
Epidemiology of Critical Care

Franco R. D’Alessio, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Immunological determinants of acute lung inflammation and repair
Regulatory T cells in Lung Injury and its Repair
Modulation of Alveolar Macrophage Innate Immune during ARDS
Age-dependent lung immune responses in acute lung injury and ARDS

Rachel Damico, M.D., Ph.D.
Pulmonary vascular disease
Molecular determinants of vascular injury in pulmonary disease

Sanjay V. Desai, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Long-term outcomes from critical care
Medical education

Gregory B. Diette, M.D., MHS
Asthma, COPD
Environmental Causes of Lung Disease

M. Brad Drummond, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
HIV-associated lung diseases

David Feller-Kopman, M.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine
Director, Bronchoscopy & Interventional Pulmonology
Complex airway disease
Large airway physiology
Pleural physiology and disease
Percutaneous tracheostomy

David N. Hager, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Associate Medical Director, Medical Intensive Care Unit
Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
Mechanical Ventilation
Critical Care Triage

Nadia Hansel, M.D., M.P.H.
Associate Professor of Medicine
Environmental and genetic determinants of asthma and COPD

Maureen R. Horton, M.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine
Acute lung injury and interstitial lung diseases

Dale Needham, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine and of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation in the ICU
Long-term physical, cognitive and mental health outcomes after critical illness

Naresh M. Punjabi, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology
Effect of intermittent hypoxia, sleep fragmentation, and sleep-disordered breathing on cardiovascular and metabolic outcomes

Alan Schwartz, M.D.
Professor of Medicine
Director, Center for Interdisciplinary Sleep Research and Investigation
Sleep and respiratory monitoring in the ICU
Respiratory control during sleep and anesthesia

R. Scott Stephens, M.D.
Instructor of Medicine
Pulmonary endothelial antioxidant regulation
Acute Lung Injury
Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) for Acute Respiratory Failure