Chief of Critical Care Medicine
Montefiore Medical Center
New York, NY
Dr. Gong is the Chief of Critical Care Medicine, Chief of Pulmonary Medicine, and Director of Critical Care Research at Montefiore Medical Center and Professor in Medicine and in Epidemiology and Population Health at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. After receiving an engineering degree at the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Gong went on to earn a medical degree at the Yale University School of Medicine. She then completed her postdoctoral training at the Beth Israel Hospital in medicine and at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in the Harvard Combined Program in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. She also studied at the Harvard School of Public Health, receiving her Master’s degree in Clinical Epidemiology. Dr. Gong is recognized nationally and internationally for her expertise in critical care delivery and management of acute respiratory failure and ARDS. She has spent her career on improving outcomes in patients along the entire continuum of critical illness from its development to its progression and recovery with an overall focus on the prediction and prevention of acute organ failure and their complications. Continuously funded by the AHRQ and NIH for over 20 years for her work, her research ranges from COVID-19 and ARDS to prevention of delirium, treatment of severe influenza, big data and predictive analytics in risk prediction, and effective clinical decision support systems. She is a graduate of the prestigious Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine Fellowship. She is on the Discovery Oversight Committee of the Society of Critical Care Medicine. Given her expertise, she has been named to multiple panels to develop clinical practice guidelines, including the American College of Chest Physicians and the American Thoracic Society clinical practice guidelines for liberation from mechanical ventilation and the Surviving Sepsis Campaign guidelines for management of severe COVID-19 in 2020.
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Monday, April 18, 2022
7:00 AM – 8:00 AM US CST
Monday, April 18, 2022
7:00 AM – 8:00 AM US CST