Professor
University of Washington School of Medicine, United States
Dr. Wurfel holds the David J. Pierson, MD Endowed Professorship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Washington and he is the Director of the Pulmonary and Critical Care Consult service at Harborview Medical Center and is an Attending Physician in the Medical and Surgical ICU’s at Harborview Medical Center. After finishing Medical School at Weill Cornell University Medical College and a Doctorate in Immunology from the Rockefeller University he completed a Residency and Chief Residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Washington. He remained in Seattle for his Fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and has been on Faculty at the University of Washington since 2005. He heads a research group using translational approaches to understand the molecular and genomic risks for organ dysfunction and death in the critically ill. His group has published extensively on the “molecular epidemiology” of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) and Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) in patients with sepsis or who have sustained major trauma.
He has cared for critically ill COVID-19 patients since the beginning of the pandemic and now heads a large group that is prospectively studying COVID-19 patients within the UW Medicine system. He is lead investigator on several multi-institutional observational and interventional clinical trials in COVID-19. He mentors Fellows and Junior Faculty members in Pulmonary and Critical Care as well as Emergency Medicine.
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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