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Administrator Info
Name: Ashley Fuchs
Phone: 612-624-0999
Email: fuchs@umn.edu
Fax: 612-625-2174
Summary
Dr. Jeffrey Dichter completed his Critical Care Medicine Fellowship at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland and Internal Medicine Residency at Los Angeles County General Hospital. He is currently an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Dichter is an intensivist with clinical interest in Disaster Preparedness and Response and is a founding and executive committee member of the Task Force for Mass Critical Care, an internationally recognized multidisciplinary organization whose publications helped the United States prepare for and respond to the COVID-19 Pandemic. He is also a faculty member at the University of Minnesota High Consequence Infectious Disease Containment Unit, one of thirteen federally designated centers.
His research interests include mass critical care surge response and intensive care unit strain. He is also an expert at sepsis and performance improvement, and actively contributes to sepsis care throughout the University of Minnesota and M Health Fairview Health System. His contributions have been recognized by both the American College of Chest Physicians and the Society of Critical Care Medicine.
MD, University of Southern California
MA, George Washington University
BA, University of California, Berkeley
● Critical care surge capacity, staffing, and resources in pandemics and disasters
● Intensive care unit strain
● Septic shock
● Performance improvement expert
Presidential Citation, American College of Chest Physicians, 2021
Board of Directors Commitment to Caring Recognition, For the sepsis clinical improvement team for their work in improving sepsis care, Allina Health, 2017
Presidential Citation, Society of Critical Care Medicine, 2008
Task Force for Mass Critical Care (TFMCC), Executive Committee and founding Member
American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP), Chest Infections and Disaster Response Network
Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM)
American College of Physicians
Society of Hospital Medicine
● Special pathogens
● COVID-only hospitals
● Sepsis
● Critical care
● Ebola containment
● Hospitalist