Curtis N. Sessler, MD
Biographic sketch
September 8, 2011
Curtis N. Sessler, MD, FCCP, FCCM is the Orhan Muren Professor of Medicine at the Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Health System in Richmond, Virginia, U.S.A. He is Medical Director of the Medical Repiratory ICU, Medical Director of Critical Care, and Director of the Center for Adult Critical Care at the Medical College of Virginia Hospitals of VCU. His research interests include ICU sedation and analgesia, prevention of nosocomial infection, ARDS, and mechanical ventilation. Dr Sessler led a group that developed the Richmond Agitation Sedation Scale (RASS) for assessing sedation in the ICU. He is a member of a number of editorial boards, past-chair of the U.S. F.D.A. Pulmonary and Allergy Drug Advisory Committee, and many national working groups and task forces, including the SCCM Taskforce on Pain, Agitation, and Delirium in the ICU, and the Quad Society Task Force on Critical Care Research. Dr Sessler is an enthusiastic proponent of collaboration, multi-professional practice, and patient-focused care.