Dr. Iacovella is a critical care physician at Moffitt Cancer Center and Assistant Professor at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida. She previously served as an intensivist for the Intensive Care Consortium at Brandon Regional Hospital in Brandon, Florida, which is an affiliate teaching hospital of the University of South Florida. She is ABIM Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Nephrology and Critical Care Medicine.

Dr. Iacovella served as a member of the ABIM Critical Care Medicine LKA Approval Committee from 2022 to 2024, and on the former Critical Care Medicine Board Exam Committee from 2018 to 2021. She is an active member of both the American Society of Nephrology and the Society of Critical Care Medicine.

Dr. Iacovella received both her undergraduate degree in biology and a master’s degree in bio-analytical chemistry from the University of South Carolina. She earned her medical degree at the Medical University of South Carolina. Dr. Iacovella completed internal medicine residency at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, a fellowship in nephrology at Yale University and a fellowship in critical care medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.

As of October 2024, Dr. Iacovella reported no ongoing external relationships.

Dr. Bergl is an intensivist for ThedaCare at regional medical centers in Neenah and Appleton, Wisconsin. As a medical educator, he directs the application and planned Internal Medicine Residency Program at ThedaCare Regional Medical Center. He is ABIM Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Critical Care Medicine and considers himself an “internist first, intensivist second” in both his training pathways and approaches to care.

Dr. Bergl previously served as acting internship course director, ambulatory course director and co-director for internal medicine in an acute care block. He served on the ABIM Critical Care Medicine Item-Writing Task Force for two years and for Aquifer as a case editor and assessment author for the self-assessment question bank. With more than a dozen teaching awards, his scholarly interests have included clinical reasoning education, diagnostic error and critical care echocardiography.

Dr. Bergl earned his medical degree from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and completed internal medicine residency and a chief resident year at the University of Chicago. He completed critical care fellowship at the Medical College of Wisconsin.

As of November 2024, Dr. Bergl reported the following external relationships.

Dr. Bleck is a Professor of Neurology at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, where he directs the Neurocritical Care Fellowship Program. In 2018, he retired as Professor Emeritus of Neurological Sciences, Neurosurgery, Internal Medicine and Anesthesiology at Rush Medical College, where he was a neuro-intensivist and the Director of Clinical Neurophysiology. He previously served as the Associate Chief Medical Officer for Critical Care. He was the founding president of the Neurocritical Care Society and at different periods has served as the Neuroscience Section editor, associate editor and currently senior editor of Critical Care Medicine. He also serves on the editorial boards of Annals of Intensive Care and Current Opinion in Critical Care.

Dr. Bleck has been a member of the Council of the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM). In 2015, the American College of Critical Care Medicine and SCCM elected him a Master of Critical Care Medicine—one of only 87 out of 18,000 members. He previously served on the board of the American Board of Clinical Neurophysiology, the writing committee of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, the former ABIM Subspecialty Board on Critical Care Medicine, the Critical Care Medicine Board Exam Committee and the accreditation committee for neurocritical care of the American Board of Neurological Surgery (ABPN). In 2018, he was appointed to the ABPN Neurocritical Care Examination Development Committee. He is an elected fellow of 11 professional societies. In 2017, Dr. Bleck was elected to the Board of Directors of the American Neurological Association. He has received the SCCM lifetime achievement award and delivered the Anthony Marmarou Memorial Lecture for the American Association of Neurological Surgeons. In 2021, he was inducted into the Feinberg Academy of Medical Educators of Northwestern University. 

Dr. Bleck also directed the Neuroscience Intensive Care Unit at the University of Virginia as the Louise Nerancy Eminent Scholar in Neurology, chaired the Neurology Department of Evanston Northwestern Healthcare and was Professor and Vice-Chair for Academic Programs at Northwestern, where he also directed the Division of Neurocritical Care. He joined Rush as the Associate Chief Medical Officer for Critical Care in 2009 and acted as the interim neurology residency program director in 2017.

Dr. Bleck’s research interests include subarachnoid hemorrhage, intracerebral hemorrhage, head injury, status epilepticus, infections, neuromuscular respiratory failure and the ICU management of the organ donor. He has published 223 papers, 138 abstracts, 22 editorials and 205 books and book chapters, and conducted more than 580 national and international visiting appointments and lectureships in 30 countries.
Dr. Bleck is ABIM Board certified in Internal Medicine and Critical Care Medicine. He is also board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology in Neurology, Epilepsy and Neurocritical Care. He is certified by the American Board of Clinical Neurophysiology and in neurocritical care by both the United Council on Neurological Subspecialties and the Committee on Advanced Surgical Training of the Society of Neurological Surgeons and the American Board of Neurological Surgeons.

Dr. Bleck earned his bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University and his medical degree from Rush Medical College. He completed his internal medicine and neurological sciences residencies and his electroencephalography and epilepsy fellowship at Rush Presbyterian Saint Luke’s Medical Center.

As of October 2024, Dr. Bleck reported the following external relationships:

Service on end-point review committees for the following company, with compensation for travel expenses and honoraria:

• Acasti Pharma Inc.

Service on data and safety monitoring boards for the following companies, with compensation for travel expenses and honoraria:

• iECURE
• Marinus Sage 

Research-related consulting for the following companies, with compensation for travel expenses and honoraria:

• Ceribell 

Dr. Hadique is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, and Program Director of the Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship at West Virginia University (WVU). She also serves as Chair of the Practice and Policy Steering Committee for the Critical Care and Trauma Institute and Clinical Preceptor for Nurse Practitioner in the Pulmonary Clinic at WVU. She is ABIM Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Critical Care Medicine and Pulmonary Disease. She also served as a member of the ABIM Critical Care Medicine Item-Writing Task Force.

As of April 2025, Dr. Hadique reported the following external relationships:

Dr. McArdle, who is ABIM Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine, is employed in the full-time clinical practice of pulmonary and critical care medicine for Starling Physicians. He also serves as a pulmonary/critical care attending physician at Saint Francis Hospital in Hartford, Connecticut. He is the former chief of the Pulmonary Division at Hartford Hospital and served as co-director of the Marie and Raymond Beauregard Central Connecticut Adult Cystic Fibrosis Program at Hartford Hospital.

Previously, Dr. McArdle was an Associate Professor of Medicine at Yale University School of Medicine in the section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. He directed the Yale Adult Cystic Fibrosis Program, served as medical director of the medical intensive care unit and was director for the Yale University School of Medicine Internal Medicine Clerkship.

He is a former president of the Connecticut Pulmonary Section of the American Lung Association. Dr. McArdle received the Yale Department of Internal Medicine Faculty Achievement Award for Outstanding Clinical Care in 2008. He was twice awarded Attending Teacher of the Year by the Yale Internal Medicine House Staff, and received the Aldo Bellucci Teaching Award from the University of Connecticut Internal Medicine Residency Program in 2012. He was awarded the John K. Springer Humanitarian Award by Hartford Hospital in 2017. He served on the Cystic Fibrosis Lung Transplant Referral Guidelines Committee, 2018–2019.

Dr. McArdle received a degree in economics and preprofessional studies from the University of Notre Dame and his medical degree from the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. He completed his internal medicine residency, chief residency and pulmonary and critical care fellowship training at the Yale University School of Medicine.

As of October 2024, Dr. McArdle reported no ongoing external relationships.

Dr. Maves is a Professor of Medicine and Anesthesiology at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, where he serves as an attending physician in infectious diseases and critical care medicine. Previously, he served at U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit No. 6 in Lima, Peru, leading studies in antimicrobial drug resistance and vaccine development, and as Division Head in Infectious Diseases for the Naval Medical Center San Diego. Dr. Maves was previously deployed as Director of Medical Services to the NATO Role III Multinational Medical Unit at Kandahar International Airport in Afghanistan. He later served as Vice Chair of Medicine and Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program Director while leading multicenter studies in COVID-19 therapeutics and epidemiology. He retired from the United States Navy with the rank of Captain in 2021 after 22 years of active-duty service and joined the faculty at Wake Forest.

Dr. Maves is ABIM Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases and Critical Care Medicine. He maintains active clinical practices in transplant infectious diseases in addition to medical, surgical, cardiovascular and neurologic critical care. His research interests include the epidemiology and treatment of severe viral diseases and hospital preparedness for public health emergencies.

A graduate of the University of Washington School of Medicine, Dr. Maves completed his internal medicine residency and fellowships in infectious diseases and critical care at the Naval Medical Center in San Diego.

As of October 2024, Dr. Maves reported the following external relationships:

Funding for clinical trial expenses and staff, paid to Wake Forest University Health Sciences, from the following companies:

• AiCuris
• Biotest Pharmaceuticals Corporation
• Eagle Pharmaceuticals Inc.
• GeoVax

Service on a research-related expert panel or advisory board for the following company, with honoraria:

• Shionogi, for service on a scientific advisory panel.

Dr. Broccard currently serves as the Medical Director for St. Vincent Seton Specialty Hospital in Indianapolis. He is ABIM Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Critical Care Medicine, Pulmonary Disease and Sleep Medicine. Previously, Dr. Broccard was Chairman of the Pulmonary and Critical Care Department at Vassar Brothers Medical Center in Poughkeepsie, New York. Prior to this appointment, he served as Professor of Medicine at the University of Minnesota where he developed and led the Critical Care and Respiratory Therapy Services at Fairview Southdale Hospital in Edina, Minnesota. Before this latter position, Dr. Broccard was the MICU Medical Director and subsequently Critical Care Section Head for Regions Hospital in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

Dr. Broccard has served on various committees of the American Thoracic Society and received multiple awards from the Swiss Intensive Care Society and the University of Minnesota Medical School. Dr. Broccard was a reviewer for major United States and European critical care journals and was on the editorial board of The American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. He has extensively published on ventilator-induced lung injury and has been an invited lecturer at major international critical care society meetings and institutions both in the U.S. and abroad.

Dr. Broccard received his medical degree from the Faculté de Médecine, Université de Genève, in Switzerland. He completed his house staff training at Geneva University Hospitals and further critical care training at the Lausanne University Hospital, both in Switzerland. He subsequently completed pulmonary and critical care medicine fellowships at the University of Minnesota and at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.

As of October 2024, Dr. Broccard reported no ongoing external relationships. 

Dr. Emlet is Clinical Associate Professor of Critical Care Medicine (CCM) & Emergency Medicine (EM) and Associate Program Director of the Internal Medicine-Critical Care Medicine Fellowship of the Multidisciplinary Critical Care Training Program at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System. She directs core modules in airway management and rapid response team crisis training, and teaches via simulation skills in team leadership, palliative end-of-life communication and difficult airway management. She is board certified by the American Board of Emergency Medicine in Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine - Critical Care Medicine; she is also certified in neurocritical care medicine.

She has served on national committees through the Society for Simulation in Healthcare (fostering interprofessional faculty and simulation development), the American College of Emergency Physicians (fostering mentorship of dually trained EM-CCM physicians), and the Society of Critical Care Medicine (fostering multispecialty critical care delivery).

She created the Virtual Mentor program in 2009, a national mentoring program for students and emergency medicine residents who seek to pursue a career in emergency and critical care medicine, currently housed at the Emergency Medicine Resident Association (EMRA) Critical Care Division. She is a VitalTalk trained educator, and has created EMTalk, which teaches primary palliative communication skills to emergency medicine residents and faculty nationally.

Dr. Emlet received her master’s degree in pharmacology and a medical degree at Sidney Kimmel Medical College (then Jefferson Medical College). She trained in emergency medicine at Geisinger Medical Center and critical care medicine at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. She also completed a Master of Science in Medical Education at the University of Pittsburgh.

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As of October 2024, Dr. Emlet reported the following external relationships:

Dr. Emlet serves in significant roles with the following organization, receiving reimbursement or compensation as listed:

• The Society of Critical Care Medicine, receiving a discount on registration for service on the LEAD Committee at the Society of Critical Care Medicine Congress. 

Dr. Minami is an internationally recognized clinician-educator with expertise in point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) and critical care medicine. He is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Medical Science (Clinician Educator) at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University in Rhode Island. In addition to his role at Brown University, Dr. Minami serves as an Adjunct Clinical Professor at Kyoto University, a Visiting Professor at Tokyo Women's Medical University and an Adjunct Clinical Professor at Johnson & Wales University. Notably, he was named a “Top Doctor for 2025” by Rhode Island Monthly for his work in critical care.

Dr. Minami is an experienced global educator, having conducted extensive POCUS training and lectures in Japan, Kenya, Germany and the United States. As the Director of the ICU and Director of Medical Simulation and POCUS Training at Kent Hospital and Care New England Health System in Rhode Island, he has been instrumental in advancing ultrasound education worldwide. His recent initiatives include teaching Japanese physicians since 2016 and spearheading POCUS education for Kenyan physicians since 2020. He has been invited to give more than 70 international and 140 national presentations.

Dr. Minami obtained his medical degree from Kyoto University in 1998 and then pursued advanced training in the U.S. He completed his chief residency at Brown University in 2007 and a fellowship in pulmonary and critical care medicine at the former Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City in 2010. 

As of October 2024, Dr. Minami reported the following external relationships: 

Dr. Minami reported teaching point-of-care ultrasound, run by Fujifilm and AA Health Dynamics. 

Dr. O’Grady is the Chief of the Internal Medicine Service and an attending physician in the Clinical Center's Critical Care Medicine Department (CCMD). She has previously served as the Medical Director of the Clinical Center's Procedures, Vascular Access and Conscious Sedation Services and as the CCMD's Medical Director of Patient Safety and Quality.

Her research focuses on strategies to reduce the incidence of antimicrobial resistant pathogens in the ICU, and catheter-related blood stream infections.

Dr. O'Grady is a past Chair of the American Board of Internal Medicine Specialty Board for Critical Care Medicine and has served on the ABIM Council and the Board of Directors. She is a fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America and of the American College of Critical Care Medicine.

She obtained her undergraduate degree from University of Michigan and her medical degree at The Ohio State University, where she also completed her internship and residency. She then completed fellowships with National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Critical Care Medicine and Johns Hopkins University in Infectious Diseases before joining the NIH attending staff in 1999.

As of July 2023, Dr. O’Grady reported no ongoing external relationships.

Dr. Paladino is a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at the John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii at Manoa, where he serves as an academic and research advisor. He is the System Director of Critical Care for Hawai‘i Pacific Health as well as the founder and Director of the Hanuola Adult ECMO [Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation] Program. He serves as the Chief of Medicine at Pali Momi Medical Center and the Medical Director for Critical Care at Straub Medical Center in Honolulu. He is also the Chief Executive Officer of Aloha Critical Care Associates. He serves on the Medical Board of Legacy of Life and has an active interest in organ transplantation in medically underserved and resource-limited environments.

Dr. Paladino received a Doctor of Philosophy in physical chemistry from the Cloud and Aerosol Sciences Lab at the University of Missouri–Rolla with postdoctoral emphasis in ceramic engineering specializing in the characterization of aerosol mechanics from jet engine emissions and their impact on the environment. He subsequently completed his medical degree and fellowship training at the University of Pittsburg Medical Center and a T32 fellowship. He is board certified by the American Board of Emergency Medicine in Emergency Medicine, Internal Medicine - Critical Care Medicine and Neurocritical Care. He has most recently published in the areas of computational assessment of practice patterns and performance assessment via digital human modeling.

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As of April 2025, Dr. Paladino reported no ongoing external relationship.

Dr. Svetlecic is ABIM Board Certified in Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine. Since 2005, Dr. Svetlecic has been an attending physician in Saint Luke’s Health System in Kansas City, where she sees patients in the hospital and clinic, and virtually via telemedicine. She was elected by her peers to three terms as Chair of the Department of Medicine at Saint Luke's North Hospital–Barry Road and served as its Director of Respiratory Medicine. For the Saint Luke's Health System, Dr. Svetlecic was the Director of Medical Staff Development and Chair of the Professional Standards and Credentialing Committee.

Dr. Svetlecic most recently served as a member of the ABIM Pulmonary Disease Item-Writing Task Force. She is also a member of the ABIM Pulmonary Disease Traditional, 10-Year MOC Exam Approval Committee. She currently serves as an outside expert peer reviewer on complex cases through Chartis (formerly The Greeley Company). 
Dr. Svetlecic formerly held an appointment at the University of Missouri–Kansas City (UMKC) School of Medicine as an Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine and served as a guest faculty member in the Cardiopulmonary Section at Kansas City University.

Dr. Svetlecic received her undergraduate degree in biology and a medical degree from UMKC. She also completed a residency in internal medicine and fellowships in pulmonary disease and critical care medicine at UMKC.

As of September 2024, Dr. Svetlecic reported no ongoing external relationships.