Rhode Island Hospital
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 Mitchell
Levy, MD, FCCM, FCCP
Under Levy's direction, the Medical
Intensive Care Unit (MICU) at Rhode Island Hospital was named
a 2004 Circle of Life Award honoree by the American Hospital Association.
The award is presented to programs that have made great strides
in palliative and end-of-life care. The MICU was recognized for
its outstanding program of caring for patients near the end of life
or with life-threatening conditions and was one of only ten organizations
from across the country to be recognized.
Levy has served as the Chair of the Robert Wood Johnson Critical
Care End-of-Life Work Group since its inception in 1998 and in 2001,
chaired the 30th International Educational and Scientific Symposium
of the Society of Critical Care Medicine. He is currently a senior
editor for the Journal of Critical Care and has authored
numerous articles and book chapters in the field of critical care
medicine.
In addition to his role at Rhode Island Hospital, Levy is also
a professor of medicine at Brown Medical School in Providence, RI.
Levy is a Council Member of the Society of Critical Care Medicine,
and the former Chair of the Critical Care section of the American
College of Chest Physicians.
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