Joseph S. Solomkin, M.D., PhD
Professor, Department of Surgery,
Director of Research, Division of Trauma and Critical Care
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Cincinnati, OH

Joseph S. Solomkin, M.D., PhD, received his undergraduate degree from Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and completed medical school and internship at The Albert Einstein College of Medicine - Bronx Municipal Hospital Center, Bronx, New York. Following service in the US Army Medical Corps he completed a surgical residency at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota (1973), serving as Associate and Chief Resident from 1977 to 1979. After foreign service at the Piper Memorial Hospital, Kapanga, Zaire, Dr. Solomkin completed his Fellowship in Surgical Infectious Diseases at the University of Minnesota. He was Assistant and Associate Professor in the Department of Surgery, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine (1981-1994), before taking up his current posts as Director of Research, Division of Trauma and Critical Care, and Professor, Department of Surgery, at the same institution. Dr. Solomkin has authored and contributed to a broad range of international publications. He is active in numerous professional organizations, including the American College of Surgeons, the Infectious Diseases Society of America, and the Surgical Infection Society. His principal areas of interest are surgical and intensive care infectious diseases.

Karyn Leigh Butler, M.D., F.A.C.S.
Associate Professor of Surgery
Division of Trauma and Critical Care
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Cincinnati, OH

Karyn Leigh Butler, M.D., F.A.C.S., completed medical school at the Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, and internship and residency in General Surgery at Howard University Hospital, Washington, DC. She completed fellowships in Surgical Critical Care, Trauma/Critical Care, and NIH Trauma Research, before taking up Assistant then Associate professorships in surgery and research (department of physiology) at Morehouse School of Medicine. She has held her current post as Associate Professor of Surgery, Division of Trauma and Critical Care, University of Cincinatti Department of Surgery, since 2003. Dr. Butler has won numerous awards for both teaching and research, having served as a resident and student mentor as well as an ATLS instructor and medical student animal lab instructor. She has also served on the NIH Minority Research Training Review Special Emphasis Panel and on a NIH Study Section. Dr. Butler has more than 20 articles in peer-review journals as well as presentations at plenary sessions and as an invited lecturer. At the University of Cincinnati, she serves on the Institutional Review Board, the Trauma CQI Committee, and as Chair of the Surgical Intensive Care Unit Infection Protocol Committee. She is the recipient of four extramural grant awards, including an ongoing grant from the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Butler conducts research on myocardial ischemia/reperfusion injury at the Cardiovascular Research Center with support from a National Institutes of Health, Mentored Clinical Scientist (K08) Award.

Marin H. Kollef, M.D.
Associate Professor
Dept. of Internal Medicine
Pulmonary and Critical Care Division/Division of General Medical Sciences and Biostatistics
Washington University School of Medicine
Washington, DC

Marin H. Kollef, M.D., attended the U.S. Military Academy at West Point for his undergraduate training and the University of Rochester for his M.D. degree. Dr. Kollef completed his residency in Internal Medicine and his fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Madigan Army Medical Center in Tacoma, Washington. He served as the director for the medical ICU at Fitzsimons Army Medical Center from 1988 to 1992. During that time he also served as a general medical officer in support of the 1st Infantry Division during Operation Desert Storm. Dr. Kollef came to Washington University and Barnes-Jewish Hospital in 1992. He is currently Associate Professor of Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine and the Director of Medical Critical Care and Respiratory Care Services at Barnes-Jewish Hospital. He has received numerous teaching awards and is a recognized expert in the performance of clinical outcomes research in the ICU setting. His clinical research focus has been the understanding and prevention of nosocomial infections and the improved care of mechanically ventilated patients. Dr. Kollef has published extensively in the areas of ventilator-associated pneumonia prevention/treatment and the importance of antibiotic resistance in the ICU setting.

Jack D. Sobel, M.D.
Professor of Internal Medicine
Head, Division of Infectious Diseases
Detroit Medical Center and Wayne State University School of Medicine
Detroit, MI

Jack D. Sobel, M.D., graduated from the University of Witwatersrand Medical School in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1965. He completed his medical residency in Johannesburg, South Africa and acquired his Internal Medicine Boards in the United Kingdom and the U.S.A. He served his fellowship at the National Institutes of Infectious Diseases in Bethesda and the Medical College of Pennsylvania. Subsequently he joined the faculty at the Medical College of Pennsylvania and served as chief of the Infectious Disease section at the VA Medical Center in Philadelphia until 1979. After serving as an Associate Professor in Infectious Diseases at the Medical College of Pennsylvania from 1981-85, he assumed the position of Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases, Professor of Internal Medicine at the Detroit Medical Center at Wayne State University School of Medicine until the present date. He was President of the Michigan Infectious Disease Society from 1998-2000, member of the Infectious Disease Society of America, National State Presidents Committee 1998-2001 and member of IDSA, Practice Guidelines Committee 1999-2004. He also serves as a Risk Group Leader, National Leader of the BAMSG/DMID Leader of the Risk Group II Mycoses Study Group. Dr. Sobel has a specific interest in genitourinary tract infections and has authored over 250 publications.

Rabih O. Darouiche, M.D.
Professor of Medicine
Infectious Disease Section
Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Houston, TX

Rabih O. Darouiche, M.D., attended the American University of Beirut for his undergraduate training and M.D. degree. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine and his fellowship in Infectious Diseases at Baylor College of Medicine, in Houston, Texas, and is currently Professor of Medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases, and the Director of the Center of Prostheses Infection (CPI) at the same institution. Dr. Darouiche's clinical research focus has been infections in patients with spinal cord injury, and medical device and prostheses-related infections, areas in which he has published extensively. He is active in numerous professional organizations, including the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America and the American Paraplegia Society, and is founder of the Multidisciplinary Alliance Against Device-Related Infections (MADRI). Dr. Darouiche has received a number of national and international awards, and has 11 patents in relation to his work on device-related infections. He has also published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles and textbook chapters.

Lena M. Napolitano M.D., F.A.C.S., F.C.C.P., F.C.C.M.
Professor of Surgery
Associate Chair for Critical Care
Chief, Division of Acute Care Surgery
University of Michigan Health System
Ann Arbor, MI

Lena M. Napolitano, M.D., F.A.C.S., F.C.C.P., F.C.C.M., is Professor of Surgery at the University of Michigan School of Medicine. She is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, American College of Critical Care Medicine (ACCM), and the American College of Chest Physicians. In 2002 she received the Association of Women Surgeons’ Distinguished Member Award. Dr. Napolitano’s main research interests are in translational and outcomes research relating to trauma and surgical critical care, and specifically multiple organ failure, systemic inflammatory response, anemia and blood transfusions. She is a member of the editorial board and a reviewer for a number of academic journals, and has authored over 120 peer-reviewed publications and 50 book chapters. She has been an invited lecturer at numerous symposia both nationally and internationally, and is a Visiting Professor at a number of prestigious institutions.