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Dr. Doerfler has practiced critical care for more than fifteen years and is a clinical associate professor of medicine at New York University School of Medicine. Prior to joining VISICU Dr. Doerfler was director of critical care medicine for the division of pulmonary and critical care medicine at NYU and director of the medical intensive care units at Bellevue Hospital and NYU Medical Center - Tisch Hospital. Prior to joining the faculty of NYU Dr. Doerfler was an investigator in the department of critical care medicine at the National Institutes of Health where his work focused on biological mechanisms of septic shock. At NYU he continued this work and was also principal investigator on numerous ICU clinical research trials. Dr. Doerfler also chaired the biomedical ethics committee at Bellevue Hospital for eight years and was involved in multiple expert panels and advisory groups focusing on ethical dilemmas in medicine. He was designated Teacher of the Year by the Department of Medicine at NYU for 1998-1999 and 1999-2000.
Dr. Doerfler graduated magna cum laude in chemistry from the University of Pittsburgh in 1978. He graduated from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in 1982 and received the Heard Senior prize for excellence in internal medicine. He then trained in internal medicine at NYU in critical care medicine at the NIH and pulmonary medicine at NYU. | 