Intensivist
West Virginia University
Morgantown, West Virginia
LTC Doug Powell, MD is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the West Virginia University's Department of Cardiovascular Critical Care and serves in the Army Reserves with the US Army Special Operations Command. Dr. Powell completed his critical care fellowship at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, MD before being assigned to Fort Bragg, NC in 2013. It was at there that he began working with Special Operations Forces (SOF) medics in the ICU at Womack Army Medical Center. This was a time of transition of military medicine away from the "golden hour" to conflicts with more dispersed medical resources. Dr. Powell began working with the Prolonged Field Care (PFC) working group in 2014 to teach critical care techniques to SOF medics that needed to prepare to care for critically injured or sick patients for up to 72 hours. His efforts with the PFC working group assisted with the development of telemedicine support for deployed medics, the publication of Clinical Practice Guidelines tailored to the resources and training of SOF medics in coordination with the Department of Defense's (DOD) Joint Trauma System (JTS) and the development by the Society for Critical Care Medicine of the Fundamentals of Critical Care Support- Resource Limited (FCCS-RL) course. Dr. Powell served as a Battalion Surgeon with 3rd Special Forces Group (Airborne) where his team led complex, multi-day field medical training exercises that stressed the importance of a team approach to critical care, no matter how austere the setting. He joined West Virginia University in 2019 where he practices in the cardiovascular ICU and the ECMO Service and teaches SOF medics who come to WVU for initial and refresher clinical training. He lives in Southern Pines, NC with his wife Heidi, a retired Army Lieutenant Colonel.
Thursday, January 19, 2023
8:00 AM – 5:45 PM PT
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Friday, January 20, 2023
7:30 AM – 4:15 PM PT
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Friday, January 20, 2023
11:45 AM – 12:00 PM PT
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Friday, January 20, 2023
3:15 PM – 3:45 PM PT
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