Dr. Fuchs is the Medical Director of the Medical Intensive
Care Unit at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
and the Medical Director of Medical Critical Care for the
University of Pennsylvania Health System. In addition, he
is the Medical Director of Respiratory Care Services for
the Hospital and Health System. Dr. Fuchs is also the Director
of Critical Care Training within the Pulmonary and Critical
Care Fellowship Program. Lastly, he was recently appointed
to the position of Physician Secretary for the Critical
Care Medicine Test and Policy Committee for the American
Board of Internal Medicine.
Dr. Fuchs is board certified in Pulmonary and Critical
Care Medicine. He is a member of the National Association
of Medical Directors in Respiratory Care, the American Association
for Respiratory Care, American Thoracic Society, Society
of Critical Care Medicine and he is a Fellow of the American
College of Chest Physicians.
Dr. Fuchs completed his bachelor's degree in Animal Science
at Rutgers University and graduated with high honors. He
received his MD degree from the Albert Einstein College
of Medicine and there was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha
Honor Medical Society. He served as a resident in Internal
Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
and a Fellow in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at
the Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Fuchs joined the
faculty at the Harvard Medical School in 1991 and held the
appointment as Director of the Combined Harvard Hospital
Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship Program until 1995.
During this time he was on staff at the Brigham and Women's,
Beth Israel, and West Roxbury VA Hospitals.
Dr. Fuchs came to Philadelphia in 1995 to be the Medical
Director of the Medical Intensive Care Unit at Hahnemann
University Hospital and to head the Section of Critical
Care Medicine in the Pulmonary Division of the MCP and Hahnemann
University Hospitals.
In 1999, Dr. Fuchs joined the faculty at the University
of Pennsylvania Medical School and has been on staff at
the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania since then.
Dr. Fuchs has been recognized for his excellence in teaching.
He is the recipient of the Outstanding Medical Resident
Teaching Award from the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania,
the Herman L. Blumgart Award for Excellence in Teaching
at the Beth Israel Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and
most recently the 2002 Donna McCurdy Teaching Award at the
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania for Outstanding
Teaching in the Department of Medicine. He also received
the "Wizard of Critical Care" Award by the fellows
in the Pulmonary Division of the MCP/Hahnemann Program..
Dr. Fuchs has also been recognized for his success in his
administrative positions. He received the UPHS Quality Award
for the past two years. The first Quality Award was for
the successful implementation of a standardized ventilator-weaning
program across all the ICU's at HUP. He also received a
Quality Award from the East Coast Division of the VHA for
this project. The second UPHS Quality Award was for the
successful implementation of a standardized sedation and
analgesia protocol for the MICU. Both of these initiatives
improved ICU patient outcomes significantly. Dr. Fuchs received
the 2002 Outstanding Medical Director Award for Respiratory
Care from the Pennsylvania Society for Respiratory Care.
Philadelphia Magazine currently lists him as one of "Philadelphia's
Top Docs".
Dr. Fuchs' major interest is in the design and implementation
of solutions or systems to improve ICU patient outcomes.
His clinical interests include sepsis, shock and respiratory
failure. He has authored a number of original articles and
book chapters on various topics in pulmonary and critical
care medicine.
He is married to Dr. Amy Chernoff-Fuchs and has three children,
Alex, Julia and Nina.
Daugherty EL, Liang H, Taichman D, Hansen-Flaschen J, Fuchs
BD. Abdominal Compartment Syndrome is Common in Medical
Intensive Care Unit Patients Receiving Large Volume Resuscitation.
In Press. Journal of Intensive Care Medicine. 2007.
Girard TD, Kress JP, Fuchs BD, Thomason JWW, Schweickert
WD, Pun BT, Taichman DB, Dunn JG, Pohlman AS, Kinniry PA,
Jackson JC, Canonico AE, Light RW, Shintani AK, Thompson
JL, Gordon SM, Hall JB, Dittus RS, Bernard GR, Ely EW. Efficacy
and safety of a “wake up and breathe” protocol
for mechanically ventilated ICU patients: the Awakening
and Breathing Controlled (ABC) Trial, a randomized controlled
trial. Submitted with revisions to Lancet. 2007.
Brenner S, Myers JS, Gibson G, Phillips J, Sarani B, Fuchs
BD. Improving Sepsis Care Through Systems Change: The Impact
of a Medical Emergency Team. Submitted to Joint Commission
Journal on Quality & Patient Safety 2007.
Fuchs BD, Neligan P. Hemodynamic and Respiratory Monitoring
in Acute Respiratory Failure. Fishman’s Pulmonary
Diseases and Disorders, Fourth Edition, In press 2006.
Seymour CW, Halpern S, Christie JD, Gallop R, Fuchs BD.
Minute Ventilation Recovery Time Measured Using A Practical
Methodology Predicts Extubation Outcome. Respiratory Care
51(2), 2006
Kalhan R, Mikkelsen M, Dedhiya P, Christie JD, Gaughan
C, Lanken PN, Finkel B, Gallop R, Fuchs BD. Under Use of
Lung Protective Ventilation: Analysis of Potential Factors
to Explain Physician Behavior. Critical Care Medicine 34(2):
300-306, 2006.
Rizvi K, deBoisblanc BP, Truwit JD, Dhillon G, Arroliga
AC, Fuchs BD, Guntupalli KK, Hite D, Hayden D for the NIH/NHLBI
ARDS Clinical Trials Network. The Effect of Airway Pressure
Display on Inter-observer Variability in the Assessment
of Vascular Pressures in Patients with Acute Lung Injury
and ARDS. Critical Care Medicine 33(1):98-103, 2005.
