Associate Professor of Medicine
Director, Medical Intensive Care Unit
Medical Director, Respiratory Care Services
Director, Fellowship in Critical Care Medicine

University of Pennsylvania Medical Center
Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Division
9.066 Founders Pavilion
3400 Spruce Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-4283
tel.: (215) 662-7135
fax.: (215) 349-5059
email: barry.fuchs@uphs.upenn.edu

Education:

MD: Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Residency: Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Fellowship: Massachusetts General Hospital

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.

Azzam HC, Khalsa SS, Urbani R, Shah CV, Christie, JD, Lanken, PN, Fuchs BD.  Validation Study of an Automated Electronic Acute Lung Injury Screening Tool.  Journal of the American Informatics Association 16(4):503-508.  2009.
 
Seymour, CW, Cross B, Cooke CR, Gallop R, Fuchs, B.D. Physiologic Impact of Closed-system Endotracheal Suctioning in Spontaneously Breathing Patients Receiving Mechanical Ventilation. Respiratory Care 54(3): 367-374. 2009.
               
Mikkelsen ME, Miltiades AN, Gaieski DF, Goyal M, Fuchs BD, Shah CV, Bellamy SL, Christie JD.  Serum Lactate is Associated with Mortality in Severe Sepsis Independent of Organ Failure and Shock.  In Press, Critical Care Medicine. 2009.
               
Gaieski DF, Band RA, Abella BS, Neumar RW, Fuchs BD, Kolansky DM, Merchant RM, Carr BG, Becker LB, Maguire C, Klair A, Hylton J, Goyal M. Early Goal-Directed Hemodynamic Optimization Combined with Therapeutic Hypothermia in Comatose Survivors of Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest.  In Press, Resuscitation. 2009.
               
Mato AR, Fuchs BD Heitjan DF, Mick R, Halpern SD, Shah PD, Jacobs S, Olson E, Schuster SJ, Ujjani C, Chong EA, Loren AW,. Luger SM,  Utility of the systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) criteria in predicting the onset of septic shock in hospitalized patients with hematologic malignancies. Cancer Biology & Therapy. 8(12):1-6.  2009.

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.  Lancet  371: 126-134. 2008.

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. Journal of Intensive Care Medicine. 22(5): 294-299. 2007.