Dr. Lanken was the Medical Director of the Medical Intensive
Care Unit and Intermediate Medical Care Unit from 1987 to
1999. He currently serves as the Chief of the Critical Care
Section of the Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Division.
He is also involved in leading a program of the clinical
investigation in Critical Care Medicine. Since 1994, he
has been Principal Investigator of the University of Pennsylvania
site of the NIH NHLBI ARDS Clinical Trials Network. As part
of this network, he had designed and implemented Phase II
and III controlled clinical trials to treatment of ARDS.
In addition, he has been involved in Phase II and Phase
III clinical trials of novel agents to treat sepsis and
septic shock.
Dr. Lanken is also involved locally and nationally in the
field of biomedical ethics. At the University of Pennsylvania
School of Medicine (Penn Med), he serves as Leader of the
Humanism and Professionalism Module of Curriculum 2000,
the four year curriculum for undergraduate medical education.
He is also a Senior Fellow of the University of Pennsylvania's
Center for Bioethics and serves as the Coordinator for Bioethics
Teaching at Penn Med. In 2004 he received a secondary appointment
as a Professor of Medical Ethics in the Department of Medical
Ethics at Penn Med and he was appointed as Associate Dean
for Professionalism and Humanism at Penn Med.
Nationally, he has chaired or co-chaired three American
Thoracic Society (ATS) Bioethics Committees.
Dr. Lanken also specializes in the evaluation and treatment
of patients with pulmonary alveolar proteinosis (PAP). He
has performed over 200 lavages over the past 20 years and
currently performs 15 to 20 lavages per year.
Finally, he is the senior editor of a textbook of critical
care medicine, The Intensive Care Unit Manual, published
by WB Saunders Company in 2001. This textbook was specifically
written to be a comprehensive, concise and practical manual
for house staff in medical, cardiac and surgical intensive
care units.
Arcasoy SM, Lanken PN. Images in clinical medicine. Pulmonary
Christie JD, Lanken PN. Acute Lung Injury and the Acute
Respiratory Distress Syndrome, in Hall J and Schmidt G (Eds).
Principles and Practice of Critical Care, 3rd Ed., New York,
McGraw-Hill, Inc. (in press) 2004.
Christie JD, Schmidt G, Lanken PN. Acute Respiratory Distress
Syndrome. July 2004. Physicians’ Information and Education
Resource (PIER), American College of Physicians.
Arcasoy SM, Lanken PN. Images in clinical medicine. Pulmonary
alveolar proteinosis. New Engl J Med 347(26):2133, 2002.
Lanken PN, Hanson CW III, Manaker S. (Eds). The Intensive
Care Unit Manual, Philadelphia, WB Saunders, 2001, 1152
pages (Published in Spanish in 2002)
Lanken, PM (Principal Investigator at University of Pennsylvania).
The Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Network Ventilation
with lower tidal volumes as compared to traditional tidal
volumes for acute lung injury and the acute respiratory
distress syndrome. N Engl J Med 342:1301-1308, 2000.
Faber-Langendoen K, Lanken PN for the ACP-ASIM End-of-Life
Care Consensus Panel. Dying patients in the intensive care
unit: forgoing treatment, maintaining care. Ann Intern Med
133:886-893, 2000.
Lanken PM (Co-Chairman). Thoracic Society Bioethics Task
Force Fair Allocation of Intensive Care Unit Resources.
Official Statement of the American Thoracic Society. Am
J Resp Crit Care Med 156:1282-1301, 1997.
Asch DA, Hansen-Flaschen J, Lanken PN. Decisions to limit
or continue life-sustaining treatment by critical care physicians’
in the United States: Conflicts between physician's practices
and patients' wishes. AM J. Respir Crit Care Med. 151:288-292,
1995.
Lanken P (Chairman). American Thoracic Society Bioethics
Task Force Withholding and withdrawal of life-sustaining
therapy. Am Rev Respir Dis 144:727-732, 1991.
