Michael F. O’Connor

Prof. O’Connor is the Director of Critical Care Medicine at the University of Chicago Medical Center. As an anesthesiologist and intensivist, Dr. O’Connor spent much of the past 23 years working in intensive care units, including the Burn ICU, Surgical ICU, Medical ICU, and Cardiothoracic ICU. His wide range of clinical interests includes improving the performance of alarms in the ICU and predicting decompensation in ward patients. As a leader of the initiative to create ACLS guidelines for the perioperative setting, Dr. O’Connor has authored guidelines as well as multiple books and chapters on various aspects of Critical Care.