An internationally renowned critical care specialist, Dr. Ivor Douglas joined New York Medical College in June 2025. He previously served as professor of medicine at the University of Colorado and chief of pulmonary and critical medicine at Denver Health Medical Center, where he has also directed the Medical Intensive Care Unit since 2002.

Dr. Douglas is a National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Defense, and industry-funded principal investigator for ongoing research in several aspects of clinical critical care, including basic mechanistic studies in acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), sepsis and septic shock, and therapeutic strategies for shock resuscitation and long-term outcomes in the critically ill. He serves on the steering committees and safety monitoring boards for multicenter international studies in critical illness. His work in critical care leadership and health services includes sepsis resuscitation programs using Lean systems engineering techniques. 

He has authored more than 190 articles and chapters, and his research has been published in The New England Journal of Medicine, The Journal of the American Medical Association, and The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, among other leading journals. He is the co-editor of Principles of Critical Care, currently in its fifth edition, the preeminent textbook in the field. 

Board-certified in pulmonary medicine and critical care medicine, Dr. Douglas has served as chair of the American Thoracic Society’s (ATS) Critical Care Assembly Program Committee, chair of the ATS Healthcare Policy Committee, and on the board of the Colorado Foundation for Medical Care.

He has received teaching awards at the University of Chicago, Columbia University, and the University of Colorado and has been recognized annually since 2008 in Denver 5280’s “Top Doc” and “Best Doctors in America” lists. Dr. Douglas is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and the American College of Chest Physicians.

Education

Fellowship: Pulmonary and Critical Care, University of Chicago
Residency: Internal Medicine, University of Chicago
Residency: Internal Medicine, King's College Hospital and St. Thomas Hospital, London
Internship: Medicine, Surgery, Critical Care, Johannesburg Gnrl Hospital, South Africa
Medical: MB Bch, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa 

Areas of Expertise

• Pulmonary Care
• Critical Care

Publications

• Mansoori JN, Gravitz S, Reed KD, et. al. "Cognitive Task Analysis to Evaluate Resident Physician Decision Making in the Intensive Care Unit." ATS scholar, (), (2025) . doi: 10.34197/ats-scholar.2025-0009OC
• Oshima K, Di Gravio C, Yan B, et. al. "Endothelial Glycocalyx Degradation in Sepsis: Analysis of the Crystalloid Liberal Or Vasopressors Early Resuscitation in Sepsis (CLOVERS) Trial, a Multicenter, Phase 3, Randomized Trial." Annals of the American Thoracic Society, (), (2025) . doi: 10.1513/AnnalsATS.202501-012OC
• Lange AV, Bekelman DB, DeGroot L, et. al. "Use of Noninvasive vs Invasive Ventilation for Patients Hospitalized With Acute Exacerbation of COPD, 2010 to 2019." American journal of critical care : an official publication, American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, 34(3), (2025) 220-229. doi: 10.4037/ajcc2025261
• Mehta AB, Day GL, Barocas JA, et. al. "Access to hospitals with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation capabilities as a potential of driver of disparities." Journal of critical care, 88(), (2025) 155075. doi: 10.1016/j.jcrc.2025.155075
• Ahn S, LaNoue M, Su H, et. al. "Post-Intensive Care Syndrome and Caregiver Burden: A Post Hoc Analysis of a Randomized Clinical Trial." JAMA network open, 8(4), (2025) e253443. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.3443
• Mehta AB, Lockhart S, Douglas IS, et. al. "Development and Pilot Testing for a Novel Shared Decision-Making Tool for Tracheostomy Decision-Making." medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences, (), (2025) . pii: 2025.02.24.25322755. doi: 10.1101/2025.02.24.25322755
• Gelbenegger G, Shapiro NI, Zeitlinger M, et. al. "Lactated Ringer's or Normal Saline for Initial Fluid Resuscitation in Sepsis-Induced Hypotension." Critical care medicine, 53(5), (2025) e1140-e1144. doi: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000006601

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