Mitchell P. Fink, M.D., is the Watson Professor of Surgery, Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine and the founding chair of the department of critical care medicine (CCM) at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. The department is the first of its kind at a medical school, focusing training intensivists, physicians who specialize in the management of critically ill patients requiring care in an intensive care unit.
Dr. Fink came to the University of Pittsburgh in 1999 from Harvard Medical School where he was the Johnson and Johnson Professor of Surgery and the surgeon-in-chief at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He attended medical school at Washington University in St. Louis and completed his residency at the National Naval Center in Bethesda, Md.
Dr. Fink has been recognized as one of the best in the field of critical care medicine, having the honor of delivering the Millennium Lectureship and the Laerdal Memorial Lectureship of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the Presidential Citation Honor Lectureship of the American College of Chest Physicians. He is a past-president of the Shock Society and the Surgical Section of the Society of Critical Care Medicine. His research has been continuously funded by the National Institutes of Health for the past 15 years.
Dr. Fink has authored or co-authored more than 150 peer-reviewed scientific publications and more than 100 book chapters and review articles. He has edited numerous textbooks, and is on the editorial boards of leading basic science and clinical journals, such as the American Journal of Physiology and Critical Care Medicine.