Dr. Ward joined the Brown faculty in 1999 after completing his pulmonary/critical care training at Yale- New Haven Hospital. His past research interests have included mechanisms of acute lung injury, mechanical ventilation of acute lung injury, and sepsis. His current research focuses on rationing, ethics and ICU resource utilization. In 2007 Dr Ward became the Program Director of the Pulmonary/Critical Care Fellowship. Dr. Ward attends in the Medical Intensive Care Unit, the Respiratory ICU, and the pulmonary consultation service. He also teaches in the Pulmonary Pathophysiology course and is a past course director. Outside of the Division, he serves on the Ethics Comittee of Rhode Island Hospital. Additionally, he was a member of Ethics committees of the Society of Critical Care Medicine, and a past member of the American Thoracic Society's Ethics and Confilcts of Interest Subcomitee. From 2011 to 2013 he was the Chairman of the Internal Medicine Section of the Society of Critical Care Medicine.
| Misra, Abinav K., Levy, Mitchell M., Ward, Nicholas S. "Biomarkers of Immunosuppression." Critical Care Clinics, vol. 36, no. 1, 2020, pp. 167-176. |
| Lee J, Ward NS. "Emerging Ethical Challenges in Critical Care for the 21st Century: A Case-Based Discussion." Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, vol. 40, no. 5, 2019, pp. 655-661. |
| Papadimos TJ, Marcolini EG, Hadian M, Hardart GE, Ward N, Levy MM, Stawicki SP, Davidson JE. "Ethics of Outbreaks Position Statement. Part 1: Therapies, Treatment Limitations, and Duty to Treat." Critical care medicine, vol. 46, no. 11, 2018, pp. 1842-1855. |
| Papadimos TJ, Marcolini EG, Hadian M, Hardart GE, Ward N, Levy MM, Stawicki SP, Davidson JE. "Ethics of Outbreaks Position Statement. Part 2: Family-Centered Care." Critical care medicine, vol. 46, no. 11, 2018, pp. 1856-1860. |
| Neel K, Dean LA, Negbenebor NA, O'Connor BB, Ward N. "Does Doctor Know Best? Cultural competence is patient-centered care." Rhode Island medical journal (2013), vol. 100, no. 10, 2017, pp. 29-31. |
| Ward, N. S., Hughes, B. L., Mermel, L. A. "Enterovirus D68 Infection in an Adult." American journal of critical care : an official publication, American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, vol. 25, no. 2, 2016, pp. 178-180. |
| Ward NS, Chong DH. "Critical Care Beds and Resource Utilization: Current Trends and Controversies." Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, vol. 36, no. 6, 2015, pp. 914-20. |
| Ward, Nicholas S., Howell, Michael D. "Intensivist-to-patient ratios in ICUs." Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology, vol. 28, no. 2, 2015, pp. 172-179. |
| Kleinpell R, Ward NS, Kelso LA, Mollenkopf FP Jr, Houghton D. "Provider to patient ratios for nurse practitioners and physician assistants in critical care units." American journal of critical care : an official publication, American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, vol. 24, no. 3, 2015, pp. e16-21. |
| CCSC Task Force on Critical Care Educational Pathways in Internal Medicine. "Training internists to meet critical care needs in the United States: a consensus statement from the Critical Care Societies Collaborative (CCSC)." Critical care medicine, vol. 42, no. 5, 2014, pp. 1272-9. |
| Ward NS, Afessa B, Kleinpell R, Tisherman S, Ries M, Howell M, Halpern N, Kahn J, Members of Society of Critical Care Medicine Taskforce on ICU Staffing. "Intensivist/patient ratios in closed ICUs: a statement from the Society of Critical Care Medicine Taskforce on ICU Staffing." Critical care medicine, vol. 41, no. 2, 2013, pp. 638-45. |
| Sevransky JE, Ward NS, Dellinger RP. "A rose is a rose is a rose?." Critical care medicine, vol. 40, no. 6, 2012, pp. 1998-9. |
| Ward NS, Read R, Afessa B, Kahn JM. "Perceived effects of attending physician workload in academic medical intensive care units: a national survey of training program directors." Critical care medicine, vol. 40, no. 2, 2012, pp. 400-5. |
| Evans L, Ward NS. "Prior experience is key for confidence in surrogate end-of-life decisions." Critical care medicine, vol. 40, no. 8, 2012, pp. 2494-5. |
| Casserly B, Baram M, Walsh P, Sucov A, Ward NS, Levy MM. "Implementing a collaborative protocol in a sepsis intervention program: lessons learned." Lung, vol. 189, no. 1, 2011, pp. 11-9. |
| Pastores SM, O'Connor MF, Kleinpell RM, Napolitano L, Ward N, Bailey H, Mollenkopf FP Jr, Coopersmith CM. "The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education resident duty hour new standards: history, changes, and impact on staffing of intensive care units." Critical care medicine, vol. 39, no. 11, 2011, pp. 2540-9. |
| Kleinpell R, Ely EW, Williams G, Liolios A, Ward N, Tisherman SA. "Web-based resources for critical care education." Critical care medicine, vol. 39, no. 3, 2011, pp. 541-53. |
| Gartman EJ, Casserly BP, Martin D, Ward NS. "Using serial severity scores to predict death in ICU patients: a validation study and review of the literature." Current Opinion in Critical Care, vol. 15, no. 6, 2009, pp. 578-82. |
| Ward NS, Dushay KM. "Clinical concise review: Mechanical ventilation of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease." Critical care medicine, vol. 36, no. 5, 2008, pp. 1614-19. |
| Ward NS, Teno JM, Curtis JR, Rubenfeld GD, Levy MM. "Perceptions of cost constraints, resource limitations, and rationing in United States intensive care units: results of a national survey." Critical care medicine, vol. 36, no. 2, 2008, pp. 471-6. |
| Ward NS, Casserly B, Ayala A. "The compensatory anti-inflammatory response syndrome (CARS) in critically ill patients." Clinics in Chest Medicine, vol. 29, no. 4, 2008, pp. 617-25, viii. |
| Halpern SD, Hussen SA, Metkus TS, Ward NS, Luce JM, Curtis JR. "Development of an e-mail database of US intensive care physicians." Journal of Critical Care, vol. 22, no. 1, 2007, pp. 28-31. |
| Halpern SD, Metkus TS, Fuchs BD, Ward NS, Siegel MD, Luce JM, Curtis JR. "Nonconsented human immunodeficiency virus testing among critically ill patients: intensivists' practices and the influence of state laws." Arch Intern Med, vol. 167, no. 21, 2007, pp. 2323-8. |
| Ward NS, Levy MM. "Rationing and critical care medicine." Critical care medicine, vol. 35, no. 2 Suppl, 2007, pp. S102-5. |
| Teno JM, Mor V, Ward N, Roy J, Clarridge B, Wennberg JE, Fisher ES. "Bereaved family member perceptions of quality of end-of-life care in U.S. regions with high and low usage of intensive care unit care." Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, vol. 53, no. 11, 2005, pp. 1905-11. |
| Ward NS. "Rationing critical care medicine: recent studies and current trends." Current Opinion in Critical Care, vol. 11, no. 6, 2005, pp. 629-32. |
| Waxman AB, Ward N, Thompson T, Lilly CM, Lisbon A, Hill N, Nasraway SA, Heard S, Corwin H, Levy M. "Roundtable debate: Controversies in the management of the septic patient--desperately seeking consensus." Critical Care, vol. 9, no. 1, 2005, pp. E1. |
| Ward NS, Teno J. "A death worth dying for." Medical Care, vol. 42, no. 5, 2004, pp. 406-7. |
| Ward NS, Levy MM. "Blood transfusion practice today." Critical Care Clinics, vol. 20, no. 2, 2004, pp. 179-86. |
| Ward NS, Snyder JE, Ross S, Haze D, Levy MM. "Comparison of a commercially available clinical information system with other methods of measuring critical care outcomes data." Journal of Critical Care, vol. 19, no. 1, 2004, pp. 10-5. |
| Ward NS. "The accuracy of clinical information systems." Journal of Critical Care, vol. 19, no. 4, 2004, pp. 221-5. |
| Ward NS. "Using computers for intensive care unit research." Respiratory care, vol. 49, no. 5, 2004, pp. 518-24. |
| Ward NS. "Effects of prone position ventilation in ARDS. An evidence-based review of the literature." Critical Care Clinics, vol. 18, no. 1, 2002, pp. 35-44. |
| Ward NS, O'Brien A. "End of life issues in the critically ill." Medicine and health, Rhode Island, vol. 85, no. 2, 2002, pp. 60-2. |
| OBrien A, Ward NS. "Steroid therapy in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease." Medicine and health, Rhode Island, vol. 85, no. 2, 2002, pp. 52-5. |
| Ward NS, Lin DY, Nelson DL, Houtchens J, Schwartz WA, Klinger JR, Hill NS, Levy MM. "Successful determination of lower inflection point and maximal compliance in a population of patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome." Critical care medicine, vol. 30, no. 5, 2002, pp. 963-8. |
| Ward NS, Hill NS. "Pulmonary function testing in neuromuscular disease." Clinics in Chest Medicine, vol. 22, no. 4, 2001, pp. 769-81. |
| Kuhn C 3rd, Homer RJ, Zhu Z, Ward N, Flavell RA, Geba GP, Elias JA. "Airway hyperresponsiveness and airway obstruction in transgenic mice. Morphologic correlates in mice overexpressing interleukin (IL)-11 and IL-6 in the lung." American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology, vol. 22, no. 3, 2000, pp. 289-95. |
| Ward NS, Waxman AB, Homer RJ, Mantell LL, Einarsson O, Du Y, Elias JA. "Interleukin-6-induced protection in hyperoxic acute lung injury." American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology, vol. 22, no. 5, 2000, pp. 535-42. |
| Kuhn C, Homer RJ, Zhu Z, Ward N, Elias JA. "Morphometry explains variation in airway responsiveness in transgenic mice overexpressing interleukin-6 and interleukin-11 in the lung." Chest, vol. 117, no. 5 Suppl 1, 2000, pp. 260S-2S. |
| Ward NS, Waxman AB, Einarsson O, Elias JA. "Interleukin-6 protection in hyperoxic lung injury." Chest, vol. 116, no. 1 Suppl, 1999, pp. 26S. |
BOOKS AND BOOK CHAPTERS
1. Ward, NS and Levy, MM End of Life Issues for the Critical Care Physician in Textbook of Critical Care 5th edition; M. Fink, E. Abraham, JL Vincent, P. Kochanek editors, Elsevier Science. Philadelphia. 2004.
2. Ward, NS, Interleukin-6 in Encyclopedia of Respiratory Medicine, Geoffrey J Laurent and Steven D Shapiro editors; Elsevier Ltd., 2006 Oxford, UK
3. Ward, NS, End-of-Life Issues in the ICU. In: Rehm, Christina, ed. Critical Care Refresher. 13th ed. Mount Prospect, IL: Society of Critical Care Medicine; 2009
4. Mazer, J and Ward NS, Acute Respiratory Failure in Adult Comprehensive Critical Care Review Textbook, Society of Critical Care Medicine – 2012
| Year | Degree | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| 1993 | MD | Columbia University |
| 1987 | BA | Colgate University |
| Fellow | Yale/New Haven Hospital, pulmonary and critical care medicine | 1996-1999 | |
| Residency | New York Hospital / Cornell Medical Center, internal medicine | 1989-1993 |
Fellow, American College of Chest Physicians 2001
Fellow, American College of Critical Care Medicine 2009
Brown Medical School, nominee for Greenwall Faculty Scholars Program in Bioethics, 2005
Dean’s Teaching Excellence Award, Brown University School of Medicine
– pulmonary pathophysiology course 2001.
– pulmonary pathophysiology course 2002.
– pulmonary pathophysiology course 2003
– pulmonary pathophysiology course 2004
– clerkship in medicine 2004
– pulmonary pathophysiology course 2005
– clerkship in medicine 2005
– pulmonary pathophysiology course 2006
– clerkship in medicine 2006
– pulmonary pathophysiology course 2007
– pulmonary pathophysiology course 2008
– pulmonary pathophysiology course 2009
– pulmonary pathophysiology course 2010
– pulmonary pathophysiology course 2011
– pulmonary pathophysiology course 2012
– pulmonary pathophysiology course 2013
Certificate of Recognition for Excellence in teaching, Brown Medical School- 2014
Brown Medical School Internal Medicine Residency teaching Award – 2014-15
Society of Critical Care Medicine
– Presidential Citation for outstanding contributions to the SCCM 2008
– Presidential Citation for outstanding contributions to the SCCM 2009
– Presidential Citation for outstanding contributions to the SCCM 2010
– Presidential Citation for outstanding contributions to the SCCM 2011
– Presidential Citation for outstanding contributions to the SCCM 2012
– Presidential Citation for outstanding contributions to the SCCM 201
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Levy, Mitchell | Professor of Medicine |
| Teno, Joan | Adjunct Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice |
American College of Chest Physicians Fellow (2001-2007)
American Thoracic Society member,
-international Conference program committee for critical care 2005
- Ethics and Confilcts of Interest Subcomittee, member (2011-15)
Society of Critical Care Medicine
- Program Committee,-International Summer conference,
- representative for NIH Consensus conference on End of life research 2004
- International Congress Program Committee, 2006-2009
- chairman: working group on Physician/Patient ratios
-American College of Critical Care, Fellow (2009)
-Chairman, Internal Medicine Section (2011-13)
-Ethics Committee, member (2014- present)
- member, Strategic Education Committee 2010- 2011
-member, Drug Shortage Taskforce 2012- present
-member, Critical Care Educational Pathways in Internal Medicine Task Force 2012-13
Partnership for Excellence in Critical Care steering committee (2003)
Values, Ethics, and Rationing Critical Care (VERICC) Taskforce Project leader
Ocean State Ethics Network - member
| Diplomate | ABIM, Critical care medicine | 1999-2019 | |
| Diplomate | ABIM, Pulmonary disease | 1998-2018 | |
| Diplomate | ABIM, Internal medicine | 1996-2016 |
| Program Director. Alpert Medical School of Brown University, 2007-Present |
| member. Rhode Island Hospital, 2001-2020 |
Pulmonary Pathophysiology Course - Alpert/Brown Medical School, 2000- present
Pulmonary Critical Care, Assistant Program Director, 2000-2006
Pulmonary Critical Care, Program Director, 2007- present
