ChristopherBryanThomasMD
Pulmonology • Baton Rouge, LACritical Care Medicine
Chief Quality Officer: Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine: Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine LSU Health Sciences Center: Baton Rouge
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Office
8585 Picardy Ave
Ste 313
Baton Rouge, LA 70809Phone+1 225-381-2755Fax+1 225-381-2759
Summary
- Dr. Christopher Thomas is Chief Quality Officer for Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System. His clinical focus is critical care medicine after training at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He has expertise in translation of evidence based medicine into clinical practice with focus areas in novel sepsis diagnostics and early mobility protocol implementation.
Education & Training
Vanderbilt University Medical CenterFellowship, Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine, 2006 - 2009- Vanderbilt University Medical CenterResidency, Internal Medicine, 2002 - 2005
Ohio State University College of MedicineClass of 2002, MD
John Carroll UniversityBS, Molecular Genetics; BioChemistry, 1994 - 1998
Certifications & Licensure
LA State Medical License 2009 - 2025
TN State Medical License 2005 - 2016- American Board of Internal Medicine Critical Care Medicine
- American Board of Internal Medicine Pulmonary Disease
Clinical Trials
- Early Versus Delayed Enteral Feeding to Treat People With Acute Lung Injury or Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (The EDEN Study) Start of enrollment: 2007 Dec 01
- The MENDS2 Study, Maximizing the Efficacy of Sedation and Reducing Neurological Dysfunction and Mortality in Septic Patients With Acute Respiratory Failure Start of enrollment: 2013 May 15
Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- 7 citationsNoninvasive Ventilation for Preoxygenation during Emergency Intubation.Kevin W Gibbs, Matthew W Semler, Brian E Driver, Kevin P Seitz, Susan B Stempek
The New England Journal of Medicine. 2024-06-20 - 1 citationsValidation of a Novel, Rapid Sepsis Diagnostic for Emergency Department Use.Hollis R O'Neal Jr, Roya Sheybani, David R Janz, Robert Scoggins, Tonya Jagneaux
Critical Care Explorations. 2024-02-01 - Bovine Serum Albumin Elicits IL-33-Dependent Adipose Tissue Eosinophilia: Potential Relevance to Ovalbumin-induced Models of Allergic Disease.Heather L Caslin, W Reid Bolus, Christopher Thomas, Shinji Toki, Allison E Norlander
Immunohorizons. 2023-12-01
Journal Articles
- Rapid Biophysical Analysis of Host Immune Cell Variations Associated with SepsisKatherine Crawford, Aaron DeWitt, Stephen Brierre, Terrell Caffery, Tonya Jagneaux, Christopher Thomas, Mara Macdonald, Henry Tse, Ajay Shah, Dino Di Carlo, and Hollis..., American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 7/15/2018
Press Mentions
How to Reduce Sepsis Mortality at Hospitals and Health SystemsDecember 5th, 2024- AI-Driven Diagnostic Tool Reduces Sepsis Deaths by 20% at Louisiana HospitalJuly 3rd, 2024
- 'What We Don’t Have Is Enough Nurses': Health Professionals Urge Caution as COVID-19 Cases SurgeNovember 23rd, 2020
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