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Theodore J. Iwashyna

Dr. Theodore “Jack” Iwashyna practices, teaches, and researches intensive care medicine at the University of Michigan and the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System. His research focuses on how patients and their families heal from severe infections (sepsis), respiratory failure, and cardiac arrest. He is obliged to remind readers that the views expressed here are his own are not necessarily those of the U.S. Government or the Department of Veterans Affairs.