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Dr. Salim R. Surani, MD, MPH, MSHM, FACP, FCCP, FAASM, currently works as the Chair of Critical Care Services at Corpus Christi Medical Center. He serves as Adjunct Clinical Professor of Medicine, Department of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine at Texas A&M University. He also serves as the program director for the Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship Program at Bay Area Medical Center, Corpus Christi. He did his fellowship

in Pulmonary Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, his Masters in Public Health and Epidemiology at Yale University, and his Masters in Health Management at the University of Texas, Dallas. Dr. Surani has also served as board trustee and secretary of THE CHEST Foundation. He currently serves as co-chair for the ACCP Practice Operations Steering Committee. Dr. Surani has authored more than 150 articles in peer-reviewed journals and has written several books and book chapters. He has been involved in teaching residents for more than two decades. He was instrumental in starting an emergency medicine residency program, a pharmacy residency program, and a pulmonary and critical care residency program. He has been awarded Faculty of the Year Award numerous times. Dr. Surani has served as an independent grant reviewer for the government of Australia, as well as European nations via Rannis. He also serves as an ad hoc reviewer for more than 20 journals. He has served as a speaker in several regional, national, and international scientific conferences. His area of expertise includes critical care, sleep medicine, ICU infections, and practice operations. Dr. Surani serves on the Thursday morning health segment for Channel III news at Corpus Christi (ABC affiliate). He has also served on committees for several national organizations and has received several community and teaching awards, including the Health Care Hero award, and humanitarian awards for the American College of Physicians, American College of Chest Physicians, and Texas Medical Association. Dr. Surani is highly regarded among his peers and is well respected as a mentor, clinician, and humanitarian.

Dr. Joseph Varon is Professor of Acute and Continuing Care at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston, Texas, and was formerly Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. He is also Professor of Medicine, Surgery and Emergency Medicine at several universities in Mexico, the Middle East, and Europe. After completing medical training at the UNAM Medical School in Mexico City, Mexico,

Dr. Varon served an internship in internal medicine at Providence Hospital, George Washington University, Washington, DC. A subsequent residency in internal medicine was completed at Stanford University School of Medicine in Stanford, California. Dr. Varon also served fellowships in critical care medicine and pulmonary diseases at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. An avid researcher, Dr. Varon has contributed more than 790 peer-reviewed journal articles, 10 full textbooks, and 15 dozen book

chapters to the medical literature. He is also a reviewer for multiple journals and currently serves as Editor-in-Chief for Critical Care and Shock and Current Respiratory Medicine Reviews. Dr. Varon has won many prestigious awards and is considered among one of the top physicians in the United States. He is also known for his groundbreaking contributions to critical care medicine in the fields of cardiopulmonary resuscitation and therapeutic hypothermia. He has developed and studied technology for selective brain cooling. He is also a well-known expert in the area of hypertensive crisis management. Along with Dr. Carlos Ayus, he co-described hyponatremia secondary to extreme exercise syndrome, also known as the "Varon–Ayus syndrome," and with Mr. James Boston he co-described the healthcare provider anxiety syndrome, also known as the "Boston–Varon syndrome." Dr. Varon has lectured in over 58 different countries around the globe. He has appeared in national and international television and radio shows with his techniques for the care of patients, along with Professor Luc Montagnier (Nobel Prize winner for Medicine in 2008).

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