Thomas Higgins, MD

• Vice Chair, Clinical Affairs, Department of Medicine
• Professor of Medicine, Surgery and Anesthesiology, Tufts University School of Medicine

• Critical Care Anesthesiology Fellowship
  Massachusetts General Hospital
  Boston, MA
• Internal Medicine Residency
  The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
  Cleveland, OH
• Anesthesiology Residency
  Massachusetts General Hospital
  Boston, MA
• Boston University School of Medicine
  Boston, MA

• Excellence in ICU Organ Donation Program (to Baystate ICU), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2009
• Weinberg Family Prize for Academic Excellence, Baystate Medical Center, 2009
• Distinguished Performer Award – Reduction of Device-Related Infections in the Intensive Care Unit (to Baystate ICU), 2009
• Distinguished Alumnus Award, Boston University School of Medicine Alumni Association, 2008

• Outcome assessment (APACHE, MPM, SAPS, Cardiac Severity Scores)
• Sepsis, septic shock, and pharmacotherapy of shock states
• ARDS and mechanical ventilation including high frequency oscillation
• Sedation and neuromuscular blockade
• Ethics and end-of-life decision-Making
• Simulation in critical care education
• Practice management and LEAN process improvement

• Member, BMP Board of Directors
• Member, BMP Compensation Committee
• Member, Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee, Baystate Medical Center
• Member, Critical Care Quality Improvement Committee, Baystate Medical Center
• Member, Medical Staff Health Committee, Baystate Medical Center Member, Intellectual Property Committee, Baystate Health
• Member, Hospital of the Future Steering Committee, Baystate Medical Center
• Member, Baystate Medical Practices (BMP) Policy Committee
• Member, Health Information Management (HIM) Oversight Group, Baystate Health

• Member, Society of Critical Care Billing and Coding Oversight Committee
• Member, ACCM Ethics Committee, Society of Critical Care Medicine
• Member, Kindred-Parkview Physician Advisory Board

• Higgins TL, Teres D, Copes WS, Nathanson B, Stark M, Kramer A:  Assessing contemporary intensive care unit outcome:  An updated Mortality Probability Admission Model (MPM₀-III).  Crit Care Med 2007;35:827-835.
• Nathanson B, Higgins TL, Teres D, Copes W, Kramer A, Stark M:  A revised method to assess ICU clinical performance and resource utilization.  Crit Care Med 2007;35:1853-1862.
• Nathanson BH, Higgins TL:  An introduction to statistical methods used in binary outcome modeling.  Semin Cardiothor Vasc Anes. 2008;12(3):153-166.
• Zilberberg M, Kramer AA, Higgins TL, Shorr AF:  Prolonged acute mechanical ventilation:  Implications for hospital benchmarking.  CHEST 2009;135(5):1157-1162.
• Higgins TL, Kramer A, Nathanson B, Copes W, Stark M, Teres D:  Prospective validation of the ICU admission Mortality Probability Model version 3 (MPM_0-III).  Crit Care Med 2009;37:1619-1623.
• Nathanson B, Higgins TL, Kramer AA, Copes WS, Stark M, Teres D:  Subgroup Mortality Probability Models:  Are they necessary for specialized intensive care units?  Crit Care Med 2009;37:2375-2386.
• Zilberberg MD, Nathanson BH, Sadigov S, Higgins TL, Kollef MH, Shorr AF:  Epidemiology and outcomes of Clostridium Difficile-associated disease (CDAD) among patients on prolonged acute mechanical ventilation (PAMV). CHEST 2009;136:752-758.
• Higgins TL:  A tale of lutes and ouds:  time to play together in the same key? Crit Care Med  2010;38:971-972.
• Higgins TL, Heelon MH, Siano BS, Douglass L, Spath B, Kerr G:  Medication safety improves after implementation of positive patient identification.  Applied Clinical Informatics 2010;1(3):213-220
• Nathanson BH, Brennan MJ, Teres T, Kramer AA, Copes W, Stark M, Higgins TL:  Healthy Elders Fare Surprisingly Well In Intensive Care Units.  Chest 2011;139:825-31.
• Kramer A, Higgins, TL, Zimmerman J: ICU readmissions in U.S. hospitals – patient characteristics, risk factors and outcomes, Crit Care Med 2011, in press.
• Lagu T, Lindenauer P, Rothberg M, Nathanson B, Pekow P, Steingrub J, Higgins T: Development and validation of a model that uses enhanced administrative data to predict mortality in patients with sepsis. Crit Care Med 2011;39 in press.  

Other Links

• http://eworkplace/portal/site/icu/
• Editorial Board, Critical Care Medicine  http://journals.lww.com/ccmjournal/pages/editorialboard.aspx
• Kindle edition of Cardiopulmonary Critical Care textbook: http://www.amazon.com/Cardiopulmonary-Critical-Care-ebook/dp/B000Q35XYY/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1314389063&sr=1-1