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The Society of Critical Care Medicine is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) scientific membership organization. The Society is led by a diverse group of multiprofessional critical care professionals who steer the future of the organization.
Lauren R. Sorce, PhD, RN, CPNP-AC/PC, FAAN, FCCM, is the senior scientist in the Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine and Associate Director for Nursing Research in the Department of Nursing at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, where she also practices as a pediatric critical care nurse practitioner. She is an assistant professor at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. She trained as a pediatric clinical nurse specialist at Loyola University, followed by a post-masters pediatric nurse practitioner certificate and PhD from Rush University.
Dr. Sorce’s key contribution to critical care has been her extensive leadership as an advanced practice registered nurse (APRN). Starting her career as an APRN in the PICU early in the evolution of the role provided her many opportunities. She was instrumental in the exploration of the first acute care pediatric nurse practitioner (ACPNP) certification examination as well as the development of the first national certifying examination for the Pediatric Nursing Certification Board. Dr. Sorce also served as the vice-president of nursing on the board of directors of the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies. She has served in leadership roles on numerous local and international committees as well as participating on editorial boards.
Dr. Sorce has served the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) in many capacities since joining in 1998. Prior to her role on Council, Dr. Sorce was recognized with numerous Presidential Citations, the Norma J. Shoemaker Research Grant, and the Norma J. Shoemaker Award for Nursing Excellence. In addition to nine years on the SCCM Council, she has been a member of the Congress Program Planning Committee and cochaired the 2015 Congress. She chaired the SCCM Strategic Planning Committee, Finance Committee, and Norma J. Shoemaker Research Grant Committee and served as the 2019 editor of SCCM’s newsmagazine, Critical Connections. Dr. Sorce has been funded to study corneal abrasions and has worked on numerous research teams to study post-intensive care syndrome, stress hydrocortisone in pediatric septic shock, prone positioning in pediatric acute respiratory distress syndrome, and criteria for convening family conferences in the PICU.
The Society is governed by the 23-member SCCM Council, consisting of the five members of the Executive Committee: president, president-elect, past president, secretary, and treasurer, in addition to eight designated seats for these specialty sections: Anesthesiology, Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacology, Emergency Medicine, Internal Medicine, Neuroscience, Nursing, Pediatrics, and Surgery. One collective Council seat represents all other sections. There are also six at-large seats and three honorary members.
Professor of Surgery and Neurosurgery
Clinical Associate, School of Nursing
SICU Co-Medical Director, Patient Safety Officer
Associate Director, Office of Life Support Education
Trauma, Emergency Surgery, Surgical and Neurocritical Care
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Division Chief, Neurocritical Care
Professor of Neurology
Duke University School of Medicine
Durham, North Carolina, USA
Critical Care Pharmacist
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
New York, New York, USA
Professor
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Associate Professor
Acute and Tertiary Care, School of Nursing
Critical Care Medicine, School of Medicine
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Director, Center for Advanced Analytics
Director, Best Practice Telehealth
Baptist Health South Florida
Miami, Florida, USA
Professor of Critical Care Medicine and Neurocritical Care
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Professor and Vice Chair
Midwestern University College of Pharmacy
Glendale, Arizona, USA
Professor of Pharmacotherapy and Outcomes Science and Neurosurgery
Virginia Commonwealth University School of Pharmacy
Richmond, Virginia, USA
Chief, Integrated Hospital Care Institute
Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi
Adjunct Professor of Anesthesiology, Baylor College of Medicine
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Professor of Surgery
Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center
Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
Clinical Pharmacist
Ohio State University Medical Center
Columbus, Ohio, USA
University of Michigan Health System
Department of Emergency Medicine
Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Professor and Medical Director
Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
Wolfson Children's Hospital
Jacksonville, Florida, USA
Program Director, Critical Care Medicine
Vice-Chair of Education
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Professor of Medicine in Clinical Anesthesiology
Weill Cornell Medicine
New York, New York, USA
Louise Nerancy Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience
Division Head, Hospital Medicine
Department of Neurology
Medical Director, Nerancy Neuroscience Intensive Care Unit
Center for Brain Immunology and Glia
Department of Neuroscience
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
Director, Department of Critical Care
HIMA San Pablo Caguas
Caguas, Puerto Rico, USA
Associate Professor
Department of Pediatrics
University of Kentucky Albert B. Chandler Hospital
Lexington, Kentucky USA
Professor
University of Maryland Medical Center
R. Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Nurse Practitioner
Department of Pediatrics
Critical Care Division
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital
New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
Vice-Chancellor, American College of Critical Care Medicine
Senior Research Coordinator/Simulation Educator
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Nursing
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Associate Medical Director
Trauma Program
Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA
Trauma Surgeon
Trinity Health St. Mary Medical Center
Langhorne, Pennsylvania, USA
