Michael Weinstein, MD, FACS, FCCP, speaks with the Society of Critical Care Medicine’s 2015 President, Craig M. Coopersmith, MD, FCCM. Dr. Coopersmith is the Associate Director of the Emory Center for Critical Care, and Professor of Surgery at the Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia. In this interview, Dr. Coopersmith discusses his Presidential Address at the 44th Critical Care Congress in Phoenix, Arizona.