Montefiore Medical Center
Dr. Gong is the Chief of Critical Care Medicine, Chief of Pulmonary Medicine, and Director of Critical Care Research at Montefiore Medical Center and Professor in Medicine and in Epidemiology and Population Health at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. After receiving an engineering degree at the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Gong went on to earn a medical degree at the Yale University School of Medicine. She then completed her postdoctoral training at the Beth Israel Hospital in medicine and at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in the Harvard Combined Program in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. She also studied at the Harvard School of Public Health, receiving her Master’s degree in Clinical Epidemiology. Dr. Gong is recognized nationally and internationally for her expertise in critical care delivery and management of acute respiratory failure and ARDS. She has spent her career on improving outcomes in patients along the entire continuum of critical illness from its development to its progression and recovery with an overall focus on the prediction and prevention of acute organ failure and their complications. Continuously funded by the AHRQ and NIH for over 20 years for her work, her research ranges from COVID-19 and ARDS to prevention of delirium, treatment of severe influenza, big data and predictive analytics in risk prediction, and effective clinical decision support systems. She is the Steering Committee Chair of the NIH ARDS, Pneumonia, and Sepsis Consortium.She is a graduate of the prestigious Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine Fellowship. Given her expertise, she has been named to multiple panels to develop clinical practice guidelines, for American College of Chest Physicians, European Soicety of Intensive Care Medicine, American Thoracic Society and the Surviving Sepsis Campaign . In 2024, she was elected to be the Secretary on the Executive Board of the American Thoracic Society.
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