Sumit Kapoor, MD, FCCP

  • Associate Professor, Critical Care Medicine
  • Director of QI and Patient Safety, CCM Adult Multidisciplinary Critical Care Training Program
  • Unit Based Education Co-Director, UPMC Mercy ICUs

    Education & Training

  • MBBS- Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi, India, 2004
  • Internal Medicine Residency- Jacobi Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 2011
  • Critical Care Medicine Fellowship- Icahn School of Medicine at Sinai, New York, 2013
Awards
Thomas J. Iberti Research Award for outstanding critical care research, 2013
Best Teaching Faculty Award, Jacobi Medical Center, 2015
Outstanding Critical Care Faculty, Baylor College of Medicine, 2016, 2017, 2018
Representative Publications

Kapoor S, Bassily-Marcus A, Alba Yunen R, et al. Critical care management and intensive care unit outcomes following cytoreductive surgery with hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy. World J Crit Care Med. 2017;6(2):116-123.

Kapoor S, Morgan CK, Siddique MA, Guntupalli KK. "Sacred Pause" in the ICU: Evaluation of a Ritual and Intervention to Lower Distress and Burnout. Am J Hosp Palliat Care. 2018;35(10):1337-1341.

Kapoor S, Chand S, Dieiev V, et al. Thromboembolic Events and Role of Point of Care Ultrasound in Hospitalized Covid-19 Patients Needing Intensive Care Unit Admission. J Intensive Care Med. 2021;36(12):1483-1490.

Naqvi A, Kapoor S, Pradhan M, Dicpinigaitis PV. Outcomes of severe Legionella pneumonia requiring extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO). J Crit Care. 2021; 61:103-106.

Andrea L, Dicpinigaitis PV, Fazzari MJ, Kapoor S. Legionella Pneumonia in the ICU: A Tertiary Care Center Experience Over 10 Years. Crit Care Explor. 2021;3(8): e0508. 

Kapoor S, Thakkar J. Learn to Live Again [published online ahead of print, 2021 Dec 10]. Am J Hosp Palliat Care. 2021;10499091211055902.

Pancholi P, Emami N, Fazzari MJ, Kapoor S. Stress cardiomyopathy in critical care: A case series of 109 patients. World J Crit Care Med. 2022 May 9;11(3):149-159. 

Research Interests

Quality Improvement in Critical Care

Data Science Applications in Critical Care Medicine

Medical Education