Brad Butcher, MD

  • Associate Professor, Critical Care Medicine
  • Medical Director, ICU-3, UPMC Mercy
  • Director, Critical Illness Recovery Center, UPMC Mercy

    Education & Training

  • BA, Biochemistry, Harvard University, 2001
  • MD, Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, 2006
  • Residency, Internal Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, 2009
  • Fellowship, Hospital Medicine, University of California San Francisco Medical Center, 2010
  • Fellowship, Nephrology, University of California San Francisco Medical Center, 2012
  • Fellowship, Critical Care Medicine, University of California San Francisco Medical Center, 2013
Awards
Marshall Webster Physician Leadership and Management Certificate Program, University of Pittsburgh, 2016
Alpha Omega Alpha, Duke University School of Medicine, 2004
Phi Beta Kappa, Harvard University, 2001
Society of Critical Care Medicine ICU Heroes Awards, 2020
Representative Publications

Haines KJ, Sevin CM, Hibbert E, Boehm LM, Aparanji K, Bakhru RN, Bastin AJ, Beesley SJ, Butcher BW, Drumright K, Eaton TL, Farley T, Firshman P, Fritschle A, Holdsworth C, Hope AA, Johnson A, Kenes MT, Khan BA, Kloos JA, Kross EK, MacLeod-Smith B, Mactavish P, Meyer J, Montgomery-Yates A, Quasim T, Saft HL, Slack A, Stollings J, Weinhouse G, Whitten J, Netzer G, Hopkins RO, Mikkelsen ME, Iwashyna TJ, McPeake J. Key mechanisms by which post-ICU activities can improve in-ICU care: results of the international THRIVE collaboratives. Intensive Care Medicine. 2019 Jul 1;45(7):939-47.

Haines KJ, McPeake J, Hibbert E, Boehm LM, Aparanji K, Bakhru RN, Bastin AJ, Beesley SJ, Beveridge L, Butcher BW, Drumright K, Eaton TL, Farley T, Firshman P, Fritschle A, Holdsworth C, Hope AA, Johnson A, Kenes MT, Khan BA, Kloos JA, Kross EK, Mactacvish P, Meyer J, Montgomery-Yates A, Quasim T, Saft H, Slack A, Stollings J, Weinhouse G, Whitten J, Netzer G, Hopkins RO, Mikkelsen ME, Iwashyna TJ, Sevin CM. Enablers and barriers to implementing ICU follow-up clinics and peer support groups following critical illness: the Thrive Collaboratives. Critical Care Medicine. 2019 Sep;47(9):1194.

Mikkelsen ME, Still M, Anderson BJ, Bienvenu OJ, Brodsky MB, Brummel N, Butcher B, Clay AS, Felt H, Ferrante LE, Haines KJ, Harhay MO, Hope AA, Hopkins RO, Hosey M, Hough CTL, Jackson JC, Johnson A, Khan B, Lone NI, MacTavish P, McPeake J, Montgomery-Yates A, Needham DM, Netzer G, Schorr C, Skidmore B, Stollings JL, Umberger R, Andrews A, Iwashyna TJ, Sevin CM. Society of Critical Care Medicine's International Consensus Conference on Prediction and Identification of Long-Term Impairments After Critical Illness. Crit Care Med. 2020 Nov;48(11):1670-1679. doi: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000004586. PMID: 32947467.

McPeake J, Iwashyna TJ, Boehm LM, Hibbert E, Bakhru RN, Bastin AJ, Butcher BW, Eaton TL, Harris W, Hope AA, Jackson J, Johnson A, Kloos JA, Korzick KA, Meyer J, Montgomery-Yates A, Mikkelsen ME, Slack A, Wade D, Still M, Netzer G, Hopkins RO, Quasim T, Sevin CM, Haines KJ. Benefits of Peer Support for Intensive Care Unit Survivors: Sharing Experiences, Care Debriefing, and Altruism. Am J Crit Care. 2021 Mar 1;30(2):145-149. doi: 10.4037/ajcc2021702. PMID: 33566086.

 

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Research Interests
  • Post-intensive care syndrome
  • Peer support for critical illness survivors and their families
  • Acute kidney injury and renal replacement therapy
  • Patient safety and medical error