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Erik Osborn, MD, COL, MC USA

Chair ECMO MCS Task Force
American College of Chest Physicians
American College of Chest Physicians
Fairfax Station, Virginia, United States

Erik Osborn is the Chair for the ECMO MCS Domain Task Force for Chest. Dr Osborn received his ECMO traning in Germany 18 years ago, while using ECMO to support military service men and women with severe cardiopulmonary failure. He has been an educator for over 15 years and he directs ECMO and MCS courses for the American College of Chest Physicians. Dr Osborn helped start an ECMO transport program for the US Military in Germany, and he has performed some of the longest ECMO transports on record. He also helped create an ECMO program in Hawaii, and he obtained a grant to run a porcine ECMO traning and experiment lab in Hawaii. Dr Osborn worked at Inova from 2015 until 2021, where he was the ECMO director and helped Inova's ECMO program grow from 15 patients a year to close to 150 ECMO patients a year. He also helped create the Impella 2.5 program in Hawaii in 2011, which was the first Impella program in Hawaii. Dr Osborn is a retired Colonel from the United States Army, and he has worked with and taught ECMO and MCS for over 18 years. Currently he works at Mary Washington Healthcare in Virginia, and he works part with the ECMO MCS programs in Richmond VA and the Charleston Area Medical Center in West Virginia. Dr Osborn has worked in cardiac critical care for 18 years, working in cardiac surgery ICUs and cardiac ICUs. Erik Osborn has presented nationally and internationally at ELSO, Chest, STS, ATS, SCAI and multiple smaller regional conferences. He can be reached at eeosborn@aim.com.

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