Presenter

Dr. Palmer is an Associate Professor of Anesthesiology (Critical Care) and Emergency Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri. He is also the Co-Medical Director for the Barnes Jewish/Washington University ICU Telemedicine program. His niche in emergency critical care recently came into focus with the launch of the ICU telemedicine program in 2016. Telemedicine is the future of healthcare, and importantly improves patient access to high quality care while remaining cost effective. Dr. Palmer helped build a telemedicine program that initially covered ~80 ICU beds at BJH, and now covers nearly 300 ICU beds across the BJC network. Critical care should be geographically agnostic, and given ICU bed capacity issues, more work needs to be done to bring intensivist level support outside the walls of the ICU.