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Alan Christopher Heffner

Alan Christopher Heffner MD, FCCM

Emergency Medicine, Critical Care Medicine
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America

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Alan C. Heffner, MD, is board-certified in adult critical care and emergency medicine. He has a busy high-acuity clinical practice at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, NC, where he is Professor and Co-Director of Adult Critical Care. Dr. Heffner serves as the healthcare system Specialty Director for Sepsis and Medical Director of ECMO Services. He is well-published to include authorship in UpToDate and the leading emergency critical care medicine textbooks.

In addition to numerous teaching awards, Dr. Heffner is a well-recognized national speaker and instructor on acute critical illness. His special interests include severe infection, sepsis, shock, pulmonary embolus, cardiac arrest, ECMO, anoxic brain injury, and emergency airway management and intubation.
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