Ithan Peltan MD, MS

Ithan D. Peltan, MD, MSc, is Associate Professor of Research at Intermountain Healthcare and the medical director for Acute Care (including pulmonary/critical care) research for the Intermountain Health system. Dr. Peltan leads an NIH- and CDC-funded research program investigating the prevention, early identification, and management of critical illness, including methods to improve diagnosis and treatment of sepsis, respiratory failure, COVID-19, and cardiac arrest.

Dr. Peltan graduated from Dartmouth College and earned his medical degree from Harvard Medical School. He completed an internal medicine residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital, followed by a fellowship in pulmonary and critical care medicine at the University of Washington, where he also earned a Master of Science in epidemiology. Dr. Peltan’s research is particularly interested in understanding the causes and implications of practice variation in the delivery of critical care and how such variation can be harnessed to inform causal inference via well-designed observational studies and pragmatic trials.