Thomas Pritchett (tom) Bleck MD, MCCM, FNCS

Thomas P Bleck MD MCCM FNCS is professor of neurological sciences, neurosurgery, internal medicine (in the division of pulmonary and critical care medicine, and the section of infectious diseases), and anesthesiology at Rush University Medical Center, where he is a neurointensivist and the director of clinical neurophysiology. From 2009 – 2015, he was the associate chief medical officer for critical care.

He is an ex officio member of the board of directors of the Neurocritical Care Society, of which he was the founding president. He serves on the editorial boards of Neurocritical Care and Annals of Intensive Care. From 1992 – 2015 he was the neuroscience section editor of Critical Care Medicine, and in October, 2016 became an associate editor. In 2012, he completed 12 years as a member of the Council of the Society of Critical Care Medicine.

In 2015, the American College of Critical Care Medicine and the Society of Critical Care Medicine elected him a Master of Critical Care Medicine; there are 100 masters out of nearly 16,000 members. He was elected to two terms on the board of the American Board of Clinical Neurophysiology. He recently completed two terms on the writing committee of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, and is a member of the American Board of Internal Medicine subspecialty exam committee in critical care medicine.