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Brian Gehlbach
Section of Pulmonary / Critical Care
Assistant Professor of Medicine

e-mail: bgehlbac@medicine.bsd.uchicago.edu
Referring Physician Access Line: 1-877-DOM-2730
Training:
DegreeYearInstitutionArea
BS1991University of IllinoisBiology
MD1995Washington University 
Residency1998The University of ChicagoInternal Medicine
Residency1999The University of ChicagoChief Resident
Fellowship2002The University of ChicagoPulmonary and Critical Care
Academic Interests:
Dr. Gehlbach is studying the long-term functional status of survivors of critical illness with the goal of identifying which patient characteristics or illnesses are associated with long-term debility. He is also interested in the effects of critical illness on sleep, and whether the sleep of ICU patients can be improved. 

Clinical Interests:
Critical care medicine, pulmonary medicine, dyspnea, pulmonary hypertension, asthma.

Representative Publications:
  1. Kress JP, Noth I, Gehlbach BK, Barman N, Pohlman AS, Miller A, Morgan S, Hall JB. The utility of albuterol nebulized with heliox during acute asthma exacerbations. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2002;165:1317-21.
  2. Gehlbach B, Kress JP, Kahn J, DeRuiter C, Pohlman A, Hall J. Correlates of prolonged hospitalization in inner-city patients undergoing invasive and non-invasive positive pressure ventilation for status asthmaticus. Chest 2002;122:1709-1714.
  3. Davis N, Pohlman A, Gehlbach B, Kress JP, McAtee J, Herlitz J, Hall J. Improving the process of informed consent in the critically ill. JAMA 2003;289:1963-1968.
  4. Gehlbach BK, Kress JP. Sedation in the intensive care unit. Curr Opin Crit Care 2002;8:290-298.
  5. Gehlbach B, Geppert E. The pulmonary complications of left heart failure.Chest 2004;125:669-682




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