Panelist: Michael Apostolakos, M.D.

Michael J. Apostolakos, MD, FCCP is currently Director of Adult Critical Care and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship at the University of Rochester Medical Center.  Dr. Apostolakos has been on staff at the University of Rochester Medical Center for eleven years and currently holds the academic rank of Associate Professor of Medicine.  Dr. Apostolakos is Board-Certified in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Disease, and Critical Care.  In 2005, Dr. Apostolakos was selected as one of the "Best Doctors in America" and was selected for inclusion in "Who's Who in the Medical Science Education".  In 2004, Dr. Apostolakos won the Prestigious University of Rochester Medical Center Board Physician Excellence Award. 

Dr. Apostolakos lectures locally, regionally and nationally on a broad range of Pulmonary and Critical care topics.  His research and publications deal mainly with Sepsis, the Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome and Pneumonia.

Dr. Apostolakos acts a journal reviewer for several publications and is past president of the New York State Thoracic Society.  Dr. Apostolakos also serves as a member of the Society of Critical Care Medicine, American College of Physicians, the American Thoracic Society and American College of Chest Physicians.