Ivor S. Douglas, MD

Ivor S. Douglas, MD, is the Barbara and William Rosenthal Chair Professor and Chair of Medicine at New York Medical College, and Westchester Medical Center.

Having graduated medical school in South Africa and after Internal Medicine Residency training in London, Great Britain, he completed pulmonary & critical care fellowship training the University of Chicago. Dr. Douglas was on faculty at the University of Colorado and was Chief of Pulmonary and Critical Medicine at Denver Health Medical Center where he directed the Medical ICU from 2002 to 2025

Dr. Douglas is principal investigator for ongoing investigations in several aspects of critical care, including basic mechanistic studies in acute lung injury, sepsis and septic shock and therapeutic strategies for shock resuscitation and long-term outcomes in the critically ill. Dr. Douglas serves on the steering committees and safety monitoring boards for multicenter international studies in critical illness. Dr. Douglas directs an NIH, DoD and industry funded research program exploring sepsis, ARDS and long-term outcomes from critical illness. His work in critical care leadership and health services include sepsis resuscitation programs using Lean systems engineering techniques. He has authored or co-authored over 100 scientific publications and book chapters and is the co-Editor of Principles of Critical Care, the preeminent textbook in the field. 

Dr. Douglas has received teaching awards at the U. Chicago, Columbia University, and U. Colorado. Dr. Douglas served as chair of the American Thoracic Society’s Health Policy Committee and the ATS Critical Care Assembly program committee for 2014-16. Dr. Douglas has been recognized annually since 2008 in Denver 5280’s “Top Doc” and “Best Doctors in America” lists. 

He is Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP) and is an avid music listener, genealogist and tennis player.