Year of Residency Completion: 2007
Year of Fellowship Completion: 2009
State: California
Facility/School: Stanford University School of Medicine
Position: Clinical Professor, Founder of Emergency Critical Care Program
Years of Experience in Critical Care: 18
Areas of Interest: Emergency Critical Care, Resource Optimization for the Critically ill in the ED, High Risk PE/RV Failure, Physiologically Difficult Intubation, Approach to Shock, Approach to Elevated Lactate, Approach to Hypercarbia
Biography
Dr. Tsuyoshi Mitarai was born and grew up in Japan until he was 17. He graduated from University of Rochester School of Medicine in 2002 and completed his combined internal medicine/emergency medicine residency at University of Maryland in 2007. He finished his critical care fellowship at Stanford University in 2009, and stayed on as a faculty to attend in emergency department as well as medical ICU. He created Emergency Critical Care Program in 2017 to improve the quality of care for critically ill patients in emergency department (https://www.acep.org/how-we-serve/sections/critical-care-medicine/news/july-2018/stanford-emergency-critical-care-program-eccp/). He earned multiple teaching awards including Outstanding Educator Award (2019, 2021, Stanford University, CA), The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation Award for Excellence in Clinical Teaching, (2015, 2019, Stanford University, CA), and American College of Emergency Medicine National Emergency Medicine Excellence in Bedside Teaching Award (2024, Las Vegas, NV). His hobbies are traveling, singing Karaoke, watching movies, and eating good food.
Speaking Engagements
2025 Speaking Engagements
- Critically ill ED Boarders, the Struggle is Real! Tackling Current State and Brainstorming Innovative Solutions, panel speaker, 2025 SAEM Annual meeting. May 2025; Philadelphia, PA
2024 Speaking Engagements
- If Patients Cannot Come to the ICU, the ICU Will Come to the Patients: Tales of ICU Without Borders, panel speaker, 2024 Critical Care Congress, SCCM. January 2024; Phoenix, AZ
2023 Speaking Engagements
- Saving Lives and Saving Beds: Insights from an Emergency Critical Care Program”, Grand Rounds, University of New Mexico. April 2023; Albuquerque, NM
- Utilization of an ED Observation Unit for Delayed Comfort Care of ED Patients on Life Support, Ignite!, SAEM. May 2023; Austin, TX
- Emergency Critical Care and Survival/Downgrades, Critical Care Grand Rounds, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD. September 2023; Virtual
- Saving Lives and Saving Beds: Insights from an Emergency Critical Care Program, Grand Rounds, The Institute for Critical Care Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY. October 2023; Virtual.
2021 Speaking Engagements
- You’re an EM-Intensivist…Now What?”, panel presentation, Annual SCCM EM section meeting. February 2021; Virtual.
2020 Speaking Engagements
- Help! ICU boarding: Implementing the Best Model for Delivering Critical Care in the ED”, SAEM critical care panel presentation, Denver, CO. May 2020; Virtual.
2019 Speaking Engagements
- Too Hot to Handle! Resuscitation and Management of the Critical Burn Patient. Scientific Assembly, American College of Emergency Physician. October 2019; Denver, CO.
2018 Speaking Engagements
- Ultrasound as a stethoscope to care for patients with circulatory shock. 40th Annual Emergency Medicine Conference in Yosemite, American College of Emergency Physicians California Chapter. January 2018; Yosemite, CA
- What is the Remaining Role of tPA in Submassive Pulmonary Embolism?”, Tohoku University School of Medicine. July 2018; Miyagi, Japan
- Establishing Emergency Medicine Critical Care Within the House of Critical Care. ACEP pre-conference, Scientific Assembly, American College of Emergency Physicians. September 2018; San Diego, CA
2016 Speaking Engagements
- Prevention and Treatment of Decompensation from Endotracheal Intubation & Mechanical Ventilation”, 39th Annual Emergency Medicine Conference in Yosemite, American College of Emergency Physicians California Chapter. January 2016; Yosemite, CA