Frederick P. Ognibene, MD
NIH Clinical Center, DHHS
Presentation Title
A Perspective of the Research Needs of the Critical Care Community
Frederick P. Ognibene received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biology magna cum laude from the University of Rochester in 1975 and a MD degree from Cornell University Medical College in 1979. He was an intern and resident in internal medicine at the New York Hospital/Cornell Medical Center from 1979-1982 and a fellow in critical care medicine in the Critical Care Medicine Department, NIH Clinical Center from 1982-1987.
In 1987, he became a Senior Investigator in the Critical Care Medicine Department, Clinical Center at the National Institutes of Health. From 1998 to 2003, Dr. Ognibene was the Director of the Critical Care Fellowship Training Program and Medical Director of the Critical Care Therapy and Respiratory Care Section from 1999 to 2003. In 2000, Dr. Ognibene was selected as director of the NIH Clinical Research Training Program (CRTP). In 2003, he became Director of the NIH Clinical Center’s Office of Clinical Research Training and Medical Education, which expanded in 2007 to include graduate medical education and continuing medical education programs at the NIH. He is an Associate Clinical Professor at George Washington University School of Medicine and an Adjunct Associate Professor for the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
Dr. Ognibene is a member of several professional societies. From 1989-1999, he was a member of the American Federation for Clinical Research, serving as Chairman of the Eastern Section (‘92-‘93), Councilor-at-Large (’93-’94), and Representative to the Council of Academic Societies (’93-’95). He is a member of the Society of Critical Care Medicine where he was an elected At-Large member of the Governing Council from 2000-2003, on the Executive Committee since 2003, secretary in 2004-2005, president-elect in 2006, and president of the Society in 2007. He was elected as a fellow of the American College of Critical Care Medicine in 1989 and served on its Board of Regents from 1994-2000 and as Secretary-General for the Board from 1999-2000. He has been a leader in training clinical investigators at the NIH and nationally and is a member of the NIH Roadmap Clinical Research Workforce Committee.
His honors and awards include: Alpha Omega Alpha, 1978; the Franklyn Ellenbogen Research Prize and the Charles L. Horn Prize from Cornell University Medical College, 1979; Fellow, American College of Critical Care Medicine, 1989; Fellow, American College of Physicians, 1990; Public Health Service Outstanding Service Medal, 1993; NIH Clinical Center Director’s Awards, 1997 and 2000; NIH Clinical Center Bench-to-Bedside Awards, 1999 and 2001; NIH Director’s Award for Mentoring, 2003; NIH Director’s Award for leadership of CRTP and the Clinical Investigator Student Trainee Forum in support of the NIH Roadmap, 2007; and Who’s Who in America, 2004-2007.