Officers and Board of Directors
Dr. Kathleen Romanowski, MD, FACS is an Associate Professor of Surgery at the UC Davis and Shriners Hospitals for Children Northern California in the Division of Burn Surgery. She attended the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine and completed her general surgery residency at University of Chicago Medical Center. She did fellowships in Burn Surgery and Surgical Critical Care at UC Davis and Shriners Hospitals for Children Northern California.
SCCM NorCal President 2022-2024, Board of Directors member since 2021. Critical care physician at Providence Medical Group at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital. Board certified in surgery and critical care. Instructor and course director for FCCS and ATLS. Instructor for ICU Liberation. Passionate about critical care education and outreach to lower resource institutions.
Dr. Manjuck has been involved with Norcal SCCM since the chapter was formed, as a former president and as treasurer. She has been an SCCM member since 1998. Board certified in Adult Critical Care and Neuro Critical Care. She is a National Course Consultant for SCCM's Fundamentals of Critical Care Support Course (FCCS) and has taught the course for > 20 years both nationally and internationally. She is the Medical Director of the ICU at Sutter Santa Rosa and has worked in tele ICUs since 2003
Jessica Moore, PharmD, BCCCP is a Critical Care Clinical Pharmacist at John Muir Health in Walnut Creek, CA. She is a member of the critical care team covering Medical, Neuro and Trauma ICU’s and was among the pharmacists who developed the clinical unit-based program at John Muir.
Dr. Barr is a Professor of Anesthesiology at Stanford and a Staff Anesthesiologist/Intensivist at the Palo Alto VA Hospital. She was the lead author of the SCCM’s Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Management of Pain, Agitation, and Delirium in Adults Patients in the Intensive Care Unit. Dr. Barr has over 25 years of experience in critical care leadership, innovation, quality improvement, education, and outcomes research. She is passionate about improving the lives of critically ill patients.
Laura Maples MSN, RN, CCRN-K, the SCCM Northern California Chapter Membership Coordinator, has worked over 30 years in critical care and quality oversight and over a decade in Tele-critical Care. She passionately volunteers on SCCM’s ICU Liberation Committee and its Communications Sub-committee. Inspired by evidence-based practice and research, she works with Kaiser Permanente’s Northern California Regional Quality and Data Analytics Department in Oakland CA.
Dr. Khem is the Pharmacy Residency Program Director and Student Site Coordinator at John Muir Health. She has been a Critical Care pharmacist since 2006, board certified in Pharmacotherapy and Critical Care, licensed as an Advanced Practice Pharmacist, served on the Critical Care Standard Setting panels for ACCP, article peer reviewer for NCCCP, and involved in multiple committees in the organization. Her experiences have led her to become a mentor to future generation of pharmacists.