JosephGovertMD

Pulmonology • Durham, NC

Asthma & COPD, Critical Care Medicine, Interstitial Lung Diseases

Associate Professor of Medicine, Duke University

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Office
10 Duke Medicine Circle
Room 42, 8 East
Durham, NC 27710
Phone+1 919-681-5919

Fax+1 919-681-2860
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Education & Training

Duke University HospitalFellowship, Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine, 1993 - 1996
Duke University HospitalResidency, Internal Medicine, 1989 - 1992
University of California, Irvine, School of MedicineClass of 1989

Certifications & Licensure

NC State Medical License 1991 - 2024
American Board of Internal Medicine Internal Medicine
American Board of Internal Medicine Critical Care Medicine
American Board of Internal Medicine Pulmonary Disease

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

Regional Top Doctor Castle Connolly, 2014
CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification EpicCare Ambulatory EMR, Epic Systems Corporation, 2013
Top MD Consumers Checkbook

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

84 citations
Fluid management with a simplified conservative protocol for the acute respiratory distress syndrome
Colin K. Grissom, Eliotte L. Hirshberg, Justin Dickerson, Samuel M. Brown, Michael J. Lanspa, Kathleen D. Liu, David A. Schoenfeld, Mark Tidswell, R. Duncan Hite, Pete...> ;Critical Care Medicine. 2015 Feb 1
27 citations
High Intensive Care Unit Admission Rate for 2013–2014 Influenza Is Associated with a Low Rate of Vaccination
Jelena Catania, Loretta G. Que, Joseph A. Govert, John W. Hollingsworth, Cameron R. Wolfe> ;American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 2014 Feb 14
37 citations
Coping With Critical Drug Shortages: An Ethical Approach for Allocating Scarce Resources in Hospitals
Philip M. Rosoff, Kuldip R. Patel, Ann Scates, Gene Rhea, Paul W. Bush, Joseph A. Govert> ;Archives of Internal Medicine. 2012 Oct 22
16 citations
Development of a collaborative program to provide extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for adults with refractory hypoxemia within the framework of a pandemic.
David A. Turner, Walter L. Williford, Michelle A. Peters, Janice J Thalman, Ian R. Shearer, Richard J. Walczak, Michael Griffis, Steven A. Olson, Kevin W. Sowers, Jose...> ;Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. 2011 Jul 1
24 citations
Rescue therapy in adult and pediatric patients with pH1N1 influenza infection: a tertiary center intensive care unit experience from April to October 2009.
Stephanie G. Norfolk, Caroline L. Hollingsworth, Cameron R. Wolfe, Joseph A. Govert, Loretta G. Que, Ira M. Cheifetz, John W. Hollingsworth> ;Critical Care Medicine. 2010 Nov 1
313 citations
One-year trajectories of care and resource utilization for recipients of prolonged mechanical ventilation: a cohort study
Mark Unroe, Jeremy M. Kahn, Shannon S. Carson, Joseph A. Govert, Tereza Martinu, Shailaja J. Sathy, Alison S. Clay, Jessica Chia, Alice L. Gray, James A. Tulsky, Chris...> ;Annals of Internal Medicine. 2010 Aug 3
Assessing the comparative value of sedatives in the intensive care unit.
Christopher E. Cox, Joseph A. Govert> ;Critical Care Medicine. 2010 Feb 1
207 citations
Expectations and outcomes of prolonged mechanical ventilation.
Christopher E. Cox, Tereza Martinu, Shailaja J. Sathy, Alison S. Clay, Jessica Chia, Alice L. Gray, Maren K. Olsen, Joseph A. Govert, Shannon S. Carson, James A. Tulsky> ;Critical Care Medicine. 2009 Nov 1
88 citations
A prognostic model for one-year mortality in patients requiring prolonged mechanical ventilation.
Shannon S. Carson, Joanne M. Garrett, Laura C. Hanson, Joyce Lanier, Joseph A. Govert, Mary C. Brake, Dante L. Landucci, Christopher E. Cox, Timothy S. Carey> ;Critical Care Medicine. 2008 Jul 1
13 citations
Mechanical ventilation in an airborne epidemic.
Ghee-Chee Phua, Joseph A. Govert> ;Clinics in Chest Medicine. 2008 Jun 1
39 citations
Economic evaluation of propofol and lorazepam for critically ill patients undergoing mechanical ventilation.
Christopher E. Cox, Shelby D. Reed, Joseph A. Govert, Jo E. Rodgers, Stacy Campbell-Bright, John P. Kress, Shannon S. Carson> ;Critical Care Medicine. 2008 Mar 1
16 citations
Broncholith removal using cryotherapy during flexible bronchoscopy : A Case Report
Anita J. Reddy, Joseph A. Govert, Thomas A. Sporn, Momen M. Wahidi> ;Chest. 2007 Nov 1
301 citations
Evidence for the treatment of patients with pulmonary nodules: when is it lung cancer?: ACCP evidence-based clinical practice guidelines (2nd edition).
Momen M. Wahidi, Joseph A. Govert, Ranjit K. Goudar, Michael K. Gould, Douglas C McCrory> ;Chest. 2007 Sep 1
112 citations
An Economic Evaluation of Prolonged Mechanical Ventilation
Christopher E. Cox, Shannon S. Carson, Joseph A. Govert, Lakshmipathi Chelluri, Gillian D Sanders> ;Critical Care Medicine. 2007 Aug 1
36 citations
Debriefing in the intensive care unit: a feedback tool to facilitate bedside teaching.
Alison S. Clay, Loretta G. Que, Emil Petrusa, Mark W. Sebastian, Joseph A. Govert> ;Critical Care Medicine. 2007 Mar 1
131 citations
Differences in one-year health outcomes and resource utilization by definition of prolonged mechanical ventilation: a prospective cohort study
Christopher E. Cox, Shannon S. Carson, Jennifer H. Lindquist, Maren K. Olsen, Joseph A. Govert, Lakshmipathi Chelluri> ;Critical Care. 2007 Jan 23
1 citations
Physician Subsidies for Tobacco Advertising
Victor L. Roggli, Claude A. Piantadosi, Neil R. MacIntyre, Stephen L. Young, Peter S. Kussin, Mark P. Steele, Martha Sue Carraway, Karen E. Welty-Wolf, Joseph A. Gover...> ;American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 2006 Jan 15
66 citations
Contraindications and safety of transbronchial lung biopsy via flexible bronchoscopy. A survey of pulmonologists and review of the literature.
Momen M. Wahidi, Ana T. Rocha, John W. Hollingsworth, Joseph A. Govert, David Feller-Kopman, Armin Ernst> ;Respiration; International Review of Thoracic Diseases. 2005 May 1
4 citations
Another excuse bites the dust: low tidal volume ventilation does not increase sedation use.
Joseph A. Govert> ;Critical Care Medicine. 2005 Apr 1
23 citations
Outcome of lung transplant patients admitted to the medical ICU.
Denis Hadjiliadis, Mark P. Steele, Joseph A. Govert, R. Duane Davis, Scott M. Palmer> ;Chest. 2004 Mar 1
104 citations
Clinical practice guidelines for the maintenance of patient physical safety in the intensive care unit: use of restraining therapies--American College of Critical Care...
Gerald A. Maccioli, Todd Dorman, Brent Brown, John E. Mazuski, Barbara McLean, Joanne M Kuszaj, Stanley H. Rosenbaum, Lorry R. Frankel, John W. Devlin, Joseph A. Gover...> ;Critical Care Medicine. 2003 Nov 1
63 citations
Effectiveness of medical resident education in mechanical ventilation.
Christopher E. Cox, Shannon S. Carson, E. Wesley Ely, Joseph A. Govert, Joanne M. Garrett, Roy G. Brower, David G. Morris, Edward Abraham, Vincent Donnabella, Antoinet...> ;American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 2003 Jan 1
94 citations
Massive pulmonary embolism during pregnancy successfully treated with recombinant tissue plasminogen activator: a case report and review of treatment options.
Gregory S. Ahearn, Denis Hadjiliadis, Joseph A. Govert, Victor F. Tapson> ;Archives of Internal Medicine. 2002 Jun 10
3 citations
Use of data from nonrandomized trial designs in evidence reports: an application to treatment of pulmonary disease following spinal cord injury.
Gregory P. Samsa, Joseph A. Govert, David B. Matchar, Douglas C McCrory> ;Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development. 2002 Jan 1
6 citations
Treatment of pulmonary disease following cervical spinal cord injury.
Douglas C McCrory, Gregory P. Samsa, Byron B. Hamilton, Joseph A. Govert, David B. Matchar, R E Goslin, JT Kolimaga> ;Evidence Report/technology Assessment. 2001 Jun 1
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