Laura Evans

Dr. Laura Evans is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Washington, and the former Medical Director of Critical Care at the University of Washington Medical Center. Her clinical and scholarly interests focus on preparedness for high consequence infectious diseases and sepsis. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Washington, she was the Medical Director of Critical Care at NYC H+H/Bellevue. In that role helped found the Special Pathogens Program at NYC H+H/Bellevue. She was the NYC H+H/Bellevue inaugural co-PI of NETEC from 2014-2019.

She is internationally known for her work in guideline development and implementation and was the co-chair of the past two revisions of the Surviving Sepsis Campaign adult sepsis guidelines. She is a former member of the Council of the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) and is the current chair of the SCCM’s Discovery Clinical Research Network. Additionally, she is the current chair of the American Board of Internal Medicine’s Critical Care Medicine specialty board and the ABIM Council.

Dr. Evans is the Executive Director of the National Special Pathogen System (NSPS).