Steven Hollenberg, MD

Steve Hollenberg was educated at Amherst College and Emory University School of Medicine, and then trained in internal medicine at The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical College, in critical care medicine at the National Institutes of Health, and in cardiovascular diseases at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He is currently Professor of Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine and Director of Cardiac Intensive Care Unit at the Emory Heart & Vascular Center.
He has participated in guideline development in both critical care and cardiology, including the Surviving Sepsis Campaign, the AHA/ACC guidelines on Percutaneous Coronary Intervention, Heart Failure, and Chest Pain, as well as chairing an Expert Consensus Decision Pathway on Assessment of Trajectory and Risk in Hospitalized Heart Failure patients.
Research interests relate to microvascular and myocardial function, with emphasis on the pathophysiology of shock. Clinical interests include septic and cardiogenic shock, acute heart failure, and acute coronary syndromes. Laboratory investigations include measurement of cardiovascular hemodynamics in a murine model of sepsis using echocardiography, and analysis of blood pressure and heart rate variability in that model, with translation into clinical projects measuring similar parameters in critically ill patients using hemodynamic data acquired from bedside monitors.