Stephanie E. Freeman, MD, MBA
Board-certified internist and intensivist with extensive experience in university-based and community hospital ICUs.
Critical care expertise and quality improvement
Dr. Freeman is a board-certified internist and intensivist (Critical Care Medicine specialist) with extensive experience working in the ICUs of both university-based and community hospitals. She graduated from the University of Alabama School of Medicine in 2000. She then completed an Internal Medicine Residency and Geriatrics Fellowship at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, before joining the Multi-disciplinary Critical Care Training Program (MCCTP) as a clinical fellow of the Department of Critical Care Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) in 2004. She then went on to receive her MBA in 2010 from the Physician’s Executive MBA Program at Auburn University.
Dr. Freeman served on the Rapid Response Team Committee at UPMC and has practiced in the Intensive Care Units of both tertiary care and smaller community hospitals throughout the country. She currently resides in Houston, Texas. She is intimately familiar with the strengths and weaknesses of different models of ICU care delivery and their impact on patient outcomes. She is an invaluable member of the INSPIRE CCM team of experts on quality improvement measures in the ICU, working to deliver the standard of care to all critically ill patients uniformly and cost-efficiently through a multidisciplinary team approach led by a Critical Care specialist.