Distinguished Lecture Series – May 2019

James K. Gude, MD is an internationally respected specialist in Internal Medicine, who graduated with honors from Yale School of Medicine in 1965. He is a Fellow of Stanford University and is Board Certified in Critical Care Medicine and Pulmonary Disease. Dr. Gude was ICU Director and Director of Critical Care at Sutter Medical Center, Santa Rosa, for 35 years where he is an esteemed faculty member of the Family Residency Program, and is a Clinical Professor of Medicine at University of California, San Francisco. In 2006, using telemedicine, Dr. Gude co-founded OffSite Care (OSC) to provide high-acuity clinical care medicine to rural hospitals. The nonprofit Global Offsite Care was born in 2012 to extend telemedicine globally in the spirit of his mentor, Albert Schweitzer. Dr. Gude conducts internet "Grand Rounds" weekly from Sonoma Specialty Hospital to hospitals in Africa, India, Nepal, China, Philippines, Haiti, and the US.