Daniel Mayer, MD

Critical Care Medicine

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Memorial Division of Critical Care Medicine

3501 Johnson Street
Third Floor
Hollywood, FL 33021

Phone: 954-265-9976

Fax: 954-965-5396

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About Me

I serve as Chief of Critical Care for Memorial Healthcare System, providing clinical and administrative leadership across the system's critical care programs. I completed my fellowship training in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York in 2007 and went on to practice Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine with a large multidisciplinary group affiliated with Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Jersey. I joined Memorial Healthcare System in January 2011 as an intensivist at Memorial Hospital West, where I later became Medical Director of the Intensive Care Unit. I was appointed Vice Chief of Critical Care for the healthcare system in 2019 and became Chief of Critical Care in 2023. Throughout my career, I have remained deeply committed to compassionate, evidence-based, patient- and family-centered care. My philosophy is simple: every patient should be cared for with the same attention, advocacy, and respect I would want for a member of my own family.

My clinical and professional interests include point-of-care ultrasonography, advanced hemodynamic monitoring, palliative critical care, and quality improvement. I have been a strong physician advocate for initiatives that reduce healthcare-associated infections and preventable complications, standardize evidence-based practices, and improve outcomes across the intensive care environment. I work closely with nursing, pharmacy, respiratory therapy, and physician leadership to develop clinical protocols, pathways, and order sets that support safe, consistent, and high-quality care. Most recently, I led the development and system-wide implementation of Memorial's Pulmonary Embolism Response Team pathway, bringing together critical care, cardiology, interventional radiology, cardiac surgery, emergency medicine, radiology, and other disciplines to provide a coordinated, multidisciplinary approach for patients with complex and high-risk pulmonary embolism.

Education, ethics, and collaboration are also central to my work. I am actively involved in Graduate Medical Education and serve as a critical care preceptor for residents from multiple training programs who rotate through Memorial's intensive care units. I also chair the Memorial Regional Hospital Ethics Committee and take part in evaluating complex bioethical issues across the healthcare system. I take great pride in Memorial's longstanding critical care program and its diverse team of intensivists and advanced practice providers. Memorial's patient- and family-centered culture, strong interdisciplinary relationships, and commitment to clinical excellence, education, quality, and innovation make it an exceptional environment in which to care for critically ill patients.

Education

Fellowships

Mount Sinai Hospital Center, New York, 2007, Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine

Residency

St Mary's Health Center Program, 2004, Internal Medicine

Medical Education

University of The Witwatersrand, 1999

Certifications

American Board of Internal Medicine-Critical Care Medicine
American Board of Internal Medicine-Internal Medicine
American Board of Internal Medicine-Pulmonary Disease

Awards, Achievements, and More

Research

Peer-Reviewed Original Research

2024 Niu J, Samuels S, Sareli C, Mayer D, Visbal A, Sareli AE. Clinical Features and Outcomes of Hospitalized Adult Patients With Breakthrough COVID-19 Infections: A Propensity-Score-Matched Observational Study. American Journal of Epidemiology. 2024;193(2):285-295. DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwad199 | PMID: 37823271
2023 Niu J, Kim M, Jalal AT, Goldberg JE, Acevedo Martinez EM, Suarez Moscoso NP, Rubio-Gomez H, Mayer D, Visbal A, Sareli C, Eckardt PA, Sareli AE. Distinct Clinical Presentations and Outcomes of Hospitalized Adults with the SARS-CoV-2 Infection Occurring during the Omicron Variant Surge. Healthcare (Basel). 2023;11(12):1703. DOI: 10.3390/healthcare11121703 | PMID: 37372821
2023 Buckley MS, Acquisto NM, Adams C, et al., including Mayer D. Critical Care Pharmacy Practice Advancement Recommendations on Direct Patient Care Activities: An Opinion of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy Critical Care Practice and Research Network. JACCP: Journal of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy. 2023;6(8):925-933. DOI: 10.1002/jac5.1816
2022 Niu J, Sareli C, Mayer D, Visbal A, Sareli A. Lymphopenia as a Predictor for Adverse Clinical Outcomes in Hospitalized Patients with COVID-19: A Single Center Retrospective Study of 4485 Cases. Journal of Clinical Medicine. 2022;11(3):700. DOI: 10.3390/jcm11030700 | PMID: 35160150

Case Reports and Case Series

2026 Valencia Uribe J, Attia M, Perez Tagle Tejeda A, Seifert K, Valentin RG, Mayer D. Reviving the Standstill Heart: Multimodal Management of Refractory Cardiac Arrest due to Massive Pulmonary Embolism. Case Reports in Critical Care. 2026;2026:6192253. DOI: 10.1155/crcc/6192253 | PMID: 42662835
2023 Kim M, Konindala N, Mayer D. A Case Report of Severe Tracheal Compression Secondary to a Large Benign Substernal Goiter. Journal of Endocrine Surgery. 2023;23(2):59-63. DOI: 10.16956/jes.2023.23.2.59
2022 Kim M, Jacob J, Mayer D, Eckardt PA. Cytomegalovirus Reactivation in Critically Ill Coronavirus Disease 2019 Patients: A Case Series of 11 Patients. IDCases. 2022;27:e01402. DOI: 10.1016/j.idcr.2022.e01402 | PMID: 35036326
2021 Rodriguez JA, Bonnano C, Khatiwada P, Roa AA, Mayer D, Eckardt PA. COVID-19 Coinfection with Mycobacterium abscessus in a Patient with Multiple Myeloma. Case Reports in Infectious Diseases. 2021;2021:8840536. DOI: 10.1155/2021/8840536 | PMID: 33505740

Professional Organizations

American College of Chest Physicians

Presentations

Posters and Abstracts

2027 Bandi R, Katsoulos S, Mayer D. Rapid Neurologic Recovery After Levocarnitine Independent of Ammonia Level: A Case Report. Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) Critical Care Congress, 2027.
2026 Molina M, Osmanoglu G, Giri G, Mayer D. Refractory Hypercalcemia in HTLV-1-Associated Adult T-Cell Leukemia/Lymphoma: A Case of Multi-Modal Therapeutic Failure. American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), 2026.
2026 Echevarria A, Khorsandi J, Mayer D. Meta-Analysis Investigating the Efficacy of CPAP Use for Secondary Stroke Prevention. American Heart Association International Stroke Conference, 2026.
2025 Massive Pulmonary Embolism. Poster presentation, Memorial Healthcare System Research Day, 2025.
2025 Myasthenia Gravis. Poster presentation, Memorial Healthcare System Research Day, 2025.
2024 Krishnaswamy S, Jalal A, Sherman V, Brown K, Mayer D. Revisiting Management for Liver Disease: A Look at the New Decompensated Liver Disease Order Set. Memorial Healthcare System Poster Research Day, 2024. Awarded Best Quality Improvement Project.
2022 Eckardt PA, Kim M, Jalal AT, Goldberg JE, Acevedo Martinez EM, Suarez Moscoso NP, Rubio-Gomez H, Mayer D, Visbal A, Sareli C, Niu J, Sareli AE. Characteristics and Outcomes in Hospitalized Adult Patients Infected with the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Variant at a Large Healthcare System in South Florida, January 1-14, 2022. Open Forum Infectious Diseases (IDWeek 2022, Abstract 1052). 2022;9(Suppl 2):ofac492.893. DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofac492.893 | PMC9752561
2022 Niu J, Kim M, Jalal AT, Goldberg JE, Acevedo Martinez EM, Suarez Moscoso NP, Rubio-Gomez H, Mayer D, Visbal A, Sareli C, Eckardt PA, Sareli AE. Clinical Presentations of Hospitalized Adult Patients Infected with SARS-CoV-2 during the Omicron Variant Surge in South Florida. Open Forum Infectious Diseases (IDWeek 2022, Abstract 253). 2022;9(Suppl 2):ofac492.331. DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofac492.331 | PMC9751602
2022 Visbal A, Mayer D, Sareli A, Wartell Samuels M, Ozawa S, Reed S. Improvement in Critical Care Medicine Transfusion Practice after Implementation of an Organized Patient Blood Management Program. Abstract submitted to NATA, 2022.
2022 Ebrahim M, Mayer D. Early Implementation of Ventricular Support Devices for Improved Outcomes in COVID-19 Induced Myopericarditis and Cardiogenic Shock. Poster presentation, 2022.
2021 Sahu A, Mayer D. Approach to Safe and Modified Bedside Percutaneous Tracheostomy in COVID-19 Ventilator-Dependent Respiratory Failure Patients. Poster presentation, Memorial Healthcare System Office of Human Research, 2021.
2010 Mohanraj EM, Mayer D, Harkin TJ. Colo-Bronchial Fistula as a Rare Complication of Diaphragmatic Mesh Repair. American Thoracic Society (ATS) International Conference, New Orleans, 2010. Published in Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2010;181(Suppl 1):A5826. DOI: 10.1164/ajrccm-conference.2010.181.1_MeetingAbstracts.A5826
2007 Aurora N, Mayer D. Traumatic Brain Injury, Fatigue, and Sleep. Abstract and poster, American Academy of Sleep Medicine International Conference, 2007.

Awards

2026 SCCM ICU Hero of the Year Award
2026 GME MHS Internal Medicine Residency Program, Faculty Excellence in Mentorship Award
2026 Patient First Award, Memorial Hospital West
2025 FAU Outstanding Teaching and Mentorship Award
2025 Broward County Practitioner of the Year, LAORA (organ donation)
2025 Physician of the Quarter Award, MHW
2023 GME MHS Internal Medicine Residency Program, Faculty Excellence in Mentorship Award
2022 Patriotic Employer Award, Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve, Office of the Secretary of Defense, USA
2021 COVID-19 Leadership Recognition Award
2020 Physician of the Month, Memorial Hospital West
2019 Patient First Award, Memorial Healthcare System
2017 FAU Medical School, Outstanding Attending in an Acting Internship

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