About

Craig S. Jabaley, MD, FCCM, is Professor of Anesthesiology at Emory University School of Medicine, where he has been Chief of the Division of Critical Care Medicine since 2019 and Associate Director of the Emory Critical Care Center since 2022. He practices in the operating room and in the cardiovascular surgical intensive care unit at Emory University Hospital, a regional referral center for mechanical circulatory support and extracorporeal life support. He directed that unit from 2017 to 2026, including its serial redesign and expansion to a 48-bed platform, and earlier established a critical care division and surgical ICU service at the Atlanta VA Medical Center.

His research concerns the organization and delivery of critical care, emergency airway management, and how clinical information is disseminated and taken up. He co-chaired the international Delphi consensus on tracheal intubation in adults with a physiologically difficult airway (Intensive Care Medicine, 2024) and served on the panel that wrote the Society of Critical Care Medicine's 2024 Guidelines on Adult ICU Design.

He is Treasurer of the Society of Critical Care Anesthesiologists, where he founded and chaired the Service Chiefs' Advisory Council and led the society's bylaws revision, and he is Assistant Editor for Critical Care at Anesthesia & Analgesia and an editorial board member of Critical Care Medicine and Critical Care. He is a Fellow of the American College of Critical Care Medicine. He earned his MD at the University of Miami, completed anesthesiology residency at Jackson Memorial Hospital, and completed fellowship training in critical care medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital.