Robert A. Raschke, MD, MS, has a master’s degree in biostatistics and clinical research design and has been involved in teaching and the practice of Critical Care since the 1980s. Dr. Raschke is a clinical professor of Internal Medicine and Biomedical Informatics at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix. Dr. Raschke has been a full-time clinician for most his career, but has published impactful research in the areas of standardization of intravenous heparin therapy for venous thromboembolism and development and implementation of an EMR-based clinical decision support system CDSS) to prevent adverse drug events. Dr. Raschke is currently working on research including the investigation of the determinants of mortality in ARDS, the development of CDSSs to assist in the management of ARDS and heparin-induced thrombocytopenia, as well as the development of methodology to measure the performance of severity scoring systems such as APACHE.