Monocyte Distributions Width (MDW) Sepsis Parameter Clinician Training

 

Watch this clinician training to see Dr. Steve Ness to walk you through the clinical utility of Monocyte Distributions Width (MDW) and explain the potential benefits of using the biomarker to aid in early sepsis detection for patients in your emergency department.

Presenter: Steve Ness, D.O.

Dr. Ness is a member of the Medical and Scientific Affairs team at Beckman Coulter. Dr. Ness graduated from Norwich University Military College of Vermont with a B.S. in Biology. Upon graduation, he was commissioned as a Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy. He attended medical school at the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine. He completed a pediatric internship at Balboa Naval Hospital in San Diego, CA. Dr. Ness was the Regimental Surgeon for the 11th Marine Regiment based at Camp Pendleton, CA, where he had 5 Navy physicians under his direction and 3,000 active-duty Marines under his medical care. After completing a tour of duty in Iraq as a Navy physician, he held senior marketing and scientific affairs positions in diagnostic companies and reference laboratories. He also co-founded a veterinary reference laboratory called Veterinary Diagnostics Institute, where he sold the rights of a proprietary canine and feline cardiac biomarker to Idexx Laboratories in Westbrook, Maine.