Dr. Lin earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Biochemistry and English (1994) and his Medical Degree (1998) at the University of Virginia. After completing his pediatric residency in the United States Air Force, he spent one year as a general pediatrician at Osan Air Base, South Korea providing general pediatric outpatient and inpatient care to United States military dependents. He then completed his pediatric critical care fellowship at The Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh and completed his remaining military service obligation in the Air Force’s largest pediatric intensive care unit in San Antonio, TX. There, he became the Chief of Pediatric Critical Care Services for the San Antonio Military Medical Consortium and worked with the GME, physician, and ancillary service leadership in the Air Force and Army to develop clinical practice guidelines, multidisciplinary training programs, simulation scenarios, and transfer criteria to best meet the medical as well as unique military needs of his patient population while addressing the challenges of high personnel turnover inherent with military reassignments and deployments. Since arriving at Washington University in 2011, he has continued his leadership in program development and implementation of unit- and hospital-wide initiatives using process improvement methods and emphasizing multi-professional collaboration. His clinical areas of interest lie in evaluating interventions that impact the course of critically ill patients, particularly those with respiratory failure or sepsis, in three distinct areas: (1) Identification of unique clinical or diagnostic characteristics within broadly heterogeneous disease presentations that allow for exploration of potential targeted therapies; (2) Implementation of specific task-based processes that prevent potentially harmful events or increase team performance; and (3) Systems-based interventions that result in positive culture and behavior changes. These efforts have led to development and implementation of respiratory therapist driven care paths, a comprehensive transfusion and anti-coagulation approach for patients on ECMO, and a national multicenter initiative to promote early mobilization in critically ill children by maximizing multi-professional collaboration and family engagement.