{"id":60087,"date":"2017-09-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2017\/09\/22\/piquette-steps-down-as-va-director-of-micu\/"},"modified":"2017-09-22T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T05:00:00","slug":"piquette-steps-down-as-va-director-of-micu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2017\/09\/22\/piquette-steps-down-as-va-director-of-micu\/","title":{"rendered":"Piquette Steps Down as VA Director of MICU"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\"><p><strong>Craig Piquette, MD,<\/strong> professor, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep and Allergy, has stepped down as the VA director of the MICU after holding the position since 2002.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;He has served with much distinction in that capacity ever since,&quot; said Gary Gorby, MD, chief of medicine, VA Nebraska-Western Iowa Health Care System.<\/p>\n<p>Under Dr. Piquette&#039;s leadership, patients have enjoy a very low rate of ventilator-associated pneumonia and central line-associated bloodstream infections, Dr. Gorby said. 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