Laura Evans

Laura is an associate professor of medicine at the University of Washington and the Medical Director of Critical Care at the University of Washington Medical Center. Her interests focus on patient safety and quality improvement, particularly sepsis as well as preparedness for high consequence infectious diseases.

Laura earned her medical degree at the University of Michigan and did her residency in internal medicine at Columbia University. She completed pulmonary and critical care medicine fellowship training and earned a Master of Science in epidemiology at the University of Washington. She then joined the faculty of NYU and Bellevue Hospital in 2006. In her role there, she led the evacuation of the Bellevue Hospital intensive care units in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy and was the clinical lead for New York City’s only patient with Ebola. After 14 years in NYC, she returned to Seattle in 2019.

She joined the steering committee of the Surviving Sepsis Campaign in 2012 and is the current Surviving Sepsis Campaign adult sepsis guidelines and SSC COVID management guidelines co-chair. She is the critical care team lead for the NIH COVID Management Guidelines. She also serves on the Council of the Society of Critical Care Medicine.