Peter Linden, MD, is hard to beat when it comes to broad education at our most prominent universities in the medical fields. He started with a DMD at Boston University, followed by 2 years of anesthesiology residency at St. Elizabeth Hospital in Boston. He then obtained internal medicine training at Hahnemann Medical College and completed his medical residency at George Washington University Medical Center in Washington DC. In addition, he obtained a broader education through fellowships in infectious disease and critical care medicine at George Washington University and the University of Pittsburgh. Accordingly, he holds a primary internal medicine certification by ABIM and the ABIM subspecialties of both infectious disease and critical care medicine. Not surprisingly, he has received honors and awards at the University of Pittsburgh and by the Society of Critical Care Medicine for his clinical expertise and teaching skills. In recent years, he has been our most appreciated CCM Director of the Liver Transplant ICU Service. His excellent publications and international presentations resulted in his well deserved promotion to professor of CCM.  His research interest has been particularly with nosocomial infections, sepsis and artificial liver support. While we are sorry to see such a prominent faculty member leave, we thank him for his outstanding contributions to our CCM activities at UPMC and congratulate Dr. Peter Linden on becoming the Director of Critical Care Services at the West Penn Allegheny System and the first Director of the new Critical Care Division in the Cardiothoracic Department of Allegheny General Hospital, all effective March 1, 2009.