Program Director and Team - Critical Care Fellowship

Michael Ritchie, MD, is a graduate of Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University. He trained in a combined emergency medicine and internal medicine program at SUNY Downstate/Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, NY. He then trained in critical care medicine at the Brody School of Medicine at ECU.

He has spent the last 10 years working with cardiac intensive care patients and specializes in right heart failure, cardiogenic shock, mechanical circulatory support, ventricular assist devices and ECMO.

Dr. Ritchie is the program director for the Critical Care Medicine Fellowship and the medical director of ECMO at CAMC. He is board-certified in internal medicine, emergency medicine, critical care medicine, neuro-critical care and critical care echocardiography.

Alexander Navone, DO, MS, is a graduate of Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. He completed training in Family Medicine at Ascension - St. Vincent's Family Medicine Residency in Jacksonville, FL, followed by Internal Medicine training at the University of Florida. From there, he trained in critical care medicine at Virginia Tech School of Medicine - Carilion Clinic in Roanoke, VA. While in this critical care fellowship, he completed a focus in cardiac critical care at INOVA Schar Heart and Vascular Hospital, focusing on cardiogenic shock and mechanical circulatory support.

Clinical interests include cardiogenic shock, mechanical circulatory support, difficult airway, hemorrhagic shock and pulmonary embolism management. Academic/teaching interests include developing and implementing the HALO (High Acuity Low Occurrence) simulation curriculum for both CCM and PCCM fellowships, POCUS and all things cardiac ICU.

Dr. Navone is the associate program director for the Critical Care Medicine Fellowship, the director of Cardiac ICU service line at CAMC and the director of the ICU follow-up clinic. He is board-certified in internal medicine and critical care medicine.