Stephen Trzeciak is an intensivist—a physician who specializes in intensive care medicine—with 20 years of experience working in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at Cooper University Health Care. He is also a Professor of Medicine at the Cooper Medical School of Rowan University. His colleague and co-author, Anthony Mazzarelli is an emergency physician, the co-president and CEO of Cooper University Health Care, and Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs at Cooper Medical School of Rowan University.