About Us
Board Member
Leslie has almost twenty years of critical care nursing experience, specializing in cardiovascular care. She is currently the Cardiac Care Coordinator at Shasta Regional Medical Center where she is responsible for the successful operations of the Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit and the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit
Leslie works closely with medical staff to optimize outcomes in critically ill patients. Leslie also assumes the role of Critical Care Educator and is an ACLS, and PALS instructor for the Center of Excellence in Education. She is a founder of the Critical Care Issues and Strategies Committee which organizes and presents an annual seminar.
Board Member
"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop and look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do." - Eleanor Roosevelt
With twenty years of critical care nursing experience, Barbara Furry shares her passion for education and advances in cardiac care as owner and Director of The Center of Excellence in Education. She currently holds a Masters of Science degree in Health, and provides critical care education with focus to serving rural and suburban healthcare practitioners.
Board of Directors
"Before men will act wisely, they will exhaust all other possibilities."
Eugene graduated from the University of Tennessee with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration in 1955 and a Juris Doctor degree in 1958. He is a member of the Tennessee Bar Association and the State Bar of California. Since 1967 he has been Diplomat in the American Board of Trial Advocates and a member of Legion Lex.
Administrator, Research Assistant
"Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care."
Debbie has worked closely with Dr. Sebat and Kristen since the conceptual stages of the shock program and the positional therapies studies. She has extensive knowledge based on process-centered medical informatics/patient and outcomes management products containing clinical reporting for patient and population analysis, internal benchmarking, managed care reporting, clinical research, and management reporting. Debbie continues to be involved in the Kritikus Foundation programs through project support, data entry and analysis, development of informational material, visual materials for public relations and instruction.
Critical Care Research Coordinator and Educator
"It is not because things are difficult that we are afraid to try. It is because we are afraid to try that things are difficult" - Seneca
Kristen combines her 10 years hospital experience as a critical care and emergency room nurse with prehospital experience. This provides Kristen the unique ability to work with care providers from all levels of experience and diverse disciplines to create a unified team for enhanced patient care.
Board Member and Consultant
"We all teach, we all learn"
Dr. Spurlock works with physicians and health care executives to create state-of-the-art clinical management programs. Using his experiences as a leader in California quality initiatives and operational expertise in change management, performance improvement, physician relations, medical staff structure, ICU redesign, peer review, and patient safety, he helps organizations create results-oriented programs in a variety of domains. Additionally, Dr. Spurlock facilitates a dialogue among various healthcare stakeholders including purchasers, physicians, hospitals, health plans and policy leaders, to improve care delivery and business performance. Currently, he is an Adjunct Associate Professor with Stanford University. He is a nationally known speaker on health care topics ranging from future health care trends to redesigning specific operational units.
Board Member
Amjad A. Musthafa, MD graduated from the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Medicine in 1991. He is a critical care physician practicing in Northern California as a member of Redding Critical Care Medical Group, and a board member of Kritikus Foundation. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Hawaii and his critical care fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh. While at the University of Pittsburgh, he studied the role of echocardiography in weaning patients from ventricular assist devices, transesophageal echocardiography with automated border detection to evaluate the effect of adenosine on left ventricular contractility after cardiopulmonary bypass and quality-adjusted survival after ARDS. Dr. Musthafa is a member of the Society of Critical Care Medicine, American College of Physicians and a Fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians. Dr. Musthafa was a coinvestigator in the first before-and-after trial of a comprehensive Shock program at a community hospital.
President, Board Member
"Try it — you'll like it"
David Johnson, MD was graduated from Harvard College and completed his medical training at Columbia University College of Physician and Surgeons. His internship and internal medicine residency was at the University of California San Francisco, where he was chief resident at Moffitt Hospital in 1968. After two years at the Boston Naval Hospital, he came to Redding, CA in 1970 and was the first physician in the area to institute advanced hemodynamic and respiratory therapy in critical care while continuing to attend as faculty at University of San Francisco, CA.
Founder and Director
"Unless you're charming, persistence is the only way to get something done." - Frank Sebat
Dr. Sebat, the founder and director of Kritikus Foundation received his M.D. from Northwestern University School of Medicine. He trained in Internal Medicine and Critical Care at Los Angeles County Hospital, University of Southern California Medical Center. Dr. Sebat is a Fellow of the American College of Critical Care Medicine and American College of Chest Physicians and a member of the Society of Critical Care Medicine Medical Emergency Team Task Force.
Staff and Board of Directors
Frank Sebat, MS, MD, FCCP, FCCM David Johnson, MD Amjad Musthafa, MD Bruce Spurlock, MD 
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