David Gordon DNP received both his Masters and Doctoral degrees in nursing from Case Western Reserve University. He is a board-certified Adult and Acute Care Nurse Practitioner. He started his career at the Cleveland Clinic in Critical care cardiology as an ICU nurse in 2007 and in 2009 as a Nurse Practitioner in post operative cardiothoracic surgery. David joined the UCSF Lung Transplant program in 2011. David has been an integral member of the inpatient lung transplant program, where in his tenor has helped develop and launch two primary admitting services for lung transplant surgical and medical patients. David is also a volunteer faculty with the UCSF School of Nursing. He is a UCSF Learning Health Systems ‘Lean Implementation’ Coach and the 2024 Caring Wisely award winner for his chest x-ray reduction project. He is an ECMO expert and provides annual didactics to the UCSF Pulmonary Fellowship program on ECMO