Dr. Justin Fiala is an assistant professor at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago, IL, with board certifications in internal, pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine. He splits his inpatient time between Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where he works primarily in the medical ICU, and the Shirley Ryan Ability Lab, where he co-heads the vent liberation initiative within the institution's spinal cord injury section. His outpatient focus is on chronic respiratory failure and home mechanical ventilation, and his favorite part of his job is giving people their voice back following tracheostomy placement.