Christiane Perme, PT CCS FCCM is the owner of Perme ICU Rehab Seminars and a Clinical Development Specialist at the Houston Methodist Hospital, where she has practiced for the past 32 years with a large variety of complex patients in ICU.In 2005 she became a Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Clinical Specialist. In 2017, she was accepted as a Fellow of the American College of Critical Care Medicine, the first physical therapist in the world to receive such recognition.
Mrs. Perme has published 18 articles and is co-author in 9 book chapters. She has extensive experience in treating adult patients in ICU with special interest in patients on mechanical ventilation. Mrs. Perme has presented hundreds of courses and lectures in the United States. She is also a world-renowned speaker with presentations in Colombia (2017), Puerto Rico and Germany (2016), Denmark (2015), Russia (2014), Brazil (2015, 2013, 2012, 2010), Nigeria (2011), and at the World Physical Therapy Congress (Netherlands-2011, Canada-2007, Spain-2003).