Tristan Tanner MD

Dr. Tristan Tanner is a practicing medical and cardiovascular intensivist at HCA Osceola Medical Center in Kissimmee, Florida, and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at UCF College of Medicine. He is board-certified in Internal Medicine, Critical Care Medicine, and Neurocritical Care through the American Board of Internal Medicine, and in Critical Care Echocardiography through the National Board of Echocardiography.

His clinical practice includes complex medical, cardiovascular, and neurologic critical illness, ECMO management, and postoperative care following cardiac, aortic, vascular, and general surgery. He combines bedside critical care experience with training in health analytics to evaluate clinical evidence, healthcare technologies, and care-delivery processes.

Dr. Tanner has developed hospital ultrasound programs from the ground up, including POCUS image-upload, quality-improvement, and billing workflows, as well as a critical care transesophageal echocardiography credentialing framework and program infrastructure. His experience also includes ICU and hospital committee leadership, clinical protocol development, and resident physician education, emphasizing critical appraisal of medical literature and its safe application to patient care.

He completed his critical care fellowship at Montefiore Medical Center, where he served as Chief Fellow, and holds a Master of Science in Health Analytics from Northwestern University. His publications address critical illness, point-of-care ultrasound, pulmonary complications of cardiac surgery, and physician communication and workflow.

Dr. Tanner is available for nonclinical consulting involving clinical program assessment, ICU workflows and care pathways, medical-device and digital-health evaluation, research interpretation, clinician education, and independent quality-of-care review. His advisory interests also include safe service-line development, telecritical care integration, and APP-supported coverage models tailored to an organization’s clinical capabilities and resources. He welcomes defined projects and ongoing part-time advisory engagements alongside his active clinical practice.