ICU Medical Director
Queen of the Valley Medical Center
Providence · Napa, CA. ICU quality, throughput, device stewardship, and end-of-life policy oversight.
Sacramento · California
Bilal Naseer, MD
Triple-boarded critical care, infectious diseases, and internal medicine physician. ICU Medical Director. Teaching attending across Sacramento-area hospital systems.
About
Fifteen years at the bedside.
I am a triple-boarded physician in Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases, and Critical Care Medicine, practicing across Sacramento-area hospital systems since 2010. My clinical work is centered in the ICU — sepsis, ARDS, shock, respiratory failure, post-operative critical care — with parallel consultation in complex infectious diseases.
Beyond bedside care, I lead hospital and system-level work in antimicrobial stewardship, infection prevention, and ICU quality. I direct the ICU at Queen of the Valley Medical Center and serve as core teaching faculty for the Mercy San Juan Internal Medicine Residency and the Sutter Roseville Pulmonary & Critical Care Fellowship.
My training took me from Columbia University in New York, to infectious diseases fellowship at the University of Rochester, to critical care fellowship at Stanford. I bring that guideline- based, evidence-first orientation to every case, protocol, and lecture.
- Diplomate, ABIM · Internal Medicine
- Diplomate, ABIM · Infectious Diseases
- Diplomate, ABIM · Critical Care Medicine
- Fellow, American College of Chest Physicians (FCCP)
Practice
Where I work.
Medical Director, Patient Safety & Infection Control
Mercy San Juan Medical Center
CommonSpirit Health · Carmichael, CA. Hospital-wide infection prevention, HAI surveillance, and antimicrobial stewardship leadership.
Attending Intensivist & ID Consultant
Sutter Roseville Medical Center
Sutter Health · Roseville, CA. Comprehensive ICU coverage and infectious diseases consultation for medical and surgical services.
Teaching
Active teaching faculty.
Longitudinal teaching attending for internal medicine residents at Mercy San Juan and Sutter Roseville, and for pulmonary/critical care fellows at Sutter Roseville. I co-lead the critical care educational curriculum for the inaugural classes of the Mercy San Juan Internal Medicine Residency, with recurring didactics, journal club, and case-based teaching on sepsis, respiratory failure, ventilator management, antimicrobial selection, and ICU-relevant infectious diseases.
Selected Recent Lectures
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Jul 2026
Severe Community-Acquired, Hospital-Acquired, and Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia — IDSA/ATS Guideline-Based Case Conference
Pulmonary & Critical Care Fellowship · Sutter Roseville Medical Center
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Jul 2026
High-Yield Bedside Infection Prevention and Diagnostic Stewardship for the Internal Medicine Team
Internal Medicine Residency · Mercy San Juan Medical Center
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2026
Community-Acquired and Aspiration Pneumonia — 2025 Guideline Updates
Pulmonary & Critical Care Fellowship, Sutter Roseville · and Internal Medicine Residency, Mercy San Juan and Sutter Roseville
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Jun 2023
Antibiotic Resistance and Stewardship — IDSA Pneumonia Guidelines, Skin & Soft Tissue, and Diabetic Foot Infections
Mercy San Juan CME · Co-presented with Kevin Tapia, PharmD
Stewardship & Systems
Guideline-based leadership beyond the ICU.
CommonSpirit Health · National
SCrPT-ID Subcommittee (National P&T)
Infectious diseases and antimicrobial stewardship best-practices review across CommonSpirit hospitals. 2026 — present.
Mercy San Juan Medical Center
Antimicrobial Stewardship Program — Functional Lead
Alignment of hospital stewardship documentation with CDC Core Elements and CIHQ survey expectations. 2026 empiric-antibiotic pocket card and full guideline.
Mercy San Juan Medical Center
Physician Excellence Committee (Peer Review)
Critical care and infectious diseases voice for ICU decision-making, medication safety, sepsis systems, and infectious complications.
Queen of the Valley Medical Center
2026 ICU Operational Priorities
ABCDEF bundle adherence, Foley avoidance, early mobility, sepsis mortality review and documentation, and throughput. ACS trauma program survey preparation.
CommonSpirit California Region
Regional Sepsis Committee & Sacramento Market Antimicrobial Stewardship Team
Multi-hospital sepsis systems and antimicrobial stewardship coordination across the Sacramento market.
Sutter Health · Regional
Sutter Electronic ICU (eICU) Program
Active participant in the tele-ICU program supporting 16 Sacramento-area intensive care units.
In the news
The collaboration between physicians all over the world over how to best treat COVID-19 has been quite extraordinary. The confidence level of physicians and healthcare teams is very high now — how to early-identify patients with COVID-19 and how to prevent severe disease is really much better understood.
Interviewed for “COVID treatment is getting smarter” by Soumya Karlamangla
Los Angeles Times
Prior research
Fellowship-era investigative work.
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Statin Trial for Influenza Patients (STIP)
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Pneumococcal Vaccination in Influenza-Related Hospitalizations
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WHO Immunization Coverage Survey — Punjab, Pakistan