Joshua H Atkins, MD, PhD is interested in health system safety and teamwork, sleep disordered breathing and anesthesia, and respiratory monitoring.
Michael A Ashburn, MD, conducts clinical trials to evaluate the safety and efficacy of new methods for the treatment of acute and chronic pain.
John GT Augoustides, MD uses database analysis approaches to understand the determinants of poor outcome in cardiac surgical patients.
Nabil M Elkassabany, MD leads clinical trials to determine regional anesthetic approaches associated with best functional and pain outcomes.
John T Farrar, MD, PhD focuses on pain, pain metrics and pain imaging technology.
Basavana G Goudra, MBBS, MD aims to improve the safety of anesthesia/sedation for gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopy, colonoscopy and bronchoscopy.
Annamarie D. Horan, PhD is the Director for Clinical Research in the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care.
Max B Kelz, MD, PhD uses MRI and CT imaging approaches to understand emergence patterns from general anesthesia in humans.
W. Andrew Kofke, MD uses sophisticated optical tools, in collaboration with the physics department, to study the consequences of anesthesia, surgery and trauma on brain blood flow and oxygen extraction in humans.
Renyu Liu, MD, PhD,is interested primarily in the molecular pharmacology of opioids, specifically kappa agonists, and their potential use for neuroprotection.
Rosemary C Polomano, PhD, RN, FAAN, focuses on psychometric testing of patient-reported outcomes for pain and related experiences and multimodal analgesic interventions.
Huafeng Wei, MD, PhD studies the clinical use of Supraglottic Jet Oxygenation and Ventilation (SJOV) in difficult airway management.