Study Group Members
Vanderbilt Coordinating Center
E.Wesley Ely,MD, MPH, Critical Care, Assoc Dir Research GRECC*
Meredith Gambrell, BA, Administrative Director
Brenda Truman Pun, RN, MSN, ACNP, Acute Care Nurse Practitioner
Site Principal Investigators
Bryan Cotton, MD, Trauma Surgeon & Critical Care
Tim Girard, MD, MSCI, Instructor of Medicine, Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
Pratik Pandharipande, MD, Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine
Senior Advisors
Gordon R. Bernard, MD, Div Chief Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
Robert S. Dittus, MD, MPH, Div Chief Gen Medicine, Director GRECC*
Research Nurses
Leanne Boehm, RN, Research Nurse
Joyce Okahashi, RN, Research Nurse
Jan Dunn, RN, MSN, CCRN, Research Nurse
Cayce Strength, RN, BSN, Research Nurse
Neuropsychology
Venice Anderson, MA, Neuropsychological Coordinator
Sharon M. Gordon, PsyD, Geriatric Neuropsychology, GRECC*
James C. Jackson, PsyD, Neuropsychology
Laural Barkley, MSW, Rehabilitation Specialist
Sleep
Paula Watson, MD, Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
Brandi Cleaver, RPSGT, Polysomnographic Technician
Peter Howard, RPSGT, AA, Sleep Research Core Manager
Richard Tyson, MD, Pulmonary Fellow
Beth Malow, MD, MS, Director of Vanderbilt Sleep Disorders Center
Kimberly Vigil, Polysomnographic Technician
Neuroimaging
Max Gunther, PhD, Neuropsychology, Neuroimaging Post Doc
Whit Schrader, BS, Cognitive Neuroscience Graduate Student
John Gore, PhD, Neuroimaging, FMRI, Director of VUIIS
Chris Gatenby, PhD, Physicist
Psychiatry
Stephen Heckers, MD, Psychiatry Department Chair
Catherine Fuchs, MD, Pediatric Psychiatry
Neurology
Adrian Jarquin-Valdivia, MD, Neuro Intensivist
Pediatric Delirium
Jenny Boyd, MD, Research Fellow
Heidi Smith, MD, Pediatric Intensive Care
Biostatisticians
Ayumi Shintani PhD, MPH, Chief ICU Delirium Biostatistician
Jennifer Thompson, MPH, Analyst, Biostatistics
Theodore Speroff, PhD, Psychometrics, Statistician, GRECC*
Research Fellows
Michael Hooper, MD, Research Fellow
Matthew King, MD, Research Fellow
Alessandro Morandi, MD, Geriatrician & Research Fellow
Jenny Clune, MD, Chief Resident
Administrative
Stephanie Hamilton, BA, Administrative Assistant
Vanderbilt University Medical Center Information
* GRECC - Geriatric Research, Education, Clinical Center
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Veterans Affairs TN Valley Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center (GRECC)