 E. Wesley Ely, MD, MPH
Professor of Medicine and Critical Care
Associate Director of Aging Research, VA GRECC
Dr. E. Wesley Ely, MD, MPH is a subspecialist in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine with a focus in Geriatrics, who conducts patient-oriented, health services research as a Professor of Medicine at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa and Summa Cum Laude from Tulane University and earned his medical degree from Tulane University School of Medicine and master's in public health degree from the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine in New Orleans, Louisiana. There he was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) medical honors society. Dr. Ely's research has focused on improving the care and outcomes of critically ill patients with severe sepsis and respiratory failure, with special emphasis on the problems facing older patients in the ICU (e.g., weaning from mechanical ventilation, delirium in the ICU, neuropsychological and functional deficits post ICU care). He was elected to membership in the American Society of Clinical Investigation (ASCI) and serves as the Associate Director of Aging Research for the VA Tennessee Valley Geriatric Research and Education Clinical Center (GRECC).
As the founder of the Vanderbilt ICU Delirium and Cognitive Impairment Study Group, he currently serves as the principal investigator for the Coordinating Center's ongoing clinical trials in sedation and delirium and post-ICU cognitive impairment. Dr. Ely designs and leads a team of investigators in conducting both large cohort studies and randomized controlled clinical trials seeking both better understanding and management of critically ill patients in the ICU. Among other studies, Dr. Ely is currently the principal investigator of two large NIH-sponsored and VA-sponsored cohort investigations in ICU patients, with a focus on delirium and sedative/analgesic drug exposure and acquired cognitive and functional impairment in survivors of the critical illness. Dr Ely has written or co-authored more than 150 articles, book chapters and editorials. For more details of his work, please contact Stephanie Hamilton for a copy of his current Curriculum Vitae. He is especially thankful to have the privilege of working with such a talented and inter-disciplinary team of professionals from dozens of different training backgrounds to conduct this research in such an important public health domain. Importantly, he is married to Dr. Kim Ely, a surgical pathologist at Vanderbilt (herself a graduate of The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Tulane University School of Medicine and also a member of AOA), with whom he has 3 lovely daughters who are together the pride of his life.
Contact Information
Office: 615-936-3395
Fax: 615-936-1269
Assistant
Stephanie Hamilton
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Site Principal Investigators
Timothy D. Girard, MD, MSCI
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Jin H. Han, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine
James C. Jackson, PsyD
Neuropsychology and Long-Term Follow Up
Pratik Pandharipande, MD, MSCI
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care
E. Wesley Ely,MD, MPH
Professor of Medicine and Critical Care
Associate Director of Aging Research, VA GRECC
Senior Advisors
Gordon R. Bernard, MD
Associate Vice Chancellor for Research
Robert S. Dittus, MD, MPH
Div Chief Gen Medicine, Director GRECC
Research Coordinators
Leanne Boehm, MSN, RN
Critical Care Research Nurse
Joyce Okahashi, RN
Critical Care Research Nurse
Jan Dunn, RN, MSN, CCRN
Critical Care Research Nurse
Cayce Strength, RN, BSN
Critical Care Research Nurse
Brenda Truman Pun, RN, MSN, ACNP
Acute Care Nurse Practitioner
Program Clinical Manager
Mitzi W. Baker, RN, MSN
Critical Care Research Nurse
Neuropsychology
Sharon M. Gordon, PsyD
Geriatric Neuropsychology, GRECC
James C. Jackson, PsyD
Neuropsychology
Lauren Hardy, MA
Research Analyst II
Amy Lipsey, MA, LPC-MHSP
Licensed Professional Counselor
Sleep
Paula Watson, MD
Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
Brandi Cleaver, RPSGT
Polysomnographic Technician
Peter Howard, RPSGT, AA
Sleep Research Core Manager
Beth Malow, MD, MS
Associate Professor of Neurology
Kimberly Vigil
Polysomnographic Technician
Neuroimaging
Max Gunther, PhD
Neuroimaging & Neuropsychology Research Instructor
John Gore, PhD
Neuroimaging, FMRI, Director of VUIIS
Baxter Rogers, PhD
Physicist
Psychiatry
Stephan Heckers, MD, MSc
Psychiatry Department Chair
D. Catherine Fuchs, MD
Pediatric Psychiatry
Pediatric Delirium
Heidi Smith, MD, MSCI, FAAP
Pediatric Intensive Care
Pam Berry
Pediatric Critical Care Nurse
Biostatisticians
Ayumi Shintani PhD, MPH
Chief ICU Delirium Biostatistician
Jennifer Thompson, MPH
Analyst, Biostatistics
Theodore Speroff, PhD
Psychometrics, Statistician, GRECC
Renee Torres, MS
Biostatistician
Research Fellows
Michael Hooper, MD
Research Fellow
Matthew King, MD
Research Fellow
Alessandro Morandi, MD
Geriatrician & Research Fellow
Jennifer K. Clune, MD
Chief Resident
ICU Outcomes and Patient Safety
Eduard E. Vasilevskis, M.D.
Hospital Medicine and Center for Health Services Research
Administrative
Stephanie Hamilton, BA
Administrative Assistant
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