 Ayumi Shintani, PhD, MPH
Chief ICU Delirium Biostatistician
Dr. Shintani is an associate professor of biostatistics at Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center and a leading biostatistician for the Vanderbilt Center for Health Services Research. She received her Ph.D. in Biostatistics from Yale School of Epidemiology and Public Health in May 2000. Her dissertational work involved development of mathematical models to describe the emergence of drug-resistant mutants of HIV with implications for treatment strategies. Prior to joining the faculty at Vanderbilt, she was an instructor at Yale Nursing School teaching advanced statistics to doctoral students. She also worked as a postdoctoral fellow at West Haven Veterans Affairs Medical Center, CT. Dr. Shintani is currently co-investigator of variety of NIH supported projects mainly for the area of health services and outcome research. Her research interest is in advancing methodology to analyze data from critically ill patients. She also received a teaching award from Vanderbilt Master of Science Clinical Investigation Program (MSCI) for the academic year of 2004-2005. Upon the invitation from the Japanese government, she is currently teaching basic and advanced biostatistics to a newly established nation's first MSCI program hosted by Tokai University Hospital, Isehara, Japan.
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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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