Justin Banerdt, MD, MPH

Justin Banerdt, MD, MPH is a Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellow in the division of Allergy, Pulmonary, and Critical Care Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He graduated from Harvard University Cum Laude with high honors with a BA in History and Science.  He then completed his MD and MPH at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, where he was awarded the United States Public Health Service Excellence in Public Health Award. He completed residency in internal medicine at Yale University before moving back to Vanderbilt for pulmonary and critical care subspecialty training.

Dr Banerdt’s research interests include studying long-term outcomes of critical illness, identifying interventions to improve survivorship and functional status among critically ill patients in resource-limited settings, and global critical care capacity building. During his medical training he received an NIH Fogarty Global Health Fellowship award to study the prevalence and outcomes of delirium among hospitalized patients in Zambia. His study was the first such study conducted in a low- and-middle-income country which showed that delirium prevalence was high and delirium duration was an independent predictor of mortality and disability at 6 months. He is currently an investigator in the AMPLIFY-ICU study which aims to investigate the hypothesis that patients who survive critical illness suffer from reduced physical function due to lower mitochondrial oxidative capacity.

He is married to Cori Banerdt, MD, a pediatric cardiac anesthesiologist with global health expertise at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt who is committed to developing cardiac anesthesia training programs in East Africa.