Participating Sites
Currently fourteen centers across the United States are participating in the MINDDS II clinical trial.
Participating Site Investigators
At each participating site efforts are led by a diligent team of clinical research faculty, research coordinators and study staff. Without their hard work and dedication this innovative clinical trial would not be possible.
Amit Bardia, MD
Massachusetts General Hospital
Dr. Amit Bardia is Assistant Professor of Anaesthesia and the Program Director of the Cardiothoracic Anesthesia Fellowship within the Department of Anesthesiology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. In addition to being a cardiac anesthesiologist and cardiothoracic intensivist, he is an NIH-funded researcher with a keen interest in perioperative outcomes research aimed at improving health care delivery.
Louisa Palmer, MD
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Mihai Podgoreanu, MD
Duke University Hospital
Dr. Podgoreanu is Associate Professor of Anesthesiology at Duke University Hospital and Chief of the Division of Cardiac Anesthesiology. Dr. Podgoreanu’s research interests focus on perioperative cardiovascular injury and adaptation, mechanisms of myocardial injury, vein graft disease and clinico-genomic risk prediction for long-term adverse cardiovascular outcomes.
Brian O’Gara, MD
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Dr. O'Gara is an anesthesiologist and intensivist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts and an Assistant Professor of Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School. His research focuses on the use of the volatile anesthetics for ICU sedation, lung protection and ARDS, and the prevention of perioperative delirium. Dr. O'Gara has been funded through the NIH, FAER, foundation, and industry sources for mentored research grants and clinical trials, including the INSPiRE ICU 1 and 2 trials of isoflurane sedation in mechanically ventilated adults.
Ben Palanca, MD
Dr. Ben Palanca is a tenured Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Psychiatry at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, with an affiliated faculty appointment in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. As a physician-scientists, Dr. Palanca’s research interests focus on characterizing the mechanisms whereby anesthetic agents alter intracortical and subcortical neural networks and impair cognitive processes to generate unconsciousness.
Washington University School of Medicine
Frederic Billings IV, MD
Dr. Frederic T. (Josh) Billings IV is Professor of Anesthesiology and Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Dr. Billings’ research interests include evaluating and affecting mechanisms of surgery-induced organ injury, with a focus on the impact of oxygen tension on putative mechanisms of organ injury, in clinical trials, cohort studies, and preclinical models.
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Shaun Thompson, MD
University of Nebraska Medical Center
Dr. Thompson is Associate Professor at the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) in Omaha. He is a critical care anesthesiologist and current Anesthesiology Critical Care Fellowship Director at UNMC. He is the Medical Director for Extracorporeal Life Support Services at UNMC with a keen interest in investigating outcomes and quality improvement for patients requiring ECMO support. His research interests include prediction of complications and outcomes for patients requiring ECMO and critical care of COVID-19 patients during and following the pandemic.
Patrick Odonkor, MD
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Dr. Odonkor is Associate Professor of Anesthesiology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and Anesthesiology Chief for the Cardiothoracic Division. His research interests span cardiac xenotransplantation, improvements in perioperative management during cardiac surgery and cardiovascular procedures and potential effects of autologous normovolemic hemodilution on cardiac surgery associated acute kidney injury.
Andrew Feider, MD
University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine
Dr. Feider is Clinical Associate Professor of Anesthesia, Division Chief of Cardiothoracic Anesthesia and Director of the Adult Cardiothoracic Anesthesia Fellowship at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine. Dr. Feider’s research interests include liver transplantation, transesophageal echocardiography, left ventricular assist devices and studies in cardiothoracic anesthesiology.
Vivek Moitra, MD
Columbia University Medical Center
Dr. Moitra is the Allen I Hyman, MD Professor of Critical Care Anesthesiology at Columbia University Medical Center, as well as the Division Chief of Critical Care Medicine, Co-Medical Director of the Surgical Intensive Care Unit and Program Director of the Critical Care Medicine Fellowship. His clinical and research interests include intraoperative resuscitation and the long-term outcomes of the chronically critically ill.
Charles Hogue, MD
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Dr. Hogue is the James E. Eckenhoff Professor of Anesthesiology and Chair in the Department of Anesthesiology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Dr. Hogue’s research focuses on investigating methods to reduce organ injury from cardiac surgery, particularly neurological and renal complications. He has also previously received funding from the NIH to examine the role of estrogen replacement therapy as a means for providing neuroprotection for elderly women undergoing cardiac surgery.
Matthias Eikermann, MD
Dr. Matthias Eikermann is the Chair of Anesthesiology at Montefiore and the Francis F. Foldes Professor of Anesthesiology at our Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Eikermann’s research focuses on the generation and analysis of highly granular pharmaco-physiological patient data from the electronic health record to understand the effects of new medications on patients’ recovery from surgery or critical illness.
Montefiore Medical Center
Abirami Kumaresan, MD
Cedar-Sinai Medical Center
Dr. Kumaresan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology and Cardiac Surgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, with clinical expertise in cardiac anesthesiology and critical care medicine. Her research program investigates postoperative critical illness outcomes, with a focus on serial point-of-care ultrasound assessment of striated muscle integrity and functional recovery in the surgical ICU setting.
Matthieu Legrand, MD
University of California San Francisco
