 Timothy D. Girard, MD, MSCI
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Timothy D. Girard, MD, MSCI is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Allergy, Pulmonary, and Critical Care Medicine and the Center for Health Services Research at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine as well as a staff physician and investigator in the Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center (GRECC) at the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Tennessee Valley Healthcare System, Nashville, Tennessee. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa and Summa Cum Laude from Baylor University and earned his medical degree from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, Texas. He then completed an internal medicine residency at the University of Virginia and a pulmonary and critical care fellowship at Vanderbilt University. He is board certified in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Disease, and Critical Care Medicine. His recent research efforts include a randomized clinical trial evaluating the effect of a paired sedation and ventilator weaning protocol on short- and long-term outcomes among medical ICU patients as well as a multicenter prospective cohort study of long-term cognitive impairment in survivors of critical illness. His research interests include geriatric critical care, cognitive impairment after critical illness, delirium, and sedation in the ICU. He is currently funded by National Institute on Aging. For more details of his work, please contact him for a copy of his Curriculum Vitae.
Contact information
Office: (615) 936-2803
Fax: (615) 936-1269
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Site Principal Investigators
Timothy D. Girard, MD, MSCI
Assistant Professor of Medicine
James C. Jackson, PsyD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
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, ACNS-BC
Critical Care Research Nurse
Joyce Okahashi, RN
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
Aimee Hoskins, RN, BSN
Research Nurse
Anesthesiology
Christopher G. Hughes, MD
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine
Elizabeth Card, RN, CPAN, CCRP
Research Nurse IV
Neuropsychology
Sharon M. Gordon, PsyD
Geriatric Neuropsychology, GRECC
Amy Lipsey Kiehl, MA, LPC-MHSP
Research Coordinator
Hillary Warrington, MS
Research Analyst II
Lindsay Anderson, MSW
Research Analyst III
Sleep
Paula Watson, MD
Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
Beth Malow, MD, MS
Associate Professor of Neurology
Neuroimaging
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
Emergency Department
Jin H. Han, MD, MSC
Assistant Professor
Pediatric Delirium
Ty Berutti, MD, MS, MS
Assistant Professor, Pediatric Critical Care
Heidi Smith, MD, MSCI, FAAP
Pediatric Intensive Care
Emily Brink, RN, BSN
Research Nurse III
Biostatisticians
Ayumi Shintani PhD, MPH
Chief ICU Delirium Biostatistician
Amy J. Graves, SM, MPH
Analyst, Biostatistics
Jennifer Thompson, MPH
Analyst, Biostatistics
Theodore Speroff, PhD
Psychometrics, Statistician, GRECC
Research Fellows
Alessandro Morandi, MD
Geriatrician & Research Fellow
Nathan E. Brummel, MD
Clinical Fellow in the Division of Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Medicine
ICU Outcomes and Patient Safety
Eduard E. Vasilevskis, M.D.
Hospital Medicine and Center for Health Services Research
Laboratory
Gillian Sills, BS
Research Assistant
Pharmacy
Joanna L. Stollings, PharmD, BCPS
Medical Intensive Care Unit Clinical Pharmacy Specialist
Administrative
Stephanie Hamilton, BA
Administrative Assistant
Bill Pojedinec, BS
Program Administrative Manager
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