 Christopher G. Hughes, MD
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine
Dr. Christopher Hughes is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology Division of Critical Care at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. He is Board Certified in Anesthesiology with a Subspecialty Certification in Critical Care Medicine. Dr. Hughes graduated from Indiana University School of Medicine as a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society. He completed anesthesiology residency and critical care medicine fellowship at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. He was one of the initial members of the Benjamin Howard Robbins Scholars Program through the Department of Anesthesiology and received a highly competitive Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research Training Grant. His clinical focus is divided between perioperative anesthesiology and ICU consultancy in the Surgical, Neurological, and Burn ICUs at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. In addition, he serves as medical director and ICU consultant for the Tennessee Valley Healthcare System Nashville VA Surgical ICU. Dr. Hughes' primary research interests focus on the examining the role of endothelial dysfunction in organ failure states, including cognitive dysfunction in critical illness, and designing therapeutic regimens that modify endothelial function to improve patient outcomes. For more details of his work, please contact him for a copy of his Curriculum Vitae.
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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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